Many thanks for one million clicks

Hi,

Thank you all for at least one million clicks on my blog.

Thank you for your kind comments and for liking my blog and my work on the hobby. 

It is always fun to keep on the hobby, seeing projects developing, recognizing how the collection of wargaming figures and toysoldiers steadily grows.

I started this blog in November 2010 and on 5th of July 2024 I celebrated 500.000 clicks. Remembering that the first half a million clicks took 14 years I am really happy that the second half of a million took almost exactly 2 years. 

The blog also now has some 375 posts and there will be much more to come. 

Cheers

Mike

Eagle Rampant - A variant of LionRampant placed in the times of the PunicWars

Manufacturer:   Victrix Unlimited 

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

within our group we have some guys who like LionRampant (2nd edition) very much. We had quite a lot games now and anytime had a great time using these rules. 

Normally these ruleset is made for medieval skirmish games. But I have found a very interesting variant on Facebook to be able to use the rules also for the PunicWars. It is called „EagleRampant“ and sounds good to me. If you are interested just follow this link.

EagleRampant

I am very interested into the 2nd Punic War and have a lot of Victrix-packs covering this topic. Only thing is to assemble all the miniatures not to mention having to paint them.

I am going to leave hospital in a bit more than one week. So my bloke Franz brought me at least three boxes for assembling last week. The first box I started with are the Roman Republican Cavalry. 

Here they are, ready for getting their bases and for priming. Next to be done is Iberian Cavalry. 

Cheers

Mike 

Wargaming - An exhibition within a museum

Hi,

there is a very cool museum about toysoldiers in Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Germany. It is called „Historicum“ and it shows about 25.000 figures of all periods of warfare and all kind of manufacturers. Each display is a little gem and if you ever have the chance to get there it is worth a visit.

The museum is owned by a private person and last year it had to be extended because the location got too small. So the owner, Stefan Gampe, took the chance to buy the house next to the museum and started to extend the museum.

Stefan also wanted to show a small exhibition about wargaming and asked a local wargaming club from Erfurt and also me to present some displays to fill this exclusive exhibition. I was honored and so I accepted.

Stefan told me about the measurements of the single displays and I got three of them to fill them with some wargaming themes. I phoned the club in Erfurt in order to avoid that they would do the same themes.

I never thought that it would be such a challenge to present a wargaming ruleset with its figures, the needed tools, the rules themselves and doing this in an appealing style, so that the visitors will have a closer look at the presented ruleset. It was even more a challenge as the space was very limited being 80cm wide, 30cm deep and 30cm high. I also had to test the settings at home for the Museum is about 200 kilometers away from my home. So everything had to be prepared at home to fit well into the displays of the museum.

I decided to show the rules of StarWars X-Wing, DeadMansHand and Muskets&Tomahawks.

Here are some photos of the test settings at home and also how the little exhibition looked like in the museum.

If you are interested into the museum and its great showcases just follow the link below.

Historicum

Cheers 

Mike

Trying to get an optimal overview on the ruleset of StarWars X-Wing

Trying not to get the display overloaded with information, but also enough for the
visitors to get the important and relevant information to get a feeling for the system.

How the display looked at Schmalkalden.

A test of the setup of Muskets&Tomahawks.

Another view on the test setup.

The final setup in the museum‘s exhibition.

The third chosen ruleset of DeadMansHand in its planning process.

Another view.

A total overview.

The presentation in the museum.

Some pictures of the displays of the wargaming club Erfurt.

There was also a display showing 1/72 scaled WildWest figures.

Napoleonics.

Some more napoleonics.

Of course Prussians mustn’t miss.

Checking the displays by a clubmember from Erfurt.

Busy actions during placing the showcases.

The corridor where the wargaming exhibition was placed is the connection
of the elder part of the museum to the newer part. 
While the club from Erfurt came with 6 members I was accompanied
by my little daughter to help me.