WW1 Russian command figures

 Roland Kupski painted our new set of WW1 Russian command figures.

Very impressing

New 3D Hessen-Kassel or Prussian SYW infantry

 My mate Markus Gärtner, who has published several books in the past contacted me and wanted to talk about figure production. Together we thought it a good idea to produce "the figures that go with the book".

Markus' favourite subject are the Germans in the American war of independence.  His latest book is on sell with Berliner Zinnfiguren. So far only in German, but I hope they will think about an English version too. 

So, now here having the Hessians published, we wanted to have the figures. Markus himself is a collector of 54mm figures and I told him, the advantage of 3D is, everybody can have them in his favorite scale. 

So here you see our first joined project - Hessen-Kassel Musketeers charging American trenches in the AWI - or as I would say, a counter-attack of the Prussian Freebatallion Wunsch at Korbitz:-)

If you are interested in the figures, you can order them in our shop at Blackwatch

Darek's latest work

 While we have many posibilities with 3D these days, Darek is still working like in the old days with green stuff. I wish, I would be able to convert figures in this way.

Here we have what I would call Italian Cacciatori a caballo in 1813 and Eastern European (Rus) warriors 14th/15th century

3D opens up many possibilities

At Blackwatch, we have switched from hand-modeled masters to 3D drawings for cost reasons. We now only build our own dioramas with self-printed figures.

As always, we try to at least partially cover our costs by selling figures. At first we thought about having the figures cast in tin and have also added some sets in 1:72 scale to the shop.

In the meantime, I prefer to paint figures from the printer myself, no burrs, no sharp edges. And we use a resin that doesn't break the figure immediately if you look at it too closely. With this in mind, we decided to offer both printed figures and the files for your own printing at Blackwatch.

However, the idea of ​​metal figures and the possibility of producing other scales wouldn't leave me alone.

With this in mind, I gave our Spanish caster Enrique a print of one of our 1870s French Guard Grenadiers in 54mm scale. The last delivery arrived yesterday, including casts of this figure.

What do you think about the production of such large figures?

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