THE BATTLE OF LEUTHEN 1757
Ever since I was a kid I found absolutely fascinating the uniforms of the Seven Year War. At the epoch it was practically impossible to find any detailed information about uniforms of the epoch as well as some book about the battle of this war. All what I've gotten was by my father that called them "Les guerres en dentelle" giving them a some sort of politeness of war. Years has passed by, I got older, but I got also a lot of information about this historical period.
In between the battles of the period, obviously my attention was drown by the main victories of Federich der Grosse, i.e. Rossbach and Leuthen. This latter actually provoked to me the main hit when I saw the pictures of the fantastic diorama in the Museum of the Bavarian Army on the booklet of the OSPREY Publishing, treating these two subjects.
I decided to recreate actually this very battle, Leuthen, with my scale 1 to 1 in order to recreate the real visual impact of the marching battalions towards the village of Leuthen in the late afternoon of a December day in 1757.
All is created by paper: ground, soldiers, church, wells, fences, gates, except for trees; this is then a brief history and chronicle of this huge work. The researches on uniforms and ambiance have requested my a lot of time, as well as cutting the soldiers and above all projecting, drawing and assembling the churches and the houses.
My wish, by the way, is not just to create a unique diorama of this battle (of a portion of it, I would say) but also to play the wargame of this battle with my rules that don't use the dice.
I decided to recreate actually this very battle, Leuthen, with my scale 1 to 1 in order to recreate the real visual impact of the marching battalions towards the village of Leuthen in the late afternoon of a December day in 1757.
All is created by paper: ground, soldiers, church, wells, fences, gates, except for trees; this is then a brief history and chronicle of this huge work. The researches on uniforms and ambiance have requested my a lot of time, as well as cutting the soldiers and above all projecting, drawing and assembling the churches and the houses.
My wish, by the way, is not just to create a unique diorama of this battle (of a portion of it, I would say) but also to play the wargame of this battle with my rules that don't use the dice.