Crisis 2008

Hoi Peoples!

Well at first it seemed I would not be able to visit the Crisis this year. Then a good Friend Tom http://www.cw-toys.de/ asked me to help out at his stand on the Crisis and so I got to go after all. I made some pics and will give a small impression here.

Two shots of the hall:





Some of the demo games in proces:

Lest we Forget!

A tribute to the Glorious Dead...

True Wellingtonians!

Hoi There!

Well at last the Peninsular British Infantry test-shots from HäT have arrived and I am well into painting them!

Here's a teaser

Listening to: "October Rust" by Type O Negative

Pirate Lass!

Ahoy me maties!

Remember my Pirate Lass? Well she's finished now... She didn't quite turn out how I wanted at the beginning but is good enough for me as she is now. Her eyes will need re-doing and I will probably add some wash to her hair.

Here are the pics:

Listening to: "The Matrix, Soundtrack"

Great War Artillery Part IV

Well they are finished! Both crews and the gun and caisson have been finished today. I will give you some impressions here and I have sent more pictures to the HäT site where you can see more of them in some time.

Meanwhile here's some eye-candy!

French set:

American Set:

Cheerio Sander!

Listening to: "A Tribute to the 4 Horsemen" by several artists.

More Great War mini's!

Hoi

As I am posting pictures of figures I have painted way back in times when the weekends still offered some decent painting-time here are my German Gun crews and Heavy weapon figures. All HäT stuff of course!




Gun crew



The caisson. This will be the only one I will paint up as stationary. I will use the other 3 in the set with the horse team and limber when it comes available.




From left to right: minenwerfer, Maxim Heavy Machine Gun, Rifle-grenade launcher, Trench Grenade launcher.



Left: anti-tankgun and right: LMG team



The flamer team: I included a different hose between them but it is too thick. In the future I will seek out a better hose for the teams I still need to do.
Even more pictures of these German Heavies and the ALH have been sent to the HäT website http://www.hat.com/ so if I am lucky they will be up there soon!

Australian Light Horse

Hoi!

A few months ago (way back in the days of ample free-time) I re-painted my Australian Light Horse testshots from HäT. At first I had them painted in a sandy-khaki colour but after watching the movies "Gallipoli" and more importantly "Light Horsemen" I have re-done them in the more appropriate greenish-khaki. I also understand the bayonet charging pose better now, cheers Young Stan and all you ANZACS over there Down Under!

Well here are my renewed and based ALH.



Mounted poses.

Dismounted poses, there's also a horse-holder but since I have only one spare horse I am waiting to finish this one.
Some brilliant sites for reference:
http://www.awm.gov.au/units/ww1.asp
http://www.lighthorse.org.au/
http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/militariaphotos/gallery_default.asp?cmd=reset
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-equip/1915.htm


Listening to: "Industrial Silence" by Madrugada