Battle of Peterwardein 1716

 After a longer time, our hobbyfriend Stefan Meyer found back to the greatest hobby on earth and created a new diorama:-)

I was impressed to see the first bigger one on this subject of the Great Ottoman war 

Bavarian mounted Grenadiers WSS

 Now as I have finished the Roman project, I am looking for new ideas. the next project is Korbitz, about which I have already posted some photos.

Another smaller project I have in mind in the battle of the Schellenberg 1704 as a prelude to the battle of Blenheim. 

I hope for Strelets and their Bavarian infantry. In their meantime, I have painted Les Higgins metals and thought about simply converting some other figures into Bavarians.

A special unit, I wasn't able to convert are the mounted Grenadiers. Here I have asked Darek to sculpt me some. 

This is the result

I got more than these guys, but have no photos of the masters so far. In the meantime, they came back from my caster Enrique and I wanted to paint a skirmish line of dismounted Grenadiers together with horseholders and some mounted in Reserve.

So far, I am not sure, if I should put them in our shop. Next time I will show the painted ones. 

Batalla del Baluard de Santa Clara

 My Hobbyfriend Jim found these great photos of a 15mm diorama. Not my scale, but for sure my cup of tea! 

Look at Wikipedia to get more information on it. Thanks for Google translator:-)

Let's stay with Bavarians - This time in the WSS

 As painting Celts, Romans and SYW figures for month, I already thought about the next project I could take on. I decided for the battle at the Schellenberg 1704. 

With this fast growing range from Strelets I am sure to create some good units. For the defence of the Schellenberg, I need mainly Bavarians (who wonders) and wait for the new Strelets set now.

On the other hand, you can never have enought poses and Darek asked me about Uniformplates for the Bavarian mounted Grenadiers. 

I thought he did a great job and already ordered a unit of 10 waiting/dismounted poses, which could be useful for my project.

And as I know my mate John, I am sure that other people would think the same:-)

And here some plates

Museum Höchstätt Castle

In 2004 my friend John came over from Wales and we visited the 200th aniversary of the battle of Blenheim.

In this year the museum at Höchstätt started a permanent exhibition on the battle. I would suggest you, to visit this exhibition, if your are interested in the war of the Spanish succession. A link to the museums homepage is here.

I remember when they opened, they also had a huge collection of figures on display. The house was crammed with visitors in 2004. Two years later I visited the castle again and this time, I nearly had it for myself.

See here some photos I made there. For my friend John, I only show WSS figures this time. I know it will make him happy:-)