Alhucemas Landing

I often wrote about my interest in colonial warfare. Now Juan from Spain sent me photos of his diorama on the Alhucemas landing in 1925.

For those of you who don't know about it check Wikipedia. A decicive stroke of the Spaniards to bring the Rif-war to an end.

In this action the Spanish used landings boats which already were in action at Gallipoli and which they bought from the British

Here now some of the photos Juan sent from his great diorama, including the making of.

I always like it to see WW2 figures converted into something different.

 Being myself two lefthanded in this things I always like to see how a good ground ist build.

 I want to see more photos how these boats are made!

 Rifian artillery positions

 Planes are always a good idea in my mind.

Can you recognise the Revell US Marines?

 Or Confederate infantry?

In my collection I have the range of 25mm Rif Raf miniatures. Very small for 25/28mm figures, they are little bit bigger than Zvezda-Figures, see the comparison to an usual 25mm figure at this blog

And here the range of figures they had available, but which I can't found in their shop now

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Their range is really great, but the Spanish too big in my mind. The Rifians work.

The "official" photos of my Bavarian Dragoons

Here now the photos I got from Massimo. In four weeks they will be available at least.

I think such poses would be interesting for Husars, Chasseurs etc. too.

And so they should be look painted.

Here now the knights I asked for

Just one post on the blog and Alfred told me I am not up to date, the knights are already in production:-)

So you see the diorama is going forward. And these guys are easier to paint (spray) in their metal gear:-)

More of Alfred's conversions for Poitiers

Especially the huge blade is impressing:-) I am wondering how his fingers survived...

So it seems we have passed the 1000 mark on English archers in the meantime. So the next focus will go on hundreds of battling knights.