Wargames show at the KMK Scaleworld in Geel, Belgium

 On the 2nd of June the modellers show Scaleworld 2024 was held at Geel, Belgium. But most important for us, for the first time a group of wargamers presented their wargames.

We were there with our French Revolutionary game with underneath some pictures we took:

KMK Scaleworld, Geel Belgium

 

As Alde Garde we will be there with a French Revolution Game.

Various Belgian clubs will also be there to present a wargame. 
of course a lot of modellers will also present their  models.

Hope to see you there

A French Revolutionary balloon

First, an apology is due as I haven't posted for some time about our beloved period.

but I wasn't idle this period as a long time wish came true: adding a balloon to the French Revolutionary army.

The ready product is here; hovering about the great defenders of the revolutionary ideas! The pictures are taken at home and are not the best!

As always I tried to use things at hand to make the balloon; so some pictures how I made it:

First I took an styreen ball of 15cm diamter and a net from mandarins. A small basket was made by a friend (in fact it is crochet - is that the correct word?) and connect the basket with some strings to the netting.

 
Of course the balloon needs to hang in the air so I had to make a hook which in fact is a plastic rod for closing and  openings curtains which with a candleflame was bent.

And of course it need a stand which was made of leftover plastic sheet, a piece of wood in which I drilled a hole as wide as the rod was, plaster etc

And at last making the terrain of the stand:

Et voila, a balloon is ready

On the terrain and in the balloon basket, Victrix 1804-1812 artillerymen in various poses; maybe not totally correct for this period but the possibility to change armpositions was very usefull.

New Page: the history of the Dutch army in the French Revolutionary Wars

On the old website of the Alde Garde, we had information about the history of the Dutch army in the FR period.

As the website isn't operational anymore, we will try to put the info on the blog starting with a short history of the 1792-1815 period.