News from Hank's Silistra project

Hank is still busy to work after his 1853 Kalafat diorama on the Russian siege of Silistra 1854. It is really surprising what stuff and information he digs up for this project.

See here the latest photos I got:

Kalafat is a German style town as after the Austro-Turkish war of 1788-91 a lot of German settlers were sent into this area by the Austrian Kaiser. 

 This mortars are impressing! The two figures beside are two S-Range Turkish and Syrian infantry from old John. If you are interested in some, send him a mail or visit his blog

 And here Hank painted 270 (!!) of my own production Egyptian cavalry.

 I like this bridge!

 Again really impressing Hank!

Modelfair in Schleißheim near Munich

this weekend we had the rare occassion that a hobbyfair was just an hour with the car away from my home.
In Schleißheim we have a great castle with a lot of paintings from the turkish wars of the 1690ies. But beside this castle we have an airforce museum. A lot of jets, helicopters, etc. on show. But this weekend a model-exhibition and fair too.

Well most airplaines and ships in different scales but som  good between. See here some of the small vignettes which were on show. Of course all 1/72!


Vietnam

Of course my favourite as it was the only one which shows a historical subject before 1914 - a Viking raid

Not 1/72 but 1/100 - one of the first steamships (if not the first) 1837 in the English channel

German airplanes on train transport in Turkey 1914

"Wireless" information in 1915

 

And a British tank having a problem...

From the old days

Years ago Frank Germershaus produced and sold via Kai Fuhrmann some figures from his old production.
These figures are rare as he never produced them in bigger numbers for the public.

Here are some photos of an extrem rare vehicle which was available from Kai in these days. Napoleons coach.

Even years ago this coach was at 50 Euro. Today I guess it is not for sale anymore. So a treasure of each collection.

Jacklex Mexican 1917 range

If you talke a look at my linklist, I have posted some lesser known manufactors or sellers there.
For example Spencer Smith is now th owner of th good old Jacklex range. Two years ago John sent me some photos from Black Jacks campaign in Mexiko to hunt down Pancho Villa.

I asked him who made the conversions and he told me Jacklex himself. the never produced Pancho-Villa range. And soon after it appeared on the shop. So my Airfix US infantry and the Raventhorpe figures of my collection needed a big reinforcement:-) And the prices are really cheap in my eyes.

Aliwal painted

And now the finished photos of Massimos latest project.

I found one fault - the lancers broke a square and lost a lot of their own people. So Massimo next time give the Sikhs a chance and bring down a few of this damned lancers (to speak like Sharpe)

My Mysoreans painted bei TK

And this morning Krisztian sent me photos of my Mysorean infantry which I gave him as a paintjob.
Together with the one I painted myself I already have over 100 of them done.

My thought is to build a diorama of the storming of Seringapatam. That is a dream of mine for a long time.

See here what he painted. A very colouful bunch:-)

News from Schillings

Yesterday Ulrike and Jörg sent me some photos of their latest figures. The guys looking like have fun on a walk through the fine spring weather. But I am sure they could also "walk" over the fields of Belgium in 1815, or - what is more interesting to me personally - over some revolutionary battlefields:-)

See the link to Schilling's homepage on the linklist.