Civilian miscellany ....

A selection of figures painted, mostly from Black Hussar Miniatures....

A woodcutter, something for the artillery (Eureka figures) plus some more chaps for my bread oven setup...

and some more for the streets of Wittenberg.............

Pontoon Bridges....

All the reworked Pontoon stuff is finished; extra wagons, more pontoons, improved deck sections and an an improved selection of pontooniers in action poses. 

The uniform for the pontooniers is like those of the SYW Hanoverian army; I liked the light blue coat colours - just right for working on the water.

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The first and second pontoon companies..... formed up ready to embark on a little bridge building competition.

2nd company on the march

1st company reach the river first....

and soon have the river bank access ramp up....

the 2nd company has just reached the river ...

The 1st company have pontoons in place and started work on the deck....

The 2nd company, working hard, have just about caught up....

problems for the 1st company, they've got a pontoon stuck by the far bank....

2nd company are finishing the far side river bank access ramp

the 2nd company have got ahead, all pontoons in place and the deck is being completed; the 1st company are finishing the positioning of their pontoons.

as the 1st company start work to complete the deck...

the 2nd company have finished and receive the officer's congratulations for their efforts..

The 2nd company win the pontoon bridge building exercise; they'll be a couple of barrels of beer for them tonight to celebrate !

Saxe-Jarlsberg army completed....

The Saxe-Jarlsberg army is now complete; I've kept the uniforms and units as close as possible to the those of the Brunswick army during the seven years war. There are some deviations..

• The Leib-Grenadier Guard I've done like Erbprinz from Charge!
• The Volontaires Auxiliaires, I've done a unit of uhlans and a unit of grenadiers in tricornes.

The regular cavalry...

The generals...

The artillery ....

The light troops; jager corps at the front....

Volontaires Auxiliaires at the back...

Joining the game mat pieces.....

My game table is 7ft6in x 3ft.  The fleece game mat that I bought a couple of months ago for my game table was a 7' x 5'; too short for my table lengthways and too long for the across the table. 

I trimmed 6" off it length ways to give me a 1ft gap; then cut ~1ft8in off it the other way to give a mat 6ft6in by 3ft3in ; then I used part of the offcuts to fill the gap.  There is an overlap, which has visible edge due to the thickness of the fleece mat.

That visible overlap......

I wanted to join the two pieces of mat together, so after consideration opted for to use gaffer tape.

The edges of the two pieces of the mat were cut as straight as I could; the tape was applied to the underside of one piece and the slowly and carefully the second piece was then put into position. A bit of fluffing to the surface and the gap is not that visible.  The two pieces have slight differences in colouration but the 'joined mat' looks way better .....

Once some scenic bits is on the mat and a game is in progress it won't be that noticable.