An Austrian French revolutionary brigade

Well, most of the figures were already painted but never on the blog so now, here they are. 

I think you could see them as an advance guard of the Austrian army circa 1793. 

The brigade consists of
- a light infantry component (Tyrolan Jägers and the Slavonisch-Croatisches Freikorps),
- a line infantry component consisting of the 1st and 2nd battalion of the Wenzel Kaunitz Regiment and the grenadier battalion Bardodetzky (combined out of the 2nd, 32nd and 34th line regiments),
- the Karaiczay Cheveau Leger regiment and 
- a battery of field artillery

Figures are mostly by Eureka miniatures; the Freikorps and artillery is by Wargames Foundry.

An early medieval donjon (at least it should look like it!)

Jan thought about making the first castle tower of the Kessel castle (called Keverberg) in the south-easter part of the Netherlands were we live of which a picture is underneath of around 1100.

As only parts of the lowest part of the tower was found no one knows for sure how it really looked and by a second glance it looks a little bit dull. So he looked further for some more examples of early castles/donjons or something else. These were found:

Motte Lütjenburg in Germany

Bachritterburg Germany 

Herne Germany

reconstruction motte Eindhoven 

So it was decided to build one himself without knowing how; just knowing that it would be partly stone and partly wood. As it wasn't know how it would be used; eg for skirmish game (so figures had to be put inside or just as decoration on the side), building started out of mostly balsa wood and a base of polystereen on a plastic base and by try and error it became this.

A, yet unpainted, figure just for letting see the scale on the second picture on the left
 

 Of course the wooden part plus the roof comes off; it has three detachable floors and some shooting slits in the stone basement. This can be seen by the two pictures underneath.

This is the first part as the tower will become part of some sort of a motte and bailey casttle but that will be part two.