The League of Augsburg

What we travelled 1,800 miles to share - FRAUSTADT 1706

Having lit the post event cigarette... how was it for you Dear?

Tactica 2016 was an interesting and enjoyable event for the three musketeers Toggy, Gunter and I.
The venue is a suburban civic centre in Hamburg and easy to access for a first time visitor who had driven from Glasgow via Newcastle/Ijmuiden and the Dutch and German motorway network.

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Uppland Femanning battalion making their debut at TACTICA

I was delighted to receive an invite to Tactica from Frank Bauer at the Antwerp show last Novemeber. Now the League of Augsburg Circus is about to hit the road with Gunter travelling from the Imperial capital of Vienna, Toggy flying from Scotland to Hamburg and myself and Mrs H driving to Newcastle, overnighting to Hook of Holland and...

My my! Clibinarium has been very busy since the beginning of the year. The other evening a late email brightened up the wee small hours by offering a large number of photos of new Russina infantry masters.




We now have all of the existing musketeer code types with the Russian soft hat sometimes called pokalem, sometimes it appears using the name karpus. Whatever it is called, it is NOT in the...

Jim Purky is doing some sterling work with our new GNW figures right now. We've already seen his Swedes and now Jim has just sent me some wonderful pictures of his Russians.


Again he has gone for big units and the 3 deep 'illusion' which works very well on this spacing and depth of base.

The mixture of poses has given a very realistic look to the unit. although I often favour a closer spacing...

Narke Varmlands 1st battalion

When I commissioned the sculpting of the Warfare Miniatures GNW range I had some pictures in my head of what the finished battalions might look like. Getting a range to market involves so many activities which have nothing to do with painting or modelling.

Preobrazhenskoi Guards

Getting involved in all that means that the precious time I used to enjoy sitting at my work...

Well, I have finally got round to sorting out all the bags of Swedes lying around my house to create six different battalion packs.


I have gone for the original scope of the range with Standing. Marching and Attacking battalions available in both tricorne and karpus.

Until the end of November 2015 you can get two free Swedish infantry flags of your choice with the battalion. Just send me an email at...

nice shot of the charge

Moving on from Jim's previous post featuring a fine unit of Swedish GNW infantry here are some shots of a unit of cavalry and very fine they are!

The deep bases create some wonderful movement

Jim has opted for the deep basing I myself prefer which permits a nice arrangement of the horse relative to each other. He has contrasted the traditional blue and yellow colour combo with...

Jim Purky needs no introduction in the world of Horse and Musket wargaming so I won't try here, if you don't know about Old Fritz then search out his German 'alte' ego and see what he has been up to for a long time.

Jim has become very engaged with Warfare Miniatures Great Northern War project and recently sent me some fine pictures of his newly completed unit of the celebrated Upplands Regiment.

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OK so these pix are not the best and were done very quickly on the iPhone but I thought before I flew off again I'd share the punctuation mark activity conducted during my construction of Derry's walls.

I have prepped up one each of all 20 sculpts so far mastered but only managed to complete the painting of four. They were are real joy to do and actually very quick due to the elegant simplicity of...

By now I was really in to it. The ideas were coming thick and fast. Some good, some not so good. I decided that when the basic construction was ready I would undercoat it in my favourite chocolate emulsion paint. This got rid of the distracting patterns on the mats and made the model begin to look like something which was going to be of real value.


I was beginning to fret over the level of detail...

There was some degree of hit or miss with the making of this piece. I am too impatient to measure everything like a craftsman and tend to size things up by sight and judge it. As a result one or two distances are marginally off. I satisfied my OCD by making up the excuse that the Russians constructed the platform in haste and so did not themselves seek perfection, rather functionality.
The idea of...

Sometimes when you get an idea you just have to run with it. I wanted to get back to the kind of creativity which go the League of Augsburg a good reputation in the first place and I have not been able to find the time to indulge that for quite some time.