Posted by matgc on 18 Jul 2018, 20:43
The horse poses are awful for command figures, most are charging, completely out of sync with the generals, which are mostly still.
The reason was that Waterloo 1815 was aiming at saving money here, and used the same horses sculpted for their Prussian Hussars.
Now, those hussars are listed on PSR as 25mm tall, I wonder if the models here on the command set are indeed larger. We would assume the horses here use the same mould as the hussars (which seems to be indeed the case, as they come in the box here out of the sprue), and they'd look silly with riders 28mm tall.
I guess I'll have to buy this set and see for myself, unless someone do that before and is kind enough to post some comparison pics with other 1/72 figures.
It'll be a real shame if those are indeed too tall, I was looking forward to this set, and even had made peace with the horses poses, thinking I could exchange the charging ones here with the resting ones on the hussars' boxes, so the commanders would have only standing horses, and the hussars only charging ones (it also doesn't make any sense that there are a couple horses standing still on the hussars' set, accompanning the rest of the models all with charging horses).