Historical Miniature Wargames
15mm Finnish Artillery. The smaller bronze guns up front are Navwar Austrian 3pdrs and the crew as well as the 6pdrs in the back are from Old Glory with the exception that the Savo Artillery Company (the ones in grey uniform) are from Essex.
A 20mm C-P Models nurse beside a scratchbuilt half-platoon tent made out of modelling clay. The tent is way too small but I couldn’t fit a bigger one on the Murtokohta-base for joukkosidontapaikka…
20mm Finnish machine gun platoon on the move. The figures are Revell Panzergrenadiers. There’s also with the beam carrying Revell German Engineers converted to carrying M/32-33 machine gun bodies which were converted from plasticard and sprue.
A 1808 yard base (and separate loose buildings) that PetriH did with a 15mm command base to show scale.
Colonel Georg Carl von Döbeln leading the Pori regiment. The Colonel is accompanied by his adjutants Lieutenant C. G. Ramsay and Ensign G. A. Gripenberg. 15mm Minifigs and Old Glory figures with Döbeln from Fantassin Miniaturas.
A squad of 1/72 Finns. Converted plastic Russians as well as one German panzergrenadier that has had his MG34 converted to Lahti-Saloranta LMG. All figures from Revell.
Church of Lapua PetriH scratchbuilt for our War of 1808 games.
The church of Oravainen was build in 1795-1797. It is a wooden cross-church with an octagon center tower ending on a cupola. The main entrance has Doric (Greek) style columns. The column effect has been modelled in the upper part of the tower with wood paneling. Simpler paneling has been used for decoration on the walls and corners. There is …