Showing posts with label the Great War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Great War. Show all posts
Friday, 11 November 2016
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Lest We Forget!
Hoi,
It will not have escaped your notice that it's November 11th today. Here in the south of the Netherlands is the start of the Carnival season and as such steeped in mirth, booze and dancing people.
Yet this post is about remembrance. A few weeks ago I was in the UK with school as we visited Oxford and environs. The media were full of the "poppy" discussion, I wear one too, this is odd in the Netherlands because we were not involved in the Great War and many people do not understand. Well I teach history and if I can get pupils interested in the how and why of remembrance and keeping those who gave their lives for us alive in any small way I will.
So yes I wear a poppy (an enamel one bought in Ypres some years ago since you cannot get one here) to think of all those who have fallen, NOT because I am a warmonger or militarist. Wargamers are often accused of being fond of war and bloodshed, yet I think that warGAMING is a game in the first place and learning about history second. The latter also gives us a pretty good picture of just how gruesome war and battlefields are and thus we tend to look for peaceful solutions in real life. Like throwing dice to solve them ;-)
In the Netherlands we have Memorial day on May the Forth and Liberation Day on May the Fifth. At first these were to commemorate the Fallen from WW2 and to celebrate our liberation by the Allies. At present, in letter at least we commemorate all Fallen in armed conflicts since 1939, but in truth the emphasis is still pretty much on WW2.
The poppies below grew in our garden in late summer this year and are amongst my favourite flowers. In about two weeks I will take along 122 pupils to Ypres and Tyne Cot and show them just what War leads to and hope they will feel a bit moved at least and stand still to think about sacrifices made back through the last 100 years for our freedom now.
So Lest We Forget!
Listening to:
It will not have escaped your notice that it's November 11th today. Here in the south of the Netherlands is the start of the Carnival season and as such steeped in mirth, booze and dancing people.
Yet this post is about remembrance. A few weeks ago I was in the UK with school as we visited Oxford and environs. The media were full of the "poppy" discussion, I wear one too, this is odd in the Netherlands because we were not involved in the Great War and many people do not understand. Well I teach history and if I can get pupils interested in the how and why of remembrance and keeping those who gave their lives for us alive in any small way I will.
So yes I wear a poppy (an enamel one bought in Ypres some years ago since you cannot get one here) to think of all those who have fallen, NOT because I am a warmonger or militarist. Wargamers are often accused of being fond of war and bloodshed, yet I think that warGAMING is a game in the first place and learning about history second. The latter also gives us a pretty good picture of just how gruesome war and battlefields are and thus we tend to look for peaceful solutions in real life. Like throwing dice to solve them ;-)
In the Netherlands we have Memorial day on May the Forth and Liberation Day on May the Fifth. At first these were to commemorate the Fallen from WW2 and to celebrate our liberation by the Allies. At present, in letter at least we commemorate all Fallen in armed conflicts since 1939, but in truth the emphasis is still pretty much on WW2.
The poppies below grew in our garden in late summer this year and are amongst my favourite flowers. In about two weeks I will take along 122 pupils to Ypres and Tyne Cot and show them just what War leads to and hope they will feel a bit moved at least and stand still to think about sacrifices made back through the last 100 years for our freedom now.
So Lest We Forget!
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Camels anyone?
Hoi,
Finally I found some time to post the pictures I took from my two baggage camels. These are Early War Miniatures and very nice. I will mainly use them with my Great War Middle Eastern figures but they would be perfectly fine riding with the Colonial troops as well.
The miniatures are placed upon some of my "new" terrain tiles. Basically I took some 45cm x 45cm MDF tiles which I coated in some layers of Valejo textured paint (a dark brown and a desert sand) and hey presto very nice terrain tiles in a jiffy!
Cheers Sander
Finally I found some time to post the pictures I took from my two baggage camels. These are Early War Miniatures and very nice. I will mainly use them with my Great War Middle Eastern figures but they would be perfectly fine riding with the Colonial troops as well.
The miniatures are placed upon some of my "new" terrain tiles. Basically I took some 45cm x 45cm MDF tiles which I coated in some layers of Valejo textured paint (a dark brown and a desert sand) and hey presto very nice terrain tiles in a jiffy!
Cheers Sander
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Some HäT testshots
Hoi,
While the last weeks of the Challenge were still in progress, I received some testshots from the United States. These were the eagerly awaited British Peninsular Cavalry (both heavy and light dragoons) and WW1 Belgian Infantry sets. The latter are today's subject as I found some time to get them painted up.
So let's take a look at the figures. First up is the regular line infantry set. All figures are uniformed in the early war (i.e. 1914) uniform. What I specially like is that there are 3 figures in seated or prone positions as to indicate the need to seek cover, something often overlooked in WW1 sets. Here are two pics of the figures:
Next up are the Heavy weapon set figures. These include a prone Light Machine Gun being fired by either Carabineers or Jagers (Light Infantry) I painted them up as Carabineers on bike. There's a dogcart with Carabineer handler and an officer firing his pistol.
The HMG is based on a resin scenic base from the 36th Chamber, a very nice range of trench-themed bases can be obtained from them.
Some close ups of the heavies set:
Hope you like them as much as I did.
Cheers Sander
While the last weeks of the Challenge were still in progress, I received some testshots from the United States. These were the eagerly awaited British Peninsular Cavalry (both heavy and light dragoons) and WW1 Belgian Infantry sets. The latter are today's subject as I found some time to get them painted up.
So let's take a look at the figures. First up is the regular line infantry set. All figures are uniformed in the early war (i.e. 1914) uniform. What I specially like is that there are 3 figures in seated or prone positions as to indicate the need to seek cover, something often overlooked in WW1 sets. Here are two pics of the figures:
Next up are the Heavy weapon set figures. These include a prone Light Machine Gun being fired by either Carabineers or Jagers (Light Infantry) I painted them up as Carabineers on bike. There's a dogcart with Carabineer handler and an officer firing his pistol.
The HMG is based on a resin scenic base from the 36th Chamber, a very nice range of trench-themed bases can be obtained from them.
Some close ups of the heavies set:
Hope you like them as much as I did.
Cheers Sander
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Vehicle Showcase: Austin Armoured Car Beute version
Hoi,
The Great War is still very much one of the periods I like the best to recreate in miniature. Part of this is the exotic use of all kinds of vehicles. The Austin Armoured car shown below is one of those. Primarily obtained to be used as a British armoured car, I now used it to fill the gap in my German car park. So the story behind this, which I use to excuse it's transformation in a German camo scheme is that it's was captured early on by the Germans and re-painted for their own purposes.
The model is a resin kit from a Dutch producer, since I lost the box it came in, I also forgot the brand-name.
The machine guns are Revell's German HMG's from the WW1 infantry set of which I had tons left over, the backpacks added were Resin WW2 stowage items from an unknown brand as well.
So there we have it: another addition to the 100th Year Memorial series!
Cheers Sander,
Listening to: "Issues" by Korn
The Great War is still very much one of the periods I like the best to recreate in miniature. Part of this is the exotic use of all kinds of vehicles. The Austin Armoured car shown below is one of those. Primarily obtained to be used as a British armoured car, I now used it to fill the gap in my German car park. So the story behind this, which I use to excuse it's transformation in a German camo scheme is that it's was captured early on by the Germans and re-painted for their own purposes.
The model is a resin kit from a Dutch producer, since I lost the box it came in, I also forgot the brand-name.
The machine guns are Revell's German HMG's from the WW1 infantry set of which I had tons left over, the backpacks added were Resin WW2 stowage items from an unknown brand as well.
So there we have it: another addition to the 100th Year Memorial series!
Cheers Sander,
Listening to: "Issues" by Korn
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Summer Holiday Special Part II
Hoi,
Since I promissed you a second part to the Summer Holiday Special I'd rather deliver, right?
During the two weeks we were away, I managed to paint 19 Scottish Highlanders for the Great War. These are HäT miniatures and I think they're OK. The poses are a bit mediocre and the facial detail could be better, but since these chaps will be running over muddy fields towards certain death by all kinds of ghastly stuff, I'm not looking to close.
Now I also told you guys I bought 3 books containing Dutch soldier's diaries of the Napoleonic wars and I said I'd also elaborate on them as well.
Now first let's look at what struck me regarding the differences between reprinted British and French diaries/ memoires and Dutch ones. British and French diaries are presented as a whole document, no things omitted, some notes added to put stuff into context and perhaps a piece concerning the original writer and his or her place in the events mentioned in the book.
The Dutch diaries I've read do not resemble this at all, just one of them is more or less a "true" diary in the sense as mentioned above in that there's the largest part of the original manuscript included. The others are extremely abbreviated and in one case almost entirely fiction... Second part is that two of the books really showed the reluctance of the writers to participate in the armies of the French oppressor.
Let's take a closer look:
Book one is called "To Moscow, to Moscow!" and pretends to relate the diary of Captain Dumonceau, a young Belgian chap whose daddy already held a high position in the French administration of the Dutch territories and who was a soldier as well. I bought it in a regular bookshop and as such this is a commercially available book. This young man ended up in the famous Red Lancers and as such this book relates his experiences in that ill-fated of campaigns: the Russian Campaign of 1812.
He survived and became Inspector General of the Dutch Cavalry and ADC to the new King William I of the United Netherlands after 1815.
So far that's all very well, but what I have not said is the fact that these proceedings are related to the reader in a story-form interlaced with pieces from the original manuscripts: ARGH! While I understand the need to simplify things for the audience at large, it was really disappointing not to be able to read the entire story in the man's own words.
Apart from all this, the book has inspired me to paint up a squadron of Red Lancers...
Book Two is called "My travellings as a Guard d'Honneur". Bought with the last book at the Harskamp Museumshop, see last blogpost, this one is published by a small private Publishing company and not really commercially available.It's the only one of the 3 books which can call itself a true diary, since it presents the entire text of the original manuscript. This work was written by a young man of some substance from the province of Zeeland (Walcheren, probably more known to you, is part of this province) who was inducted in Napoleon's Guard d'Honneurs. His parents had already saved him twice from conscription by "buying"a replacement, just about anyone willing to join up in change of a large sum of money. But this time there was no escaping his faith because Napoleon had decreed that no-one was allowed to elude the service by arranging replacements. Funnily enough he relates not being able to ride well and travelling to the depot in Versailles by coach and only upon the way towards Germany (for what would turn out to be the Leipzig Campaign) would he learn to ride on the go.
A saillant detail is that he and two friends bolted at the first opportunity they got, which was right before the big battle, and travelled back home. Not a bad book, but not inspiring as well.
Book three...this one is really truly awful. This book is called "Jan Leenders Lerk, a Frisian soldier in the army of Napoleon." Appalled by the picture of the badly painted miniature soldier on the front-cover I almost left on the shelve and in hindsight that might just have been for the better. Why? Well I'll tell you why. This book is written by one of the great-great grandchildren of the soldier in the title, both he, his brother and their wives have tried to find out what happened to their soldierly forebear and this book is the result of their trials.
Nothing wrong with that, I imagine you're thinking and you would be right but for one thing: searching through quite a lot of Dutch archives and even the French ones at Vincennes, the editors only came up with 4 facts:
Fact 1: Jan Leenders Lerk was called on for conscription in 1812 to be inducted into the 125th Regiment of the Line.
Fact 2: this regiment was amalgamated with the 134th before the end of the year.
Fact 3: Lerk disappeared from the regiments ranks around the time of the battle for Leipzig...
Fact 4: he survived and came home because in 1815 he became father to a second son (he already had one daughter and another son before 1812).
This doesn't fill a book so what these people have done is take the story of the campaign of 1813, all the names of conscripts from the Northern provinces who enlisted in the 125th/ 134th RdL and made up a story of hwo they were brutally called upon to serve Boney against their will. How they were reluctantly drilled on the way towards Germany. How they made a pact to desert, how this failed right upon the battle of Leipzig and how eventually only Jan Lerk was left and deserted with a German also forced to join the Eagles. That they make him desert is due to the fact that there's a tale in the family that one of their forebears deserted from Napoleon's army. Apart from the fact that the entire story is fiction they make quite a lot of errors in their description of things which do not make the book any clearer or easier to read, specially for laymen. Two examples are these: the writers use the words companies, regiments and battalions without knowing just what they contain, and thus mix them up horribly. When discussing the bridging of some of the German streams the French need to cross, they call the engineers "architects"...
Repeating all this here, just makes me wanna cry and stop typing, but i'll persevere, for there's one very important thing I've learned from these books. Dumonceau was the only one who volunteered to join the Eagles, the others didn't. I've read a very scientific and elaborately researched book about the impact of the French subscription in the Southern parts of the Netherlands (where I live) and this combined with the books above gave me the following insight: in the Southern provinces the French had invaded as early as 1795 and these became part of the Empire as a regular department. We're talking about much of present day Belgium and Limburg (the present day Dutch province I live in), conscription and other French laws were introduced from the get go. This conscription did raise opposition immediately as well. The book I mentioned earlier has studied quite a lot of court-cases of people who had tried to evade conscription or of people held responsible of loved ones who were hiding from conscription. Since the Batavian Repunlic, later the kingdom of Holland under Louis Napoleon (Boney's brother), was so close many men escaped there because it was rather easy. The French therefore targeted the people they left behind thus forcing the refugees to turn themselves in and serve anyway.
Now strangely it appears that the large amount of men resisting conscription were inspired to do so by the catholic priests who had enjoyed great power before the coming of the French and were now ejected from power, their funds and even their monasteries and churches now used as barracks, hospitals and stables. As soon as Napoleon made his peace with the Pope, all trouble wa over and resistance against the French and thus conscription stops.
The Dutch provinces, preciously mentioned as being part of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland were exempted from conscription for a long time. The army was made up of volunteers, so conscription was not necessary, specially when there also was a presence of French garrisons in the most important fortresses of the country. Only when the Dutch army is integrated in the French in 1810, when Louis is dethroned and the Kingdom of Holland is annexed into the Empire that the Emperor imposes conscription upon the Dutch people. That in combination with the economical crisis due to the Continental System made the Dutch hate the French regime and resist conscription.
Is this your big insight I hear you mumble? No indeed! One of the biggest "concerns Wellington supposedly had of his Dutch-Belgian Allies, was that he couldn't be sure they were going to stand and fight the French or run over and join them, since they'd fought for him so long. The above shows that he needn't have feared the Dutch to desert him because they hated Boney and only a small proportion had really fought for him with their hearts in it. Of the Belgians this cannot be said with as much certainty, but they held firm in the end anyway.
Oh well, now I know to really look through the book when I find another Dutch soldier's "diary" again...
Cheers Sander
Since I promissed you a second part to the Summer Holiday Special I'd rather deliver, right?
During the two weeks we were away, I managed to paint 19 Scottish Highlanders for the Great War. These are HäT miniatures and I think they're OK. The poses are a bit mediocre and the facial detail could be better, but since these chaps will be running over muddy fields towards certain death by all kinds of ghastly stuff, I'm not looking to close.
Now I also told you guys I bought 3 books containing Dutch soldier's diaries of the Napoleonic wars and I said I'd also elaborate on them as well.
Now first let's look at what struck me regarding the differences between reprinted British and French diaries/ memoires and Dutch ones. British and French diaries are presented as a whole document, no things omitted, some notes added to put stuff into context and perhaps a piece concerning the original writer and his or her place in the events mentioned in the book.
The Dutch diaries I've read do not resemble this at all, just one of them is more or less a "true" diary in the sense as mentioned above in that there's the largest part of the original manuscript included. The others are extremely abbreviated and in one case almost entirely fiction... Second part is that two of the books really showed the reluctance of the writers to participate in the armies of the French oppressor.
Let's take a closer look:
Book one is called "To Moscow, to Moscow!" and pretends to relate the diary of Captain Dumonceau, a young Belgian chap whose daddy already held a high position in the French administration of the Dutch territories and who was a soldier as well. I bought it in a regular bookshop and as such this is a commercially available book. This young man ended up in the famous Red Lancers and as such this book relates his experiences in that ill-fated of campaigns: the Russian Campaign of 1812.
He survived and became Inspector General of the Dutch Cavalry and ADC to the new King William I of the United Netherlands after 1815.
So far that's all very well, but what I have not said is the fact that these proceedings are related to the reader in a story-form interlaced with pieces from the original manuscripts: ARGH! While I understand the need to simplify things for the audience at large, it was really disappointing not to be able to read the entire story in the man's own words.
Apart from all this, the book has inspired me to paint up a squadron of Red Lancers...
Book Two is called "My travellings as a Guard d'Honneur". Bought with the last book at the Harskamp Museumshop, see last blogpost, this one is published by a small private Publishing company and not really commercially available.It's the only one of the 3 books which can call itself a true diary, since it presents the entire text of the original manuscript. This work was written by a young man of some substance from the province of Zeeland (Walcheren, probably more known to you, is part of this province) who was inducted in Napoleon's Guard d'Honneurs. His parents had already saved him twice from conscription by "buying"a replacement, just about anyone willing to join up in change of a large sum of money. But this time there was no escaping his faith because Napoleon had decreed that no-one was allowed to elude the service by arranging replacements. Funnily enough he relates not being able to ride well and travelling to the depot in Versailles by coach and only upon the way towards Germany (for what would turn out to be the Leipzig Campaign) would he learn to ride on the go.
A saillant detail is that he and two friends bolted at the first opportunity they got, which was right before the big battle, and travelled back home. Not a bad book, but not inspiring as well.
Book three...this one is really truly awful. This book is called "Jan Leenders Lerk, a Frisian soldier in the army of Napoleon." Appalled by the picture of the badly painted miniature soldier on the front-cover I almost left on the shelve and in hindsight that might just have been for the better. Why? Well I'll tell you why. This book is written by one of the great-great grandchildren of the soldier in the title, both he, his brother and their wives have tried to find out what happened to their soldierly forebear and this book is the result of their trials.
Nothing wrong with that, I imagine you're thinking and you would be right but for one thing: searching through quite a lot of Dutch archives and even the French ones at Vincennes, the editors only came up with 4 facts:
Fact 1: Jan Leenders Lerk was called on for conscription in 1812 to be inducted into the 125th Regiment of the Line.
Fact 2: this regiment was amalgamated with the 134th before the end of the year.
Fact 3: Lerk disappeared from the regiments ranks around the time of the battle for Leipzig...
Fact 4: he survived and came home because in 1815 he became father to a second son (he already had one daughter and another son before 1812).
This doesn't fill a book so what these people have done is take the story of the campaign of 1813, all the names of conscripts from the Northern provinces who enlisted in the 125th/ 134th RdL and made up a story of hwo they were brutally called upon to serve Boney against their will. How they were reluctantly drilled on the way towards Germany. How they made a pact to desert, how this failed right upon the battle of Leipzig and how eventually only Jan Lerk was left and deserted with a German also forced to join the Eagles. That they make him desert is due to the fact that there's a tale in the family that one of their forebears deserted from Napoleon's army. Apart from the fact that the entire story is fiction they make quite a lot of errors in their description of things which do not make the book any clearer or easier to read, specially for laymen. Two examples are these: the writers use the words companies, regiments and battalions without knowing just what they contain, and thus mix them up horribly. When discussing the bridging of some of the German streams the French need to cross, they call the engineers "architects"...
Repeating all this here, just makes me wanna cry and stop typing, but i'll persevere, for there's one very important thing I've learned from these books. Dumonceau was the only one who volunteered to join the Eagles, the others didn't. I've read a very scientific and elaborately researched book about the impact of the French subscription in the Southern parts of the Netherlands (where I live) and this combined with the books above gave me the following insight: in the Southern provinces the French had invaded as early as 1795 and these became part of the Empire as a regular department. We're talking about much of present day Belgium and Limburg (the present day Dutch province I live in), conscription and other French laws were introduced from the get go. This conscription did raise opposition immediately as well. The book I mentioned earlier has studied quite a lot of court-cases of people who had tried to evade conscription or of people held responsible of loved ones who were hiding from conscription. Since the Batavian Repunlic, later the kingdom of Holland under Louis Napoleon (Boney's brother), was so close many men escaped there because it was rather easy. The French therefore targeted the people they left behind thus forcing the refugees to turn themselves in and serve anyway.
Now strangely it appears that the large amount of men resisting conscription were inspired to do so by the catholic priests who had enjoyed great power before the coming of the French and were now ejected from power, their funds and even their monasteries and churches now used as barracks, hospitals and stables. As soon as Napoleon made his peace with the Pope, all trouble wa over and resistance against the French and thus conscription stops.
The Dutch provinces, preciously mentioned as being part of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland were exempted from conscription for a long time. The army was made up of volunteers, so conscription was not necessary, specially when there also was a presence of French garrisons in the most important fortresses of the country. Only when the Dutch army is integrated in the French in 1810, when Louis is dethroned and the Kingdom of Holland is annexed into the Empire that the Emperor imposes conscription upon the Dutch people. That in combination with the economical crisis due to the Continental System made the Dutch hate the French regime and resist conscription.
Is this your big insight I hear you mumble? No indeed! One of the biggest "concerns Wellington supposedly had of his Dutch-Belgian Allies, was that he couldn't be sure they were going to stand and fight the French or run over and join them, since they'd fought for him so long. The above shows that he needn't have feared the Dutch to desert him because they hated Boney and only a small proportion had really fought for him with their hearts in it. Of the Belgians this cannot be said with as much certainty, but they held firm in the end anyway.
Oh well, now I know to really look through the book when I find another Dutch soldier's "diary" again...
Cheers Sander
Saturday, 12 July 2014
Vehicle Showcase: Fokker Eindecker
Hoi,
Today we take to the air in our regular series of Vehicle Showcases. My German Jasta's are equipped with two Fokker monoplanes, one of which I finished and is shown below. The inspiration for the colour-scheme came from the brilliant WW1 Aviation Illustrations page, and I think it worked out fine.
The ones of you who are still well sighted will see that none of my WW1 fighter planes have added wires: that's too fiddly for my big fingers but also doesn't stand up to the rigours of wargaming, so I omitted them.
Hope you like the photo's.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Ghostboy" by Gabriel Rios
Today we take to the air in our regular series of Vehicle Showcases. My German Jasta's are equipped with two Fokker monoplanes, one of which I finished and is shown below. The inspiration for the colour-scheme came from the brilliant WW1 Aviation Illustrations page, and I think it worked out fine.
The ones of you who are still well sighted will see that none of my WW1 fighter planes have added wires: that's too fiddly for my big fingers but also doesn't stand up to the rigours of wargaming, so I omitted them.
Hope you like the photo's.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Ghostboy" by Gabriel Rios
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Vehicle Showcase: Torpedo German Staff Car
Hoi,
Roaring onto the tabletop today is this spiffing Torpedo Staff Car as used by German and Turkish forces in the Great War. The model is made by Reviresco Miniatures and is a total beaut to construct. The colour scheme proved hard to choose, I have read somewhere that the Great War German army did not paint their vehicles in standard Panzer grey at first. I also know that a lot of officers procured their own cars. So I felt sure this splashing blue/black scheme would do. The figures are Emhar officers and are in the process of noting their findings while on their duty.
The pictures are a bit over exposed, for which I apologise, but I hope you get the yeast from them anyway ;-)
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Ocean-born" by Nightwish
Roaring onto the tabletop today is this spiffing Torpedo Staff Car as used by German and Turkish forces in the Great War. The model is made by Reviresco Miniatures and is a total beaut to construct. The colour scheme proved hard to choose, I have read somewhere that the Great War German army did not paint their vehicles in standard Panzer grey at first. I also know that a lot of officers procured their own cars. So I felt sure this splashing blue/black scheme would do. The figures are Emhar officers and are in the process of noting their findings while on their duty.
The pictures are a bit over exposed, for which I apologise, but I hope you get the yeast from them anyway ;-)
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Ocean-born" by Nightwish
Thursday, 13 March 2014
AC-29 Jeffery Nash Quad Truck
Hoi,
In our ongoing Great War vehicle showcase I present the first of a series of miniature vehicles I obtained from Reviresco miniatures. It's an Allied transport truck, which I prepared to have several types of load in it's cargo hold. The model is all white metal and can be put together pretty easily but still I made a big mistake: there was a ready-made hole in the floorboards of the cab, I put the steering wheel in there, should have read the instructions better.
The other mistake I made, and only became aware of upon seeing the photo's is the fact I forgot to paint the driver's gas-mask bag.
The figures added are all HäT figures
And now with the different loads. First up are resin cans and barrels.
With some personnel:
And the final picture shows all the components put together
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Dookie" by Green Day
In our ongoing Great War vehicle showcase I present the first of a series of miniature vehicles I obtained from Reviresco miniatures. It's an Allied transport truck, which I prepared to have several types of load in it's cargo hold. The model is all white metal and can be put together pretty easily but still I made a big mistake: there was a ready-made hole in the floorboards of the cab, I put the steering wheel in there, should have read the instructions better.
The other mistake I made, and only became aware of upon seeing the photo's is the fact I forgot to paint the driver's gas-mask bag.
The figures added are all HäT figures
And now with the different loads. First up are resin cans and barrels.
With some personnel:
And the final picture shows all the components put together
Listening to: "Dookie" by Green Day
Sunday, 26 January 2014
The Great War Centennial Part II
Hoi,
This second in my TGW Centennial Series shows the newest HäT WW1 infantry testshots.
Both sets are made up of 8 poses each with an officer discharging his revolver in a convincing pose. Subjects are the BEF and British troops in tropic weather dress. I specially like the latter with their giant (Wholsey) sun helmets and shorts.
These sets cry out to me to be used for conversions with the existing sets of Middle Eastern theatre figures.The reason I didn't indulge in this, is that I want testshots shown like you get them out of the box, apart from the bases which I added obviously. These are Renedra Plastics BTW, they offer a great service and speedy delivery.
Cheers Sander
This second in my TGW Centennial Series shows the newest HäT WW1 infantry testshots.
Both sets are made up of 8 poses each with an officer discharging his revolver in a convincing pose. Subjects are the BEF and British troops in tropic weather dress. I specially like the latter with their giant (Wholsey) sun helmets and shorts.
These sets cry out to me to be used for conversions with the existing sets of Middle Eastern theatre figures.The reason I didn't indulge in this, is that I want testshots shown like you get them out of the box, apart from the bases which I added obviously. These are Renedra Plastics BTW, they offer a great service and speedy delivery.
Cheers Sander
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
The Great War Centennial Part I
Hoi,
Some time ago I obtained the new HäT WW1 German wagon set and here I present the vignette I created with it. The field kitchen or Goulash Kanone is from the now OOP Fine Scale Factory.
Figures are mainly HäT with some Revell and EMHAR figs added to complement them.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Worlds Collide" by Apocalyptica
Some time ago I obtained the new HäT WW1 German wagon set and here I present the vignette I created with it. The field kitchen or Goulash Kanone is from the now OOP Fine Scale Factory.
Figures are mainly HäT with some Revell and EMHAR figs added to complement them.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Worlds Collide" by Apocalyptica
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Vehicle showcase: Rolls Royce Armoured cars
Hoi,
Yet another instalment in the vehicle showcase series brings you my resin Rolls Royce armoured cars. These are about my favourites. I have bought two at the Crisis in Antwerp two years ago and they painted up a treat. I painted one to resemble an European theatre car and the other in suitable colours for Africa or the Middle East.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Fireball" by Deep Purple
Yet another instalment in the vehicle showcase series brings you my resin Rolls Royce armoured cars. These are about my favourites. I have bought two at the Crisis in Antwerp two years ago and they painted up a treat. I painted one to resemble an European theatre car and the other in suitable colours for Africa or the Middle East.
Cheers Sander
Listening to: "Fireball" by Deep Purple
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