40mm: Wittenberg Engineer Corps

Nice to finish off some more figs for my 40mm project, this time the Wittenberg Engineer Corps. These are mostly Creartec castings with Front Rank AWI hessian fusilier heads, the axes, spades and picks come from a number of sources which I've been collecting up for a while.

A couple of close up shots ...

What to add next - perhaps pontoon bridge and some engineers carrying out their role as pontooniers  ?

40mm: Saxe-Jarlsberg Jagers on manouvres

Count Pottensdorf watches his reformed jager battalion on manouvres; they seem to be shaping up well and he hopes they will be a match for Wittenberg's Kings Own jager battalion who caused him much difficulty in previous engagements.

Jagers are all Prince August castings; I've expanded the 15 figs I already had by adding 12 in a mix of firing and loading poses.

Interior rooms - 'flat-pack' approach

The standard room basic dimensions I currently use are: width 25cm; depth 12.5cm; height 14cm; with (floorspace 25 x 12.5 cm). I wanted to keep these measurements and yet have more practical storage as a completed room takes up space (and I 'm running out of storage room). I decided to have the room walls so they were removable - this means the could be stored 'flat'. Thus a base would be required with the capability to support the walls and keep it all together - but also to be the simplest design I could think of.

So I started with a mdf base and added a thick card floor piece, scribed to represent floorboards ...

 Then I added wall supports using mdf with plastic corner screw blocks - just stuck in place with glue

 Leaving a slot between the floor and supports for the walls to fit into ...

I made up the three walls and slotted them in position, not wanting any complex holding piece for the corners I scribed some thin card offcuts, folded them and used some blue tack - which holds the walls together nicely ...

The 'blank' room assembled with a spare piece of card with a reminder of the measurements of the walls, for when I want to make further room wall sets.

For the flat pack room setup I used 3mm mdf and 2.5mm thick card from some old A4 box folder lids.

In order to check the method out I converted one of my current rooms from 'fixed' setup to flat pack mode. I chose the cellar/inventors workshop, which worked out alright; the paved floor section was saved and I can now use that as an alternative to the standard wooden planked floor.

Now for the next bit - turning the blank room into something ; current idea is to make up an non-palace interior - a coffee shop or bar

Happy Easter from the Kingdom of Wittenberg

Its a busy time with arrivals at the palace for the Easter celebrations; there seems to be a hold up ...

A bit of queue develops on the drive up to the palace; the reason for the hold-up is that the King has made time from his busy schedule to check the completed improvements to the front portico (a sunburst in the pediment and a low wall across the front ..

A little later and the King and some of his guests enjoy the music of the guard band and a small parade of palace guard ...

---oXo---

40mm: Infantry Regiment complted and soem conversions ...

Firstly a completed regiment of infantry, all Prince August castings. This is Hesse-Limburger's conrtibution to Saxe-Jarlsberg's growing army in in the south-west against Wittenberg

In turn Wittenberg is raising some engineers/sappers to support it's army in the south-west; here are three converted Creartec artillery crew castings which have been reworked with Front Rank AWI  hessian fusilier heads and other suitable equipment (more conversions under way...)

Monrovia - King Francis still unhappy ..

The Monrovian army carefully extricated from Zomeverre by Fied Marshal Belladonna had been dispersed back to its cantonments. In the capital the Regiment de la Reine and the Grenadier guards had returned. The King and Queen had been down to see the returning troops only to be saddened by the state of the remnants of the Grenadier guards reduced to barely one company and without their standards (lost at their heroic stand to hold the flank at the battle of Dornitz).

After spending a rather melancholic evening King Francis sank into depression and donned his favourite suit of armour ...

King: I can't move my right arm

Queen: Oh no not again ! I'll get the oil can

Wittenberg - Palace Guard prepare for duty..

The palace guard on parade outside their barracks, the officers check all is ready - it is the first day with their new uniforms. Men with spontoons are allocated to posts in the palace, while those armed with muskets patrol the grounds or man the gates.

The officers discuss the business of the day...

You'll see them on duty around the palace ...


[figs: Irregular Miniatures austrian ncos/officer plus Foundry prussian grenadiers with mitres swapped to tricornes; uniform based on that of the Duchy of Saxony's 'swiss guard' of the 1740's]