I have a job at which I am often on tour through Bavaria. Last week, a meeting was cancelled, why I was on the way to Nuremberg and close to Ingolstadt. So I took the chance to visit the Römer-Kelten museum in Manching.
They had a special exhibition on the Roman army. The owner of this exhibition is my hobbyfriend Thomas Kurtz. That was reason enough to have a break:-)
Not only the special exhibition but the museum itself is always worth a visit
Frank asked me, which set he should make next in his own range. My answer was "Prussian Ulans or Landwehr-cavalry - Simply somthing that nobody made so far".
Well his next mail was - "Look what I did". Ok, I fear this set is much more popular than what I have in mind... At least the first set in correct loading and firing poses:-)
Very soon available form Hagen-miniatures
Now as we had our Medway Diorama on show (I can't see any Romans in the next time), I fully concentrated on the diorama of Korbitz.
Paiting complete units could be boring work, but the result in the end is impressing.
Here I started on the 4th Prussian hussars. In the time of the SYW the regiments bred their own horses. And the 4th had some special ones
Beside working on the project, I always try to paint 2-3 sets from the huge pile. This time, some exotic 3d-printed figures from Ebay France.
1812 Cossack artillery and 2eme Eclaireurs de la Garde (The one on the left has a strange way to wear his shako....)
Another idea was that there are no bad figures, but only bad paintjobs. I tried some very old Marx US infantry. After brushing, they looked ok. as usual on photos my closeup photos are a nightmare:-)
When visiting Schmitty to prepare the stuff for Medway, I took a look in his "hobbyroom". I wish I would have such space. He is working on a diorama of Arnhem 1944.
And he had a good find on Ebay or something else
At another blog, I found this photo, can't remember where. Such a light dragoon would be very interesting to me. Does anybody know, from which game it is?
Manfred Fuchs sent me these two photos from his Austrian Militia
And finally a photo from the leftovers of Blackwatch, which we haven't sold at the dioramica. You can help us cover the costs of the fair with a little order:-)
Now as I have finished the Roman project, I am looking for new ideas. the next project is Korbitz, about which I have already posted some photos.
Another smaller project I have in mind in the battle of the Schellenberg 1704 as a prelude to the battle of Blenheim.
I hope for Strelets and their Bavarian infantry. In their meantime, I have painted Les Higgins metals and thought about simply converting some other figures into Bavarians.
A special unit, I wasn't able to convert are the mounted Grenadiers. Here I have asked Darek to sculpt me some.
This is the result
