Peninsular War: Spanish Guerilleros completed at last

Now that my move from North Rhine-Westphalia to Bavaria is behind me, I have more time for the hobby again.

The first troop I completed are Spanish guerrillas - all the figures are from Front Rank.

Pictures from the WiP stage:

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Peninsular War: In the footsteps of Richard Sharpe

As every wargamer knows, one can not have enough projects running in parallel and that's the way it is with me - so without further ado:
On to the Peninsular War.

At our regular SAGA games, a friend of me and I realized that we are both fans of the Napoleonic era and decided to start a project together.

The choice fell on the Peninsular War - on the one hand, the battles / fights there always had a much more manageable size than those of the other theaters of war, on the other hand we want to get into small skirmishes first and who does not think directly of Sharpe's Rifles, with many of the episodes just perfect for an implementation as a scenario.

Accordingly, we will start with the mini Skirmish "Shootout in Dingstown", going to "Sharp Practice" and to the final destination "Black Powder".
Advantage of this approach is simple, that you have something playable together in no time and even if SiD is actually a Western Skirmish, it can be easily adjusted, it is fast and you have a lot of fun.

My fiend takes over the part of the French and accordingly the other side fell to me and here I first painted a few guerrillas (miniatures are all Front Rank) - amazing figures, I think.
And with these 7 figures you are ready for SiD and yesterday my men already had their baptism of fire ;-)

Smaller versions for the german Sweetwater:

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Terrain: Mediterranean buildings

Some more 3D printed buildings, again designed by Jens Najewitz of course.

This time they are from his mediterranean range and are suitable for a great range of times and settings - from Greece, over Italy to Spain.

I treated the walls with a thin layer of spatula and replaced the printed wooden beams of the veranda with home-made wooden beams before painting the houses.

Especially with the roofs, I tried to achieve the typical Mediterranean very colorful look and painted many tiles individually with different red and orange tones.

The roof of the windmill was designed in the print file as a thatched roof, but I did not like the appearance of it.
To adapt it to the appearance of the tiled roofs, I have rebuilt it from individual bricks made of cardboard.
Furthermore I made some sacks of flour from Greenstuff and a old millstone just for adding some details ;-)

I like the result, even if it was very time consuming.

And smaller versions for the Sweetwater:

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