{"title":"W. Britain Napoleonic Wars Toy Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe W. Britain Napoleonic Wars range brings the armies of 1815 to the tabletop in 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. The collection is led by Napoleon's Imperial Guard — the grenadiers à pied loading, firing, and standing fast in square, with their \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eeagles\u003c\/a\u003e, sappers, drummers and officers — alongside the Emperor himself, on foot and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/napoleon-on-marengo\"\u003emounted on Marengo\u003c\/a\u003e. Facing them are the British: the 1st Foot Guards who broke the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, the 44th Foot, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Marines, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/admiral-nelson\"\u003eAdmiral Nelson\u003c\/a\u003e, joined by the green-coated Nassau Grenadiers of Wellington's allied army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery figure is sculpted for display and built to combine. The firing and loading poses rank up into volley lines, the kneeling figures form the face of a square, and the command, colour, and casualty figures give a diorama its story. Whether you collect single figures or build a full Waterloo diorama, these are detailed, historically accurate models for the serious collector of the Napoleonic Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-tearing-cartridge","title":"French Imperial Guard Tearing Cartridge, 1815","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery shot began in the mouth. The paper cartridge held a measured charge of black powder and a lead ball twisted up in a paper tube; to load, a soldier bit off the powder end — the act this figure is caught in — shook a little into the priming pan, poured the rest down the barrel, then rammed ball and paper down on top. A trained man could do it perhaps three times a minute. The cartridge left its mark: after a long firefight the Guard's lips and teeth were black with powder, and the saltpetre brought on a raging thirst. Recruits even needed sound front teeth — a man who could not bite a cartridge could not fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is frozen at the first motion of the drill — musket grounded in the left hand, the right bringing the cartridge to his teeth to bite off the powder end. He wears the full dress of the Guard: bearskin with red plume, dark blue coat with red epaulettes, white breeches, the pack on his back. He belongs in a loading sequence that reads left to right across a display. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-reaching-for-cartridge\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Reaching for Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e before him drawing the round from the pouch, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e after him bringing the loaded musket up, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will\u003c\/a\u003e to finish the cycle with the shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36192. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773267869924,"sku":"36192","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36192Background2022Napoleonic_FC6CA9E5613D2.jpg?v=1762537558"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-reaching-for-cartridge","title":"French Imperial Guard Reaching for Cartridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA soldier carried his battle in a box on his hip. The 1801-pattern giberne — the cartridge pouch — held a drilled wooden block stocked with fifty or sixty paper cartridges, each a single shot of powder and ball, behind a heavy leather flap that kept off the rain and the sparks. It was rarely enough. Fifty rounds sounds like a great deal until a firefight is consuming three a minute; in a long battle a man could empty his pouch in well under an hour, and then the trouble began — runners fetching fresh ammunition from the wagons in the rear, or soldiers rifling the pouches of the dead and wounded around them to keep the line firing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is at the first motion of the reload — left hand on the musket with bayonet fixed, right hand reaching back to the giberne for a fresh cartridge, in the full dress of bearskin, blue coat and white breeches. He opens the loading sequence of a Guard firing-line diorama, and the poses chain together in order: a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-tearing-cartridge\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Tearing Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e biting the round next, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e bringing the musket up, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 2nd Rank Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e loosing the shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36191. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773275275492,"sku":"36191","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36191Background2022Napoleonic_4501529BC31E7.jpg?v=1762537558"},{"product_id":"1st-foot-guards-sergeant-with-pike-no-2","title":"1st Foot Guards Sergeant with Pike No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1815 the pike was a deliberate anachronism — a pole-arm in the age of the musket — and that was rather the point. A British sergeant carried his nine-foot pike not to fight cavalry but as the badge of his rank and a tool of his trade. With it he dressed the ranks, laying the shaft along the line to straighten it and tapping men into their places; with it he steadied a wavering company; and with it he stood in the colour party, the knot of sergeants whose duty was to guard the regiment's Colours and the young ensigns who bore them. The musket had made the pike obsolete everywhere but here, in the sergeant's hands, where it still meant authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in command of his men — the pike upright in one hand, sword at his hip, the red coat with a sergeant's lace and the sash of rank, grey trousers and white-plumed shako. His proper place is the colour party, so build that diorama around him: set him beside the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e he is sworn to guard, then dress the company he steadies with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the ranks before him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36190. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773277700324,"sku":"36190","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36190Background2022Napoleonic_97100B3E3F0CA.jpg?v=1762537567"},{"product_id":"british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Company Kneeling Defending No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the British infantry, the square was salvation and trap at once. Formed into a hollow square, four ranks deep on every face, they were proof against any cavalry — but a square is a dense, motionless target, and the French knew it. So Ney's horsemen and his gunners worked in turn: when the cavalry drew off, the artillery hammered the squares with roundshot, tearing lanes through the packed ranks; when the infantry tried to deploy into line to escape the guns, the cavalry swept back. At Waterloo the British squares simply endured it, closing up over their dead, the wounded laid in the hollow center, officers pacing the inside to keep the men steady, for hour after murderous hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels to receive a charge — musket grounded and bayonet angled up to meet a horse, in the red coat with blue facings, white cross-belts, grey trousers and black shako. He is the front rank of a square's face, the heart of an anti-cavalry diorama. Stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-defending\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e behind him to build the rear rank, add a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e to put fire into the charge, and set the scene alongside the 44th Foot's stand in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/die-hard\"\u003e\"Die Hard\"\u003c\/a\u003e for a full study of British infantry meeting cavalry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36132. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773436068068,"sku":"36132","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36132BackgroundNapoleonic_45B8BF3050B59.jpg?v=1762537567"},{"product_id":"british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-co-standing-firing","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Co. Standing Firing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe musket at this guardsman's shoulder had a name as famous as any general's: Brown Bess. The British Land Pattern flintlock, in the simplified India Pattern carried at Waterloo, threw a lead ball three-quarters of an inch across — heavier than the French Charleville's — and in the hands of a drilled redcoat it was the most reliable killing tool on the field, if only at close range. Like every smoothbore it was hopeless at distance, so the British made a virtue of holding fire until the enemy was near, then loosing a volley that struck like a hammer. Brown Bess armed the British soldier for the better part of a century, and at Waterloo she did her last great work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands to fire — Brown Bess levelled with bayonet fixed, the red coat with white cross-belts and lace, grey trousers and black shako. He is the standing rank of a two-deep British firing line and slots straight into a Foot Guards diorama. Kneel a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank before him, extend the line with the second standing firer in the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing No.2\u003c\/a\u003e, and raise the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e behind the rank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36133. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in a clamshell pack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773440065764,"sku":"36133","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36133BackgroundNapoleonic_461BB2CBECE85.jpg?v=1762537576"},{"product_id":"british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Company Kneeling Firing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWellington had a hard word for the men who won his battles. \"The scum of the earth,\" he called the British rank and file — and he meant it almost admiringly. They were not volunteers stirred by patriotism, he insisted, but the poorest and most desperate of society: men who enlisted to escape hunger, debt, a magistrate, or a bottle, bound to the colours for long years and held to their duty by ferocious discipline and the lash. And yet, he allowed, \"it is really wonderful that we should have made them the fine fellows they are.\" Out of that unpromising material the army built the steady, professional infantry that held the line in the Peninsula and at Waterloo — including the Foot Guards kneeling here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels to fire — musket levelled with bayonet fixed, the red coat with blue Guards facings and white lace, white cross-belts, grey trousers and black shako, the full pack and mess tin on his back. He is the front-rank kneeler of a British two-deep firing line and the foundation of a Foot Guards diorama. Stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e behind him to complete the two ranks, raise the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e over the line, and for Hougoumont bring up the green-coated allies who shared the post — a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e at their flank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36134. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773443604708,"sku":"36134","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36134BackgroundNapoleonic_63F86D31653F9.jpg?v=1762537576"},{"product_id":"british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Company Ensign with Regimental Colour No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe British 1st Foot Guards owe their modern name to a single evening. At about 7:30 PM on June 18, 1815, the head of Napoleon's Imperial Guard — the Chasseurs who had never been beaten — climbed the ridge at Waterloo toward Wellington's line. Maitland's brigade of Foot Guards had been lying down behind the crest. As the French came on, they rose at the order, leveled, and fired into the column at point-blank range. The Imperial Guard recoiled and broke, and the battle broke with it. In commemoration of beating Napoleon's grenadiers, the regiment was renamed the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards — the Grenadier Guards — and given the bearskin to wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is an ensign — the most junior officer in the battalion, and the man who carried the Colour into action, where it served as the rallying point and so drew the enemy's fire. He wears the red coat with blue Guards facings, grey campaign trousers, and the black shako, sword drawn, raising the Regimental Colour with its Union field and battle honors — Corunna, Barrosa, Talavera — worked in gold. The Colour was never carried alone. Guard it with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/1st-foot-guards-sergeant-with-pike-no-2\"\u003e1st Foot Guards Sergeant with Pike\u003c\/a\u003e, dress the company beside it with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e, and set the whole scene against the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard\u003c\/a\u003e it faced at Waterloo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36142. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure with Regimental Colour on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773446652132,"sku":"36142","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36142BackgroundNapoleonic_10A582E006561.jpg?v=1762537585"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-standing-defending","title":"French Imperial Guard Standing Defending","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Imperial Guard was Napoleon's reserve, and its great privilege was often to be held back. Committed only at the decisive moment — and sometimes not at all — the Guard could spend a battle watching while the line infantry bled to take the ground, which bred a steady resentment in the marching regiments: the guardsmen drew better pay and larger rations and wore the tall bearskin, yet were spared the worst of the fighting. The bargain ran both ways. When the Guard was finally sent forward it was expected to settle the matter, and a veteran standing fast with fixed bayonet was the army's last argument in a close fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in a defensive posture — Charleville musket levelled with fixed bayonet, weight set back, ready to receive an attack. He wears the full dress of the Grenadiers à Pied: the tall bearskin with red plume, dark blue coat with red epaulettes and white cross-belts, and white campaign trousers flecked with the mud of the field. He is built for a firing line or the face of a square. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-kneeling-defending-no-2\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank before him, dress the line with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending-no-2\"\u003esecond Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e pose, and add a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will\u003c\/a\u003e to put the volley in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36187. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773467689188,"sku":"36187","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36187LRBackBackground_E6AAC187F0980.jpg?v=1762537585"},{"product_id":"near-miss-french-imperial-guard","title":"\"Near Miss!\" French Imperial Guard Standing Defending","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a Napoleonic battlefield, the difference between a near miss and a grave was often inches and luck. Musket and cannon threw out clouds of projectiles, and a great many arrived spent — balls at the end of their flight that still carried enough force to knock a man flat, crack a rib, or carry off his hat, but no longer enough to kill. Soldiers told endless stories of the ball that struck a buckle, a cartridge box, a coin in the pocket, or the tall cap that took the blow meant for the skull. This guardsman has had exactly that kind of moment — his bearskin knocked from his head — and lived to bring his bayonet back up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is caught in the instant after the near miss — bareheaded, his bearskin knocked to the ground at his feet, the musket and bayonet coming back up to defend. He wears the Guard's blue coat with red and white facings and mud-stained white trousers. He is a storytelling figure, made to add drama to a battle diorama: pair him with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-casualty\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Casualty\u003c\/a\u003e who was not so lucky, set him in a defending line beside a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e, and post a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e holding the line together through the crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36188. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure with fallen bearskin on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773470605540,"sku":"36188","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36188LRFrontBackground_B1BCC26944941.jpg?v=1762537594"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard","title":"French Imperial Guard Company Officer No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eA French officer led from the front, and it cost them. Doctrine put the officer ahead of his men — out where he could be seen, sword drawn, shouting the men forward into the fire — and the casualty rolls show the price: officers fell at a far higher rate than the rank and file, picked off precisely because they stood exposed and gave the orders. It was also a practical necessity. Once muskets and cannon opened, the noise and smoke swallowed everything, and an officer could be heard by only the nearest few files. So he went forward to be seen, bellowing and gesturing with the blade, trusting drilled-in habit to carry the rest of the line with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is caught mid-command — mouth open in a shout, sword thrust forward, the body turned to drive the line on. He wears the full-dress officer's uniform: bearskin with plume, dark blue coat with gold epaulettes and red sash, the Légion d'honneur at his breast, white trousers and tall boots. He is the active counterpart to the contemplative \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e — pose the two together as the senior and junior of a company. Set him ahead of his men giving the word: a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e bringing muskets up at his order, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will\u003c\/a\u003e opening the volley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36189. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773471588580,"sku":"36189","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36189LRFrontBackground_64EBC4679FCA7.jpg?v=1762537594"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-company-officer","title":"French Imperial Guard Company Officer","description":"\u003cp\u003ePinned to this officer's chest is the small white cross of the Légion d'honneur, and it carried a revolutionary idea. Napoleon founded the order in 1802 to reward merit — courage, service, ability — and made it open to any man regardless of birth, from a marshal to a private soldier. In the royal armies that came before, a commission was a thing of breeding and money, reserved for the nobility; in Napoleon's, a guardsman who fought well could be commissioned from the ranks and decorated beside generals. \"Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack,\" the saying went. Many of the Guard's own officers had begun as private men and risen on nothing but proven valor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows the officer in full dress, sword drawn — bearskin with red plume, dark blue coat with the gold epaulettes of rank, white waistcoat and trousers, tall boots and a red sash — the Légion d'honneur at his breast. He is posed to command, and sits at the center of almost any Guard vignette. Put him at the head of the color party with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e, set him behind a firing line anchored by a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e, or have him giving the word to a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e as the volley comes up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36160. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773500915940,"sku":"36160","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36160BackgroundNapoleonic_89071BDB17B4E.jpg?v=1762537602"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-3rd-rank","title":"French Imperial Guard 3rd Rank Standing Firing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third rank was the army's unsettled question. French regulations drew up infantry three deep, but the rearmost rank could never fire cleanly — it could not get a musket past two ranks of comrades without endangering the men in front, and its shots, fired high or at an angle, mostly went to waste. So the third rank became a reserve of bodies: men to close up the gaps as the front ranks fell, to pass loaded muskets forward, or to face about against cavalry from behind. The British dispensed with it altogether and fought two deep, every musket bearing. By 1815 even French commanders were thinning their lines, conceding that the third rank's value was the men in it, not their fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands firing from the rear rank — musket levelled and extended, the blue coat with red trim, white waistcoat and mud-flecked trousers, bearskin with red plume. He completes the depth of a three-rank firing line, and the line is the point of a Guard diorama. Kneel a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e at the front, stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 2nd Rank Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the middle, and post a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e to command all three ranks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36176. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773508878564,"sku":"36176","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36176BackgroundNapoleonic_BC039E63F3C09.jpg?v=1762537602"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready","title":"French Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hardest thing a soldier did was nothing. Long before he fired a shot, he stood in his rank and waited — and at Waterloo the waiting was murderous. For much of June 18, 1815, Wellington's infantry stood or lay on the reverse slope of the ridge while a French grand battery of around eighty guns pounded them, hour after hour, roundshot tearing files out of the line. They could not reply; they could only close up over the gaps and hold their ground. To stand still and take that, then come to the make ready with steady hands when the order finally came, asked more of a man than the firing ever did. Discipline was mostly the discipline of waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at the make ready in full marching order — musket brought up vertical and the hands moving to cock and present, the pack with rolled blanket and mess tins on his back, bearskin and full dress. He pairs directly with the kneeling version to make a two-rank line caught at the same instant. Build the moment across a firing-line diorama: set the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-kneeling-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank beside him, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-tearing-cartridge\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Tearing Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e still loading behind, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 2nd Rank Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e as the volley breaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36177. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773526900964,"sku":"36177","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36177LRFrontBackgroundCMYK_023176FF8B3AC.jpg?v=1762537611"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling","title":"French Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the main army had fled the field at Waterloo, a few squares of the Old Guard stood their ground in the dusk, firing as they were surrounded. The British brought up guns and poured in canister at close range, and an officer called on the Guard to surrender. The reply that came back — attributed to General Cambronne — was \"La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas,\" the Guard dies but does not surrender. (Cambronne was said to have used a shorter, blunter word.) The squares were torn apart but did not break. It was the last organized resistance of Napoleon's army, and it closed the wars that had run for more than twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is the front-rank kneeler of a firing line — musket levelled and firing, the full-dress uniform of white breeches and black gaiters, dark blue coat with red facings, bearskin with red plume. In the three-deep line he is the foundation: the kneeling rank that lets the men behind fire over him without wasting frontage. Stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 2nd Rank Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e directly behind him, deepen it with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-3rd-rank\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 3rd Rank\u003c\/a\u003e, and bring the next volley up with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36178. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773529293028,"sku":"36178","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36178BackgroundNapoleonic_BC669ECFE4095.jpg?v=1762537611"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-kneeling-make-ready","title":"French Imperial Guard Kneeling Make Ready","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Make ready\" was the order to bring the musket to the cock — to pull the flint back to full cock and prepare to fire. Everything then depended on the flintlock, the era's defining and most temperamental technology. The flint, clamped in the jaws of the cock, snapped down to strike a steel frizzen; the sparks fell into a pan of priming powder, which flashed through a touchhole to fire the charge. It failed often. A worn flint, a fouled touchhole, or above all damp powder could give only a \"flash in the pan\" and no shot. The rain the night before Waterloo left muskets misfiring across the field the next day — the difference, sometimes, between a volley and an empty click.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels at the make ready — musket brought up and the hand at the lock, drawing the flint to full cock before the piece comes level. He is in full dress: bearskin with red plume, blue coat with red epaulettes, white breeches, the pack on his back. He fits the loading-and-firing sequence of a Guard diorama between the reload and the shot. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-tearing-cartridge\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Tearing Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e behind him still loading, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e firing alongside, and the standing \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e to pair the kneeling and standing ranks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36179. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773533257956,"sku":"36179","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36179LRSideBackground_4D3ED2000A30B.jpg?v=1762537620"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-drummer-no-1","title":"French Imperial Guard Drummer No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eArmies spent lavishly to dress their musicians, and the Imperial Guard outdid them all. A drummer of the Guard wore the livrée impériale — the imperial livery lace, a distinctive braid sewn down every seam and across the chest, set with eagles and crowned Ns, topped by ornamental \"wings\" at the shoulders. It cost far more than a private's plain coat, and that was the point: musicians were the regiment on display, the figures the public saw first on parade and the enemy saw at the head of the column. A richly turned-out band advertised the wealth, pride, and discipline of the unit behind it, and no unit had more to advertise than Napoleon's own Guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands mid-beat in the full splendor of a Guard drummer — bearskin with red plume and brass plate, the blue coat ablaze with imperial livery lace and ornamental wings at the shoulders, the brass-shelled drum slung before him. He is the companion to the Guard's other drummer and the showpiece at the head of a parade diorama. Lead the column with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-sapper\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Sapper\u003c\/a\u003e, fall the second \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-drummer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e in beside him to double the beat, and carry the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36184. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773538795748,"sku":"36184","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36184FrontBackgroundLR_127983AC5AEEF.jpg?v=1762537620"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-sapper","title":"French Imperial Guard Sapper","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sapeurs marched at the very head of the regiment, and they looked the part: big men chosen for size and strength, set apart by the leather apron, the axe over the shoulder, and the full beard — a privilege granted to no other troops in an army that was otherwise clean-shaven or moustached. The beard and the crossed-axe badge marked an elite within the elite. Their work was not ceremonial. In the assault it was the sappers who went forward with axes to hack down gates, palisades, and the felled-tree abatis that blocked a column's path, doing it under fire so the infantry behind them could pour through the breach they cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows the sapeur in full dress — the white leather apron over the dark blue coat, red epaulettes, the crossed-axe badge on his sleeve, white gauntlets, and the full beard beneath a plumed bearskin — both hands resting on the haft of his grounded axe. He is built to lead a parade or open a column. Set him at the head of the march ahead of a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-drummer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e, with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e carried behind and an \u003ca href=\"\/products\/imperial-guard-at-present-arms\"\u003eImperial Guard at Present Arms\u003c\/a\u003e rendering honors as the column passes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36185. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Drummers were often the youngest in the regiment, boys grown up in the ranks, and a good one was prized — in garrison and on the march, the rhythm of the drum was the rhythm of military life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is caught mid-beat — sticks in motion over the drum slung at his hip, in the green Nassau coat heavy with gold drummer's lace and the red-plumed fur cap. Drummers marched with the colour party and the command, so he belongs at the front of a Nassau diorama: set him beside a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-with-regimental-colour\"\u003eNassau Grenadier with Regimental Colour\u003c\/a\u003e at the head of the column, take his orders from a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-officer-no-1\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Officer\u003c\/a\u003e, and have him beat the time for a line of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-standing-ramming-1815\"\u003eNassau Grenadiers loading and firing\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36181. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773547249892,"sku":"36181","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36181LR_BD560F9482F41.jpg?v=1762537629"},{"product_id":"nassau-grenadier-with-regimental-colour","title":"Nassau Grenadier with Regimental Colour 1815","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe device on this yellow flag is older than most of the crowns that fought at Waterloo. It is the golden lion of Nassau — a gold lion on a field strewn with gold billets — the arms of a comital house that traces back to the twelfth century, and the same lion the senior Orange-Nassau branch carried into the royal arms of the Netherlands, where it stands to this day. For the green-coated grenadiers of a small German duchy, fighting far from home in someone else's coalition, the colour was the duchy made visible: a scrap of silk that said which dynasty, which homeland, and which centuries of loyalty a man was standing his ground for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure carries the yellow Nassau colour on its staff, dressed in the green coat with yellow lace and the black fur cap with red plume, one hand resting on his hip. The colour was the heart of a regiment, so it sits at the heart of a Nassau diorama — build the colour party around it with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-officer-no-1\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Officer\u003c\/a\u003e at its side, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-drummer\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e beating the time, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e anchoring the line the flag rallies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36182. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure with Regimental Colour on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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As the wave receded, the gunners dashed back out and fired into its flank. Ney's squadrons charged again and again, and the British battery survived to punish every charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two-figure set pairs command and communication — the officer standing with drawn sword in the dark blue, red-faced coat of the Royal Artillery, red sash and grey trousers, and the NCO caught mid-signal, arm raised, the sergeant's chevrons on his sleeve. Gunners rarely fought alone, so the set anchors a combined-arms diorama: range the guns behind a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e line they support, bring up the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-royal-marine-drummer\"\u003eBritish Royal Marine Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e for another of the army's signalmen, and post the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e to mark the command. This is a limited edition of only 400 sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36126. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — Royal Artillery officer and signaling NCO — each on a sculpted base. Limited edition of 400 sets. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773566320868,"sku":"36126","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36126_E7F931BA35B44.jpg?v=1762537637"},{"product_id":"die-hard","title":"\"Die Hard\" British 44th Foot: Kneeling to Meet Cavalry and Kneeling Wounded","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt Quatre Bras on June 16, 1815, two days before Waterloo, French lancers came on so fast that the 44th Foot had no time to form square — the one formation that reliably stops cavalry. Caught in line, the regiment did the next best thing: the rear rank faced about and fired outward, so the battalion met the horsemen from both sides at once. A lancer drove straight for the King's Colour, the regiment's heart. Ensign Christie took a lance through the face but threw himself over the flag as he fell; the point tore away a corner of the silk, yet he kept the rest. The 44th held its ground and its Colours, in line, against cavalry — something that should not have been possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two-figure set tells its own story — one man kneeling with bayonet braced up to take a horse, his comrade wounded but still upright and gripping his musket, both in the red coats, white cross-belts and grey trousers of the 44th. As the dramatic centerpiece of a British line-meets-cavalry diorama, it draws the rest of the line around it: kneel a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e to extend the front rank, brace a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-defending\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e behind, and steady the whole with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/1st-foot-guards-sergeant-with-pike-no-2\"\u003e1st Foot Guards Sergeant with Pike\u003c\/a\u003e. This is a limited edition of only 400 sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36130. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — one kneeling to meet cavalry, one kneeling wounded — on a single sculpted groundwork base. Limited edition of 400 sets. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773570744548,"sku":"36130","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/36130_9BBF66A0C8C61.jpg?v=1762537637"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-standing-defending-no-2","title":"French Imperial Guard Standing Defending, No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor all the menace of fixed steel, the bayonet rarely drew blood. Surgeons' records from the period are striking: bayonet wounds made up a tiny fraction of casualties, because the actual crossing of blades almost never happened. When two bodies of infantry came at each other with the bayonet, one side nearly always lost its nerve and broke before contact — the charge was decided in the mind, not the melee. That was the bayonet's real power: moral, not physical. A line that would not flinch as the points came on could send a stronger enemy running without firing a shot, which is why a man standing firm with his bayonet, as here, was worth more than his blade alone suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands defending — bayonet fixed and levelled, weight set, the white campaign trousers flecked with mud, dark blue coat with red epaulettes and white cross-belts under the plumed bearskin. He is the second of the standing defenders and dresses naturally beside the first. Build the line with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e alongside him and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-kneeling-defending-no-2\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank, or swing the scene from cold steel to fire with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will\u003c\/a\u003e beside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36199. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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By the 1700s the pike was gone, and every infantryman was his own pikeman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels in full dress — white breeches and black gaiters, dark blue coat with red epaulettes and white cross-belts, bearskin with red plume, the full pack on his back — musket grounded and bayonet fixed to receive an attack. It is the dress-uniform companion to the campaign-trousers kneeler, and like it belongs in the front rank of a square. Line the kneeling rank with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-in-campaign-trousers\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending\u003c\/a\u003e and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e, then stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e behind them to fill out the rear rank and complete the bayonet hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36204. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Even so, the Guard's losses could be appalling, and many a casualty was past any surgeon's help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure lies where he fell — sprawled forward, the bearskin knocked from his head, musket and bayonet dropped beside him in the dress of the Guard. A casualty figure is what gives a battle diorama its weight: set among fighting men, it turns a row of poses into a scene with consequences. Place him before a firing line anchored by a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e still working their muskets, pair him with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/near-miss-french-imperial-guard\"\u003eNear Miss French Imperial Guard\u003c\/a\u003e who was luckier by an inch, and post a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e driving the line on past the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36186. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963715977444,"sku":"36186","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36186Background2022Napoleonic_BCE6F1C8D1C32.jpg?v=1762542310"},{"product_id":"british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-defending","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Company Standing Defending","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll day at Waterloo, a walled farm called Hougoumont held the right of Wellington's line, and the Foot Guards held Hougoumont. It became a battle within the battle: French infantry threw themselves at the château and its garden and orchard for hours, and the Guards — light companies of the 1st Foot Guards in the orchard, Coldstream and Scots Guards in the buildings — fought them off at the wall and the loopholes. The most famous moment came when a party of French burst the north gate and a handful of Coldstreamers wrestled it shut against them by main force. Wellington said afterward that the success of the battle turned on the closing of those gates. The farm never fell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands defending — bayonet fixed and levelled, the red coat and white cross-belts, grey trousers flecked with mud, the black shako and full marching pack. He is built for a hard defensive line, the kind that held a wall or a hedge. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e firing over the obstacle beside him and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e at the foot of it, and for the Hougoumont orchard bring up the green-coated allies who fought there too — a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the line beside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36149. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963716698340,"sku":"36149","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36149BackgroundNapoleonic_9F8EB58BE5AF6.jpg?v=1762542310"},{"product_id":"british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2","title":"British 1st Foot Guard Battalion Company Standing Firing No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis was the argument the British line settled again and again: line against column. The French attacked in dense columns — fast, easy to steer, good for morale, but with only the front two ranks able to fire. The British waited in a line just two men deep, every musket bearing, often lying down behind a crest until the column was close. Then they stood, leveled, and fired volleys into a mass where almost every ball found something. A column might carry the weight of a battering ram, but a steady line could put four or five times as many shots into it — and time after time, in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, the column broke first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure fires standing — musket braced to the shoulder, the red coat with blue Guards facings and white lace, white cross-belts, grey campaign trousers and the black shako. He is the standing rank of a two-deep firing line. Kneel a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank before him, raise the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e behind the line as its rallying point, and set the whole line against the French in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/a-desperate-struggle\"\u003eA Desperate Struggle\u003c\/a\u003e for the climax of Waterloo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36161. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963717058788,"sku":"36161","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36161BackgroundNapoleonic_B101A307716EC.jpg?v=1762542319"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing","title":"French Imperial Guard 2nd Rank Standing Firing","description":"\u003cp\u003eInfantry fought in ranks, and the second rank had the harder job. To fire, a man in the rear rank stepped his right foot across and brought his musket up over the shoulder of the soldier ahead, the muzzle thrust past that man's ear and the lock spitting sparks an inch from his face. The front-rank man learned to stand it. Fired together, the two ranks doubled the weight of a volley without doubling the frontage — the whole point of the close-order line. It demanded nerve and absolute trust in the men around you, which is why drill was endless: a line that fired as one machine could break an army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at the firing position — musket levelled, head bent to the lock, the campaign dress of white trousers and dark blue coat with red cuffs under the plumed bearskin. As a second-rank man he is meant to stand behind a kneeling front rank: place a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-1st-rank-kneeling\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 1st Rank Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e ahead of him for the classic two-deep firing line. Extend it with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will\u003c\/a\u003e alongside, and deepen the formation with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-3rd-rank\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard 3rd Rank\u003c\/a\u003e behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36175. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963723120868,"sku":"36175","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36175FrontBackground_DFC0AEE0CF61B.jpg?v=1762542319"},{"product_id":"french-imperial-guard-standing-firing-at-will","title":"French Imperial Guard Standing Firing at Will","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Firing at will\" — feu à volonté — meant every man loaded and fired in his own time rather than waiting for the volley. It was the looser kind of fire, used once a firefight settled into a grinding exchange or when the neat ranks had begun to fray. The smoothbore Charleville was no marksman's weapon: barely accurate past eighty yards, fouling with every shot, good for perhaps two or three rounds a minute. After the first volleys a wall of black-powder smoke hid the enemy entirely, and men loaded and fired into the murk by feel and instinct. The discipline lay not in aim but in keeping up the rate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is caught in the act of firing — the Charleville brought up to the shoulder, head down to the stock, the campaign dress heavy on him: dark blue coat with red cuffs and white cross-belts, white waistcoat and trousers, and the full marching pack with rolled greatcoat and mess tins on his back. He belongs in a firing line, where the poses of the loading sequence read together. Rank a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-2nd-rank-standing-firing\"\u003eSecond Rank Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e behind him, show the reload with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-tearing-cartridge\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Tearing Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e, and bring the next volley up with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-make-ready\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Make Ready\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36180. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963725414628,"sku":"36180","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36180LRbackBackground_6EF3230866552.jpg?v=1762542329"},{"product_id":"nassau-grenadier-officer-no-1","title":"Nassau Grenadier Officer No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe officer commanding these grenadiers served, in the end, a prince of their own bloodline. The little Duchy of Nassau belonged to one of the oldest dynasties in Europe, the House of Nassau — whose senior branch, Orange-Nassau, had given the Netherlands its royal line. At Waterloo the Nassau regiments fought within the I Corps of the young Prince of Orange, heir to the new Dutch kingdom and head of that very house, so a German grenadier from a state of a few hundred thousand souls stood in the line under the dynasty his own duchy was named for. It was the kind of tangled loyalty that defined the patchwork of small German states caught between France and the coalition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in command — sword in hand, point resting to the ground, the dark green officer's coat with gold epaulettes, the crimson sash and tassels, grey trousers and the black fur cap. He is the head of the Nassau cluster. Form a command group around him with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-with-regimental-colour\"\u003eNassau Grenadier with Regimental Colour\u003c\/a\u003e beside him, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-drummer\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e to carry his signals, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e to anchor the line he commands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36183. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963726004452,"sku":"36183","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36183LR_0E1BB6551AD59.jpg?v=1762542329"},{"product_id":"nassau-grenadier-standing-ramming-1815","title":"Nassau Grenadier Standing Ramming 1815","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe green coat this grenadier rams a charge into nearly got him killed by his own side. Nassau uniforms were cut in the French style and colored a dark green close to that of French light troops, and at the very end of Waterloo it caused a deadly confusion. As Blücher's Prussians pushed onto the field at dusk near Papelotte and Smohain, they took the green-coated Nassauers of Saxe-Weimar's brigade for retreating French and opened fire on them — allies shooting allies in the smoke and failing light. It took urgent signals to stop it. On a coalition battlefield of a dozen uniforms, telling friend from foe was its own kind of danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at the third motion of loading — ramrod drawn and driving ball and cartridge down the barrel before the musket comes up to fire. He wears the Nassau green with yellow lace and the black fur cap with red plume. Drop him into a Nassau firing line between the loader and the firer: a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-reaching-for-cartridge-no-2-1815\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Reaching for Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e ahead of him drawing the round, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e delivering the shot, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-drummer\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e beating the time behind the rank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36169. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963726397668,"sku":"36169","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36169LR_1_E1C30F5C51890.jpg?v=1762542339"},{"product_id":"nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2","title":"Nassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe army Wellington commanded at Waterloo was not really a British one. Of the roughly 68,000 men under him, only about a third were British; the rest were King's German Legion, Hanoverians, Brunswickers, Dutch-Belgians, and Nassauers like this grenadier — a coalition of nations and languages held together by a single commander. Wellington had few illusions about it, calling it \"an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped,\" with many units young and untried. Yet it held the ridge through a long June day against the best Napoleon could throw at it. The green-coated Nassauers did their share, posted at Hougoumont and on the threatened left, where the line came closest to breaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels at the firing position — musket up to the shoulder, the dark green coat with yellow lace and the black fur cap with red plume and pompon. As the front-rank firer of a Nassau line, he leads the loading sequence behind him: place a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-reaching-for-cartridge-no-2-1815\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Reaching for Cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e drawing the next round and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-standing-ramming-1815\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Standing Ramming\u003c\/a\u003e driving it home. For the defense of Hougoumont, set the green-coated Nassauers alongside the British Guards who shared the post — a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-kneeling-firing\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e at their shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36172. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963727249636,"sku":"36172","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/36172LR_E8CFEF60C3161.jpg?v=1762542349"},{"product_id":"nassau-grenadier-reaching-for-cartridge-no-2-1815","title":"Nassau Grenadier Reaching for Cartridge No.2 1815","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese green-coated Germans had once fought for the man they faced at Waterloo. The Duchy of Nassau, like the other states of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine, was obliged to send regiments to serve the French, and Nassau battalions spent years in Spain fighting Wellington's army. Then in December 1813 they changed sides — by arrangement with the British, the Nassau regiments in Spain went over to the allied lines — and in 1815 they turned out against their former emperor. At Waterloo the Nassauers held some of the hardest ground on the field: the orchard and buildings around Hougoumont, and the farms of Papelotte and La Haye on Wellington's left, fighting all day to keep the flanks from caving in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is at the reload — left hand on the musket with bayonet fixed, right hand reaching back to the pouch for a fresh cartridge. He wears the distinctive Nassau dress: the dark green coat with yellow lace, and the black fur grenadier cap with its red plume. He anchors a Nassau loading line. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-standing-ramming-1815\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Standing Ramming\u003c\/a\u003e beside him driving the charge home, a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-kneeling-firing-no-2\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Kneeling Firing\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank, and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nassau-grenadier-officer-no-1\"\u003eNassau Grenadier Officer\u003c\/a\u003e to command them — the green-coated line that held Hougoumont's orchard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36173. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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This set freezes the human edge of that crisis: two officers, French and British, fighting it out sword to sword as the tide turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two-figure set stages the clash directly — a British 1st Foot Guards officer in red coat and black shako trading cuts with a French Imperial Guard officer in dark blue and white, bare-headed, his bicorne knocked to the trampled grass, both swords up. Note the blued and gilt blades, the personal weapons of officers who bought their own. As the centerpiece of a Waterloo diorama it wants both sides around it: range a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e with the advancing Guard on one flank, and on the other set the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e behind a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-foot-guard-battalion-company-standing-firing-no-2\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guard Standing Firing\u003c\/a\u003e delivering the volley that broke the attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36203. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — French Imperial Guard officer and British 1st Foot Guards officer — on a single sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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At Waterloo, Marshal Ney's squadrons charged the British squares for the better part of two hours on the afternoon of June 18, 1815, and broke not one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels in campaign dress — the blue-grey overall trousers with red side-piping, bearskin with red plume, full pack on his back — the musket-butt grounded and the bayonet angled up to take a horse in the chest. This is the front rank of a square. Stand a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e at his shoulder and a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending-no-2\"\u003esecond Standing Defending\u003c\/a\u003e behind to build the rear rank, then add another front-rank kneeler — a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-kneeling-defending-no-2\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending No.2\u003c\/a\u003e — to complete a face of the square bristling against cavalry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36201. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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It is a small detail that tells the truth about soldiering: behind the spectacle of the bearskins and the gold lace lay a daily grind of cleaning, marching, and making do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands defending in campaign dress — the blue-grey overall trousers with red side-stripe over short white gaiters, dark blue coat with red cuffs and white cross-belts, bearskin with red plume — the bayonet-tipped musket grounded and ready. He is the standing companion to the campaign-trousers kneeler, and the two build a field-dress square face. Set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-in-campaign-trousers\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending\u003c\/a\u003e in the front rank before him, dress the rear with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-standing-defending-no-2\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Standing Defending No.2\u003c\/a\u003e, and add a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-kneeling-defending-no-2\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Kneeling Defending No.2\u003c\/a\u003e to thicken the kneeling rank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36202. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Taken by the British after Waterloo and shipped to England, Marengo outlived his master; his skeleton stands to this day in a London museum, the bones of the most famous warhorse in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows Napoleon mounted on Marengo at the walk, wrapped in the grey redingote over his undress uniform, the small bicorne worn corner-forward, surveying the field from the saddle. The grey horse stands square on a red-and-gold Guard shabraque. It is the companion to the dismounted \u003ca href=\"\/products\/napoleon-bonaparte-in-greatcoat-1812-15\"\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte in Greatcoat\u003c\/a\u003e — the same grey-coated Emperor, on foot and on horseback. 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This 1\/30 scale model captures the ceremonial posture of an Imperial Guard from the Napoleonic era, meticulously detailed to reflect the precision and dignity of the \"present arms\" command.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is dressed in the classic Imperial Guard uniform, complete with a white coat with blue facings, red epaulets, and a striking bearskin hat adorned with a plume. The soldier's posture, holding his musket vertically in front with the lock plate facing outward, is executed with historical accuracy, demonstrating the respect and discipline inherent to the Imperial Guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinished in matte to accentuate the rich textures and colors of his uniform, this model is designed for collectors who appreciate the ceremonial aspects of military history and the nuances of soldierly conduct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eScale:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/30, ideal for detailed and authentic display.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Matte, enhancing the visual depth and historical accuracy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Single piece, depicting the soldier in a ceremonial pose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e Securely packaged to ensure it arrives in perfect condition, ready for display or as a significant addition to any collection of military miniatures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Imperial Guard figurine is not just a model; it’s a celebration of military tradition, offering a window into the formal gestures of respect that have spanned centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The eagle, not the flag, was the thing that mattered — a regiment could lose its colors and replace them, but never the bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows the Porte-Aigle as a lieutenant rather than a grenadier — the cocked hat with red plume and gold lace in place of the bearskin, dark blue coat with gold epaulettes, white breeches and black boots — holding the eagle aloft on its blue oak staff, the tricolor heavy with gold embroidery and battle honors. It pairs naturally with the grenadier \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e to show both ranks entrusted with the standard. Build the color party around them: post a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e alongside and an \u003ca href=\"\/products\/imperial-guard-at-present-arms\"\u003eImperial Guard at Present Arms\u003c\/a\u003e rendering honors to the raised eagle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36205. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure with Eagle standard on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The 1812–15 years this figure marks were his hardest — the catastrophe of the Russian retreat, where a Grande Armée of more than 600,000 was reduced to a frozen remnant by the crossing of the Berezina in November 1812, then the defense of France and the final gamble of 1815.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in a moment of thought — the grey redingote falling to the boot, the bicorne worn corner-forward, one hand on the hip and the other resting on his sword hilt. It is Napoleon the campaigner rather than the coronation Emperor, dressed as the men in the ranks actually saw him. Build a review or campaign scene around him: set the cheering ranks of a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/vive-l-empereur-single-cheering-french-imperial-guard\"\u003eVive l'Empereur Cheering Imperial Guard\u003c\/a\u003e before him, post the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e at his side, and have an \u003ca href=\"\/products\/imperial-guard-at-present-arms\"\u003eImperial Guard at Present Arms\u003c\/a\u003e render honors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36220. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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He retook France without firing a shot, carried back to Paris on the devotion this figure throws into the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is pure motion — musket thrust overhead, the other arm flung up, head thrown back in the shout. He wears the white campaign uniform with blue coat and the bearskin, the dress of a guardsman on the march rather than the parade ground. He is made to be grouped into a crowd. Build the scene around the returning emperor: set \u003ca href=\"\/products\/napoleon-on-marengo\"\u003eNapoleon on Marengo\u003c\/a\u003e riding through, add a second cheering guardsman with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/vive-lempereur-cheering-french-imperial-guard\"\u003eVive l'Empereur Cheering Imperial Guard\u003c\/a\u003e, and raise the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e over the throng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. 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Aboard a ship of the line their station said as much: quartered between the officers aft and the seamen forward, they furnished the sentries, the boarding parties, and the musketry from the fighting tops, and they helped serve the guns when the ship cleared for action. \"Per Mare, Per Terram\" — by sea and by land — they fought in nearly every major action of the war, Trafalgar among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure wears the drummer's reversed colours — a white coat faced and laced in red, where the rank and file wore red faced blue — with the black shako and white-over-red tuft, white trousers and black gaiters, the rope-tensioned drum with its Royal Marine badge slung at the hip. Aboard ship he beat the crew to quarters; ashore he marched with the landing party. Set him on a quarterdeck beside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/admiral-nelson\"\u003eAdmiral Nelson\u003c\/a\u003e, range him against his opposite number in the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-drummer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e to show both armies' musicians, or fall him in with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Foot Guards Colour\u003c\/a\u003e for a display of Britain's forces by sea and land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13091. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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He had already given his right arm at Tenerife and the sight of his right eye at Calvi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows Nelson as a Vice-Admiral in undress uniform — the fore-and-aft cocked hat, dark blue coat with gold epaulettes, white waistcoat and breeches — the embroidered stars of his orders on the left breast and the right sleeve pinned empty. He stands in command, drawing the presentation sword at his hip. As a Trafalgar centerpiece, set him alongside a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-royal-marine-drummer\"\u003eBritish Royal Marine Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e, whose corps served the guns and small arms aboard every ship of the line, or pair him with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/british-1st-guard-with-regimental-colour-no-1\"\u003eBritish 1st Guard with Regimental Colour\u003c\/a\u003e to stand Britain's commander at sea beside her army on land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13028. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. 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All told a man shouldered close to sixty pounds before he picked up his ten-pound musket — and then marched, sometimes more than twenty miles in a day to reach the battlefield. The relaxed pose here is the soldier's truest one: standing at rest, taking the weight off, between one march and the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at ease, the Charleville cradled across his body in the crook of one arm — the posture of a man halted rather than fighting. He is in full marching order: bearskin with red plume, dark blue coat, white waistcoat and trousers over black gaiters, and the cowhide pack with rolled blanket and mess tins on his back. He belongs to a column on the march or halted at the roadside. Fall him in behind a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-drummer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Drummer\u003c\/a\u003e at the head of the column, set a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-in-campaign-trousers\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard in Campaign Trousers\u003c\/a\u003e beside him, and put a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e in command of the file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36225. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The Porte-Aigle swore to defend it to the death, and its loss in battle was a disgrace no unit ever lived down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows the Porte-Aigle of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers à Pied in full dress — the tall bearskin, dark blue coat with white lapels, and white breeches over black gaiters. He carries the Eagle on its blue-painted oak staff, the tricolor worked in gold embroidery with the regimental title on the face and battle honors on the reverse. In the field the bearer was flanked by two armed porte-aigle de 2e et 3e classe. Group him with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/imperial-guard-at-present-arms\"\u003eImperial Guard at Present Arms\u003c\/a\u003e for a color-party honor guard, or add a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-sapper\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Sapper\u003c\/a\u003e for a full parade front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36224. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure with Eagle standard on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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British infantry who faced it again and again in the Peninsula came to know the rhythm so well they gave it a mocking nickname: \"old trousers.\" For the Grenadiers à Pied of the Imperial Guard, a place among the drummers was an honor in itself; their beat carried the orders of Napoleon's finest infantry over a din no shouted command could cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows a drummer of the 1st Grenadiers à Pied in full dress — the bearskin with red plume, dark blue coat faced in the Imperial livery lace reserved for musicians, white waistcoat and breeches over black gaiters — the brass-shelled snare drum slung at his left hip, sticks ready. Drummers marched at the head of the column, and he sits naturally at the front of an advancing parade. Lead the file with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-company-officer\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e, set the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-eagle\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Eagle\u003c\/a\u003e behind him, and open the front with a \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-imperial-guard-sapper\"\u003eFrench Imperial Guard Sapper\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 36223. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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These were Napoleon's grognards, the grumblers he indulged because they had earned the right, veterans of a dozen battlefields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at support in full dress — the musket held upright against the shoulder with bayonet fixed, the parade posture of a guardsman waiting on command. He wears the dress uniform rather than campaign kit: bearskin with red plume and brass plate, dark blue coat with red epaulettes, white cross-belts over a white waistcoat, and white breeches above black knee gaiters. He anchors a parade or honor-guard line. 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