Carnival Row

Just started to watch this on Amazon Prime, what do you think so far?

Sort of like Christmas or birthday...

Today the courier brought the Ottoman Turks from the collection of Eric Knowles. I have really enjoyed opening the wee box’s of old school Minifigs delights. Thanks to D C for facilitating this.

The shape of things to come... Pathe News

General Rosti and his staff from Thun are seeing the future of army communications demonstrated. This splendid early warning system is to be established across Helvetica. Mr  Rivella , with his charming wife looking on,demonstrates tomorrow’s cutting edge technology for the 1920s . It is fun,folklore and the future rolled into one...what say you daisy the cow?

Interwar Austrians

Painting some 54mm Interwar Austrians to oppose the wee army in the previous post. Figures are a mix of old Britains and some Dorset soldiers I bought second hand. They are on an excellent book I got for a fiver at Carronade in 2017. It is about the Austrian Army from 1918 to 1938. Text is in German but the illustrations and photos are what l bought it for.

If you can’t beat them join them: Army Red/White mobilises

I was really taken by this post and subsequent ones-
https://gameofmonth.blogspot.com/2019/08/mobilization.html
I decided to see what l could mobilise between gardening tasks and whilst listening to the cricket. So here it is the Confoederatio Helvetica -

Officer commanding ( with chaplain and messenger pigeons) a company of bicycle infantry, two companies of dismounted cavalry one of which has a machine gun, six companies of infantry and a mountain gun complete with mule team.

As this is a part time army which has all soldiers practicing as members of rifle shooting clubs  ,all infantry count as sharpshooters when firing. All figures 54mm .

Duchy of Volare Cantare recruits

Recruits in 1/32 scale arrived from eBay via Russia. They are hardish plastic and will serve well once painted.

What make are these?

Can anyone identify these figures?