Some Waterloo re-enactment pics

[grumbler]

Go to http://ilovewargameing.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2387 to see them all.  Sorry the are oversized.

Lots of pics of well-done cuirassiers:




and, of course, the Black Watch

[Admiral Yi]

I didn't realize the Black Watch had such dorky head gear.

[Viking]

I didn't realize the Black Watch had such dorky head gear.

If you are brave enough to suffer the mockery that comes with going into battle in a skirt with a stupid hat you must be able to stand when faced with a charge from the Imperial Guard.

[Jaron]

[Sophie Scholl]

Thanks Grumbler.

[Caliga]

[Alatriste]

I didn't realize the Black Watch had such dorky head gear.

If you are brave enough to suffer the mockery that comes with going into battle in a skirt with a stupid hat you must be able to stand when faced with a charge from the Imperial Guard.

In all probability they didn't, that headgear wouldn't have lasted long in campaign conditions, even less under the rain, and it rained a lot during the Waterloo campaign. French cuirassiers didn't wear red plumes and flowing horse manes, by the same reason... actually it's somewhat doubtful that the highlanders wore kilts or the cuirassiers cuirasses (supposedly the Prussians had took them in 1814 as war reparations).

Great photos, Grumbler. Allow me to link Yves Moerman's site

http://users.skynet.be/ym04/waterloo_2009.htm

I just love this photo



This one, however, is plainly wrong... contemporary sources emphatize once and again that Napoleon had grown quite fat by 1815, and that he always used a remarkably _SMALL_ hat!!!!!



Ney, doing what he was better at



The fearful RHA (Royal Horse Artillery)



Can you look any more French than this fellow?



You can really imagine this man shouting to his men under fire 'Heads up and look to the front, soldiers, it's shrapnel, not turds!'



As always, however, most reenactors seem far too old, far too stout, far too clean and far too shaven, and they wear far too many glasses too. IRL most would be fit only for a Landsturm unit, in garrison back at home. I guess it can't be helped (sigh).

[Zanza]

I never quite got the attraction of re-enacting a battle.

[Josquius]

What if wars really were thought by fat guys in glassess?

[Lucidor]

This one would own them all!

[Caliga]

@Tyr:

[Ed Anger]

This one would own them all!

Daddy want the cardboardwaffe.

[Alatriste]

This one would own them all!

Ach! I know herr Speer is supposed to speed up production by any necessary means, but let me say this is going too far!

[Lucidor]

That particular model went out in a rain of bullets.

[Admiral Yi]

Fabulous work with the cardboard but couldn't he have shelled out just a little extra for some paint?