Bricoleur: Napoleonic pictures (1 Viewer)

[bricoleur]

Dear Treefroggers;

I want to open a thread wherein you will find all my Napoleonic dios. I have heard the rumour that new French Cavalry is on their way. As introduction I will do something around the retired 7th French curassiers.
What's the plot?
Chef d'escadron Count Carel van Hogendorp is entering with his squadron the woods of Quatre Bras. He encourages his lads: "En avant, Messieurs!"



But after some cautious steps, a shot was cracking and one of his men was down!



Lt von Eppen (KGL) is watching the whole scene...



Another shot goes off....



There goes the second victim

...

And a real firefighting started in the woods.
What will happen?
Come and see next episode!
Eddy

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Really nice work. Great setting; good choice of figures; good photos. Well done :salute::

 

[TomNT]

A great way to start Eddy, awesome pic's!

Tom

 

[bricoleur]

Thanks for supporting my thread with the famous "like" comment.

In the first episode we saw the start of a firefight between KGL and the French curassiers. The skirmish is going on....



A guard company was heading for he noice, hoping to have some fun but the lads had not expected to counter heavy cavalry...the result was disastrous



Only one rider could be captured



Hastly the Highlanders were brought in defence behind the wood



But also on the French side there was some panic when an "aide de camp" was warning the general staff about the heavy ambush.



Nappy himself was in the mood for the bigger work. He looked at the maps and informed where his red lancers might be...
Don't miss episode 3!
Eddy

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Nice work - look forward to episode 3 :salute::

 

[Iron Brigade]

Great photos with really nice backdrops as well!

"Iron Brigade"

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Very realistic looking photos Eddy. Looks like you used natural light for the pics as they came out quite well ! :salute::

 

[marco55]

Very nice collection.
Mark

 

[bricoleur]

Epsode 3: The attack of the Red Lancers

Napoleon grumbled to his Aide-de-Camps, Vicomte Maurice de Nieverans: "Find Chabanais and tell him with my compliments to search our "Big brothers" of the 7th Regiment of the Curassiers in the woods."



Chabanais was better known as Comte Edouard de Colbert-Chabanais, the general of the Red Lancers. In the early days the Emperor used to be very familiar with the Count but the hesitation of Colbert for more then 3 days to join the new army of his former Emperor, has degraded his friend to just "Chabanais". But not in rank: in spite of his deloyal hesitation, he received the command of the Red Lancers as there was no doubt about the bravoury of Monsieur Chabanais!



Colbert assembled at once his first squadron and some scouts were riding a few minutes later ahead to search the unfortunated 7th Curassiers.



Once in the woods the first squad could hear the battle cries.



The first ennemy that was encountered, were some dispersed Guardsmen. The cavaliers charged without any hesitation

 

[bricoleur]

The guardsmen were no match for the deadly lances



The wood was strewn with bodies



Private Jones knew that he had fought his last battle...



He was crawling to his buddy Patrick, but his best friend was already in another world.



How will our Duke react on the slaughter of all these fine men?^&confuse

Greetz;
Eddy

 

[OldDragon]

Eddy

Thank you for sharing your beautiful troops, setup and the narration just makes the whole, that much more special. Looking forward to the next instalment {sm4}.

Bests
OD

 

[bricoleur]

Episode 4: The Black Watch counters the charge.

Indeed the few guards were no match for the red lancers. They continued their way in the woods, searching for the last guardsmen.



The complete annihilation could be avoided by the ferocious intervention of the Black Watch. The lads knew that they couldn't stop the charge but costly time was saved for the duke his secret weapon.
There was the second charge for the lancers...



The first engagement was on the drummer. The sergeant protected the boy with his pike



Reinfoercements on both sides came in. Private Mc Neil was stabbed in his throat.



There was the secret weapon: the Royal Horse Artillery

 

[bricoleur]

Hastly the pieces were brought in position.



But not every shot was lucky! Sometimes brandnew guns were vulnerable for self explosion:redface2:



Could the RHA stop the raid?
Come ande see.....

Eddy

 

[Napoleon1er]

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This bloke looks like Napoleon III!

 

[Doughboy]

This is so cool! Very original way to enjoy the hobby! ^&cool

 

[bricoleur]

Episode 5: Could the RHA stop the raid?^&confuse

Capt. Oliver Blindeye is spotting the target; A frontline of 12 lancers is storming to the guns.
"Easy boys; load and aim on these fancy dandies!"



It was a nice shot, no more guns exploded!



The real secret waepon camr from these men: ... rockets!



Perhaps not very efficient to make casualties, but almost every charge could be stopped by terrifying the horses with those glittering smoking tubes...



A team of 3 rocketeers could cause a stampede amongst the foe!

 

[bricoleur]

After 30 minutes of smoke and big confusion, the brave rocketeers could stop further harassements: the glorious light cavalry of the imperial guard was dispersed into the woods.



Guns were limbered. Just in time for a nice cup of thea (or something stronger) in the local pub.



End of this story.

Eddy

 

[TomNT]

Episode 5: Could the RHA stop the raid?^&confuse

Capt. Oliver Blindeye is spotting the target; A frontline of 12 lancers is storming to the guns.
"Easy boys; load and aim on these fancy dandies!"

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It was a nice shot, no more guns exploded!

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The real secret waepon camr from these men: ... rockets!

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Perhaps not very efficient to make casualties, but almost every charge could be stopped by terrifying the horses with those glittering smoking tubes...

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A team of 3 rocketeers could cause a stampede amongst the foe!

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Again Eddy, excellent pic's and very good choice of backdrops and the lighting is superb.

Tom

 

[Iron Brigade]

Great photos!

"Iron Brigade"

 

[ROUGH RIDER]

I liked the use of the different TS companies. Excellent dioramas and story line.