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I took another photo of the new MG42 set with a couple of our other figures to populate the scene a bit more… hope you like it! Ken

The German MG42 was designed to use the standard German 7.92 X 57mm Mauser rifle round and to be cheaper and easier to manufacture. It proved to be highly reliable and easy to operate with a very high cyclic rate of about 1200 rounds per minute compared to around 850 rounds per minute for the...

Here is a photograph of all of the new British 43rd Regiment of Foot Battalion Company figures grouped together. There are a few more poses in the works for this unit to complete the firing and loading sequence, but all of the figures pictured will be available by the end of this year. I am...

Grant…and I have a couple other mounted leaders on the bench that will join him early next year.

We have a couple of new mounted personalities I have been wanting to add for some time now. I plan on adding a few other mounted figures designed to use with them in early 2025 to build a bigger scene. Both of these new releases were photographed using the same backdrop and a simple grassy base...

Thanks, I have some new Union marching infantry in the works to display on this when they come in.

Well done…once you decide on the final composition you might want to try removing a base or two and pinning them in place. I often use side cutters to clip away the base around the feet and then use either file, motorized hand piece such as a Dremel tool, or a bench mounted belt/disk sander to...

A few more of the display including one in Black & White for a period feel…

Here is the Civil War farmstead display I built for the show using many of our Village Green figures along with the new clapboard house with interior. The next one will include outbuildings.

I just realized that I forgot to include a photo of the house interior. We patterned a blanket chest, pie safe, corner cabinet, stove with pipes and a chest of drawers (not pictured) to fit out the room. A couple of our sets already includes tables and chairs to use…

For those that might have missed these (under the W. Britain. Section) here is a selection of WWII dioramas that I built for the show. Hopefully I will see a few of you in Chicago! Enjoy, Ken Osen

Here are a couple more photos of the Civil War period farmstead. Our frontier backdrop works pretty well with this one, but I will probably design a new one later this fall using our new corn. I thought it might be interesting to see what it looked like in Black & White too…more period appropriate!

I finished the final diorama last night…Family, Friends and Neighbors. This one uses a selection of our Civil War period Village Green figures, an enhanced old growth tree and our small clapboard house with laser cut picket fencing (these last two items are direct only). We patterned some new...

Here are close ups of the same three…with a different backdrop than I used with the initial photos…I hope you like these!

We are headed to the Chicago show tomorrow and Ericka and I will have a room (to be determined) open on Saturday. All of these new displays will be set up to take a closer look at, along with a few other new items. I thought some of you that will not be able to make it might like to see a few...

Thanks so much! The lion’s share of the Village Green civilians have been for the Regency period (Napoleonic) and American Civil War so they can be used with various soldiers to tell a non-combat story. I am working on a Civil War display as the last one before the show with a variety of...

I realized that I had not built a display featuring the M3A1 Halftrack… so I turned this one out in between other tasks. I wanted a couple of GIs in the back so I made minor modifications to two of the M5 3 inch Anti-tank gun crewmen and removed the base from the GI standing in the open...

Here is a second small pedestal base I made at the same time as the French Imperial Guard diorama. Its features a small selection of German Grenadiers we offer in an urban environment during the last months of the war in Europe. I added the No Parking sign as a nod to the fact that these fellows...

Soldiers Everywhere…Here is a small pedestal base I finished the other day featuring 4 of the new French Imperial Guard due in this fall along with a few of our Village Green civilians. Ericka designed the period appropriate floral pattern for the strawberry seller’s dress, so I positioned her...

I managed to finish the Pedestal base with marching Rebs between everything else I have been making for the Chicago Show. This one is pretty straight forward and uses all of the recent releases, along with a couple of the Collector’s Club Rebs in Butternut. I added a small bit of Queen Anne’s...