Washita River

some weeks ago I showed Massimo's masters for a friend. Now the figures are painted for a nice little vignette.

And let's add a photo of Massimo's set Custers last stand - avaiable from Waterloo1815

Bengal lancers

And we are going forward fast. With several sculptors working for our group we nearly have a new set of figures each week.

In the past Massimo sculpted for me a Bengal lancer for the second Afghan war which we gave away as a bonus for bigger orders.

Now after more than two years I put this figure back and asked Massimo to complete me a set of them. As colonial warfare is a fascinating subject for me such campaigns like the 2nd Afghan war, the Boxer Rebellion and Egypt 1882 are still on the focus for future diorama projects.

BTW, this years project will be Ulundi 1879. The diorama will be on display at the Dioramica in November.  Ok, for this I need other lancers...

See here now the complete set he made for me. You can never have enough of them:-)
And waiting figures in the backround is what I need for the bigger dioramas.

Some more Ming Chinese

Sometimes when I get new photos from Leo or Thomas I think "Why again these guys"...

On the other hand I admire Thomas for his zeal to cover the whole Ming army of the late 16th century.

This time we have Ming Imperial Guard infantry. These were campaign troops fighting the Japanese in Korea, while the other Guards I showed before are the Emperors own, guarding the palace or joining the Emperor when he himself was on campaign.

So let's call these guys here the Young Guard:-)

I like the poses.

A medieval town

This impressive "building" was sold for 740 Euros at Ebay Germany last week. Great stuff!!

New figures in the shop

The last few days I was finally able to put all the new sets in the shop. First I thought I would have the time to paint all the Ottoman units before making the photos but this was not the case.

So the only set I painted from the three new ones were my favorites - the Delhis.
I still have to add the reigns. The lances I made from pins with lanceheads I got from the WGRS through Ebay UK.  And I have to add the guns on the other figures.

Another special set I put in the shop today are HATs Spartans. This set will sadly never produced in plastic as there were problems with the mold. I got the special permission from HAT to use the testshot I had to cast them in metal.