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Hi Brad,
thank you for your interest and your kind comment and yes I do. Actually a few figures are due to be finished soon. Austrian Pandours of 1741 and a group of Jäger from the Frei-Regiment La Belle 1758. I do not want to rush to get them ready but I will take pictures and post these on the weekend. Trying to get the right match of colours for the Jäger. I am a big fan of the Light Infantry of the period and as you might know you can get almost any figure from any period in "Zinnfiguren".

regards
Wolfgang



Albrecht Dürer has left the world with some beautiful 1st witness account graphics of the 16th century world,- all of them worsy to have a Zinnfigur produced after them. Luckily I could get a few and will start this one next.
It is issued by Herr Roider of the "Freie Zinnfigurensammler Nürnberg" and it was the "Jahresfigur" = club figurine of 2021 in 75mm. Long sold out but Herr Roider was kind enough to do an xtra casting for me.
Love it, yet I keep looking out for more Albrecht Dürer figurines. You can not get closer to the original 16th century fashion plus it is a nice extra hobby within the hobby.


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I have a small stash of flats, mostly Seven Years War figures, but also some civilian sets. When I started collecting, I had it in mind to learn to paint flats, "just like the Germans do"! I bought some oils, and started, but soon moved to fully round 54mm figures. And some old Schneider half-rounds, which I cast myself.

I look forward to your next post!

Prost!
Brad
 
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. In the following I will try to do such Diorama building the old school way as it is being used in the Zinnfiguren cosmos for a long, long time. No material other than oil paints, card board, roots, glue, saw dust, wood and spices are allowed to be used.

Subject of the planned scene are some Austrian Pandurs from the time of the War of Austrian Succession 1740 - 1748. Pandurs where considered Light troops fighting either as cavalary or infantry units. The area of recruitment the Pandur´s where Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary - the mentioned countries where all part of the Austrian Empire. I will add a very brief historical background to explain what I want to picture in this very small Dio.
 
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 Maria Theresia sent his unit as masters of "Der kleine Krieg" little wars (which basically ment to wage guerilla warfare on the enemies territorry) into Bavaria in order to keep the Bavarian Army away from Austria. Trenck an his Korps where very successful at this. Cham in der Oberpfalz was sucessfully besieged and pillaged by his troops when he decided to move north on to the small town of Waldmünschen, only a mile away from the border into Bohemia, the town was at an crosspoint of strategic importance. Suprised by Trenck´s fast movement there where no sufficient Bavarian troops in ther area around Waldmünchen. The town was believed to be lost.

Trenck

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Pandur´s

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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 developed feelings for her as well.
In short Waldmünchen was saved by the good influence Katharina (Karterl in bavarian accent) had on Trenck. Almost no damage was done and Trenck with his troops (and Katharina!) left Waldmünchen peacefully and went on with buisness somewhere else in Bavaria.
Since the 1950ies the city commememorates these events and the savior of their city with an "All Out" Open Air play in which only Waldmünchen citizens are allowed to play a role in. A little Oberammergau here but it is well worth a visit and great fun to watch.
See attached photos of the play.

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Karterl!

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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 print of Waldmünchen on the internet. It is perfect for what I had in mind.

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Made copies on coated matte photopaper and coloured it with thinned oil paints
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Now I got background, center and front. Shown here are the "secure" copies I made on my printer.

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Wolfgang,

I did a similar sort of setup for this set of figures that I bought at the Plassenburg in Klumbach in 2017.

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The background image is of Klumbach in the 18c and fits in nicely with the Napoleonic era figures, French prisoners of the Prussians.

John
 
Horus said:
Amazing work Wolfgang !
You certainly are very talented, with a good eye and a steady hand.
Very well done indeed.
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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 paint-brush-"heroes" to look up to and learn to better my own skills rather than settling with my modest results I am able achieve so far .
The Zinnfiguren scene in Germany is rather different. The historic research that is carried out by some members over decades, the workshops on painting and even engraving slate moulds and the exchange and the availability of hobby related documents is second to none. The local history aspect is very much cultivated in the world of Zinnfiguren and if you pay attention you still find them anywhere.
rgds
Wolfgang
 
Die alte Schule! Beautifully done, Wolfgang, and in the traditional style!

Speaking of Panduren-Trenck, he was a cousin to the (in)famous Baron Trenck, who served in the Prussian army and rose in Frederick the Great's favor, till they fell out. He was eventually ordered held under fortress arrest, and because of his previous escapes, was chained in place. He eventually was released, and ended up in France, where during the Revolution, he was executed. There's a decent miniseries produced in Germany in the 70s based on his memoirs. More drama than history, but the uniforms are fun to see.

Prost!
Brad
 
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 meaningful historic events.
That consequently brings me back to Katharina Schwab who actually saved Waldmünchen. After a while Franz von der Trenck got fed up with her "good influence" she had on him and arranged/forced her marriage to one of his Freikorps captain´s (A deed which I am qualified do understand in parts as my wife is a girl of Waldmünchen as well :cool:)

Anyway Katharina´s husband was hanged three years later in Vienna as a convicted horse-thief.
Katharina returned to Waldmünchen and lived her life there as the undisputed savior of her beloved Hometown Waldmünchen. She never got married again.



Continue to appreciate the Zinnfiguren.

Thanks and regards
Wolfgang
 
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