Friday, 29 May 2020

5th Showcase: the late WW1 platoons

well I got 2 German platoons, one stormtrooper and one normal with (most of them) iconic gas masks. fitted with some extras as a Mark IV "Beutepanzer" as well as an A7V and some HMG/Mörser and flamethrowers...
The only adversary to this is a British platoon with a Mark V and a HMG ... I'll keep thinking of who/what could be my second allied platoon be made of ... French/Americans ...?






















Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Breaking News ... fresh from the printing press...

... even if its from the 3D printing press. Shapeways marvelous WW1 Sopwith Camel and Nieuport 16 synchronised arrived and I could not resist to paint them. In "Guns of August", just the allies, the French and the British have 1 respective air unit. The Germans apart from one "Bloody April" and some weeks around the start of the Verdun offensive, didn‘t have much aerial weight to justify one unit in the game as well ... the air units will appear in 1918 to deliver combat boni...






Monday, 25 May 2020

4th Show case: the Hessian AWI army

... and some other 6mm stuff for Gun Of August,  I finished painting ...

enjoy :)

My whole Hessian AWI contingent

The Mirbach Musketeer regiment and some Jägers

The Lossberg Fusiliers 
The v. Block Composite Grenadier Regiment


The v. Donop Musketer regiment and some Jägers

The Knyphausen Fusileer regiment

The Minigeroge Composite Grenadier regiment

The Musketeer Leibregiment and some Jägers

The famous standing Grenadier regiment Rall

the Composite Grenadier regiment von Linsing

The complete Italian army 
finished the complete Russian Infantry ... 


and several minor countries naval forces




Thursday, 7 May 2020

Continuing against all odds ...

All OK - no distress signal from me - I was quite busy the lately ... also a birthday last week I had to take care of ... so this is just to showcase what I've been up to and what comes next out of the mental metal meneken manufacture ... the 10mm rest of my Franco-Prussian War project AND (almost) the rest of my 6mm WW1 Guns of August project ...


all of it ... not much!!  - I need to order navals and 6mm US army!!!

10mm FPW the Voltigeurs of the guard are coming together quite nicely 

- in the background just 3!! stripes left

The 6mm complete Serbian army (yes I forgot the Monenegrians ... will come ) 
The complete Turkish (European) contingent


The Romanian Army

The Italian Army (finished some in the foreground)

The complete Russian army (apart from the already finished artillery and engineers)

In the foreground fort markers and in the back entrenchment markers