Friday, 22 November 2024

Bavarian artillery train

 22 November 2024

It is getting near the end of the year and I already have next years work planned. Thanks to Lucas at Piano Wargames, I have some Bavarian dragoons and French Old Guard grenadiers from his latest kickstarter to come from Germany. I am really looking forward to these as I have not worked with any of Lucas' figures before but all the ones I have seen on his website and in the blogs look fantastic and Lucas is a great guy who provided me with excellent advice.

I have also just received a pack of Victrix Austrian Landwehr which should be a nice addition to my Austro-Hungarian army.

Already on the workbench in primer are two Victrix French foot artillery pieces, given the speed I work at, they will take me into the new year to finish.

In the meantime, here is my latest addition, a Perry's metal Bavarian artillery train. The set doesn't come with the horse chains (which I purchased seperately and were a nightmare to fit) and I had to work out how some of the model assembled from online pictures. That said, it is another great casting from the Perry's.








6 comments:

  1. Lovely work Chris and the chains were well worth the effort. They really complete the look. Where did you get them from?

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    1. Hi Lawrence, thank you for your comment. I bought the chain from Hobbyrama after much online searching.https://www.hobbyrama.com.au/universal-fine-chain

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    2. Nice, thanks Chris. I'll grab some next time I'm passing. Lovely stuff. I still haven't forgotten about our coffee by the way, but the additional three newborn grandchildren are proving a handful (as I suspected they would).

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    3. My only grandchild is in Adelaide so we don't have the same level of 'handfulness', I can only imagine what three local grandkids are like! Love to have coffee with you when we can but I suspect it will have to be in the new year now?

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  2. Beautiful Chris and the trees as a backdrop to your photograph works really well.
    Regards, James

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  3. Thank you James, nice to hear from you. I do try to put somoe 'life' into the photos to make them more interesting. I hope all is well in WA.

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Bavarian artillery train

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