For the 2004 Crisis show in Antwerp small humorous scenes were a must!

These splendid sculpts from Josef Ochmann's Obelisk miniatures range were a joy to paint. I wanted them all as silverbacks and made some fun photos with the apes in my jungle terrain.

More than fifty years ago my grandfather build a scale model of the sailing ship "Wappen von Hamburg" in about 1/80 scale, all from wood, brass and other raw materials. At that time you couldn't go into a shop and buy a kit or order ready built detail parts on the Internet, everything had to be made by yourself. The best example are the guns: every single one was turned from a single brass piece on a lathe. Unfortunately, the finished large ship model had no protection at all from dust, as there was non glass case, and when I found it some years ago, decades of dust had assembled everywhere and the ship was in a sad and partly broken state. So I decided to keep the interesting parts like masts, guns, railings and detail parts to use them later on a new ship model I planned to build for my pirates.

Most impressive gaming tables with the highest craftmanship, very nice and helpful gamers from the Hamburg club, some well stocked traders and a bright and comfortable location - what more can you expect from a wargame event? See you next year, guys ...

I'll feature the one or other of our club games here with more pictures than you'll usually see on our club's webpage Team für Historische Simulationen