At Tacna the Peruvians operated eight Gatling guns, modell 1874. So I asked my friend Peter (compagnie d'Elite) to paint me one.
My mate Patrick is working on a diorama of the battle of Kolin, I am still occupied with the combat at Korbitz and in the past few month, I have read a lot of books about the war of the Austrian succession in Italy and Bavaria.
So it was logical, we go for Austrians (which I can also use as Bavarians:-)) Here the photos of the first poses, some more to follow to complete marching, standing, advancing and firing units.
Two of our hobbyfriends, Axel and Wolfgang are working on dioramas about the British navy. Both asked us to produce figures for it and in the meantime, I got the first photos of how it should look like.
I have respect for this wooden ships, nothing I would be able to make with my two left hands, especially the rigging...
Now I hope, I can share the photos of the finished dioramas with you soon.
Here the first photos, I have got from Axel.
and he did a damned good job!!
The standig poses will be used for Wolfgangs Diorama of a British harbour. Very soon to see at the Dioramica:-)
My napolenic French armies have a huge collection of vehicles, thanks to HAT and manufacors like Fine-Scale factory in the old days.
The only British vehicles I had are the RHA limbers from Airfix and two other ones from Minifigs or Hinchcliffe.
We still discuss, which kind of wagons did the British use in this period. If anybody has a tip, please leave a comment.
So far we found contemporary paintings of several kind of wagons.
Other manufactors made some great ones in 28mm
So in the end, I decided to take some money in my hand and asked "our" painter to produce me this wagon. Theoretically printable up to scale 1:24. But I don't know if there is a printer big enough for it:-)
After a long time, here is a new set from Frank Ziegler - Napoleonic French Staff.
Available as usual with his masters from Hagen miniatures:-)
