Battle of Waterloo

[TwistedMetal]

Hey guys just wanted to share a project I started last winter, one of the things I played with most as a kid besides starwars and he-man were the little 1.72 plastic figures, I would play for hours on end till I was about 15 :shock: lol, anyway last year I walked into a model shop and looking at all the cool things they had I decided to buy a model kit and some boxes of soldiers, not satisfied with making a tank or two I decided to make the scene of ' the battle of the Alamo ' but looking on eBay and in the model shop there was a very limited amount of stuff to buy and use, i was then chatting at work to some of the guys and the ' battle of waterloo' piped up into the conversation, I was fascinated by it so I bought the film off eBay and watched it over and over again then the idea popped up I will build the set of that battle, so I figured I would share this as the battle itself is nearly 200 years old, I started last winter and will hopefully finish it this winter when I'm not working so much, I'm not the greatest of painters but they do take ages to paint and a lot of patience

 

[weasel]

Looking good. Brings back memories of my Warhammer 40k days.

 

[TwistedMetal]

Cheers mate, my daughter always drags me into the warhammer shop on York it amazes me the detail them guys paint at tbh.

 

[spoons]

Very impressive set up

I saw the thread title and was expecting Abba :wink:

 

[TwistedMetal]

Lol never thought of that

 

[weasel]

Cheers mate, my daughter always drags me into the warhammer shop on York it amazes me the detail them guys paint at tbh.

Aye, it is seriously impressive. I could never paint for **** though. My efforts just looked like a special child had been given a paint brush mid epileptic fit.

 

[BlueDog]

Great display Scott, I was right into painting Warhammer miniatures when I was younger I wouldn't be able to do it these days my eyesight is too ****. Spacemarines were cool,......... well as cool as Spacemarines could make you in your early teens.

Never pegged you for a Warhammer geek Weaz!

 

[theforceuk]

Nice work man, good to see something different as well.

 

[Carl Waterworth]

Very impressive

 

[Capetown]

Good stuff Scott. Maybe yours will end up in a museum like this guy's diorama did.

https://www.hermitage.nl/en/tentoonstellingen/alexander_napoleon_josephine/waterloo_month.htm

 

[TwistedMetal]

Hey really appreciate the kind words guys inspires me to get it finished hey Ryan my eyesight too is terrible mate, now for the dumb question, I'm sat at a BBQ with some friends and nobody can explain what the word ' Diorama' means

 

[Capetown]

A diorama is what you made.

 

[sith-smith]

Great Stuff.

I have loads of Napoleonic toy soldiers from childhood still! 8)

Those ones look like French Soldiers. Are you going to add British?

What company made the soldiers? Mine were ESCI

Oh and I loved warhammer 40k, though that was mostly in my 20's

 

[TwistedMetal]

Cheers Emiel give me a plan and I can build a house no problem but when it comes to spelling and understanding words like that I'm thick as pig **** although there were two primary school teachers with us last night and they didn't know what it ment neither :shock:

Hey Gary I've still got many more French Imperial old guards to paint and add, then I'm moving onto the British, Scottish and the Prussian army,

I bought the Waterloo box set which is made up of Airfix soldiers, I've also added Zvezda and Italeri I found with the ESCI that the cavalry were a little more awkward to paint as the plastic didn't seem as rigid and as hard as the ITALERI and ZVEZDA so I sold the ESCI solders on,

The figures look great Gary did you paint them ones yourself? If so that's s dam good job mate, are the Napoleonic figures you have painted?

 

[sith-smith]

Yes I did, though some time ago. Never spent long enough at it to perfect the various painting techniques.

Never painted the 1:72 figures as I was always playing with them

 

[ODB]

Doesn't everyone have a Warhammer phase? I've always liked the models and the background to the game but playing it has never been a fruitful experience as it seems to attract some real weirdos.

What make are those RC Tanks TM? I've always wanted one but can't justify the £500+ price tag for a Tamiya one.

 

[weasel]

Never pegged you for a Warhammer geek Weaz!

Aye, I grew up in the sticks and before we were old enough to drink we needed something to do between trying to burn down the neighbours houses. We spent more time arguing that we did actually playing the game. It would all start out well and then inside half an hour someone would start up about something and that was that.

Seriously impressive Gary! I don't have any of mine any more, but they looked ****ing awful. Especially compared to yours.