WIP from the terrain build for our salute 2018 game.

Here are a few pictures Jan sent me of his stunning building efforts for our Salute 2018 game, The Battle at Stäket.

A few more pictures of my 8mm minis

I found a bunch of pictures from when I based and painted my Perry "TravelBattle" 8mm minis for my minimized playtest board of Rebels and Patriots.

The last 3 pictures are from the 1st game I and my son David played with the 8mm minis and board.

Made me a minimized playtest kit for Rebels and Patriots

When we started to playtest the rebels and patriots rules I really felt the need to be able to set up a quick game on the kitchentable so decided to get hold of some small minis like 6mm or 10mm, searched the web and in the end I decided to use the 8mm plastic minis from Perrys Travel Battle as they just had started to sell the sprues.

Said and done, ordered me 4 sprues of Minis as well as a sprue of Houses, quite cost effective as the red and blue forces and houses costed me £20 including P&P. I wanted to use my 1,2,3 basing but ended up to base them 3 minis to a base. It was a bit tricky to cut the minis apart as they are 5 on a strip, but nothing a steady hand and a sharp craftknife could not handle;)

I also made me a small gaming board using a 58x39 cork notiseboard "VÄGGIS" for £4.95 from IKEA. Even if I really prefere 28mm minis, it all work fine to run som test games using cm´s instead of the usual inch.

Might not be the best pictures but I hope you get the idee at least :)

Russian taking a beating at the battle at Stäket 1719

Some WIP from my painting table of today. Russian Infantry taking heavy casualties by the Swedish Galleys at Stäket 1719 as they tried to advance on the Swedish positions.

I built them out of Wargames Factory plastic WSS minis.

Russian Infantry at Stäket 1719

Some pictures of the first batch of Russian Infantry for our Salute 2018 gaem "Battle at Stäket 1719". These will be fielded as 3 units of Shots 12 minis each (each 12 man group will represent a Company during our battle) and a "Command group" of 6 minis that will be fielded as a Aggressive Forlorn Hope and contain the Officer, the banners are from the 1712 Company Colours for the Sibirsky Infantry Regiment and Vyborgsky Infantry Regiment.

The minis are Wargames Factory from their War of Spanish Succession range. The traditional cap "Carpus" that both some Russians and Swedes regiments used during the GNW i made out of cut down grenadiecaps.

Swedish Redoupt for the Battle at Stäket 1719

I hope you all have had a good Christmans.

The Map abow was drawn by  the Swedish Fortification Officer Baltazar von Dalheim and show his defence plan for the Stäket passage forward Stockholm, this was the location of the "Battle at Stäket 1719" that will be our game for Salute 2018.  Up in this map are to the East

Latest update in our preperation for the game are that I, jesper and Andy are in the progress of painting some 40 russians each, more to come...  and Jan working on the terrain and ships, below some pictures of a Swedish redoubt that Jan buils and will incorporate in the terrain board.