Hardware instancing problem with Panda 1.8

Thank you very much, you filled my need before I even realised I needed it already.

I’m starting to suspect my system is not up to geometry instancing, as I’m pretty sure I’ve got it right & still I get no instances rendered…

Could someone please check the project below to see if you see pawns in alongside the road ralph is marching on?

http://www.badger1815.be/examples/Geometry%20Instancing.rar

regards
Badger