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s two more 15mm bavarian battalions iirc 3rd 4th fusiliers col adam muir of the 41st upper canada 1812 imagi nations gebrovian regiment 15mm warrior miniatures us infantry platoon italy 1943 44 mixed 20mm the stuart is a rescue of one of a pair i ve owned since childhood stug iii g psc kit in 1 72 with full treatment of techniques so having got the biblical stuff put to one side i went off and blasted out some uniformed troops and added to the ww2 collection from mostly the leftovers pile however i am intent on starting a new front for ww2 in 2022 and going down a different early war route in a somewhat related regard i produced a little diorama for an online painting challenge which gives a clear indication what i have in mind figures are proving a little hard to source but things are progressing this aside i have a couple of historical ideas to start in 2022 and no end of projects to try and finish next time all the fantasy stuff 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 15mm 20mm historical gaming imagi nations 18th c napoleonics photo bonanza ww2 wednesday december 01 2021 horsch car and german support i knocked out some additional forces for my ww2 germans after an actual game in which it became apparent they were actually too well provisioned with anti tank support and needed something on roll that was weaker i also took the excuse to get a horsch car kit from psc and have a play around with it pak 36 mg42 and cobbled together crew i think these are some of the last valiant german infantry in the old moulds that i have the new in scale models are probably better but their price point isn t the pak is one of the zvezda art of tactic pieces and although more early mid war its a nice crisp piece that will sit well with my 2nd line infantry regiment lastly the car features my now standard weathering approaches using oils pigment powders and wet effects no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 20mm historical gaming ww2 thursday november 25 2021 and now for something completely different yes i got cajoled into another side project james wanted to do another 15mm project one in pre gunpowder times and after a little too ing and fro ing we settled on the biblical near east and the might of assyria versus the rebellious confederation of babylonian chaldean and median forces i got the latter team prone to getting smashed for fifty years straight but ultimately coming out on top only 15mm he said shouldn t take very long he said actually that was true even with it only being a side hustle i got my forces assembled and ready in just over four months every nation under the sun the core infantry lydians and cavalry chariots obviously all told it s a little over 200 pieces completed we ve elected to stick with hail caesar and each base will represent a single unit with numbers of models further identifying small standard or large units the only real exceptions being that 4 horse chariots need a big ol e base all to themselves and to get the impression of a phalanx over without destroying every spear tip i put the lydians in three ranks rather than two on a cavalry sized base i even knocked up a couple of regionally appropriate houses neat illustrations for the period show a mix of courtyarded buildings and flat roofed houses with what appears to be reed thatch and a slight lean to the walls so i replicated one of each more than enough for a typically barren ancients battlefield the courtyarded building has enough roof space for a standard infantry base the hut roof is made from cheap bandage soaked in watered down pva as to the minis well it may be 15mm and a quick paint job but i still indulged in some detailing and fancy effects this unit of spearmen includes some rough blending on the shields for example and daisies all the models are essex miniatures solid stuff and they cover everything you need our first battle is actually scheduled for early next month so maybe we ll see pictures of both sides soon too it s going to be a mid sized game but i can already imagine expanding my forces to a more old school sensibility i m wondering if two bases per unit wouldn t be more appropriate jeez will the hoarding never stop 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 15mm ancient gaming hail caesar tuesday november 23 2021 through mud and blood for turnips i got introduced to the weird world of turnip28 and momentarily i dismissed it but under the first impression the soil was good after a little more investigation i discovered a fascinating world of kitbashing freeform creativity in a bizarre post apocalyptic post napoleonic world the opportunity to build skirmish sized forces using the contents of my extensive bits box eventually proved too much to resist consequently i am here so far the bulk of two different regiments chaff of the 51st parchdale a stump gun of the 27eme oignans blanc du pied fodder and a toady for the 27eme rootlings of the 27eme grogs of the 51st bastards heavies accompanying the 27eme the models above feature a range of parts from more or less every perry victrix set i ve ever bought alongside some fireforge northstar bits as d d cannon barrel bits of wood card sprue lots of greenstuff grass tufts uv cured resin and foraged roots and plants from my local woods when the rules are simply make what you like to no more than a general theme the world is your oyster it s like 40k back in rogue trader times as to the painting we are in rather more uncharted territory the paint palette here is very limited i chose to try a thing called the zorn palette in essence restricting yourself to an extremely limited range of colours in fact ideally only four black white red and yellow other than metallics and weathering that is all i used except that the 27eme got a small amount of prussian blue added as that is one colour the other four cannot make and i did add a basic green for doing the foliage it is remarkable what you can achieve this way and tonally it pulls everything together but what really kicked it up a level into a grimdark look is oil paint everything was finished with a number of oil washes which can be applied and then selectively removed to give a subtle grimy look nonetheless i ve ended up after all my griming dusting and weathering with what for the genre are still rather poppy models not as grim as many but they ve been a fun diversion another 20 or so models and i ll have two full forces some of the remaining pieces will be rather more wacky but that therefore means they ll take rather longer to finish still maybe in the new year i can actually put them on a table something to work towards 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels turnip28 fantasy gaming modelling and converting napoleonics monday november 15 2021 malian ton tigi just a quick post to show off this model mainly so i can get the picture out into the accessible world and to spur me to give more details in due course safe to say this is a substantial scratchbuild conversion more later 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hail caesar historical gaming lion rampant medievals modelling and converting the mali empire thursday november 11 2021 remembrance day lament we who are left how shall we look again happily on the sun or feel the rain without remembering how they who went ungrudgingly and spent their lives for us loved too the sun and rain a bird among the rain wet lilac sings but we how shall we turn to little things and listen to the birds and winds and streams made holy by their dreams nor feel the heart break in the heart of things wilfred wilson gibson 1918 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 21 2021 40k okay just the one this is what happens when i buy random models on impulse grim dark the full story is obviously a bit more involved the instagram thing has inspired me to keep pushing the painting but also to diversify picking whatever i fancy to paint alongside the army building this nurgle death guard came in a semi random box and turned out ideal as a subject for a grimdark painting challenge on one of my discord s i picked up a ruined rhino model from a 3d print and built up a little trench warfare diorama lots of little details the paint job is done with a zorn palette that is to say other than the metallics and weathering effects only four paints were used a black white red and a yellow you can get a remarkable range from just those and minimising the palette really adheres to the aesthetic there are obviously no blue tones on the chaos marine but this can be worked with the destroyed rhino also uses extensive chipping effects and then most everything got several layers of oil enamel and acrylic washes in varying volumes a really enjoyable diversion but not one that ll go any further than the display shelf no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels warhammer 40k wednesday july 14 2021 mali mounts for battle steady progress on the malian project has been made and i can now add two cavalry units to the roster the first being one of the centerpieces for the army horon cavalry the horon provided the elite heavy cavalry of the malian empire essentially its equivalent of knights or cataphracts evidence for their appearance is limited but i took accounts saying they wore contemporary armour either locally made or imported from north africa and rode armoured horses and combined it with the look of later troops illustrated in the 1800 s from the neighboring bornu empire which was a late contemporary and from modern tribal horsemen in the region the standard is the banner of the mali empire as taken on hajj by emperor mansa musa in 1324 it seems some form of bamboo was used for lances and it provides a nice look so the padded armor and other parts are green stuff applied directly to the largely terrible base models more on those below hide shields were made over plasticard formers with green stuff there are illustrations of shields this shape which appear to be carried behind the rider on the saddle when not in use suggesting a reason for the unique shape as alluded to these are heavily converted i started with a set of the gripping beast goth heavy cavalry and i can t say i was a fan apart from limited build options out the box the detail was poor and the fit terrible i wasn t sorry that i was going to cover 3 4 of each model up i d have needed to do a load of filling and trimming anyway that aside i think i spent about 8 or 9 hours just on the kitbash elements rather easier and despite their simplicity much nicer basic models were a second unit of hat industrie almoravid cavalry painted as allied taureg horse from timbuktu there s only one small conversion here but compared to the gb models these still have more horse poses and don t require any filling either all this brings the core of the force up to 20 24 points in lion rampant but i m not going to rest on my laurels i need a few options and another centerpiece is being worked on kitbashing wip as should be evident this is on its way to being a general for the force nobility appear traditionally to use palanquins extensively in africa and illustrations of the mande and the empire often feature them this will represent a ton tigi or quiver master essentially a malian general there s a long way to go on this yet converting the foot figures into an iman and a tribal musician respectively adding a lot more to the already converted seated leader an outpost wargames services inca with a head swap so far and adding a bunch of opulence to his carriage but that s all for another day so far so good 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels historical gaming 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