Battle of Hagelberg 1813

[Aalak]

Hi,

here is the first look of what should become my final entry for the Contest. I selected this Battle for 3 reasons. First, it happened near the little town my grandparents life. Second, it hooked me up with the Era of Napoleon from the moment I saw a model in the little town museum of Belzig as a kid of 6 years. (That was nearly 23 years ago). The third one, is the fact, that the Name of this battle is in German "Kolbenschlacht", meaning "Battle of the

(Musket)Butts". It rained all day, the powder was wet and muskets und pistols of no good use, other than to be used as clubs.

Here is a link for more information about it:Battle

of Hagelberg

First, the troops I'll use:

Starting with the allied forces of Prussia and Russia.

Left to right: Officer of the Landwehr, Landwehr-Lancer, Jaeger of the Landwehr (Sharpshooter like the British Rifles), 2 Landwehr Soldiers of different Regiments. A a Russian Cossack and a Prussian musketeer.

The French:

Left to right: 2 Saxons from the two Saxon Battalions, Voltingeur, gunner, Hussar, the non-Decal Line-Infantry Soldier and Officer.

First shots from the Moc:

Still a lot to do in the free space and inside the buildings...

The Cossacks attacked the and captured two guns and some wagons of the French, while the Landwehr gonna drove the French back in the City and into full retreat. They allready drove the Voltingeurs into the Church... Still much to do... I'm sorry for the quality of the pictures. Only got my Handy at the moment. The final Moc will be photographed by a better cam.

Some more pictures at my Flickr.

The Decals I used, can by found at my Brickshelf gallery. (When public) I used a lot of Ideas from the Torso-Index and Brickshelf Sites. But in the end, I put my hand on all the decals. So most of the credit belong to the original creators and lego, for creating the new soldier torso.

Hope you like it so far. C&C is welcome!

Edited May 9, 2010 by Aalak

[the_green_avenger]

to sum it up into one word: WOW!!!!!!!

P.S. It seems like that table is running out of room...

Edited May 9, 2010 by the_green_avenger

[Fiyero]

Darn, the green avenger beat me to it. But yes, WOW!! I love the custom minifigs. There is quite a bit going on in this MOC, all of which is done amazingly:thumbup:

Keep it up.

[General Redwater]

Great work! Those custom minifigs look amazing.

Keep up the great work.

-

General Redwater

Edited May 9, 2010 by General Redwater

[michaelozzie]

Very nice work there. I like your Cossack and Prussians. Look forward to seeing the final entry.

[Commodore Hornbricker]

Your entry is awesome in its huge scale! I love the custom soldiers. You can tell that you put a lot of time and effort into this entry. Very cool! Best of luck.

[Capt. Stabbin]

Awesome! It has lots of action, and the size is wonderful! It takes a minute to take it all in. Good luck on the contest.

[Aalak]

Got some new pics of a all new battlefield... because I ran out of space for nearly 100 minifigs, guns and horses in this battle.

I still have a lot to do, until the troops can battle it out again.

The newer area:

Some Ideas for the inside looks:

Some details:

Sorry - still only my handy to make pics.

Just want to inform about my updates...

[the_green_avenger]

what do you mean by "Church -> French - try to dry some powder in here soon"?

P.S. What ever happened to all the foliage?

Edited May 15, 2010 by the_green_avenger

[Captain Green Hair]

This looks great already, I hope you can manage to take some sharper pictures once it is finished.

[Alex the Great]

This is really lookin good, and I like your customs. I like that you made an interior for the buildings, good luck in the contest.

P.S. What ever happened to all the foliage?

He's sort of making a new battlefield as his old one wasn't big enough to hold all his men.

[Aalak]

what do you mean by "Church -> French - try to dry some powder in here soon"?

I had the idea, that inside the church, where it is dry, some crazy french will try to dry their powder over a fire, at the moment I try to figure out a way to create a litte explosion inside the Lego Saucepan.

The foilage will be back soon, at the moment, all the all around my room ;) Sometimes I ask myself, why did I put them there? ;)

[woody64]

The Decals I used, can by found at my Brickshelf gallery. (When public) I used a lot of Ideas from the Torso-Index and Brickshelf Sites. But in the end, I put my hand on all the decals. So most of the credit belong to the original creators and lego, for creating the new soldier torso.

I did some Prussian decal work for my Knoetel gallery:

http://lego-minifig-generator.mac-au.eu/pn...goKnoetel4.html

and based on a frenche reference:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?...&hl=woody64

maybe you have some use of it.

And go on with your battle work !!!

Woody64

Edited May 16, 2010 by woody64

[Aalak]

I did some Prussian decal work for my Knoetel gallery:

http://lego-minifig-generator.mac-au.eu/pn...goKnoetel4.html

and based on a frenche reference:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?...&hl=woody64

maybe you have some use of it.

And go on with your battle work !!!

Woody64

Thanks for the link. I love your work. It's a shame that none of Lützows Blacks where near Hagelberg. I would have loved to use your decals. By the way,there is still a link on the Lego Knöetel to the Original, wich gave me access to another great site ;) (The back button) Would have been way easier to find uniform references earlier, than searching the Web for Knoetel ...

But thanks anyway!

Edit: Did anyone know a link, where I can find prussian banners? I had one a long time ago, but I lost it...

Edited May 16, 2010 by Aalak

[woody64]

The link is ok, since I linked my LEGO decal pages at the beginning and at the end to the next original Knoetel plate.

I only did the Austrians and one Prussian side. But I thought that you will find the other drawings interesting since they should reflect one of your units.

You will find some Prussian flags here:

http://www.warflag.com/flags/syw/sywprussia.shtml

Woody64

Edited May 16, 2010 by woody64

[Andre1983nl]

Jaw-drop

Looking good!

[Aalak]

The link is ok, since I linked my LEGO decal pages at the beginning and at the end to the next original Knoetel plate.

I only did the Austrians and one Prussian side. But I thought that you will find the other drawings interesting since they should reflect one of your units.

You will find some Prussian flags here:

http://www.warflag.com/flags/syw/sywprussia.shtml

Woody64

Big Thanks Woody64!

[Aalak]

A little Update from today:

Defending the Gate:

The Saxons Surrender:

The Overall Look: