Vehicle showcase: Carriage

Hoi,

A more civilised item in the Vehicle showcase series is this Fine Scale Industries carriage. At first I was thinking of using it as Napoleons carriage, but it is of newer build and thus I decided to use it as Victorian / WW1 era civilian vehicle. The base is just a piece of plastic card covered in wall paper, I like to think it kinda works.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "October Rust" by Type O Negative

Heia Safari!

Hoi,

This update takes us to Darkest Africa where a small German force led by the legendary Von Lettow-Vorbeck and aided by native auxiliaries, is fighting the French, British and Belgians. These figures are part of a series of HäT sets that depict both the German Schutztruppen, Askari's and native Ruga Ruga's. Here I present the European Schutztruppe include Von Letto-Vorbeck.

The group-photo:

I have found reference for all my colour choices i.e. the different colours of headgear so I find them a very nice and colourful bunch.

The officers:

The HMG:

The foot troopers:

NCO's:

I intend to use them not only to play WW1 skirmish scenario's but also some Pulp scenario's if and when I get the chance.

Cheers Sander

Listening to:  "Media Vita" by Reincarnates

Vehicle showcase: Mark IV Female

Hoi,

For my WW1 games I posses a small wagon-park and I thought I'd put them up in a new "showcase" series, hence this "Vehicle showcase" article.

Let's start with that most famous of WW1 silhouettes: the British Mark IV. I have several EMHAR plastic kits build by Hans Slaager and painted by yours truly.

My Mark IV, I have done up in a regular late-war green scheme with the British red-white recognition markings. The tank is fictional and as such has the number C23 (C company 23rd vehicle) The legend reads Iron Duke. There was a real tank called Iron Duke, but this is not suppose to portray that particular vehicle. Well I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. 

Cheers Sander

Watching season 2 of Game of Thrones by HBO

The Governor's Court

Hoi,

From time to time, you want something different. Way back when I just started out painting historical figures for real, and I did not have a credit card or Paypall account, I asked one of my American friends to obtain some Old Glory miniatures for me. He duly did and ever since then 3 nice Pirate sets have been awaiting painting. Last week was a holiday over here so I had time to paint one of them, the Governor's Court, up and boy what a lot of work it was. I am not used to 28mm and all these were of that scale. That said another problem was: what to use as colour-schemes?

Well I wanted this to depict the bad guy, it was far too easy to depict the stereotype British Governor and friends. So I went for a more colourful French, or perhaps Spanish Governor.

So let me introduce them all to you.

First up the Governor with his personal footman:

 Next up another footman

The Governor's haughty wife:

 Of course there have to be some Aristocratic toadies:

 A devious priest is a must as well:

 Some civil servants to falsify the books:

 And finally a military man, ships captain or possibly admiral:

And the bunch put together:

There are still two more sets, one of pirates playing cards in a bar and some captured civilians but these will have to wait for painting just a "bit" longer...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Kerplunk" by Green Day

Gone Camping!

Hoi,

Normally I am not thát fond of sleeping in a tent but these tents by Amera Plastics are superb! I have got all their present 1:72 tents and have just finished the set where you get 5 tents on one strip of plastic. I cut these loose in order to have more different ways to place them on the tabletop. Some additional scenics were added and a dash of paint was slabbed on.

The miniatures are HäT Colonials, the baggage bearers are the new WW1 von Lettow carriers.

Cheers Sander,

Listening to: "Issues" by Korn

Vorwärts Husaren!

Hoi,

Sometimes it's great to have some time AND inspiration to finish a project! Yesterday I found time, energy and inspiration to finally finish the last mounted regiment for my 7YW Austrian army. This regiment would be a hussar regiment. Why? Well very simple, a long time ago I obtained quite a large amount of Revell 7YW Prussian Hussars. These chaps are very nicely done and since I had heaps lying around anyway, I decided to paint them as Austrians. Okay there's more reasons for this decision then I'm actually telling now: I also have decided that, while I will probably end up doing a Prussian army in the end, it will be last in the list first up are a British- and then a Hanoverian army. Lastly these were already painted, badly I must add, by me years ago. Therefore it was about time to give them a decent paintjob and list them amongst the active units instead of waiting in some dusty box in the cupboard.

For the colour-scheme I chose a blue one form the excellent Kronoskaf website, they depict the Szechényi Hussars.Don't ask me how to pronounce this!

Here are the pictures

Frontal view:

Close up:

Back view:

Side view:

Close up:

Now I know I've said these chaps are the last mounted regiment for my Austrian Army yet, as often is: this is not a very hard resolution of mine. I will probably cave in and paint a new one if and when opportunity presents itself but for now I only have two more Austrian foot regiments to paint before my planned units are done...

Cheers Sander

Listening to:  "Wasting Light" by the Foo Fighters