Tonton
A Fixture
2014 wasn’t a very productive year for me mainly for family health reasons but I hope to make amends this year.
To kick-off, this is a Grenadier of the 2nd. Nassau Regiment. He’s 54mm, made from Historex spare parts and a Hornet head with mods made using Magic Sculp and acrylic modelling paste. Turnbacks and collar are metal foil. All painting is acrylic.
I see this this Nassauer running to the desperate defence of Hougoumont at Waterloo. He carries a Brown Bess and wears a colpack (stripped of its ornaments on campaign). His lower legs are wet through running in the grass which was soaking on the morning of the battle.
The Duchy of Nassau regiments fought with distinction for Napoleon in the Peninsula and only defected to the Allies in Bayonne in December 1813. I’ve read somewhere that, of the troops under Wellington’s command at Waterloo, 39% spoke English and 46% were German-speaking (the remainder, I imagine, spoke Dutch/Flemish and minority languages). The Nassauers, though German-speaking, were part of the 2nd Netherlands Division. It’s true there are conflciting reports of their effectiveness but I don’t think British historians have given them sufficient credit for the role they played in the battle; they seem to have been especially courageous at Hougoumont.
To kick-off, this is a Grenadier of the 2nd. Nassau Regiment. He’s 54mm, made from Historex spare parts and a Hornet head with mods made using Magic Sculp and acrylic modelling paste. Turnbacks and collar are metal foil. All painting is acrylic.
I see this this Nassauer running to the desperate defence of Hougoumont at Waterloo. He carries a Brown Bess and wears a colpack (stripped of its ornaments on campaign). His lower legs are wet through running in the grass which was soaking on the morning of the battle.
The Duchy of Nassau regiments fought with distinction for Napoleon in the Peninsula and only defected to the Allies in Bayonne in December 1813. I’ve read somewhere that, of the troops under Wellington’s command at Waterloo, 39% spoke English and 46% were German-speaking (the remainder, I imagine, spoke Dutch/Flemish and minority languages). The Nassauers, though German-speaking, were part of the 2nd Netherlands Division. It’s true there are conflciting reports of their effectiveness but I don’t think British historians have given them sufficient credit for the role they played in the battle; they seem to have been especially courageous at Hougoumont.
