The siege of Malta 1565

Over 10 years ago I was in the holidays at Malta. One of my most favourite tours. The whole Island is a museum. Our hotel was in Valetta, so just a five minutes walk until you are in the center of history.

I was able to buy several uniorm-plates from the siege of 1565 as well as Napoleons attack of 1798 (another idea for a small diorama:-))

Now I found a diorama from the Society for Scale Modellers - IPMS Malta - the siege itself in 1/72.

I must say I am very impressed by their work. See here some photos from their diorama

We are not the only one creating a hundred years war diorama

This hier I found at the web, but sadly lost the link. When I remember it right it is at the museum there.

Some new masters of which I already got the photos of the sculptors within our team

You know that the team of Hagen is a group of collectors who can either sculpt themselves or ask some of our sculptors to make figures because they wanted to have them for their collection and try to sell them to cover part of the costs.

Here are some photos from Darek who already has the first of his figures in our shop. More republican Romans and Carthagians

Next is Manfred, a new guy on the blog. I asked Manfred to sculpt for me some Napoleonic British trainsoldiers to see how his quality is.

First the uniform - I think these guys are long missing on any Waterloo dioramas. We have a lot of sets of French trainfigures, but so far no British or Prussian

Here are the masters, sitting on Revell British artillery Trainhorses. The details are difficult to recognize in the white material, but I hope they will be good.

These pikemen hier from Frank Ziegler are already casted for a long time. Andy told me that the problem of the weapons and the arrangement in the sets had to be solved. Then they will come, around 80 different poses in addition for the "Project Swiss Gewalthaufen"

Andy made a nice little diorama of a costal battery

The question is, what kind of crew do we make for it? Maybe French Coastguard? Would be colorful:-)

Finally Fredericsent me some photos of his conversions

Maybe you have seen his own homepage at http://www.napoleonfigurines.com/page-cbbabaaab.asp ?

I like his figures but told him I would prefer metal to resin. 

An there is a lot of other stuff which I will safe for a future post:-) 

Bavarian cavalry - A vignette made by Massimo

Puh, I am impressed by this. Massimo made it for a museums display. When I see this quality and see my own figures I better search myself another hobby...