Found this on my net travels (to be honest its the only link i could post on here haha)....I saw this and was gobsmacked....fantastic project not 10mm but but great all the same...hope you enjoy

http://britisharmywaterloo.blogspot.co.uk/

All the best
Sean

Well...that's just insane....cool, but insane!

How does the guy still have a will to live 

Talk about dedication though!

I know and what makes it even more amazing.... he has got the names for 23000 out of the 28000 that fought on the day , following this with great interest
Sean

 
Cool!

He's just nuts

 . My God that's bordering on madness! Where does he store all that stuff talk less of the cost in figures, glue, paints etc?

Quote from: seano1815 on 31 December 2012, 11:19:42 PM
I know and what makes it even more amazing.... he has got the names for 23000 out of the 28000 that fought on the day , following this with great interest
Sean

No ways. It was over 130, 000 combattants.

 
Certainly dedicated !
Cheers - Phil

He can be cured......

IanS

Absolutely potty

Quote from: Nosher on 01 January 2013, 11:01:24 AM
Absolutely potty

Sounds like a slogan for someone who dislikes vodka.

Doesn't it beg the question "who's doing the French?". Or is that the next decade's project? Whatever - he's in desperate need of a life.... 

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 January 2013, 08:04:27 AM
No ways. It was over 130, 000 combattants.

Yes - but he's only doing the British - from his blurb:

"So the idea is to have each British combatant at Waterloo represented in 28mm. It began as a crazy idea when I was researching the British Army at Waterloo. I have compiled a datebase of every British combatant - 28,000 men - and have arranged them into each company/troop/battery. The database is compiled from records at the PRO plus regimental records and so on. I have data (e.g. enlistment dates, wounds, physical description, birthplace, profession, literacy, height, etc) for 23,000 of those present. To assemble 28,000 figures once seemed an impossibly expensive task but the arrival of Victrix and Perry plastics has changed that. Some units are already complete (the Black Watch for example, had an estimated 200 men at the beginning of the 18th June. I want to label the base of each man when they are all done."

He is, still, as mad as a box of frogs, clearly. 

If he did this using the current Victrix offer of 212 figures for £85, then to put the 28,000 figures on the table will cost him £11,226.80  

QuoteIf he did this using the current Victrix offer of 212 figures for £85, then to put the 28,000 figures on the table will cost him £11,226.80

Good God Almighty  .

What would it be in 10 mm ?

Well  based just on infantry i think somewhere in the region of £3734 rounded up   but then hed need cavalry and artillery on top of that he'll need a bigger house, I think he sould have used 10mm compared to Niks figure

Just to put this into (some, slight) perspective...

I've been wargaming continuously (not constantly, natch  ) now since, I think, about 1996 or so...that's 16 years or thereabouts. Given that when I got back into gaming, I went back to GW, and gamed in 28mm pretty much exclusively until ~2000, I'll do this as an average:

- monthly spend: £120 - this includes figures, paints, gaming (including trips to shows, GW, EuroGT etc)
- yearly spend: £1440
- times 16 years = £23,040

I think that's actually pretty conservative really - I know, at times, that I've dropped a couple hundred quid here & there on some pretty random stuff...

It's also, of course, another reason to have it listed on the house insurance, locked safely away, guarded by a German Shepherd (canine, not Fritz in his lederhosen - he's way too scary)...and to have a reciprocal arrangement with a trusted gamer in case I shuffle off this mortal coil: someone who can go through it & tell SWMBO what it's really worth and how to sell / distribute it 

He's finished 10 companies of the 79th camaronians what an awsome sight i'll never complain about painting tartan again