Hithite Chariots

 I always wanted to work on an early ancient diorama. Siege of Lachish is one idea, but I need hundreds more Assyrians. The other one is the battle of Kadesh.

With the Caeser Hithite chariots I had the problem that this plastic bents too much. My first thought was to cast them in metal. Why I was discussing (ok, drinking beers) with Andy and Jan, the latter simply started drawing on the PC and after 2-3 beers he showed me the result with the comment "Why not Lasertec?"

Hagen miniatures already started producing stuff made with this machine. I am impressed by all this ideas.

So the files already made, I told Jan I would take a whole plate, which in the end are around 50-60 chariots. 

It takes Acryl colors without problem, very easy to paint. The only problem are the axles, they break too easily and I will reinforce them with metal pins. 

Now my Atlantic and Caesar Egyptian Chariot force will have a challenge to deal with:-)

Reopening of the Bavarian armymuseum

After several years of renovation the museum reopened the figure exhibition again.

My favorite there is the flat figure diorama of Leuthen. 35 years ago I have seen it for the first time and maybe it is nostalgic thinking, but I think it is still one of the best I have seen.

I think it would be an improvement to add a plate or a shemata drawing explaining which units are there to see. When I have too much time, I will try to make one:-)

New photos from the Fröschwiler Project

 Wolfgang now showed the next photos of the diorama. In the meantime the diorama is finished and will be on show in a museum in Fröschwiler itself very soon.

If you want to see the whole series of photos, take a look here.

And if you want to support us creating more such dioramas, consider to buy some figures in our shop at https://www.black-watch-miniatures.de/ All the profit from selling goes into new projects. 

The next diorama in this line will be the Prussian charge on the Danish trenches at Düppel 1864.

Russian Dragoons 1813-1814

 I have asked Darek to sculpt me a range of Russian Dragoons for my 1813 project. See the photos, in my eyes a very good result.