Most needed Napoleonic unit/figures?

[Chris]

If these two (this flintlock and springfield 1861) are the only choice, I would rather go with this one.
Main problem to depict a brown bess is that your model has barrel band, but nothing hard to work/remove if the production is resin.

[Traveller1865]

Yes this is a problem..we I will try to solve it.

[Susofrick]

Hmm, not Nappies, but horse-holders could be nice for the ACW and American Indian wars.

[Traveller1865]

Anyone have exact dimensions for Napoleonic supply wagon? Preferably in 1/72.

[Chris]

general purpose supply waggon ? they were no real regulations
The kind italeri did ? rapidely made here it is

[Chris]

but this one could look cool

[Traveller1865]

but this one could look cool

Yes a little more original. I don't know if Napoleonic collectors wants another supply wagon, though maybe it would be cheaper than the Italeri box, you only get one wagon in it.

[MABO]

Problem with horses is that legs might be frail, but impossible, no.

I would suggest that we might have horses standing but not standing horsemen. So if the animals are difficult I would like to have figures. Also figures mounting horses are a really lifelike pose.

[Traveller1865]

If someone has a very "generic" uniform suggestion for British infantry at Waterloo please help..

[Traveller1865]

Really need help with this one, what's best uniform choice for British infantry at Waterloo?

[C M Dodson]

All you will ever need!


http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/


Best wishes,

Chris

[Traveller1865]

Seems there's no "generic British uniform" that will make everybody happy. Some things can be difficult to change..

[Erich von Manstein]

Well, when asking about the "most needed napoleonic unit/figures", Waterloo Brits are certainly not the most compelling idea ... .

Speaking about the later period (1812-15), more desired suggestions could be:

Austrian Foot Artillery
Austrian Dragoons
Russian Jägers
Prussian Landwehr Infantry advancing
Prussian Horse & Foot Artillery
Prussian Dragoons
...

If it has to be Waterloo, what about decent Dutch cavalry?

Just a short & random list, but one could surely think of many more "needed" figures for the whole napoleonic period.

Agreeing with others who mentioned non-battle cavalry poses and much wider variety for artillery crews!

[Traveller1865]

Yes you're right Manstein, but there aren't many fighting/fleeing/casualties for Waterloo british, those poses which is our specialty. We need to think commercially at this stage, if the figures prove popular we can go to more rare poses and non-waterloo times.

[Traveller1865]

Hey,

As you seems to develop an artillery range for ACW, my concern is the lack of heavy ordnance guns in napoleonic mainly 24pdr guns, mortars and fortress guns (I have napoleonic era plans if needed).
Good sets of guard artillery (horse and foot) are also a big miss but I think Franznap is thinking to make them (not sure).
I love your lifelike combat poses for ACW, it would be great to have things like that with infantry from different nations as we start to have Marching/standing poses from Strelets and Hat.

If you have good references for the artillery please post them.

[Chris]

It took me sometimes to answer but...

Ok lets say you decide to produce a 24 pdr siege gun of Gribeauval design.
This kind :


I can provide different source material like (here in low def but I can provide HD)
Painting photos, drawings :



scans of originals plans of the time



Overall and Detail photos of models



Overall and detail photos of actual guns



if you decide to make this 24pdr siege gun on his siege carriage, you will be able to reuse the guntubes to make a fortress gun of the same era


if you re-use the carriage you made for the 30pdr parrot gun of your acw range (with some minor changes), you could provide a french siege gun of the Valée system used in all the french campaigns between 1830 and 1870 (Algeria, Anvers siege, Rome siege, Crimea, 1870...)
your carriage of the parrot gun

a 24pdr siege gun of the french Valée system


if you re-use the carriage you made for the 24 pounder siege cannon on barbette of your acw range, you could provide a french fortress gun of the Valée system used in all the french campaigns between 1830 and 1870
your carriage of the 24pdr ACW gun

a 24pdr siege gun of the french Valée system


Here is what you can produce using one model of a guntube, making some new carriage and re-using some stuff you already made, it seems to me its a good deal...but I'm not in the business

If you are interested, I will love to you help you by providing such infos, but by mail as there are some photos of my own private collection and photos of pieces not shown to the public in museums that I cannot show in a public forum (I work in military museums so I can sometimes have acces to some piece no more in public display)

Hope this helps

[Traveller1865]

I came up with this for Gribeauval 12 inch mortar, then I saw some other photos where it looked differently..
Any comments are appreciated..

[Chris]

There are two main types of 12inch mortars, yours depict the "à l'ordinaire" and your model looks quite good. but it could be nice to have a better view of the mortar itself
See the following pictures



You could also depict the "à la gomer" little more representative for the empire era but quite different in shape

[Chris]

The bed of the mortar looks a little bit light and not sturdy enough on your model

[Traveller1865]

Working on updating it.