Has anyone here made any 1/72 dioramas of any battles during the napoleonic era, such as waterloo? im thinking of buying the Italeri Waterloo-battlegame sset, and using the pieces to make a diormaa or waterloo, has anyone done this, RIMA, if your reading this, is that what yours is? well if anyone has done anything like this, and knows any good links etc, it'd be much apreciated....oh and this doesnt mean im not doing my mogadishu one

If this is the set you mean

Not at all it look a bit like it but if you looke propelly you might see that i didn't use any defence fences i just tok a lot of information read the book of the battle of Waterloo and surf a lot here are a couple of interresting sites
http://www.histofig.com/history/empire/index.html
http://www.regiments.org/milhist/wars/fr-nap/815-100.htm#bh
http://www.wtj.com/wars/napoleonic/
http://blackwatch.interfree.it/english/index.html
http://www.7bvl.nl/en/frameset_en_1024.html
http://www.artillery.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
http://www.2dragons.be/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.elliott2/
http://www.waterloo1815.be/waterloo/nl/
http://ftp.keyaccess.nl/~weegf02/
Have a good research and lot of patience with painting needs more info keep in touch

oh ok, is this set historicly correct though, did they use the defences, i have seen alot of pictures but most are old paintings and you cant see much, but is this set a good set, do you think it would work nicely, thanks alot, cya, oh eyah that is the set by the way, lol, cheers

The set of a kind of wooden fort is actualy a joke because it was not present at all at the french ranks.
Waterloo began very bad for both army it has been poring rain the all night and perpose the fight for a couple of hours because of the mud Gun couldn't be efficient for both side and cavalery could not charge the battle began at 11:30 am which is pretty late but necceseraly.
You can use the wooden defence if you want to make it at the farm ( castle ) of Hougemont.
One more thing the cavalery you see on the set is the Scott Grey cavalery they charge the 45 line destroyed it and then took there attention too the artillery got a bloody taste of the holl thing and finaly got chop off ( also almost destroyed ) by the French Lancier. That was what i made from my dio the maassacer of that moment.

If you want to get a taste for the battle of Waterloo, I would strongly suggest getting hold of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Waterloo. In fact any one that's interested in the Peninsular War and its aftermath, should read the whole (19 books) series.
Rima is quite correct. God knows where the French "fort" came from, even the lunatics that led the british cavalry would be reluctant to attack fortifications of this type. Wellington,had a total contempt for the british cavalry leadership, if one looks at their antics during the whole peninsular war (and in the Crimea) his doubts were well founded...

Jim

According to most of what I've seen and read, that fort wouldn't even be right for either the manor or the farmhouse. Neither of them had walls made of vertically placed poles.