Wagames factory / Immortal miniatures light infantry

In the intrests of fairness I should say that I have not been that keen on the Wargames Factory ranges that I've seen, that and the fact that they didn't cover any periods i was interested in made them a no go for me. To be fair, I haven't seen much of them in the flesh but what i have seen has suffered in comparisson to some other plastics on the market. Seeing some Numidians on the web convinced me that that they worth a try. I thought that it would be intresting to mix them togeter with some of the spares left over from the Warlord Greeks/Spartans, hers some of the results.

Warlord / Immortal Greek Hopites

Following from the Spartans i thought i'd have a stab at some Greeks. Enjoyable to paint and i love the shield transfers that come with the set they really look good. more Spartans and Greeks on the workbench but with my summer holidays it might be a while before i get some paint on them.

Warlord /Immortal Spartans I picked these up at Claymore more than a year ago and have taken a wee while to get round to painting them. I was really pleased with how they came out, I was a bit unsure how much time to spend on them and decided that less was more. I tried a Brown undercoat to start and a heavy wash of brown ink to finish and was pleasantly surprised that they look ok considering the limited effort on my part.

d’Erlons I Corps/ 1st Division at Waterloo

1st Brigade Colonel Claude Charlet (acting Commander)
1er and 2e Bataillons, 54e Régiment de Ligne and 1er and 2e Bataillons, 55e Régiment de Ligne (Colonel Jean-Pierre Monneret)

Perry Miniatures French infantry with some command figures from Victrix old guard thrown in to add veriety.
Supported by Kellermans Heavy brigade in the background.

British 9th Brigade (Pack) at Waterloo

The 2nd Brigade in Picton's Division at Waterloo. The figures are all Victrix and Perry and quite a bit of mixed in although the back packs are quite different.
Although i have been able to post both of these in the same week, its taken a while to paint and base all these scum of the earth.

British 8th Brigade (Kempts) at Waterloo

A couple of years ago I started a project to work on Picton’s fifth division at Waterloo. While some of the elements have been completed for a while they have for one reason or another never seen the light of day together as a group. Having just completed the 1st Battalion / 28th North Gloucestershire (using Victrix figures) It would be a good opportunity to get some pictures Taken.
I have completed the Kempts’ 8th and Packs’ 9th Brigades and I’m working through the 5th Hanoverian Brigade and hope to have this finished by the spring.

Nassau

2nd Naussau-Usingen Regiment

I had bought a box of the Victrix French (1807-1812) Infantry to provide some variety to my Perry French infantry. However as the Perry are in the post 1812 uniform they are quite different and while a single unit in the older uniform might have been ok, I felt that they didn't look right for my Waterloo.

Having converted units of Belgian line, Dutch Militia, Brunswick Hussars and Dutch / Belgian Carabiners from the plastics on the market at the time I thought there was a potential to convert these chaps into some allied infantry. The Nassau contingent are shown in Hawthornwaites uniforms of Waterloo in both the pre and post 1812 French style uniform so it didn't feel like a great stretch to put them in the pre 1812 uniform.

While the French uniform differs from the Nassau uniform is that the French has a double set of buttons with the Nassau having a single row down the front. This I can cope with, and can be corrected with a little trimming.
The Backpacks are in the French style so no problems there, however they are equipped with 'British' style haversacks and canteens as well as the French Short Swords. From the set I can muster enough short swords to equip the flank companies on both battalions, the rest will do without.
The Haversacks and canteens I made from Greenstuff, (For the canteens I used a cocktail straw snipped down and filled with greenstuff). I carried the haversack strap all the way to the shoulder as the Nassau troops looked like they had cross belts rather than the single belt for the French Centre companies.
The Colpacks were taken from the spares from the Hussar set. With a little bit of trimming / remodelling on the cap bag.

This was much more work than I had counted on and I struggled to raise the enthusiasm to finish. Having bought the command for both battalions in metal from Perry Mins I felt I had to see it through and with gritted teeth I managed to finish both battalions.

Having fully completed both now I feel that a more uniform approach to the battalions might have resulted in a better overall look but I'll put this one down to experience.