It all started with a trip to Edinburgh Castle Museum and seeing a marvellous display of the Scots Greys famous picture of them charging at Waterloo. Then there was a chance find in a charity shop of a jigsaw of the same print (see below, I would say a 54mm or 28mm diorama begs doing to do it justice):
After the epic marathon of putting this incredibly hard jigsaw together (which became a byzantine exercise in matching shades of blue, shades of red, shades of white and shades of brown as described in a previous post [see link])/ By the end of piecing it together, this second-hand jigsaw was well and truly war weary so I soaked in PVA glue and made "an item" of it (see below, I think it splendid in its final state - alas missing only one piece [but coloured brown behind to conceal the gap]. Whether it was sold to me minus this one piece (the peril of second hand jigsaws) or I had managed to lose it is unclear, at one point there were three missing pieces but the other two turned up in "the strangest of places"):
It seemed all very fitting as at the same time I was playing the Worthington's Waterloo solitaire game (see below, it plays really well and I have also used it as a cooperative team game, where the players comes too a consensus of what decision to do next):
It is a map based, decision orientated game with a Bot based [AI would be too generous] enemy (see below, high level as each block represents a brigade):
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Next up is to convert it to a figure based equivalent using the Warlord Epic Scale Napoleonic miniatures.
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