Samstag, 16. März 2024

Dioramica 2024

 In September my friend and partner with Blackwatch-Miniatures is organizing the 4th "Dioramica".

See the details at the homepage of the club

https://www.geschichte-in-miniaturen.de/dioramica.html

The sad thing is, he told me because of missing space, I can't create a diorama over 2x7 meters. 

Well, in my eyes just a vignette:-) I have to think about it, what to do.

There will be a bring & buy as well as twice as much exhibitors as we had last time. 


Beside this, there are many new dioramas in the museum itself. 


Here some photos, a mixture of the first three exhebitions, just to give you a taste of what you will see. 

































I hope to see many of you there, this is not a fair for buying simply plastic figures for the usual prices, but a meeting of hobbyfriends who show their work, talk about our hobby, having some beers and barbeque and simply having fun.

Beside this, in my eyes a bring & buy is much more interesting. Here I hope to get some old figures, maybe painted stuff and old books. 



Dienstag, 20. Februar 2024

Some nice ACW Conversions

 Our hobbyfriend Ralf Guntermann sent me some photos of his collection. Here a few great conversions from the "good old times",when we had to create conversions ourselves.

Today with 3d-technic you can nearly have everything which is good on one side, but I remember the evenings when we sat down with a knife, "killed" some figures and created new ones. OK, I never tried the Airfix magazine idea of Chinese cavalry, made with a lot of paper etc.:-)


My favourites of his photos first  - Louisiana Tigers

Upper body - ACW figures

Baggy trousers - Esci muslim warriors

Gaiters - Esci Austrian infantry

the rest - simply Milliput:-)





Signal post


Berdans Sharpshooters


Confederat Brigade headquarter



Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2024

Denis sculpted some SYW figures

 For some years is working on a range for the battle of Rossbach. Maybe you know the infantry sets, some of them are available from Hagen Miniatures.






Deniz also sculpted some great cavalry figures. The Prussians of this range could be useful for my Korbitz diorama too:-)