Workbench October

Three snapshots from my current workbench: Russians, Saxons and Walls.

The first SYW Russians have come off the painting line. I still need to finish the missing drummer and NCO to complete the first batallion of the 2nd Moscow regiment, but here is what I have so far:

No foto, just a progress report on Ernestinisch Sachsen: 

The fun thing about "obscure" Reichsarmee units like this is the mix of uniforms. I have one batallion with the Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach uniforms painted up, am currently working on two companies of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg and looking forward to two more companies with different uniforms each.

The ugly thing about these units is the huge lack of information about flags. The kronoskaf page linked above has completely fantasy versions of flags based of mid 19th century color schemes and coats of arms - better than nothing but clearly not something you would have seen in the SYW.

I have instead opted for my own fantasy version. I will use four flags with 18th century versions of arms I found on helpful Internet pages like this one, representing three of the contingents. And rather than inventing fantasy color patterns for the fields of the flags, I'll do them all in white (if anyone challenges that I will argue that each Saxon mini-fiefdom will have wanted a colonel flag (Leibfahne) on their own, and wait to get better proposals ;). 

Here is the second batch of minis for the first batallion soon, incl. my fantasy flags for Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach - painted and coated, but still waiting to be based.

Thirdly, I need to get ready for the long awaited shipment of the Kickstarter delivery for Rapture, which should be going out any day now. I have started to assemble a set of lasercut MDF wall segments from Bandua to get a bit denser coverage of a 90cmx90cm table for this game, in addition to the more sophisticated, but smaller pieces shown here.

I really like the large number of wall elements in ("only") two sizes, this allows really putting larger structures on the table that look like they are belonging together. On the other hand, there are some small accessoires coming as part of the set, and together with some unneeded sticks from the MDF plates, and a few small items from my bitsbox, the wall segments are not completely identical.

I will give these a simple, mostly spray-on paintjob similar to the MDF garage shown here recently. Another case of "stay tuned", as is to be expected in a workbench update.