New Sepoys from my own range of Fritz figures for Cuddalore

You know the army of the HEIC before 1861 is one of my favourite interests. Because of this I wanted to have the battle of Cuddalore 1783 as our anual diorama project for this year.

The problem is that the Sepoys from my Wellington in India range habe the wrong headgear. So I asked Alfred if he can convert the headgear for me as I have two left hands for this...

Here are the photos he sent me last weekend. These guys we could now use for British and French Sepoys in the 1780ies and 1790ies.

As for uniforms, these guys could be very colourful. The British mostly red, but other colurs existed too

And as you can see from the Osprey book (very recommended) the French Sepoys had the same style of clothing: Here a photo from the Osprey

The first new Waterloo-diorama on display

While I was in London, visiting the Salute last weekend (and brought with me a heavy cold..) my friend Pierre was in Reims (France)  for an event where he found this Waterloo-diorama. It should be in 1/72, but I don't recognise any figures, so I am not sure about the scale. Sadly we do not know the name of the guy who made it, but this should not be a reason why not showing it on the blog. Maybe someone can help me with more information about the creator?

And yes - more photos from the Salute will come after I worked through them:-)

French infantry for the French and Indian war

Some weeks ago our friend thomsomfeld sent me photos of his latest conversions for the seven years war.

What do you say to this figures? Maybe we should think about casting them as it is a great subject in my eyes.

More from his work you can see here

Gettysburg - 3rd and last part

Now we are comming to an end with this great diorama.  I hope you have enjoyed this series.
The next posting will be again something different, but I still have some photo-series from dioramas in the collection. Hopefully enough until I can show the ones from my next selfmade one:-)

Belgian Carabiniers - Finally they are available

I am really happy to say that finally after some problems with the mould-making we are able to offer the long awainted Belgian Carabiniers for Waterloo in our shop.

The figures are availalbe in sets of five or the two command figures at a special price. Later we will
bring them in single ones too on the market.

With the 200th aniversary of the battles and hopefully a lot of dioramas about it here is the unit that was still missing. All in all three regiments of Dutch Carabiniers - together 1200 men - fought in the battle.
Here we have the 2nd Regiment which had helmets. The other two had the old style bicorne.
We will make conversions of these guys here to offer the other two units too within the next weeks.

If you want to order some - here is your link

The gate at Weißenburg 1870

Here we have a little diorama made by Michael Vogt, using Bavarian infantry from Massimo which we have in the shop.

A great little one in my eyes made after Carl Röchling's painting on the attack of the Landau Gate.

For the German speaking of you a visit of his blog is always worth the time.  For the rest of course too, there are a lot of great photos:-))