Misc. Updates

Hoi!

Recently I have been trying to clear my desk of some loose ends (mainly CBT stuff) and have alo finished the French Late War (WW1) Cavalry form HäT. More pictures of the latter will be up in the HäT ETS pages shortly.

First up are two Swiftwind scoutcars for my First Aragon Borderers. I have more of these which I will paint up in several other faction paint schemes

Next in line are some Fuel trucks which can be used as targets or scenery. Hence the general army green paintjob.

One of the lovely new HäT French WW1 Cavalry troopers.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Over the Hills and Far Away, soundtrack of the Sharpe Series" by various.

Newest testshots

Hoi,

Some days ago the latest HäT testsprues came in and I was elated to see they were of the 3 great new WW1 cavalry sets, Turks, Brits and French. Well the British cavalry are finished and here's the first picture. More will be featured at the HäT site.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Best if SOAD" by System of a Down

Farewell to you Spanish Ladies...

Hoi,

As promised here's a picture of the next 1:72 metal figure of a 18th century lady in dress gown. I like to think of her as a Spanish lady attending a ball.
The picture doesn't really bring out the quality of the figure itself, mainly due to the fact I had to use a flash and am not a very good photographer...

The second picture for this update is of my version of Art Miniaturen's Scottish Highlanders, the Black Watch. First I did a tartan very similar to the 42nds but since it was a simplification it didn't look the part. Therefore I added a small blue square to the pattern (which is not historically accurate) but that did make the scheme more believable.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Icky Thumb" by White STripes

A Lady in the Cold

As winter is almost upon us I thought this figure would be appropriate.

I am not at all happy with all the flesh-parts, will try to improve on those. The base, which is not very visible in this picture, was made by putting some brick-card onto a GW base and adding some snow-looking stuff.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "The Idle Prentice" by Gin Lane

Inaugural Battles

Hoi Folks!

Last holiday I played some lovely games with my buddy Koen on the new gaming table. The first was a nice The Great War game using Russians against Germans in 1914. The Russians had to evacuate their guns and the Germans had to destroy them. The Russians managed to haul off the guns but their army was destroyed utterly while doing this so we finished on a draw.

Next we played a Black Powder Napoleonic game which was also nice, but I forgot to take pictures until the last turn in which all was over but the mopping up. Set in the days just before Waterloo the Allies needed to withdraw from the French Avant Garde. I played the French needless to say: the Allies won.

Greetings Sander

Listening to: "Beyond Hell, above Heaven"  from Volbeat

New Blog added!

Hoi!

Finally work has started on the "Big Project"! Wanna know more? Check:

http://salamanca1812.blogspot.com/

Cheers Sander

Listening to: all my music on shuffle

DUZI 2010!

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Last Saturday I visited the DUZI fair in Wesel, Germany together with my mate Koen. On the way over, all went well and we had a great car ride singing classic rock ballads and generally making fun. Then disaster struck: we neared the bridge over the Rhine just in front of Wesel to discover it was blocked for maintenance!
So we tried to find another crossing nearby, but hellooo it's the Rhine you know! That's a mighty big river so crossings are not thick-spread! We kinda felt like all those armies who were stopped from conquering the lands beyond the Rhine like the Germans in Roman times and so on must have felt. Needless to say we got lost in the, beautiful German countryside.

Finally a nice postman told us we had to drive over to Xanten were we could cross the Rhine and get to Wesel, another hours worth of driving... So we did this and, due to my misdirections, got lost in Xanten, again, and even passed the Archaeological park (see picture below).

Eventually we found Wesel and the DUZI figures fair were a great time was had by us both.I especially liked meeting up with old and new friends.I kept a tight grip on my wallet and only obtained the stuff you can see on the picture to the right.I could have purchased more, because there was more then enough to my liking there but I always ask myself 3 questions:
- Do I really need this?
- Will I have time to paint it?
- Will I then actually use it?

And most of the times the answer is a triple 'no'. I do have a long held tradition at the DUZI of buying at least one Freebooter miniature just because they are such excellent little sculpts.

So what exactly did I buy?

- new Italeri stone building
- Zvezda Russian Hussars
- Zvezda heavy Russian Guard artillery (I am thinking of painting these as Prussians)
- a series of each of the 4 Indian Regiments used by Wellington to win India for Britain by Uwe Wildt and friends. http://historyin172.blogspot.com/
- some Bruno Arnal conversion heads
- 2 Freebooter mini's: Goblin Cook and Goblin Duel
- some lovely 18th century Ladies in ball dresses by http://www.dddhk.com/

Afterwards we still had some time to visit the Preussen Museum (Prussia Museum) in Wesel's old Cittadel http://www.preussenmuseum.de/  where I bought a cd with some Marching songs from Old Fritz's days.

Cheers Sander


Listening to: Preussische Armee Märsche des 18. Jahrhunderts