WW1 1914 Westfront

Here some photos of a WW1 diorama (wargame) shown at the Salute. A very nice mix of HAT and Strelets figures

This time something different - Oxen from Fritz figures

You know we plan our next big diorama which will be Ulundi 1879. From Alfred we already have the Zulu kral. But what would be Zulus or a wagon train without oxen?

The same goes for my range of Wellington in India. It is nearly complete, just the artillery and the staff are missing. So I asked Massimo for the Crew and Andy to sculpt me a British gun (same system as in the AWI )

But the guns and wagons need oxen too.

So I asked Leo of Phersu Miniatures as I knew he is able to sulpt animals.

The next question was how to cast them. They have no bases and the legs are nearly paralel to each other.

Ulrike and Jörg Schilling was the help I needed. From them I got excellent castings,

See here my humble try to paint some samples.

First the Indian oxen

And ideas how to use them

Next the African Oxen

And the idea behind is

Or simply to expand my range of the German Schutztruppe which I want to round up too.

But then I fear I need mules too:-)

Or simply use them as cavalry:-):-)

New figures from Massimo - This time American war of independence

Timo joint our group at Hagen and his wish was to get Continental infanty in Hunting shirt and British Grenadiers it regular poses.

Well, the Continentals are done. Now let the British come:-)

18th century French army from Denis

We already have the first 10 figures made by our French friend in the shop.

Now I got new photos some figures from Alfred. In the meantime Denis sculpted nearly the whole French army for the war of the Austrian succession. They are of course also useful for the SYW. Maybe not all as I heard he started on several Volunteer units to round up the range which makes me very happy:-)

So all in all I guess at the end the range will have close to 100 different figures. Well I hope now to see some British to fight them.

Here now some samples from the range

Fontenoy is comming!!!

French Guard Foot artillery

In my collection I have the Esci-figures which are not really good and just four poses and very nice old figures from Hinton-Hunt.

Beside this there is no French Guard Foot artillery available. Correct me please if I am wrong.

So Andy asked Massimo for a set of these guys to go with his range of French guns.  All in all two crews, loading and firing.