The 2nd Nassau-Usingen Light Regiment Complete - 3 Battalions!

They're all done! The horrible green and buff German light troops are finished. Ever since I saw a few chaps portraying them regiment at a reenactment event, I've had a strange love-hate relationship with the horrible colour combo of hunter's green and ochre.

72 6mm Baccus figures, making up the 3 battalions.

From the few accounts I've read which mention this regiment's performance during the Waterloo campaign, they seemed to acquit themselves reasonably well, and one battalion at least was stationed near or in the Hougoumont Farm complex on the 18th June.

I'm very happy with how these chaps have come out. To complete their brigade I'll need to paint the two battalions of the Orange-Nassau Regiment, in their rather more fetching blue and red faced uniforms, along with a 30mm x 30mm smaller base of the Volunteer Jagers (to represent about 140 men or so), along with another artillery battery. I'm very short on artillery currently, and will have to order some more in the new year.

I've not yet decided what colours I'm going to give these chaps. I don't know what they carried on the campaign, if they carried any at all. I'm tempted just to give them some generic Dutch-Belgian flags in orange to help them stand out on the tabletop.

In other news, my Brunswickers arrived, along with some heavy cavalry in bicorne hats, to complete the Dutch-Belgian cavalry contingent. The cavalry will be the next to go under the brush, once the Orange-Nassau troops are completed.

So that I don't bore you all to death with a wall of text, here's a couple more photos of the regiment in all its headache inducing colours below.

An imposing, and sickening, sight to be sure!

A close-up of the 2nd battalion.