Staff Vignettes (1)

While I was working on the Wittenberg staff vignettes I also decided to to sort out the Monrovian staff as well, so here are some photos of the completed ones so far, all using existing painted figures - mostly Minden Austrian/Prussian SYW staff with a few Old Glory AWI figs and a couple of Front rank Ones.

Courier receives instructions  (Foundry horse; Front Rank officer and Old Glory fig in greatcoat)....

  Wittenberg officers in discussion (Minden fig on left/right, Old Glory in the centre)

Monrovian officers (Old Glory fig on left, Irregular Miniatures one on the right)

 Wittenberg officers (Minden fig on left, Front Rank on the right)

I have a few more left to finish off. Will post piccies when done. After that will assemble each set of staff vignettes to show each sides general staff.

Vignette work starts ....

Having enjoyed the marvellous vignettes shown on the Duchy of Stollen blog, I've decided to re-work my Wittenberg general staff into a group of small vignettes. First off is a Feldjager giving an update to an officer, I've re-used some existing painted figures except the Feldjager which is a modified Minden foot officer......

 Will be working on the rest of the staff vignettes over the next week or so. In addition I'm trying some ideas out for small vignettes to accompany each infantry regiment.

Other work planned for 18C,
Wittenberg:
- repaint of the fusilier battalion plus new cavalry regiment, guards regiment, grenadier battalion and line regiment
- revisit the engineers and pontoon support troops
- some replacement artillery

40mm: 4 battalions of infantry to paint plus some work on the cavalry.

Plus a few more civilians and maybe some new palace interiors.

tasselitious ....

Well tassels for flags that is. 

I noticed that the silver thread from a Xmas present tag would make a great material for doing my own flag tassels, a visit to a local emporium today yielded some gold and silver thread (about 1mm thick) - shown below with the tag thread in the middle...

 The trick is to tie two knots at the right point on a length, so used an simple reference measure see below

 it is a bit fiddly getting the knots correctly positioned but after doing a few I'm getting the hang of it. To affix to the flag pole requires another tie loop knot at the top of the flag - with a touch of super glue to hold. A couple of examples of my home made tassels applied to infantry and cavalry standards...

Happy Xmas...

With the first snow having fallen in Wittenberg the King and Queen take a sleigh ride (with one of the Queen's cats having a ride too) through the palace grounds out to the old lodge where there is a small winter feast in progress ....

 the little winter feast starts outdoors while there is still light, they will all go into the old lodge for the evening ...

 

A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to All

40mm: Wittenberg - Garrison troops for Vanderhof

General Waldebeck inspects the newly raised garrison troops for the city of Vanderhof.....

[Garrison troops: Uniform based on that of the Waldheim invalid company of the Duchy of Saxony; Figs: are from Front Rank 40mm Hessian AWI range, with the standard bearer a converted Creartec homecast]

Monrovian Army - Hussars

The last of the reworked units for the Monrovian army, these hussars sport a unifrom in the style of the Hesse Kassel SYW Hussaren-korps uniform.

Wittenberg - Royal Sleigh - work in progress

had a quick bash with some cardboard and wire yesterday to make a sleigh for the King and Queen, seen below with a spare driver and horse

still needs work doing to it to provide some more detail etc then it can be painted ready for a run on the snow (I'm building up some winter scenics - white blanket and some fir trees with a dusting of snow).