The League of Augsburg

These shots show a nice diorama which resides in the Guards Division Museum on Birdcage Walk.

I thought blog followers would enjoy the construction on the defences and the interesting combinations of figures used in the diorama.


There was not a lot of information of who made it, when it was made and what make the figures are but it is a super piece of work.

The attack on the Schellenberg took place...

Standard bearer or wealthy clansman

It's all my fault. For that I apologize. To not have hurried up and painted these lovely sculpts and share them is in of itself a serious misdemeanour.

Clan warrior

I commissioned these models from the talented Steve Shaw many moons ago. Steve works at his own pace and so the figures have trickled to me in batches over a protracted period. This perhaps contributed...

Clarence Harrison - Yeah, remember this series (Type 'Building a Wargames Army' in the search bar above)? Hopefully updates will be a little more frequent, but as the WiP posts have shown I made progress on my Jacobite army. I actually painted twelve models in two days thanks to a long holiday weekend. It took me two months to paint the first six!



As I mentioned a while back, I used the Warfare...

WLOA4 Musketeers advancing  is another of the most popular Warfare codes.  The aggressive nature of the poses allows an exciting mix to be created when basing up these miniatures in units.

Four body dollies were used as the basis for this code. The models come with plug bayonet attached to the model but these can be removed easily with a...

WLOA3 Musketeers marching

Code WLOA3 Musketeers marching is yet another characterful set of sculpts which were part of the original commission for the range.

As troops of the period were not necessarily known to have manoeuvred in step (cadenced marching to the beat of a drum) the leg positions create a much less formal look to units in formation.

WLOA2 painted as militia or recruits. Field sign added to hats.

Barry Hilton - This code is a little gem. The poses are versatile enough to be grouped together producing interesting combinations. They are also useful in a variety of other situations such as units deployed in 'Firing Line' or in vignettes.

The equipment and dress is generic enough for the models to be used for a wide variety of...

The five code variants

Barry Hilton - This code has proved to be the bestselling infantry code for Warfare Miniatures by a long way. In terms of the sculpting process I am unsure where it sat in the series and it may well not have been the first set of models finished by Clibinarium.

painted as Dutch Regiment Heyden

There were some minor modifications made to the masters which I can remember being...

Ray King - Wood's Brigade of Horse...

Bart Vetters- When I started my Great Northern War Swedish collection, I decided to initially paint up (at least one battalion of) each of the five regiments that ended up with General Roos seperated from the main force. I did not know it a the time, but the Dal regiment was the only one of those five regiments to look like what everyone pictures in their mind when talking about Swedish infantry:...

Ray King - Here are the first of the horse and dragoon regiments...

A rare example of my original style of painting from 1992

Barry Hilton- The first regiment of Horse I painted for my collection seems an appropriate choice as the first cavalry unit to appear in our series of featured regiments. I was probably intrigued by the fact they were Dutch, they were Guards and they were figures I had never painted before. I was really experimenting at the time with which...

By Bob Black. Bob was formerly editor of Toy Soldier & Model Figure magazine. The following piece was written for the Regimentmagazine which folded before the article saw the light of day. I am not sure whether Bob wrote the article himself or it was a piece from another author. It is an extract from a longer contribution on the Royal Scots. Although some new research has come to light which may...