Siebenjähriger Krieg: Österreich - Deutsche Artillerie

Seven Years War:   Austria - german artillery

Figures:  FrontRank

Scale:  25mm

Yes, they are finished. My first unit of artillery for my austrian army of the Seven Years War ist done.

There have been two different kinds of austrian artillery. This unit is painted after the german pattern. There have also been artillery units of the Netherlands which have been on duty in the austrian army. The difference between both is, that the units of the german patten had no red turnbacks, while the units of the Netherlands had.

Though my austrian army is growing slowly, it will grow more and more.

After Sam Mustafa has published that his new rule-system "Maurice" is going to be launched in summer 2012 some of my comrades decided to check the system as soon as it is available.

The only thing is, that no one of them is a real fan of the linear tactics and no one of them is as much impressed by the SevenYearsWar as I am.

And no one of them really collects the miniatures needed for this period. And all of them prefer 15mm scale.

So I was asked to build up some units for two armies. There should be at least one artillery unit, two or three infantry-regiments and of course one or two regiments of cavalry so that the game could be tested in a small scale. If the rules of "Maurice" work well, maybe there is a chance that my preferred period will be played more often.

I decided to build up the army of Austria and of course the army of Prussia. Those were the armies which were engaged at the most greater battles of the SevenYearsWar. Another reason for choosing these armies is that I already have finished two infantry regiments and now the artillery. Maybe you already know the two infantry units. You can find them on my blog, too.

As I often mentioned on my blog, I´m not a fast painter and the time I can spend for painting is not very much. So please keep your fingers crossed. There is still a long way to go for the finishing of the two armies.

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  :)

Cheers,

Mike

WildWest-Building - No.01

WildWest-Building for "Rules with no name"

Company: Sarissa

Scale: 25/28mm

Here is my first WildWest-Building. I found them on ebay first. Later I got the website of the manufacturing company and recognized that ordering directly is much cheaper. The company is called Sarissa and you can find a link on my blog. Just have a look at the website of Sarissa. This won´t be my last building. I still have another one and surely will order more of these buildings within the next few weeks.

The building is one of the smaller sized models of Sarissa. The shown figure could be a model of Renegade. I painted it about ten years ago.

I chose to paint a barber shop. That´s quite funny because one of my comrads who also bought some of these models decided to paint a barber shop, too. But we didn´t knew that we had the same idea.

By the way, Michi chose to make a shop for S.Todd. My favourite was Paul Michell.

The fantastic barber shop of my comrad can be found on his blog, too. Here is the address:

http://tableterror.blogspot.com

Have fun watching his blog.

Cheers

Mike

Fantasy - Two high-elves

Fantasy - Two high-elves

Figures: Games Workshop

Size: 28mm

Since it´s already three weeks ago that I posted some pictures I decided to show some photos of two elves I painted about two or three years ago.

I know that specialists also paint these figures in special uniforms and that there do exist own regiments.

But I thought this is fantasy and so I chose colours I preferred.

Sorry for the last two pictures being not in the right position. I had some difficulties with it.

That was just an excursion for my next project or unit could take me another two weeks to be painted and posted. Holidays are over and so the time for painting won´t be very much.

Cheers

Mike