The 2nd Light Infantry Battalion, King's German Legion, are ready to make their debut.
They've been finished for a week now, in fact, but I was too busy chopping wood in the back garden to set them up for their photo shoot before now. It really was a massive tree that fell down.
They are to be the skirmish element for Wallmoden's Corps. In reality, only about half the 2nd KGL Light Infantry was sent to join the Anglo-Hanoverian forces in Germany in 1813, but I thought I ought to paint up a full battalion so they would be also be ready to occupy a certain farmhouse in Belgium.
Major Georg Baring's men filter through the woods ...
... and form up in line
Major General Wilhelm von Arentschildt takes temporary command.
The battalion faces to the rear, showing off their dinky little havresacs I'm not 100% sure that this is what those weird little bulges on their left hips are supposed to be, but they look OK.
Wallmoden's Corps forms up.
The figures are:
Alberken:
BN 4: Rifleman Officer x 1;
BN 3: Rifleman on Guard:x 22; and
Hinton Hunt:
BN 20 British Rifles bugler x 1.
I cannot thank Aly Morrison and Mark Dudley enough for providing me with these charming figures. As soon as I saw them I knew they'd be exactly right for Wallmoden's forces.
One of the things that made them so appealing for me was that, unlike much of the rest of the Alberken range, they do not look like Hinton Hunts. The big question then was: what were they?
I was starting to think they might be Jacklex conversions. Rob G then sent me a picture of a Jacklex ACW gunner, which looks to me as if it may very well have been the base figure.
Exhibit A:
Jacklex ACWs were certainly of the right vintage for this, but it's his legs, wee pinched face and oddly sloping upper arms that clinched for me.
I've been given a few other delightful presents recently. Here are two of them below, with a KGL light infantryman for scale.
The cottages were given to me by the Armchair General, who thinks he bought them in the 80s but can't remember the manufacturer. They're really nicely sculpted and seem to be made of rubber, as they're a little bit squishy. If anyone knows what they are, please do say so in the comments. I'd love to find out what else was in the range.
The 2nd KGL Light Infantry are the last of the Phase 2 Coalition infantry. I think it'll be some artillery next.
Best wishes
WM
