The first masters for a Bombay artillery in my Wellington in India range

This range was the one with which I started my own production around five years ago. I wanted to have an Indian army and after a time some friends suggested I should try to sell them. In the meantime there are over 100 figures in the range and the costs are already covered - so my friends had a good idea and the range is popular:-)

So I want to round up the range with artillery and command sets for both sides. If possible an Indian prince on an elephant - we will see.

But now after the oxen for which Andy will make me a limber, gun etc. here now the first of the crew.

And a teaser of the first figure in the command set

Nine years war - The league of Augsburg

While working on my archive I came over the photos I made in the army museum at Delft (Netherlands). Sadly this museum is no more.

I had my old minicamera and my mobile-phone with me, so the quality of the photos is not as good as if I had taken my digital camera.

See here photos from a diorama of bigger figures in a siege of the above mentioned period

And now we get figures from this period (pfficially Turkish war 1683-1699) from Germania Figuren.

Polish milita

This kind of infantry is useful for all Western European nations but France and Spain. So a lot of possibilities.

A good start in a very interesting period. See the label under the post for other postings of Vienna 1683.

A ww2 Battle of Kursk diorama

As at the moment I have a busy time at work it took a while for a new post.

Here another interesting find from Ebay - a complete WW2 diorama was for sell.

And talking about WW2, here a very interesting wargame plate from the Duzi several years ago. When I remember it right, it was Tarawa. For me the most interesting were the palmtrees. The guys told me they got them in a Dutch Supermarkt for extremly cheap money.

Photos from a Waterloo Diorama

Ok, now that Frank and Thomas recognised the diorama, Honor to those who deserve it.
The diorama was buildt by our Northern German friends, Organisator war Jens Najewitz.

Looks like the first try - later it was the same battle with a much bigger diorama:-)
I think I have photos of this too.

Some very nice little dioramas from Robert Hall

Maybe you know Robert from his great series of uniformplates covering the period 1680-1720?

He is not only making researches in this period, but also painting figures in the "right" scale :-)

And just as it fits with this post, here the photos from a new Turkish Spahi from Krisztian. I only got the riders, so we will check if they fit with my horses for this period and put them in the shop

Dübbel 1848 - Danish-German war

In the summer holidays I bought myself a document-scanner to bring all the loose copies from books and artikles that were stored everywhere into a pdf-file.

Thousands of pages gone and the space filled up with figures etc.:-) And afterwards I recognised that this scanner also can scan old photos and bring them into jpg-file.

Well, 550 photos in the mouth of the beast and after 30 minutes a lot of photos to share:-)

So from now on I will show photos from my very early dioramas too, For me nostalgic ones when I created a Waterloo diorama with my first 300 painted Napoleonic figures or photos from the collection of my friend Daniel Stegmann who died too soon some years ago etc. etc.

What I found first are three photos from a 15mm diorama I made in the museum at the battlefield of Düppel around 1998. A link to the museum is here.

But this diorama is not from the war of 1864 but the earlier war of 1848. A very colorful subject and for sure in my future agenta for the own production.