A new fountain for the palace gardens ...

 While tidying up, I found a fountain I'd painted some time ago; I thought it would be best to put it on the palace shelf diorama to replace the old one.

Walled Farm Set ...(few changes made..)

 Made some minor changes to the set as it came ...  

changed double door on the stable block to be single door plus window

filled in the holes in the roof..

'skinned' the wall sections with thin card to match them up with some others wall sections I have

a chimney for the farmhouse ...

Changes made have been painted up...

Walled Farm Set ...

A Walled Farm Set from EM4 Miniatures arrived today; unpacked and had an initial look and quick setup using a couple of 40mm figures.. large barn at the back with other buildings with the walls/gatehouse.

Stables block, but could be a couple of house...

Farmhouse and part of back of barn...

(Jim Purky has some super pictures of the same set with 28mm figures on his Alte Fritz blog... http://altefritz.blogspot.com/2023/02/new-terrain-goodies-and-all-that.html. )

Overall a lovely buildings set, a good size; they will be good on their own and give me more options for a town setup. All roofs lift off and the doors open/close. A couple of minor things that aren't to my liking: holes in some of the roofs, no chimney on the farmhouse, a bit too much brick showing. All things I can improve.

Next Begovian War campaign planning moves forward ...

 I've finished the campaign area map for the next next Wittenberg V Begovia campaign...

Backstory context done...

"The Begovians have made a move against the breakaway province of Upper Rutenia; their attack has stalled after the battle to take Panzankz, but are making regular raids into the territory. Upper Rutenia as an ally of Wittenberg has asked for assistance. General Waldebeck is preparing plans cross the border to attack the Begovians in the area of Lower Rutenia and is awaiting the King's approval of his plans before making his move ..."

The two commanders General Waldebeck for Wittenberg and Osram Pasha for Begovia will soon be leading their troops into action...

that is once I've worked out the game campaign scenarios...

Adding shelves to display cases ...

 I have two display cabinets like this one..

I will have some more 28mm 18C stuff to go on display, so I worked out how to add an extra shelf; some careful measuring to mark out where the new holes for the shelf supports had to go...

holes drilled carefully (for me 😀 ) and a piece of pine strip wood of the right width cut to size (with a straight edge as well !); hooray an extra shelf ...

I did the same job on the second cabinet. Already being populated ...

Right lads lets make this our shelf !

Fresh from my success on the two cabinets, I had took out the shelves from my third cabinet and shuffled up all the shelf supports - to get extra room for another shelf

piece of timber cut (oops a wiggly edge this time 😩  ).... shelf fitted

colour mismatch though, I may have a suitable colour woodstain in the garage. I can live with the mismatch though.

Hurrah  ! three new shelves to fill up with 18C 28mm figures, I may get some of the Wittenberg border forces out of a box; I have some Blue Moon highwaymen  and desperadoes on the paint desk, so now they'll have a home when they are finished.

Coaches ....

 Sorted out some horses for the coach (some of my home-casts) and a new coachman (from Colonel Bills)

Painted up ...waiting outside the palace for some passengers....

While on coaches, I got out the Kings coach; its an old Dinky coronation coach - the old plastic horses definitely needed replacing so I used some more of my home-cast horses for a new set.

Wagon finished ...

 All painted and ready to join the rest of the wagon train ...