SYW - Placing my Austrian army

Manufacturers:   FrontRank, WargamesFoundry, CrusaderMiniatures, DreispitzMiniatures

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

not in the mood for modelling buildings or painting figures due to less time or missing inspiration I often take some of my stuff and place it on my gaming table to get my motivation back.

So it did happen again today. Not enough nerves or time to paint or build up something, but enough time to place some terrain and some miniatures.

And this is today´s result - my Vauban fortress occupied by my compelte SYW Austrian Army.

The fortress still needs to be painted up a bit, the gate is missing and I thought of building some houses for the units. But it already can be called "ready for action". I hope that there will come a day that the fortress finds a place within a game as a piece of terrain.

Hope you like it.

Cheers

Mike

A complete view on the arrangement of the fortress and all miniatures of my SYW Austrian army.

Here you can see that the painting has not been finished yet. On the left side you can see the result I
want to have on the complete fortification -  I want the stones at the edges at the bottom and the top 
to be white and some stones in the centre to be in some brownish colors. Looks more interesting.

The wall on the right side looks cool, too. But I like the style on the left side much more.
Also the gate is still missing.

Some pieces of artillery need some men handling the guns.

A good alternative to the missing houses for the garnison´s unit is to glue some doors and windows
onto the longer sections, This would save me from doing a lot of additional work.
The second advantage doing this would be that there would be still enough place within the fortress
to place a lot of figures. With some additional houses this space maybe would get too small.

A real Vauban fortress without houses. This would be a perfect alternative to building houses.

Terrain: Building a wooden fort for my FIW toysoldiers - WIP - Part 2

Manufacturer:   selfmade from styrofoam

Scale:   60mm (1:30)

Hi again,

here is an update on my WIP of constructing a wooden fort by using styrofoam. There is still a long way to go as I will need to build some more sections like straight sections, corner sections, a gate and some buildings. 

Due to the scale the build will need a lot of space. But I want to build the fort modular so it can be placed in different styles like I already did while building my fort in scale 28mm for "Muskets&Tomahawks".

So here are some pictures about my last efforts on this project. 

Hope you like it. :)

Cheers

Mike

The first corner section is finished and ready for being painted.

Some of the straight sections are also finished.

Some defenders.

As always I could not resist to place the WIP within a little fighting scene.

SYW - My Vauban fortification and my SYW French Army so far

Manufacturer:   selfmade from foam, various manufacturers concerning the figures (FrontRank, CrusaderMiniatures, Redoubt Enterprises)

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

after a lot of posts concerning my growing collection of toysoldiers and also a lot of posts about trips to museums and battlefields I thought it was time to do a post dealing with wargaming.

A few years ago I started a project by building a Vauban fortification made from foam and as so often the project was put aside though there would not be very much to do to finish it. The main fortification needs some more painting, a door at the gatehouse, a commander´s house and at least two houses for the stationed troops. But in my opinion it already looks good and I always wonder where to place this fortification in a wargaming scenario. 

Today I have seen a post on Facebook dealing with wooden and stone fortifications. I remembered of my own old project and as I took a day off today I could not resist to place the Vauban on my gaming table.

I also took the chance to place the collection of my SYW French army that also needs some more units. But it is quite a good start by now.

If you are interested into my older post about my Vauban just use this link:

https://dreispitz.blogspot.com/2016/07/hobby-in-general-building-vauban.html   

Hope you like the stuff. :)

Cheers

Mike

The single sections of the fort.

To know there to put the single segments I decided to mark the positions with numbers.

The Vauban fort with the left part almost done with painting.

This is how the fort should look like completely painted. In the background you can see the commander´s house that is normally a part of my other wooden fortification.

The collection of my SYW French army placed into the fort.

Regiment Rouergue

One of at least three pieces of artillery - I surely will need more of them. The smaller cannons are from the rule system of "Blood&Plunder" and have just been placed for the photo session.

Regiment Berry

Regiment Royal Rousillon

The second piece of artillery ...

... and the third one.

Regiment La Sarre - both battalions.

Regiment Wittmer (Swiss)

Regiment Dillon (Irish)

Regiment Royal Suedois (German)

Regiment La Marck (German)

A regiment of Dragoons

Regiment La Marine - 1st battalion ...

... and the second one.

Giving orders to some regiments.

Who wants to fight this fortification?

Log cabin made from foam for 1:30 ToySoldiers

Manufacturer:   DIY

Scale:    1:30 - suitable for 60mm figures like JohnJenkins, W.Britains, King&Country ...

Hi,

today I am posting some pictures of a log cabin I made by myself from foam for my collection of  1:30 ToySoldiers for the FrenchIndianWar. There is a chimney missing, but I recognized this after its finish. So this will not be a log cabin for the soldiers but could be used as a storage cabin or magazine.

As the original houses of the ToySoldier ranges are often out of stock or could be bought for quite a lot of money I decided to build one by myself and I had a lot of fun building this. I am happy with the result.

The last three pictures just show parts of the next buildings I am trying to build. There is one palisade and the start of a watchtower. The palisade is finished but not painted yet as I want to make a mould to cast it and make more of them.

Cheers

Mike :)