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The French Vanguard Crosses the Border
12e Chasseurs a Cheval pass through a Spanish town on the way to Portugal. Colonel Guyot (far right watches his regiment march by. Legere infantry clear out the town before the cavalry enters.The 12e...
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Battle of the Crossing of the Rio Minio
British second line of defense anchored on an old tower. Double click image to enlarge.On Saturday March 16, 2013 we kicked off the opening battle of the Iberian Campaign of Major General William...
View ArticleNeed Help Picking New British Peninsula Regiment
The British army of Major General William Justinian Pettygree grows stronger with every day, but it still has a long way to go before it can approach the strength of Marshal Soult's army in Portugal...
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1806 Prussian New Figure Range
There is a new 28mm figure range covering the 1806 Prussian army in the works. The company is called FG Miniz. They are funding the range via an Indiegogo campaign which you can access by clicking on...
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Wooden Ships
I found theses wooden ships with cloth sails in a souvenir shop in Florida. I'm thinking of buying the whole batch at $8.00 each. Seems like a bargain. They are about 15mm model size I think. What do...
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The Fleet Grows Larger
I was checking with the ship builders at the Gundt Shipyard today and I learned that I already had 8 similar ships in dry dock that I had acquired on a previous visit to Florida. This must have been...
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The Fleet Leaves Port Sanibel
I mailed my fleet of 8 small ships and 3 large ships to Gundt & Sons Ltd. to join the 8 small ships that he already has. What serendipity! To find that I already had 8 ships on hand is amazing...
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Leaving Sanibel
I'm wasting a little bit of time here at the airport as we have a couple hours wait. Mrs. Fritz and I took one last stroll down the beach this morning, albeit a cold walk since it was sunny, windy and...
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SYW Era Artillery Equipment Preview (greens)
I have received some pictures of the work in progress of the new range of 18th Century artillery equipment and train that we are adding to the Fife & Drum Miniatures range. The first batch of pix...
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New French SYW Artillery
Here are pictures of the greens for the new Fife & Drum 8-pound and 12-pound Valliere System cannon that we are adding to our artillery equipment range. The models will be sent to Griffin Designs...
View ArticleFight To The Last Man
I am reading Jac Weller's book, "Wellington in the Peninsula 1808-1814" at the present and came across an interesting statement regarding Marshal Massena's military acumen with regard to knowing when...
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First Day at the SYWA convention
Siege gun emplacements made by Ed Phillips.I arrived in South Bend, Indiana around 4:30 Thursday afternoon and quickly set up my display booth for Fife & Drum Miniatures and unloaded the painted...
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Saturday Day 2 at the SYWA convention
Ed Phillips' scratch built gun emplacements and cannon. These two now rest in the Randy F. collection, so I get to game with them from time to time in our groupAnother one of Ed Phillips' miniature...
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I am rather shocked that after posting a lot of pictures over the weekend about the Seven Years War Association, that each posting received a grand total of ONE comment. I know that many of my readers...
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AWI Game Setup
The British Are Coming! Fife & Drum MiniaturesTerrain setup for Brown's Farm AWI scenario.Here are several pictures of the table top setup for an AWI scenario that I have been tinkering with. I...
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Your Help Is Needed for 1806 Prussian Hussars
The Indiegogo project to crowd fund an exquisite range of 28mm 1806 Prussians is in its final hours -- about 25 hours left at the time of this writing. The project has reached its initial target of...
View Article1806 Success!
The FG Miniz crowd funding project surpassed the €10,000 stretch goal, so this means that the hussars will go into production along with the field artillery , grenadiers and musketeers.Thanks to those...
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28mm British Brig in Drydock
HMS Pegasus, from Laser Dream WorksWell, no I've done it! Lured in by those sinister naer-do-wells at Laser Dream Works ("oh, yes; our ship models are easy to build" :) ) I pulled the trigger on ye...
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Little Wars Convention Preparation
Filling up the carrying boxes with bags of Fife & Drum Miniatures. Click all pix to enlarge the view.I have spent the past several days bagging Fife & Drum Miniatures into 3" x 5" plastic bags...
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Fife & Drum at Little Wars
I have just set up my dealer booth at the Little Wars convention, located next to the Litko Bases booth and across the aisle from The Last Square.
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