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Waterloo madness or magnificence?
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Author:  Ginger [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Waterloo madness or magnificence?

Evidently very knowledgeable about the subject, this chap is recreating the British army at Waterloo, on a 1:1 scale! See here for details

Quote:
"So the idea is to have each British combatant at Waterloo represented in 28mm. It began as a crazy idea when I was researching the British Army at Waterloo. I have compiled a datebase of every British combatant - 28,000 men - and have arranged them into each company/troop/battery. The database is compiled from records at the PRO plus regimental records and so on. I have data (e.g. enlistment dates, wounds, physical description, birthplace, profession, literacy, height, etc) for 23,000 of those present. To assemble 28,000 figures once seemed an impossibly expensive task but the arrival of Victrix and Perry plastics has changed that. Some units are already complete (the Black Watch for example, had an estimated 200 men at the beginning of the 18th June. I want to label the base of each man when they are all done. Four more years to complete the rest."


Is this madness or magnificent?
Before you make up your mind, have a look at his blog . . . .

Author:  Tiny-Tim [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:53 pm ]
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Wonderful madness

Author:  Gwydion [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:07 pm ]
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Absolutely impressive!!

Where is he going to store aaalll the miniatures?

Author:  primarch [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:36 pm ]
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Hi!

I am the wrong person to ask that to.

That project is very similar to the scales of which I like doing things. ;)

Primarch

Author:  Markconz [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:25 pm ]
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Magnificent!

Incidentally I've painted up 750 28mm Austrian Napoleonics over the last 4.5 months. (Napoleonics is my other main wargaming interest apart from Epic and BFG). One 28mm Napoleonic unit can be more work work than a single Epic army!

More pics on my blog:
http://chasseuracheval.blogspot.co.nz/2 ... -army.html

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Author:  primarch [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:37 pm ]
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Hi!

Totally awesome Markconz!

Primarch

Author:  Stormwind [ Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:50 am ]
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Bloody brilliant!

Author:  mordoten [ Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:58 am ]
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Napoleonics is the highest form of geekiness, the highest level, the Jedi master of war games. We all will end up there sooner or later.

Author:  Ginger [ Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:17 pm ]
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mordoten wrote:
Napoleonics is the highest form of geekiness, the highest level, the Jedi master of war games. We all will end up there sooner or later.

Ha, I started there many, many years ago, and have been sliding down the slippery slope of different periods ever since :D

However, this chap above and others like him have raised 'geekiness' to new levels

Author:  Karegak [ Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:38 pm ]
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mordoten wrote:
Napoleonics is the highest form of geekiness, the highest level, the Jedi master of war games. We all will end up there sooner or later.


I have a British Peninsular army pack (6mm obviously) waiting in my stores for that fateful day.

Author:  Legion 4 [ Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:55 pm ]
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WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great paint jobs !!!!

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