The Big Plan - 2012 the story so far

Very frustrating as the bases I ordered have not only not arrived but the order has now been cancelled, so back to square 1 after two wasted weeks.
No new painting to report but have been busy assembling units, organising, and generally tidying up. Thought I would transcribe here my BIG PLAN, an overview of how I hope to represent the British Army at Waterloo. I like to group different makes (Victrix/Perry) roughly together by brigade and in recent months I have been struggling to find a way to incorporate the large amount of Front Rank/Foundry I have accumulated into the project. In the end I decided it would be better to sell many of them - I no longer like the look of massed ranks of identical figures and the money raised will provide a far greater number of plastics. There are 8 lots for sale, you can see some of them here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130627588665?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

As I say, I like units to be similar within a regiment (I don't believe strict serjeants would have permitted the untidy appearence of some men wearing shako covers and others not).  I have also tried, where possible to group brigades by the same manufacturer. I love mixing up Perry and Victrix arms etc to provide an almost infinite number of poses but the backpacks are notably different in size, so I do not mix these and if a Perry pack is added to a Victrix body I simply trim off the canteen and ammo pouch. These are later added to Perry bodies where a Victrix pack has been attached. Er...if you see what I mean.

So here is the current stocktake and requisite numbers:

Unit Header	Formation	company size	current state	needed
Coldstream	uncovered shako, Victrix pack, skirmishing	50	flank coy & 4.5 centre coys	3 and a half centre coys
3rd Guards	covered shako, Perry pack, skirmishing	50	same as above	same as above
1st	uncovered shako, Victrix pack, in square	24	complete	-
42nd	in square	18	complete	-
44th	uncovered shako, Victrix pack, in square	18	-	all
92nd	charging	18	both flank and 7 centre coys	1 centre coy
28th	a mix of Victrix, Foundry, Elite, Front Rank - firing line	24	gren and 5 centre coys	light and 3 centre coys
32nd	covered shako, Victrix pack - in square	18	complete	-
79th	firing line	24	nearly complete	7 light coy
95th (1batt,6 coys)	a mix of many makes, some coys in firing line, some coys skirmishing	24	3 coys	1 coy
52nd	Victrix pack, Perry heads (converted) - firing line	40	6 and a half coys	3 and a half coys
71st	Victrix pack, Victrix heads (converted) - marching	32	3 and a half coys	6 and a half coys
95th (2 batt, 4 coys)	a mix of various makes - firing line	32	1 coy complete	3 coys
95th (3 batt, 2 coys)	a mix of various makes - advancing	32	complete	-
4th	covered shako, Perry pack - firing line	50	-	all
27th (7 coys)	covered shako, Perry pack - in column	50	approx 32 men in each coy	approx 18 men in each coy
40th	covered shako, Perry pack - in square	60	52 gren 3 centre complete 3 centre nearly complete	light coy 2 coys 3 half coys
30th	uncovered shako, Victrix pack - in square	18	gren & 2 centre coys complete, 6 centre coys missing kneeling rank	kneeling ranks for 6 centre coys + light coy
33rd	uncovered shako, Victrix pack - in square	18	centre coys standing ranks	flank coys, kneeling ranks for all centre coys
69th	uncovered shako, Victrix pack - in square	18	tre coys standing ranks	flank coys, kneeling ranks for all centre coys
73rd	uncovered shako, Victrix pack - in square	18	6 coys minus kneeling	flank coys, kneeling ranks for all centre coys, 4 coys
14th	covered shako, Victrix pack - in square	32	-	all
23rd	covered shako, Victrix pack - in square	32	-	all
51st	mix of makes - some coys skirmishing, others in line	32	4 coys complete	6 coys

Next job is to add up all the cavalry and artillery!