Military Miniatures

I have not posted for a while as I have been planning a couple of military miniature dioramas, both of which are outside my normal 54mm field.

The first diorama is in 1/35th scale and will be a small convoy of WWII Russian vehicles and figures. This is way outside my modelling experience and, having opened the kits, I can see it will end up as quite a large undertaking once completed. But more about that project later as I start to work on it.

My latest project is called “A Corner of Waterloo – 18th June 1815″ and is also in a new scale for me, and that is 1/72nd. I have chosen this scale as the planned diorama will have around 50 figures on it and 1/72nd keeps it small for basing and display purposes.  Plastic figures are lighter too, but I find them more difficult to work with and modify than metal figures. But each to his own choice. I would have loved to have done it in 54mm lead figures, but the cost, let alone the space and final weight of the diorama would have been too much.

The figures and horses for the Corner of Waterloo are coming out of the following kits:

• 1 kit by Italeri of “British and Prussian Allied General Staff”
• 2 kits by Hat of “Waterloo British Line Infantry”
• 2 kits by Italeri of “British Infantry 1815″

I have duplicated the kits as I intend to slightly modify a number of figures so that they are not all in the same basic three or four poses. The extra figures allow for slips of the modeling knife

So, after all that, what is the diorama actually about?   It is one corner of a British Square, with command and cavalry waiting behind the infantry.

Figures of what will become a commanding officer, a junior officer, and some cavalry have all been removed from their sprues, tidied up and are now awaiting undercoating. The plastic figures take some getting used to, and I look forwards to seeing how painting them will turn out.

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