Sunday 27 April 2014

'Furniture shopping' ....

A visit to downtown Wittenberg to the establishment of Schafer and Wurm - furniture and cabinet makers by royal appointment to the King. 

In the warehouse a visitor from the palace is checking on the progress of a new four poster bed ....
 Meanwhile in the main showroom a customer places an order for a set of chairs ....

Other customers browsing .....
An overview of the main showroom...


[most of the furniture shown is from Petite Properties 1/48 range  shown initially here; the big four poster bed is scratchbuilt from plasticard and bits.]

Saturday 19 April 2014

Camp scene ...

I finished off some small camp vignettes today; Redoubt figs on left and from Perry AWI camp set on the right
 more from the Perry AWI camp set ...
a couple of Front Rank horses and a spare Old Glory officer....

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Having finished the new vignettes above I set out all my tents, accessories and other figs etc to create a camp scene...


Some close ups....



Wednesday 9 April 2014

Wittenland Army Corps Chevaux-Legers

The King has made a short journey outside the capital to review the cavalry of the Wittenland army corps; consisting of the Prinz Albrecht and Graf Bruhl chevaux-legers regiments which have recently been brought back up to full strength.

The regiments trot out, with Prinz Albrecht taking the lead .....
 The king rides forward to carry out a closer inspection .....

[FIGS: New: Prinz Albrecht regiment - using Hinchcliffe austrian dragoon officers and prussian cuirsassier figures; Refurbished: Graf Bruhl consisting of Front Rank prussian dragoons. Both regiments painted in Duchy of Saxony uniforms].