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.

Hobby in general - A church from "Chicken´sTabletopCrafting"

Manufacturer:   Chicken´sTabletopCrafting

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

today´s post is about the marvellous church I got fron Thomas Hahn aka "Chicken´sTabletopCrafting".

This church was an order I gave to Thomas as I already got some of his wonderful buildings made from styrofoam. It fits perfect to the other buildings and my thoughts are to use it especially for my project of the "Tyrolean Rebellion" I want to play using the ruleset of "Muskets&Tomahawks" and its supplement "Shakos&Bayonets"

I always like the style of Thomas´ building very much and this church surely won´t be the last one to become part of my collection. 

If you are interested in how Thomas made this little piece of art just follow the link to his YouTube-Channel. This video is a tutorial about the church this post is about.

And of course here are some pictures of how this building was integrated into my collection.

I hope you like it. :)

Cheers

Mike

A small scene using another building from Chicken and also some painted miniatures from the
fantastic range of Tyrolean rebels produced by PianoWargames.

Reinforcements for my Tyrolean Rebellion project - The Austrians are coming

Manufacturer:   FrontRank

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

got my first Austrian units finished with varnishing and basing. Two units of 12 men each, so they could also be parted and used as three units of eight men.

I like the bulky style of FrontRank and in my opinion they do fit to the more filigrane style of Victrix and PianoWargames aswell.

The figures had been painted for me by Krisztian and he did a very good job on them. 

https://miniaturesoldiers.blogspot.com/search/label/Austrian

The only thing I had to do was to give the figures a varnish and a decorated base.

Cheers

Mike

The Austrian advancing.

The Bavarians awaiting the Austrians.

Muskets&Tomahawks - Supplement "Shakos&Bayonets" - Tyrolean Rebellion

Manufacturers:   PianoWargames, Victrix, Chicken´sTabletopCrafting    

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

it is still a long way to get my forces ready for my Tyrolean Rebellion project that we would like to game after the ruleset of "Muskets&Tomahawks" using the supplement "Shakos&Bayonets".

There are some more figures on the workbench that have to be varnished and also the basing needs some more "tuning" with tufts and things like that.

And of course - some more figures still have to be painted, especially more Tyroleans.

Until then the already finished figures will be kept in a small diorama within my IKEA-Billy-shelf for some motivation to keep on the project.

The figures on the pictures are from different manufacturers. The Bavarians are Victrix while the Tyroleans are from PianoWargames. The two buildings are from "Chicken´sTabletopCrafting".

If you like to get further information about the Tyrolean Rebellion and also about Andreas Hofer, who led the Rebellion, just have a look at the following links to a very good docu on YouTube. Unfortunately it is only in German. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3imffLdGM

The second link shows the storming of Innsbruck taken from the movie "Andreas Hofer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FX0d52RMuM&t=47s

If you like to have a look at the complete movie (also only in German) follow the next link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsc-0wTXRR0

But I also found a shorter documentation concerning the Tyrolean Rebellion in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j140bKSCdms

This rebellion is not very well known but in my opinion it would be very nice to play some games dealing with this topic.

Cheers

Mike

Bavarian Grenadiers and Light Infantry from Victrix painted by a friend.

The Tyroleans from PianoWargames have been painted by me.