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Hi Steve, hope you recover soon you, need to flush your kidney a lot, drink a lot of beer, might not please your doctor but yourself and the kidney :whistle:

very true!

Reminds me somehow of Scotland Very well done rgds Wolfgang :)

nice background, nice photo

nice one!

Hi Brad, Thank you very much. Yes, indeed the family story of the von Trenck´s is rather complex. The Father of the Baron (not you ;)) was a famous Generalfieldmarshall who served in the Prussian Army. I always liked to learn about the (little) history within the historic context of the more...

Found out recently, that Washi Tape does work rather well. Well done Victor regards Wolfgang

Hi, thank you very much for your kind post. I have joined 2 online and one "real-people-meet" Zinnfiguren Club´s recently. Looking at what the people are doing there makes me very uncertain when I have to judge my own skills. Still I find it much more pleasing to have found some real life...

still more

Some more scene shots ...

Now the fun part At first adding some Zinnfiguren items or scenic stuff I made from cardboard

Here are the troops before painting: and after

Cutting out the sheets came next Sandwich of the cut out patterns with distance pieces added between each layers All layers where glued to beveled pieces of wood in order to create a half round form with the illusion of more depth.

Now finally back to Zinnfiguren. I wanted to freeze the moment in time when Trenck and his troops arrived at the outskirts of Waldmünchen, the evening before they raided the town. With only 4 figures at my deposal you got to use your phantasy a little .... STAGE BUILDING I found this 1750...

When Trenck arrived the city was prepared to surrender and awaited it´s destiny just like Cham a few days before. BUT, in a good story there is also a love story waiting. Here a Waldmünchen lady with the name of Katharina Schwab came to the rescue. She felt attracted to Trenck and he must have...

Historical Background Theyear is 1742, the Austrian War of Succession is in it´s second year. Austria is at war with Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain and Saxony. The Austrian Colonel Franz Freiherr von der Trenck was allowed to raise a cavalary unit of 1000 men at his own expense. The young...

Hi Brad, a took me a while to finish painting but I eventually made it. Sorry to hear that you left the wonderful world of Zinnfiguren. The magic of Zinnfiguren is at most the fun these create when collectors add some special effects such as backgrounds and buildings in order to create a scene...

Nice Box I persume you will install some Lightning inside as well?

Well done Jumbo