WW1 Russian Army

Dear Folks!

An old-time favourite and long running project has finally been finished! With this I have come back to the basics again: the very first test-shots I painted for HäT were the Russian WW1 Heavy weapon set http://www.hat.com/Othr6/Sander01.html Now I managed to create an entire Russian Army.

Down below is the Army in total



The picture below is of the officers of the Battalion HQ: general, flag bearer and signaller. All HäT figures.



Not all troops are HäT most notably are the Russian Hussars pictured here. I combined two Strelets sets (Don Cossacks and Hussars) with the horses of Italeri's Scots Greys I do not like Strelets in general but they are the only ones at the moment who seem to be producing WW1 cavalry sets. HäT have some brilliant masters up on their forum so there will eventually be those to use and I can't wait!




1st Company Command squad with converted Banner and heavy weapons crew as command figures, showing the versatile nature of this Heavy Weapon set.

Yet again a picture of the Hussars (I hate the blogger-way of uploading pictures!)

The machine gun pictured here is made by Retrokit and done in Resin they have some brilliant WW1 sets to complement existing ranges, I got mine from http://www.cw-toys.de/

The close observer will note that some of the figures used are in fact old ESCI Crimea figures. Most notably one gun-crew and some figures to complete the infantry squads. I also used HäT French 75mm guns as no real set of the Putilov is available, again HäT has one in the works and I just have to be patient. For the army-list I used an experimental list I found on the wabforum.com

Bases are mostly 2 and 5 eurocent coins and some GW bases, finished in my usual method.

Hope you like them!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: Soundtrack of Pirates of the Caribbean (Part 2)

In between!

Hi Folks!

Well things are pretty busy over here even though the Summer Holidays have started. There's few enough that I can photograph and show you so I thought I'd share some youtube stuff with you:

Brilliant kazoo sketch:

Star Wars Tribute, mind the lyrics!

Swiss Drum Corps

Enjoy!

Italian Commission Finished!

Dear Folks!

Here's another series of pictures concerning my Napoleonic Italian Commission. Just like with the 3rd regiment of the Line, which I have painted earlier, I sent all figures without bases to their owner. He then put them up on bases and took the pictures shown below against a scenic backdrop, enjoy:




5th Regiment of the Line



Rear-view of said regiment




The Light of Légère Regiment






The 3 regiment brigade

Cheers Sander!

Listening to: "Roots" by Sepultura

Colonial Infantry

Hoi!

As a go-between I present to you one of my longer running projects: some British Colonial Infantry. I got these figures from one of my German pals long ago and I can't even remember who made them. Since I plan to play several games set in the Sudan in the future, and possibly some fictional ones I painted several of the troops in the grey used for the Sudan campaign.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: AC-DC LIve by ...AC-DC

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Napoleonic Hussars!

Hi There!

Today's update is of a little project I wanted to do for some time! Inspired by the brilliant book concerning the Dutch Belgian cavalry at Waterloo by André Dellevoet:

This book has ALL Dutch and Belgian Regiments depicted in colour-plates of both Full- and Campaign dress. So I decided to do the 8th Belgian Hussars. I used Revell Chasseurs de Garde and one Italeri Chasseur and to give them a face, I used HäT heads. Hope you like the pics.







Cheers Sander

Spring Assault!

Hoi Peoples!

Last Saturday I played two very cool games of The Great War at a gamesfair in Amersfoort (the Netherlands). My opponent was Jan Willem van der Pijl, he played a list of Late French (800pts) including two Renault tanks and a lot of troops in a self-made trench.
My Late German Assault Company (of 1200pts) inclucing a A7V, had to take said trench from the French. At the beginning of the game I got a preliminary bombardment as per the special rules in the Rulebook and destroyed almost all wire sections and the French Battalion HQ! This was brilliant! Less brilliant was that JW blew up my sturmpanzer in turn 2... In the first game I failed to reach the trench, my troops being mown down crossing no-man's land. So we decided to play another game with me starting far closer to the trench. In about two turns I had reached the trench and my Sturmtruppen broke open the left flank of the trench. My assault company supported by a flamer massacared the right flank troops before jumping in with cold steel.

I somehow managed to mess up importing the pictures below so I'll start with pics of game two.

The two of us discussing the scenario.



Game 2:

The flamerteam advancing on the trench.




The flamer in action killing 4 out of 5 man hit!

The sturmies enter the trench and start dishing out some serious ouch-time!

Consolidating into the trench. I kept overrunning fleeing troops into new squads...

Game 1:

The blown up panzer, later on you'll see a close up of the thing still running.

French Reinforcements reach their positions. To the left the tip of my Fokker dr VII is showing I managed to drop one bomb before being shot down.

Close up of the trench:

German artillery and reserves:

French Battalion HQ Command post.

Close up of my A7V advancing under cover of the Sturmies

No man's land

I had an incredible time thanks go the JW who was very sporting and cool to play with. As a matter of fact this was my 7th and 8th game of TGW and in these games I learned to know my force faster and better then my 40K forces in almost 15 years of gaming...

Anyway a very pleasing set of games.

JW has done an article on these games too at the wabforum.co.uk

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "21st Century Breakdown" new Green Day album

More Figures!

Just to finish today's update

Here are two pictures of the HäT 28mm El Cid Archer I showed a while ago.



Rear view:



On the whole I am totally against violence against women, animals and so on, but this vignette is part of the Orion Pirates set and so I had to get it painted. Not my best piece but nice all the same:



And yet again a rear view:



See you! Sander