Muskets and Tomahawks - Building a trading post and modifying a keelboat

 Manufacturer:    Trading post -  do it yourself       -         Keelboat - Sarrissa

Scale:    28mm

Hi,

again it has been a long time since my last post on this blog. To be honest I published several posts on facebook because it is much easier, less time consuming and also much faster.

But I also thought that I should give my blog a kind of revival. So I will try to do also some posts again here on this platform.

Today I am posting some pictures of my last work for my collection of FrenchIndianWar.

The idea was to build a small trading post for fur trades between Canadians and Indians and this idea came up after I had painted up some Courier de Bois for my favourite rule system "Muskets and Tomahawks". 

After having build the loghouse I remembered that I had bought a keelboat from Sarrissa a few years ago. This model is quite nice, but im my opinion there is missing the typical structure of wood. So I decided to modify this model and give it a kind of look that would fit better to my collections´ style.

So here is the result. I am sure both models will be very cool terrain pieces for several scenarios in gaming. :)

Both models still need to be painted, but this will be a matter for a further post.

Cheers

Mike

Both models ready for action and set in scene.

The first visible construction of the trading post.

I love my buildings to be able for playing inside them...

...and to have functional doors.

The modified structure of the house after I had decided to give a flat roof to the building.

Building the roof itself.

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A very time consuming work.

The result after minimum five hours of constructing.

The roof on its place.

Adding some ropes.

The keelboat in its origin.

After some planks added.

And again - I like my models playable inside...

...and with movable doors.

The keelboat after modification.

And finally some pictures of setting the models into scene.

    

SYW - The Bavarian Regimen Minucci

Manufacturer:  A mix of DreispitzMiniatures, FrontRank and CrusaderMiniatures

Scale:  28mm

Hi again,

in November I posted a WIP about the Bavarian Regiment Minucci a friend of mine started to paint for me. 

He has finished this regiment about one month ago. It took a bit longer because 4 figures had been missing and had to be organized.

Only the basing was done by me.

This unit shows the grenadiers of the regiment. I know that grenadier units normally didn´t carry flags  in action, but within my personal tabletop army they do.

Now they are ready for action and I am sure they will pop out because of their flags.

The normal soldiers are from my own small range of "DreispitzMiniatures" (https://www.hagen-miniatures.de/Testkategorie-17/figuren-20/historisch/17-18-jahrhundert-228/), the flag bearers are FrontRankMiniatures and finally the officers are Crusader Miniatures. The flags I used were made by "flags of war" (https://www.flagsofwar.com/)

Cheers

Mike

Dead Mans Hand - Mexican Cantina

 Manufacturer:  Do it yourself

Scale:  28mm

Hi,

today´s post is about my Mexican Cantina that I started to build during a workshop held by Gerard Boom of ShiftingLands (www.shiftinglands.com) about 4 years ago. 

As usual I was very motivated and also made two posts about the WIP of this building. 

But as always some other things made me forget the project and so it was another part of my pile of shame for quite a long time.

About six months ago I managed to finish this project and so here it is. 

It was originally planned for Western rules like "Dead Mans Hand" but eventually it will also be used for peninsular war.

Cheers

Mike