Three days gone and the next master - British rifles

But as we already have a complete set of Rifles in the shop this time just one figure - the famos "Plunket shot".

The back or supine position (sometimes referred to as the Creedmoor position) was known at the end of the 18th century

Every three days a new set at the moment:-) And again more Russians

It is really impressing to see how fast Massimo works at the moment. I still have a pipeline of nearly 50 sets for him to make and every month a few more collectors join our group with their wishes.

For me it is surprising that over 90% of the wishlist is about the Napoleonic period. Because of this I will go myself into other subjects after finishing the Turkish army.

But for the Napoleonic collectors this is of course good news. At the moment we are working on three ranges:

French Revolution
Peninsular war
Campaign in Russian 1812

Beside this Pieter told me he wants to complete his Dutch/Belgian army for Waterloo.

Here is the next set for 1812 - A Russian infantry command in "Action-Poses".

Russian infantry reservists 1812

After the battle of Maloyaroslavets French reports mentioned a lot of Russian casualties in grey uniforms.

These were soldiers from the Reserve units which have not been able to get the regular green Russian uniform in time.

We thought these are units still missing in a Russian army of this period.

Take a look at their uniforms

And here our set for a marching attack

The second from the left was changed to the single figure in the second row of photos. Looks much better now.

A Boston Hussar 1812

Our hobbyfriend Sascha asked for a Boston Hussar to round up his 1812 US army with some militia cavalry.

I thought the idea interesting as this special Hussar has a lot of differences in the Uniform to a European one in the same period.

And here is our master

Well, I think this is a nice exotic subject for a lesser known US army in the war of 1812 

British artillery in the Peninsular war

Here the next set in our fast growing range of the Peninsular war. Massimo did a great job again in my eyes.

This time Jörg asked for a set of British artillery. But as usual with Jörg not in "action poses". But this time it could be used in a battle too.

Royal artillery moving their gun into position.

Bavarian infantry from Falcon

Raimund sent me some of his own painted figures of his range which he comissioned from Falcon a long time ago and with which he now joint us in the shop

Half my own Bavarian army consists of these figures beside the early HAT set.

Some new ideas for the French revolution.

Our range get's again some reinforcments.

This time it is the old Royal infantry of the early 1790ies. Here a plate from Patrice Courcelle

And here Massimo's latest masters to the subject.

Well, some French still had the tricorne. So my over 1000 painted figures from the Cuddalore diorama can be used again:-)


Another idea I have in mind since our trip to Switzerland is that the Russians looked very much like the late Prussians of around 1786.

So SYW Prussians could be useful not only for Russian troops, but also the cavalry of the SYW range can be used for the revolution too. Just put a feather on the hat.

See here from Friedrich a charge of Prussian cavalry in the SYW

And here some plates from the series of Thieme, dating 1792. Not to far away.

And we already have a lot of SYW Prussians from Rüdiger in our shop. Here for example his latest set, Cuirassiers.