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4 French infantry men on a 6x2 base. These are Perry Miniatures, Rev French, 25mm
The Arnhem Batavian National Guard firing at the Orangist rebels.
Blue duck!
Dutch still life with coffee, stroopwafel, Van Gogh mug and a military history magazine.
25mm resin printed miniatures, painted with acrylics and oils.
3d printed sf vehicle. Primed white with Vallejo white primer (terrible stuff) and Vallejo yellow paints with an airbrush. Brown oils for a wash. Maybe some black stripes on it next?
The Pavillion, now a chinese restaurant
Dutch mayor apologizes for bad communication after extreme right wing riots broke out about a refugee centre in his council.
Karel Appel
A confusing sign
An 88mm ex U-boot gun that was rescued from a sunk Vorpostenboot
In the #Stadspark in #Groningen, getting some inspiration for painting miniature wood things. The park is relatively quiet compared to the Noordeplantsoen, has a lot of birds (last year even a big owl to scare you at night) and squirrels. A walk through the park is great!
This is a foamcore row of planks. I removed one side of the paper, scribed some planks and damaged it with a hobby knife. Primed black with vallejo primer. Some planks started a light gray, some a sand colour and a dark grey. Next came a waah and drybrushing a lighter grey for the left side. Finally some enamel mosh wash.
Rubble city bases from the Kickstarter iirc by Fenris games. Lovely stuff!
Victric 25mm scale plastic Norman knight. Terrible to put together.
An eagle wizard ready to exploit the powers of the Sphere. Again a mini by Fenris!
A resin female ogre from the mystery box by maxmini, which escaped that time customs. Stupid Brexit
Bob Murch spacecrew in front of a 3d printed cargo vehicle. Maybe I will ise it as a Mo-Pad for a Judge Dredd game.
The Wax Seal of Floris V, showing a knight on horseback with a shield. The shield has the Holland lion on it. Picture from the Rijksmuseum site.
Plastic sprues, Victrix Normans, 25mm
History of West-Friesland by journalist Henk Komen. Very fun to read, with a great literature list, cool maps and an aversion to nobility. Komen is also an expert on West-Frisian farm houses.
This is a fun to read book on the invasion in the Batavian Republic in 1799. A combined Anglo-Russian Army bypassed the Batavian fleet who was already mutining, landed in Holland an Army, while the fleet also fought in the coastal area. Also an Orangist Army attacked from the East but they were easily dealt with. The expected rise of the population against the Revolutionary government also did not take place. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? In the end, the French-Batavian Army won, the Allies left, Holland was plundered, lots of small battles and a mentally ill noblewoman was shot because she was suspected of anti-revolutionary activities. The Batavian fleet would be scrapped anyway so they built a new one. In the end, the French messed up and turned the Republic into a Kingdom, and annexed the lot. They made themselves so unpopular that we now are a Kingdom under the Orange family. Go figure. Book has nice pictures. It’s not a complete history of 1799. Well written though.
Bourtanger Standerdmolen
Casualty list of Allied troops involved in the battle. It was a bloody affair.
One of the many contemporary pamphlets on the Battle of Seneffe in 1674 between the Allies (Dutch, Spanish, German) and the French.
A lovely book in dutch with texts on the Low Countries in the 10th and 11th centuries. Lives of Saints, the evil Norsemen, an arab traveller in Utrecht and peat. Very cool!
The noble Arnhem National Guard teaching the Orangists a lesson
Historian Kees Nieuwenhuijsen wrote sone nice books on the history of Holand from around the 9th century, when it still was called West-Frisia. This is a source book and I bought it also for the Latin and pretty pictures :-)
Two Citadel mini’s from the Judge Dredd range. Got these from the factory in Nottingham, which is a story of it’s own. Terrible casts btw and yes, I suck at taking pictures.
Rutger Hauer as Floris, 1968. This dutch TV series was directed by non other than Paul Verhoeven.
Two books by Sieg Monten on the Medieval history of the Low Countries. Linked to maps and emperors.