Post by deraltefritz on Sept 28, 2023 2:30:35 GMT
I would like to create a model which depicts an C18th military camp. Not a Napoleonic bivouac but rather the formal camps found from the 1660s right through to the 1790s.
For sources there is a good contemporary book that explains what they looked like
An Essay on Castrametation
as usual with Google the lazy scanning operator did not do the illustrations at the end (G rot their soul!) (If anyone can get them I would be grateful if not I will pick them up from the Wellcome Collection when next there.)
and the measurements of the camp and there are good pictures like this one of the British Camp at Cox Heath
or this facebook page
Continental Army Encampment
which shows the detail of a battalion camp laid out as a series of company 'streets' of tents with a large bell tent or striped upright tent at the head where the weapons were stored and a guard mounted. Behind these are rows of soldiers tents which held 6-9 men each so 12 ridge tents for a company and then behind these larger tents for the officers. Behind these were the kitchens or sutlers and then the horse lines and latrines. Back part of the camp is shown here:
The layout of the overall camp is shown here:
George III Maps in the Royal Collection
which shows the army camp laid out in battle order as two long lines covering several kilometers with the headquarters in a village close to the centre behind the camp and the artillery camp in front of the army with several hundred paces separating each of the lines and the HQ and artillery camp.
This was made up of series of individual battalion and squadron camps laid out side by side. In this way the army could on an alarm draw itself up in battle order within minutes and ready for action.
Anyway I think that this would look quite impressive once laid out and allow battles that included camps such as Rossbach in 1757 to be fought.
But what I need is a 3d print model to create it.
The measurements are as follows:
Battalion camp
A street for each company and roughly 12 tents for the 60 men
Depth of street 129 yards from Bell tent, officers tents, 12 soldiers tents and subalterns tents, captains, majors, colonel tents, batmen tents, horse line, 2nd line bamen 2nd horse line, grand sutler, kitchens, petty sutlers 253 yards to rear guard
So 400 feet wide by 760 feet deep (120m x 230m)
at my 1: 2,500 game scale for 2mm this works out as: 48 mm x 92 mm for a battalion camp
Cavalry Camp
British or French style Regiment of 2 squadrons of 3 troops each of 50 troopers. (Austrian or Prussian regiments were larger at 5 squadrons or even 10 for Hussars)
Squadron tents placed in rows with horses tethered alongside them to create a 'street'. Length of a row based on 5 troopers to a tent is a squadron of 30 troopers requires 6 tents and that of 60 requires 12 tents.
Author tells us that each row is 14 yards wide to allow for tents, horses and dung collection.
So a regiment (2 squadrons and 6 troops) has 6 rows of tents at 252 feet, separated by two 'back' streets and three 'troop interval' streets gives a frontage of 450 feet.
In terms of depth, the regiment is 220 yards with a similar layout to the infantry, Bell tents for guards and weapons at the front, quartermaster tents, troopers tents, subalterns tents and then the rest of the officers, grand sutlers, kitchens, petty sutlers and finally bell tent of the rear guard.
So our Regiment of cavalry occupies a space in the camp of 137 meters wide by 200 meters deep.
55 mm x 80 mm
For sources there is a good contemporary book that explains what they looked like
An Essay on Castrametation
as usual with Google the lazy scanning operator did not do the illustrations at the end (G rot their soul!) (If anyone can get them I would be grateful if not I will pick them up from the Wellcome Collection when next there.)
and the measurements of the camp and there are good pictures like this one of the British Camp at Cox Heath
or this facebook page
Continental Army Encampment
which shows the detail of a battalion camp laid out as a series of company 'streets' of tents with a large bell tent or striped upright tent at the head where the weapons were stored and a guard mounted. Behind these are rows of soldiers tents which held 6-9 men each so 12 ridge tents for a company and then behind these larger tents for the officers. Behind these were the kitchens or sutlers and then the horse lines and latrines. Back part of the camp is shown here:
The layout of the overall camp is shown here:
George III Maps in the Royal Collection
which shows the army camp laid out in battle order as two long lines covering several kilometers with the headquarters in a village close to the centre behind the camp and the artillery camp in front of the army with several hundred paces separating each of the lines and the HQ and artillery camp.
This was made up of series of individual battalion and squadron camps laid out side by side. In this way the army could on an alarm draw itself up in battle order within minutes and ready for action.
Anyway I think that this would look quite impressive once laid out and allow battles that included camps such as Rossbach in 1757 to be fought.
But what I need is a 3d print model to create it.
The measurements are as follows:
Battalion camp
A street for each company and roughly 12 tents for the 60 men
Depth of street 129 yards from Bell tent, officers tents, 12 soldiers tents and subalterns tents, captains, majors, colonel tents, batmen tents, horse line, 2nd line bamen 2nd horse line, grand sutler, kitchens, petty sutlers 253 yards to rear guard
So 400 feet wide by 760 feet deep (120m x 230m)
at my 1: 2,500 game scale for 2mm this works out as: 48 mm x 92 mm for a battalion camp
Cavalry Camp
British or French style Regiment of 2 squadrons of 3 troops each of 50 troopers. (Austrian or Prussian regiments were larger at 5 squadrons or even 10 for Hussars)
Squadron tents placed in rows with horses tethered alongside them to create a 'street'. Length of a row based on 5 troopers to a tent is a squadron of 30 troopers requires 6 tents and that of 60 requires 12 tents.
Author tells us that each row is 14 yards wide to allow for tents, horses and dung collection.
So a regiment (2 squadrons and 6 troops) has 6 rows of tents at 252 feet, separated by two 'back' streets and three 'troop interval' streets gives a frontage of 450 feet.
In terms of depth, the regiment is 220 yards with a similar layout to the infantry, Bell tents for guards and weapons at the front, quartermaster tents, troopers tents, subalterns tents and then the rest of the officers, grand sutlers, kitchens, petty sutlers and finally bell tent of the rear guard.
So our Regiment of cavalry occupies a space in the camp of 137 meters wide by 200 meters deep.
55 mm x 80 mm
