Dutch version
18 juni 1815
"Battle of Waterloo"
Painted by René "Mr Waterloo" Betgem, Holland
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On the 18th of June 1815 the last battle of Napoleon was fought at a small place called Waterloo nearby Brussels, Belgium. French troops where already several days in small fighting's with the Allied forces under command of The Duke of Wellington for the British, Blucher for the Prussians forces.
I don't know how I became fascinated by this specific battle. With one of my brothers, Frans who is a year younger, I started painting Airfix 1:72 soldiers. After a while we had painted more than a thousand soldiers and our first Waterloo was a fact.
I believe that it was after 2/3 years we started quarreling about the uniforms whether these troops had been there on that time or not. Our lack of knowledge was the reason that we stopped painting and our Waterloo project stopped.
Now at the age of 50, probably a midlife crisis according to my wife, I don't know, But I started again painting. Now I know much more about the battle and especially what happened that day.
It was very nice to find out that there are nowadays so many more Waterloo figures than in the 70's.
A childs dream becomes reality....and that for a grown man.
Have fun on my site,
Rene
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