Nelson's Attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) in 20mm Scale

If you get the chance to visit the Island of Tenerife, and if you get to the bustling capital city, Santa Cruz, try visiting the Military Museum of Almeida (Museo Militar en el Cuartel de Almeida).

Apart from seeing a really nice collection of military artifacts, for the 1/72 scale enthusiast there are various dioramas depicting Nelson's failed attack on Santa Cruz in 1797 (the one where he lost his arm leading his men into battle). Quite a famous event here - if he had won, the inhabitants of these islands might have been speaking English now.

There is even a Horation Nelson street here in Tenerife, named after this famous British invader.

I don't know who made the dioramas but they have been in the museum since the early nineties. Whoever he is, he made clever use of plastic figures.


UPDATE - 1ST FEB. Photos uploaded.


Click on the pictures to enlarge.

J.M.

Modern(ish)

Even though I do really prefer WW2 stuff, there are a lot of sets of modern ("modern" being anything post-ww2) figures that are really worth looking at.

Some pictures below of work recently finished and off the painting bench.

Esci (now Italeri) NATO Pilots and Ground Crew.


Also a Revell Deutsches Kommando Spezialkräfte - better known as the KSK - hidden in amongst the figures there.

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Hasegawa NATO Pilots

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Matchbox 1980s British Paras

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J.M.

Desert Figs – Conversions

A few photos of some recent 1/72 plastic-figure conversion work.

8th Army sniper



Mine-detector teams:


Squaddies



Kiwis



Indian Inf.



J.M.

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Crossfire Game Photos

Some photos of a Crossfire game