Somehow I missed my specific French Revolutionary blog Ca-ira.
So from january onwards it will revive; in fact some new content (or older pieces picked from this blog) are there.
Hope to see you there!
And of course: a happy new year for you and yours!
Which wargamer hasn't heard about the Market Garden campaign in 1944 in the Netherlands?
We think that, after maybe the miniatures of the Napoleonic guard grenadiers, miniatures of the red devils of the Arnhem Bridge fame are the most sold miniatures around the world; in every scale.
Two museums in the Netherland have market Garden as theme; the Airborne Museum at Hartenstein/Oosterbeek (with a smaller annex near the Arnhem Bridge) and the Vrijheidsmuseum (Freedom Museum) at Groesbeek.
We visited both but the latter we combined with the autumn convention of the Nederlandse Stichting voor Modelfiguren.
Some pictures underneath; starting with the Airborne Museum.
The Groesbeek museum is much smaller and doesn't concentrate on the fighting of 1944 as much as the Airborne does.
In the Limburgs Museum in Venlo (south east Netherlands) a exhibition is held with the title "The Sun King and Orange" (in Dutch De Zonnekoning en Oranje) which is about the battle between The Sun King and William of Orange and specifically about the 1673 campaign along the Meuse and the siege of Maastricht in which d'Artagnan (of the Three Musketeers fame) died.
Wargamers are invited one weekend during an exhibition to show demo and/or participation games connected to the theme of the exhibition. Last year it was the Roman period theme; this year the Sun King versus Orange was the theme.
So three clubs heading to Venlo. Two of them with a participation game (Amsterdam 6Shooters with their Siege of Naarden 1673 and the Hired Guns from Uden with a 1672 game.) The Hired guns club also had a painting table where visitors to the museum could paint some wargames figures.
The Alde Garde was there with a demo game about a battle in the southern/Spanish Netherlands in 1693.
Well, lets start with some pictures of our demo table.
Then of course the great table about the siege of Naarden 1673:
And of course the participation game plus painting table from Udens Hired Guns
