Progress On All Fronts

Preparations for Lützen are progressing on all fronts.  Every available shelf and surface is devoted to terrain and units being finished off for Salute.

One of the famous landmarks for the battle is the group of windmills, near which the Imperial army’s main artillery battery was set up.  It is always nice to have some ‘vertical space’ on the table and so we have to include these.  To represent the windmills we agreed on the Sairssa mdf model.
https://sarissa-precision.com/collections/old-europe-28mm/products/postwindmill

We plan to have two complete and one partially dismantled.  Each is an impressively sized model and so we decided to keep the number to three rather than risk taking up too much space with what is in effect ‘back drop’.  Some accounts say that some, or all, of the windmills were dismantled by the Imperial troops to help construct the artillery fortifications.  We’re giving a nod to this by having one partially dismantled.  

Here is the first of the windmills;  painted up.  I have added Warbases roof tiles to the roof.  Still some details and basing to be done.

There are also lots of troops underway.  Here are some of the units recently through the ‘basing workshop’ and now ready for flocking.

Protestant German Harquebusiers.  Warlord Games Plastics.  

Imperial Foot Command.  Mixture of Warlord, Foundry and TAG. Lovely colours by Flags of War.

Swedish Light Guns.  Warlord.  I am going to need quite a few of these.

It’s not all work, work.  I have treated myself to a late Christmas present, The Pieter Snayers, Battle Painter book, translated in to English.

Wow.  A beautiful and fascinating book.   Pieter Snayers was a contemporary artist who painted many of the famous continental actions of the early and mid 17th century.  Each picture is full of detail which is fascinating to the TYW wargamer.  I will try and write a proper review once I have stopped leafing through it, with a silly grin on my face, saying “wow”.

Until next time!