From PeteF: Old School Minifigs - The Prussians are Coming (120 points)

I get a lot of help while I'm painting and sometimes bayonets are mysteriously removed

If you've read some of my other minifigs posts you'll know that I am blessed with a gigantic Anglo-Allied 100 Days collection. However, if I'm ever going to refight Waterloo I'll need quite a few Prussians to arrive on the left flank later in the day (let alone the French).

The first Prussian battalion... of 141?

Every journey begins with a single step and the first step of the Prussian Waterloo (or 100 Days?) army is the 1st battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 13th Brigade, IV Corps. I think they were some of the troops who beat up the Young Guard at Plancenoit.

Buttony trousers

Although the sculpts are basic and lack variety I love Minifigs. Painting these Prussians was fun - and thanks to the trusty Ospreys and the Centjours website the uniform research was easy - however, I never did figure out what colour the drummer's plume should be.

I won't live long enough and/or paint fast enough to finish the project - leaving the French aside, the 100 days Prussian army included 25 infantry regiments and  22 Landwehr regiments, each with 3 battalions!

Flag downloaded from wargflag.com and printed on linen paper

In any event - all lead deserves paint and my weakness for adding to the mountain means that I have several  boxes of these guys to paint and will always be looking for more.

24 x 25mm infantry for 120 points. All 2nd generation Minifigs.

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And now for some anti-French. Though, of course, the Prussians were vassalized after Jena, and so they could be sent to Russia . . . so Frenchish!

Minifigs en masse sure do the trick, though their older 10mm and 15mm figures can be quite nice. Always liked the AIM cuirassiers.

120 points on the board!