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the duchy of alzheim the duchy of alzheim a blog dedicated to the creation of my seven years war army in miniature among other things pages home fin de siecle alzheim kovosavody prostejov aircraft kits the age of linear warfare sms emden in 1 350 scale a project wednesday april 29 2026 skreeeeeech vrooom the world didn t end clean it coughed choked and burned itself out under a sky the colour of old blood and dust cities cracked the seas went sour and what was left baked hard under a merciless sun out here there s only two things that matter now petrol and the lunatics willing to spill blood for it this is gaslands the highways are long dead but the roads still remember they ve become killing grounds twisted tracks of rust wreckage and roaring engines every driver s a scavenger every vehicle s a weapon you weld together whatever you can find scrap metal old guns bits of forgotten machines and call it a car then you point it at the horizon and pray it holds together longer than you do there s always someone watching sponsors they call em big names with bigger egos beaming the chaos out to whoever s still alive to care they want speed they want fire they want a show and you you re the show you ll drift through choking dust slam through wrecks and trade shots at full throttle maybe you ll make a name for yourself maybe you ll just make a mess doesn t matter much either way because out here there s no finish line just the next run and the next poor bastard trying to take your wheels off so fire it up keep it straight if you can and don t ease off not ever posted by bloggerator at 6 04 am 2 comments labels gaslands friday march 27 2026 painting update so firstly while i resolve blockhouse roofing these fellows have crept into the painting queue some of them have separate parts swords muskets and so on that need to be added and so technically are not quite complete meanwhile maintaining a firm ish focus on the main body of work these fellows are getting closer to being done just another four figures i recall at la belle famille the french column was noted to have a couple of white ensigns at it s head thus the solitary so far brave officer out front of the burgeoning unit please enjoy posted by bloggerator at 8 06 am 3 comments labels french and indian war french army willie thursday march 19 2026 blockhouse roofing nearly there let it dry don t mess with it so now i can allow my hands to shake the next step is to trim them to length and gently sand their apexes to the right profile then i will frame within the long arms so i have something to attach shingles to posted by bloggerator at 8 34 pm 2 comments labels fortification french and indian war wednesday march 18 2026 minuscule blockhouse progress i am starting to put together the roof framing for my blockhouse as i am making two i decided to get both sets dome together for the sake of relative uniformity the frames have been butt jointed but those that will meet them at 90 degrees have been fattened up with matchsticks to give a broader gluing area when it s all solid they will be trimmed off and then the beams will be gut to length as they are over sized posted by bloggerator at 8 49 am no comments labels french and indian war monday march 16 2026 painted willies this is where my current folly began i had a few figures left over from earlier parts of the larger french and indian war project i also had an itch to build a smaller frontier fort hence the blockhouse and of course a blockhouse needs a garrison then i ran across 20 willies on ebay which fitted perfectly with my evolving ideas so i am slowly stripping and repainting them their rosy little cheeks are a nod back to their original painting which has a charm that i can t deny so i can see myself painting three companies grand divisions of them per bill protz s drums of war along the mohawk they are good units to have for the petite guerre that grumbled up and down the ohio valley and i always have my eye on one day fighting la belle famille lastly allow my to tease the project that i hope to get underway in the second half of the year the gardes francaises it s always struck me that the suren 18th mid century range was always geared around just a few battles carillion ticonderoga quebec culloden and of course fontenoy i have the arquebusiers de grassin in my collection so i really ought to add the gardes francaises i think i bought about half the required figures 5 or 6 years ago forgot them and then rediscovered them recently do hopefully i will keep my head of steam up and get stuck in if i was to be honest i would also like to add the regiment d eu to the collection as well posted by bloggerator at 5 41 pm 2 comments labels french and indian war suren thursday march 12 2026 for stokes the before shot as you can see fairly roughly painted although the faces are nicely done i was surprised by the officer as i have not seen this one in the current catalogue when he is stripped i ll be looking for a catalogue number on his base i do enjoy this pose very holger ericsson there were 20 in total on green painted card bases four to a base i will follow up with an after photo later on today posted by bloggerator at 7 01 am 2 comments labels willies wednesday march 11 2026 making blockhouses heaven s above it s been quite a while since i last posted let me atone for context i am back in french and indian war mode after winning an auction on ebay of 20 or so willie figures old enough that their weapons were soldered on hurrah and have been thinking about building some timber block houses from 6mm square section dowel so here is where i have started from wooden lego all cut up with my scroll saw stacking logs so there are two sizes of timbers here one to support a 50mm square floor another to support the 75mm square floor of the house that sits atop the tower hm six logs high this was a test to get my height sorted six logs high seems about right with loopholes on the fifth flooring experimenting with thin strip coffee stirrers to create the flooring i intend to rough the logs up with the teeth of a saw to improve the look posted by bloggerator at 8 46 am 4 comments labels block house french and indian war willies older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2026 7 april 1 skreeeeeech vrooom march 6 2025 3 december 1 january 2 2024 28 december 6 october 1 september 2 august 4 july 3 may 4 april 5 march 1 february 2 2023 23 december 1 october 7 september 3 august 2 july 2 may 3 april 1 march 1 february 3 2022 17 august 2 july 1 june 2 may 2 april 3 march 1 february 3 january 3 2021 31 december 7 november 5 october 1 september 5 august 4 july 4 may 1 april 2 january 2 2020 32 december 1 november 2 october 5 september 1 august 4 july 3 june 2 may 1 april 2 march 1 february 4 january 6 2019 20 december 2 november 5 october 5 may 3 april 4 march 1 2018 10 december 1 july 1 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 january 1 2017 10 december 2 october 1 july 1 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