Waterloo in 28mm - My journey log

[Freddy]

Impressive looking collection!

[Helge]

Warlord parcels are arriving every day, but in all the excitement I just managed to get something done. Remember these base labels? Well, they are getting filled!



First we have Major General Bijlandt commanding 1st Brigade of the 2nd Netherlands Division. And then the 7th (Belgian) Line Battalion. These are Warlord "pseudo resin" models and not particularly pleasing. Weird proportions and the resin is quit rubbery. But they are done, so there is that.

[DivisMal]

Mon dieu, Helge! You don’t do things half-hearted. I’m excited about the new projects and that little museum your planning! 

[CapnJim]

Those Dutch look OK to me.  I'm curious now - how were their proportions weird?

[Helge]

Those Dutch look OK to me.  I'm curious now - how were their proportions weird?

They look out strangely elongated like somebody printed them with a 110% height scaling without adjusting width. Below is a photo comparing them to some Dutch-Belgian Line from Perry in the same marching pose. They are not only noticeably taller and thinner, but all their features are stretched too. Look at the faces or shako. Note that this isn't just a "true-scale" type of issue. Warlord's other sculpts are very much consistent with Perry's. I suspect that this has something to do with the moulding technique for these new "soft resin" models where they need very "linear" features to make the process work. Even the command models have no real dimensionality beyond "straight stick".



Note that the presence of unpainted Perry Dutch-Belgian Line models is foreshadowing . Despite my earlier plans, I decided to do 3rd Netherlands Division as well so there are a bunch more Line and Chasseur battalions in the pipeline now. The list grows... Though at this point there really isn't much else to add to the Allied Army apart from 6 Hannover Landwehr who truly didn't come close to the battlefield (though I said that for 3rd Netherlands as well...).

[CapnJim]

Ah.  I see now.  I suspect that they'll look fine in their own units...

[Helge]

Ah.  I see now.  I suspect that they'll look fine in their own units...

They are ok as a separate unit, but still look a bit odd. I measured their faces/heads and got a height of around 4mm with a width of just 2mm. Perry and other manufacturers tend to be 3x3mm. Everything feels a bit elongated with the Warlord resins. That said, I guess I am just a petty grumbler .

On to some Perry's though: This is 27th Dutch Jager Btn, the second regular unit of 1st Brigade. It's all militia from here...

[IronDuke596]

Your quantity and quality of this project's production is still impressive. I remain envious but enthralled with your posts. Well done!

[CapnJim]

Your quantity and quality of this project's production is still impressive. I remain envious but enthralled with your posts. Well done!

What he said!   

[Helge]

I had a very productive weekend with little to show for it. All the Warlord EPIC boxes arrives so I spent lots of time clipping and scraping to get them ready for spray coating. Armed with a dozen spray cans, next weekend will be a grand base coating bonanza. Hundreds of strips and models for both the ACW and ECW forces.

Nevertheless, I did at least get a small unit done. This is the 5th Dutch Militia Btn of only two bases. They got mauled badly at Quatre Bras and only had 175 effectives in the field at Waterloo.

[Helge]

Aside from cleaning, spraying and highlighting Warlord's EPIC figures, I have been batch painting all the remaining light horse mounts. A few kingdoms worth of horses...



I shall have some more full painted units ready over the weekend!

[Belgian]

Wow, epic project and that's quite a bunch of horses!

[Helge]

In between travel and more Epic scale prep, here we have 7th Dutch Militia. I added a mix of headgear to differentiate them a bit more from the Line battalion.

[syrinx0]

Impressive progress.

[CapnJim]

Yeah - those fellas look good too!