Visiting Historicum in Schmalkalden - Part 1 of 2

Manufacturers:   JohnJenkinsDesign, King&Country, TeamMiniatures and many more

Scale:   1:30 (60mm)

Hi,

last year my friends Franz and Sebastian and I took a trip to visit the museum "Historicum" in Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Germany. (https://www.zinnfigurenmuseum.com/)

If you have followed some of my last posts you maybe got an idea for my fable for toy soldiers scaled 1:30 (60mm). So this museum has been a must for me to have a look at. And this won´t have been the last visit - that´s for sure.

The museum is run by one single person and Stefan has been collecting more than 20.000  figures of that scale through all periods of warfare. Not to mention all the buildings that are setting these figures in scene. The museum ist 400m² large and the owner has bought another house to give more space to the collection. Keeping in mind that this is all done by one single person it is very impressive.

I have taken a lot of pictures there and I decided to make two posts about this museum, one dealing with the Ancients and Middle Ages and another one concerning the other periods.

If you want to visit this beautiful museum be assured that you will be overwhelmed by the immense number of figures.

Cheers

Mike

Carthaginian elephants attacking Roman Republican troops.

A Roman armor

Forum Romanum

Dacians

De bello gallico

A gallic ambush

Morituri te salutant

Holde the lines

Numidians of Hannibal

I love Roman warships

A carthaginian warship attacked by a roman bireme

Alexander the Great

A celtic village

Peloponnese War

300

Troy

The Egyptians

The Middle Ages

War of the Roses

The far East

The Thirty Years War and Renaissance

Some other periods and also some pictures of Schmalkalden

Aztecs

Falkland War

Rorke´s Drift

The entrance to the museum

JohnJenkins Design - "Battle on snowshoes"

Manufacturer:   JohnJenkinsDesign

Scale:   1:30

Hi,

just a small post about my efforts on collecting JohnJenkinsDesign´s range of "Battle on snowshoes".

Last Tuesday I got a delivery of one missing set to complete the range. So only five more sets to find and buy. Finding them is not as difficult, but the price is often a killer. Shipment from UK or US makes the figures too expensive and so I have to wait for better auctions or offers in Europe. Here the missing figures are harder to find.

Cheers

Mike

Bolt Action - Japanese Army - Just a good start

Manufacturer:   a few (😅)

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

today´s post is about a project I have started - building a Japanese Army for BoltAction.

My main project concerning the Tyrolean Rebellion will be forced more as I want to get these figures finished to start with the first games of "Mustkets&Tomahawks" as soon as possible.

I have to point out that my interest in gaming WorldWar II hasn´t been a favourite one, but I always thought of a Japanese Army as my friend Franz already has a force of US MarineCorps. Within years I bought some things here and some things there, but never laid too much enthusiasm into a real start into this project. 

About six weeks ago some friends and me had a game of Germans against British troops and also a game of Russians against Fins about three weeks ago. The games had been great and my interest for this period awoke and I remembered myself about my collection of my Japanese.

Yesterday I got some further mdf-buildings from 4Ground and SarrissaPrecision. After building these stuff I decided to check the status quo of this army.

There are so far

- some tanks, already painted (WarlordGames)

- about 25 painted soldiers (WarlordGames) that I had bought on ebay about two years ago

- one painted Mitsubishi Zero 1:48  (no data about the manufacturer)

- one HMG-team painted by myself (WarlordGames)

- one landing craft (SarrissaPrecision)

- one jungle hut (SarrissaPrecision)

- a lot of palm trees and terrain (https://www.tabletop-modellbau.de/)

- and a big pile of shame of unpainted figures (as always)

I hope to find a way of quick painting the unpainted figures for I don´t want to spend too much time on these guys as my main painting project is still the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809.

Here are just a few pictures of yesterday´s photo shooting - a Japanese force training a landing assault.

Cheers

Mike

A view on the whole scenery.

Yesterday´s delievery.

The beach.

The Airfield with a single Mitsubishi Zero

The only figures painted by myself so far - a HMG-Team.

Japanese soldiers advancing.

A view on the new landing craft - I should get more of them.

Under heavy fire.

There always should be a place for exhausted fighters to relax.