The next set for our Portuguese Napoleonic army

After the marching infantry and the Cazzadores here now an artillerycrew.

An infantry firing line, a command set and the cavalry will follow soon.

A nice Western Fort at Ebay - go for it

While searching Ebay Germany today I stumpled over this fort here. I have no space to store it, but as the photos are nice I thought it is worth putting them here on the blog.

The auction Ends in around 30 hours. If you are interested search on Ebay for article number

191964025190

And no, I don't know the seller!

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:-)