French artillery SYW

At the moment I am reading the old Austrian military magazine from 1812 onwards. In the 1820ies they wrote long articles about the war of the Austrian succession. Austrians fighting Bavarians and French. An interesting subject, but not funny as the Bavarians lost....

Now I thought about painting some Bavarians to fight my Austrians on a little diorama. As for the French I have already made a lot of painting conversions from Revell's Austrians as well as I used a lot of Johns Woodensfeld French line.

French artillery is another interesting subject and here I have some photos how Alfred thought about it. Great conversions as usual! And in addition a Hanoverian artillery too.

This time something from Johns collection

This time John sent photos from his last wargaming over. You remember the War of the Spanish succession armies? Now I got some close ups, including the special Old Fritz set from Art-miniaturen.  John's idea for the next big wargame will be the SYW. As he bought the old Woodensfeld moulds and is able now to cast the marvellous French infantry himself I am waiting for an impressing sight of an advancing French army.

Well with John being British I guess it won't be the battle of Fontenoy:-))) (ok, not SYW but Austrian succession)

See here some of his own Les Higgins wss range of which he also bought the moulds.

Enjoy the photos.

Alfred's Aztek collection

In the past Alfred worked with Revell as historical specialist (for which I am greatful, because all the figures in this time had correct poses). The Azteks and Spaniards were a dream of him, which he was able to fulfill in this times. Seeing now how expensive these figures are being offered at Ebay I think he is not the only one...
See here what he did with them. One day I hope to get from him photos of his dioramas. So far here are the photos from his shelves.

And here are the Poles in 1/72

Now it is done. The casting is made by Jörg Schilling who did the great Brunswick infantry too and I am very impressed by the quality., See here all the available poses at the moment.

Fusilers, Grenadiers and Voltigeurs. I put an Esci figure beside them that you can recognise the scale.
Ok, to cover my costs I have to sell 1500 figures in all and I hope you help me here:-)

And as they arrived this weekend too, here the photo of the Mysore masters which will go to the caster next week.

Conquest of Norway 1814

My friend Peter Johannson from Sweden sent me this photos of a little diorama he is working on. As a Swede it has of course to be Swedish history. And this makes it very interesting to me. For two years I made a research on the Swedish army in the Napoleonice wars and Peter was very helpful with translations.

Here we have a clash for a village in Norway in 1814 (sorry Peter, I forgot the name). It is really good to see what can be done with a little conversions. The campaigndress of several figures and the mixture of trousers, greatcoats etc. gives it a real look. And it is something special!

The Poles are available

This afternoon I went outside to revome the used Pampers from my little daughter

(ok, so far not interesting for most of you). But when I wanted to put them in the waste ton we have, I recognised a small parcel beside the litter box. What a surprise, the postman put it there two days ago and it was from the caster who sent me the Polish infantry. All in all 19 different poses, Grenadiers, Füsiliers and Voltigeurs. I showed the photos of the masters on the blog some months ago. Now they are available for sell. I hope to post painted samples soon.

For the beginning here a few uniformplates I found on the web some time ago. Enjoy them and think how good a Polish army would be on your wargame table:-)))

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New Mysore masters

I am really impressed by Ingo's output!!!

The second from the right is a Bengal infantryman of the middle of the 18th century. The others are Mysoreans to fight my Seopys and British. I asked some other poses from Ingo to round up the infantry.