A visitor from Humperstein

Samwell Piepen,an ambassador from the neighbouring Duchy of Humperstein is reviewing the Changing of the Guard near the Ducal Palace in Tradgardland. He is accompanied by his new friend, Shredni Vastari, the ambassador from Borduria. They have much to talk about as they stroll together in the woods. A palace servant calls Vastari away to Court business leaving Samwell alone .Lost in a reverie of his own making he is startled by ethereal  pipe music and turns to see a figure emerging from the trees. Samwell can hardly believe his eyes.

Their eyes meet ,a certain sympathy is exchanged before the faun slips away ...

Busy times...

A busy day in the Duchy of Tradgardland. Read about it here...
http://armyredwhite.blogspot.co.uk/

40mm Casters sought...

Afternoon all!
I'm looking for someone to cast me ten hussars and ten other syw cavalry.Anyone preferably in theUK able to help? Goes without saying I am more than happy to pay for the figures,service&postage...
Thanks
Alan

Morat 1476/2013

This morning I return to work after the Easter hols.A busy but enjoyable time was had only diminished by the cold weather.Yesterday (Sunday) saw me working to prepare the shed/garden room/whatever  doors for painting and doing tasks in the freezing garden...
On Saturday at was over at my longtime wargames opponent's to try out his new wargames room for the first time.We used his two 15th century armies to refight the battle of Morat-

I commanded the Burgundians and here is a picture of my artillery in Morat.

Here are Phil's Swiss in action and their allies. It was a great game eventually ending in a Swiss victory after much ebbing and flowing. We used DBM ( better than I had remembered them to be - we haven't played ancients for ages...) which gave a fast paced and exciting game.

I will close now as I have a train to catch to work .Have a good Monday one and all!

The great push...

On Saturday 27th April Army Red/White (Switzerland circa 1914) will take to the battlefield for the first time.This will be part of the Centenary celebration for H G Wells Little Wars.A big push is necessary to get them organised.The figures are metal,54mm in size and definitely toy soldier in style.Those wanting to follow the ongoing work are welcome to pop by at-
http://armyredwhite.blogspot.co.uk/
Work on projects here will take a back seat for the next few weeks but will continue very soon...

In his library...

The Duke of Tradgardland has managed to slip away from his guests,members of the Ducal Court and sundry hangers-on.He has taken refuge in the library and can spend a few blissful moments in the company of his books. He is not even disturbed by the  smoke and bubbling noises pertaining to Mr Vastari in the next room.He begins by reading of matters practical and consults the old favourite "The Builder's Dictionary" with it's  definitions.Soon he tires of this and the thoughts it provokes  of the ever insistent Mr Pennytrowel the English architect with his myriad schemes each more outrageous than the next...
The Duke takes solace in bound journals  of the "Proceedings and natural musings of the Tradgardland Society vol 24" and finds an interesting article written by his ancestor of recent times-

Amongst the drawings his eye alights on a particular image  labelled number 15.He reads on ,oblivious to the calling of his name by his a respectful yet insistent servant.

Gardening and a Bordurian visitor...

It was sunny ,if cold in the Duchy today.My wife &I managed to get out into the garden- tidying up,moving rhubarb & blueberry bushes & a mature rosemary plant amongst other tasks.We also removed more turf from around the apple trees in order to help them to grow better hopefully-

I am pleased with my alpine planter which was planted up on Good Friday-

Some work was done on the cast of characters to inhabit the gardens of Tradgardland.I hope to assemble a variety of characters to interact,plot,scheme duel with each other.To this end an order was sent off to Front Rank for civilians to supplement  those I already have on the painting table...
May I present the first character- Ambassador Shredni Vastari of Borduria-

The ambassador is a guest of the Duke of Tradgardland's and makes a rather remote,preoccupied (perhaps by his hooka pipe and it's contents) and morose one at that. Perhaps it is something to do with the forthcoming visit of a representative from Syldavia expected at the Ducal court any day now...