Fanteria Olandese delle Guerre Napoleoniche, 1815

Recensione dei Figurini HaT Industrie in Scala 1:72

Readers of Military Miniatures Magazine selected fanteria olandese as one of their Top 10 favorites of the Wishlist 1998. The list was forwarded to popular plastic soldatini manufacturers e HaT Industrie released their fanteria olandese the following year. The result is well worth it, as can be seen in the photo. The soldatini represent fanteria olandese Flanquers at Waterloo, e there are separate heads included in the set to convert them to Flanquers belgi o National milizia olandese / belga wearing surplus Stovepipe shakos britannici.

Contenuto

48 soldatini in 9 Poses – 23 mm pari a 166 cm di altezza

• Ufficiale (4)
• Soldatino con open hand marching (4)
• Soldier marching (4)
• Soldier march-attack (4)
• Soldier standing at attention (4)
• Soldier advancing (8)
• Soldier standing, tirante (8)
• Soldier kneeling, tirante (8)
• Soldier kneeling, receiving (4)

• Musket (4)
• Pennon (4)
• Drum (4)
• Horn (4)
• Spare Head con shakò britannico of 1812 (4)
• Spare Head con Stovepipe shakò britannico (4)

Valutazione

• Good choice of subject. The Flanquers olandesi / belgi are unique in this scale. Unfortunately, the soldatini represent only elite company soldiers wearing the distinctive shoulder rolls. These shoulder rolls devono essere tolto prudentamente, to create centre company men who made up the majority of troops in the battaglione fanteria. Battaglioni fanteria olandesi / belgi consisted of ten companies, including one heavy Flanquer (granatieri) ed one light Flanquer (skirmish) company.
• The loading e firing poses are very suitable for wargame units.
• Satisfactory casting quality. Obvious flash e mould lines devono essere tolto prima di dipingere. The editor used the Rai-Ro ZEP-70 heated spatula to blend mould lines into the surface of the model.

• HaT Industrie would have been better advised to turn one of the marching Flanquer poses into a marching centre company man. In fact, the same pose might have been used for both, one con ed one without shoulder rolls.
• The separate pennons included in this set are too small be of any use as fanteria flags. They might be used as fanteria francese company marker flags.
• The marching soldatini exhibit a serious motor coordination problem: their legs are not in line con the pelvis. Either their are intentionally strutting their stuff o they must be carrying a superheavy backpack. The officer figure has a similar problem. His left thigh is turned out, but the lower left leg is straight. The stance of the soldier standing at attention is correct, he is the best of the batch.
• The soldier con the open hand is an un fante on the approach march, when the musket could be carried on the left o right shoulder at will. The figure looks a little silly when its carrying the separate drum by the small peg attached to the instrument. Military drums are suspended by a leather strap suspended across the right shoulder so that the drum rest on the left side of the body. Both hands need to be free to play the drums.
• There is no figure capable of holding the horn supplied in this set.

Utilizzo Storico

• fanteria olandese Flanquers, 1815

Conversioni Possibili

• Flanquers della fanteria belga, 1815
• National milizia olandese / belga, 1815

Bibliografia

• Haythornthwaite, Philip: Uniforms of Waterloo in Colour, plate 36

Giocatori di wargame will be happy to have these Flanquers della fanteria olandese / belga, even if some effort is required to convert the soldatini to centre company men.

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Soldatini Napoleonici

– Pubblicato: 16.04.2005 – Aggiornato: 11.07.2007
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