Napoleonic Wars - Tyrolean Rebellion in 60mm

Manufacturer:   PianoWargames

Scale:   60mm (1:30)

Hi again,

Merry Christmas to everyone. 

Just a short post of my newest painted figure. Another guy 3d-printed from the wonderful range of PianoWargames - another Tyrolean Rebel from 1809. More to come soon.

Hope you like it. :)

Cheers

Mike

JohnJenkinsDesign - "Battle on the Monongahela 1755"

Manufacturer:   JohnJenkinsDesign

Scale:    60mm (1:30)

Hi,

Merry Christmas to everyone and a lot of health, luck and enough time for our hobby.

Yesterday my personal Christmas gift has arrived. I found these two sets on ebay and I think they are hard to find here in Germany. So it was a must have. :)

Now my artillery has increased to at least two pieces of artillery (one british and one french) and at least six british gunners.

The figures belong to the series of "Battle on the Monongahela 1755" and in my opinion they do look great.

This battle was a desaster for the British Army. 

Major-General Edward Braddock and his force of about 2.200 men had been on an expedition against Fort Duquesne and got ambushed on their way by a French and Indian force consisting of about 250 French soldiers and about 630 Indian warriors.

On the British side, from the 1.373 NCOs and men who took part to the engagement, only 459 came off unharmed. of 96 officers, 73 were killed or disabled. The wounded men left on the field were killed.

Here is a link to the pages of kronoskaf.com. It deals with the battle and tells that there had been also a detachment of 20 men of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. So - with my six men I am quite near to the original strength of this unit. :)

 https://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1755-07-09_-_Ambush_on_the_Monongahela

Enjoy your Christmas holidays.

Cheers

Mike

 

Napoleonic Wars - Another figure printed in 60mm to suit my ToySoldiers collection

Manufacturer:   PianoWargames

Scale:    60mm (1:30)

Hi again,

about two weeks ago I posted a Tyrolean Rebel, that I printed 3D instead of 28mm in 60mm.

Here is his counterpart - a Bavarian Light Infantryman of Regiment No4 - Theobald.

It was fun but also hard to paint a figure in this scale. I don´t have the experience in painting this scale and so it was much harder for me than painting a 28mm miniature.

But the result is rather good and I will surely scale up some more figures of the beautiful range of PianoWargames. (https://pianowargames.de/de)

So maybe some more figures in this scale to come soon. But before that I will have to work on my other projects in 28mm like DeadMansHand, The Tyrolean Rebellion, Muskets and Tomahawks (AWI), my SYW Russian Army and so on ...

The best in our hobby is that you always can decide to paint what you want. It is not business where you have to fulfill deadlines. That´s really fine and I enjoy this very much.

Cheers

Mike

Showcases for every size you want

Manufacturer:   Sora

Hi, 

today´s post is a little bit uncommon. 

I am going to show my diorama of the „Battle of Leuthen“ from JohnJenkinsDesign next week on a fair from the club that I am a member of.

In order to protect the figures from touching or even stealing fingers I had a look for a light and transportable display. But it also had to be of the right size.

I found a shop in Germany who is making acrylic cases just in every size you want. You only have to fill in the length, height and depth and they make the special case you are looking for.

Not the cheapest but also not the most expensive. Thinking of the costs you would have to spent on acrylic plates in the diy store it is even cheaper. And then you would have to fix these plates. The cases delivered by Sora are well prepared and fixing is no problem. So it is a very good choice and worth the money.

And also a good thing - though the website told about 8 days of delivery it took two days until it came by post.

If you are interested - here is some information about the store and also how the plates come. They even delivered a small screwdriver.

https://www.sora.de/

https://sora-shop.com/

Cheers

Mike

The showcase without figures.

The groundplate I had chosen - but you can choose other versions aswell.

The hull of the showcase. You can see how the plates are fixed.

The GreatWar - A visit to the Passchendaele Memorial Museum

Hi again,

on our trip at the end of October we also visited the Passchendaele Memorial Museum in Zonnebeke, Belgium. 

The theme of the museum is the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele of 1917. One the one side there have been the Germans - on the other side combined forces of British, Anzac and Canadian troops. The total loss of human lives is about 450.000 for only 8km gain of ground within 100 days of battle.

You can see a lot of exponates there. The first highlight was a dugout leading to a communication centre, a first-aid post, headquarters and beds for soldiers. The second highlight was to walk through trenches in the style how the Germans had built them and how their counterparts did.

Hope you like the photos. Unfortunately some of them are a little bit too small to see all their data. 

Cheers

Mike

The stairs lead to a German trench section.

You will notice the differences to the allied trenches.

A view through a periscope

A mortar post

The beginning of the allied trench section.

Did you notice the difference of the wooden floor to the German trenches?

A rebuild of a Fire Trench of the allied forces

A view from trench to trench

A view from trench to trench again

Shelter "Baby Elephant"

Shelter "Elephant"