Thirty Years War (short) Cuirassiers
Almost finished restoring and basing 24 Thirty Years War Cuirassiers, from the Tumbling Dice range. I found them on eBay at a very good price, but they are real 25mm, so better suited for...
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Renaissance guns
Jut finished four guns, out of the thirteen I have recently mounted. I have done them all by now. The pictures below show the newly painted guns on bases with late xvi century artillerymen:
Non-vintage Dragoon horse-holders
Just painted two sets of dragoons and horse-holds from Bicorne Miniatures. These figures will add to my vintage collection of Thirty Years War miniatures. In the ’70s no model maker had horse-holders in their...
Big Battle of Oldendorf, 1633
We just finished playing the game on a big 12’x6′ table. The table size matched the terrain scale and all units present in the battle were represented, down to the single cavalry squadron. The...
Preparing for Oldendorf
A few pictures to the two armies just deployed on the table, ready to clash. I have put together some thoughts about the battlefield and the battle itself, with the help of Google maps...
Imperial, swedish and german arquebusiers
Just restored three more units, four bases each, of Thirty Years War arquebusiers. Models are early Minifigs, series S.
Never Mind the Matchlocks, action in Moëns
Here some photos of the great game we had yesterday, Robert and I. The rules from Andy Callan are rather nice, they feel like playing a large skirmish game. The command system and cards...
French Thirty Years war
Some French flags to decorate my Thirty Years’s War units. Some artillerymen waiting for hardware. All figures are Hinchliffe, ECW range. They have a lot of character to me, much better than the new...
