And now for something completely different

10mm yes a real departure for me. Always fancied doing some early WW11 but not British or German. My mate Derek was also looking for something new and fairly cheap. He already has loads of 15mm WW11 and after a few games of Panzer Grenadier I had invested in some Peter Pig Polish paras and Germans.  Also got some of the Plastic Soldier Shermans, 251's and Stugs. Sold all my Luftwaffe FD a couple of years ago. Silly me!!! Still PP has redone a lot of his packs and the new stuff is nice. After talking in the club one night I decided on Belgians and this is the result, minis are from Pithead Miniatures. Some cavalry units used Marmon Herringtons to tow their 76mm guns. Pithead don't make one but I got a couple extra of their MH armoured cars, shaved of some of the plates, left off the turret and added a roof.

I was looking at my collection and guess what, there are a lot more projects to be finished that I thought. Finishing off rebasing the Samnite/Italiot.
Painting the bases of my Repo Roman Allied force.
Start and finish 2 infantry and 1 cavalry regt for my Napoleonics.
Painting and basing about a dozen japanese civilians for my Samurai.
Getting on with the Bronze Age collections. Sea People, Myceneana, Libyan, Amazon and maybe some Egyptians.
I like to say that is all but there are also some Foundry Gladiators that I got when they first came out but there are still about 6 to do and getting Spartacus 1 and 2 for Christmas did inspire me a bit.
Then there are some AWI and some Macedonians that may get added to when Warlord release their plastic  set.

SAGA Scots cavalry

These are the finished minis that I converted using Conquest and GB plastics. The shields are LBMS transfers.

Projects finished so far

Well I have managed to finish off the Seven Years War minis that have been lying around for some time now.

First the Austrian Hussars Esterhazy. The horses are Perry plastic ACW converted and saddlecloths made from green stuff. The riders are again Perry but from the Napoleonic range very little done in the way of conversion only plumes removed from the rank and file.

                                                                                To oppose them are some horse grenadiers of Von Kleists Friekorps. These are Foundry and to be honest the first Foundry minis I have bought for more years than I care to remember. I got them in the sale and with no postage or I would not have bothered.

I wanted some Libyan bronze age minis for a game we hope to put on. So ordering them together made it more cost effective. I'll probably get some of the Newline Libyans as well and will post pics later on.                                                                                                

New Year same projects

Hope everyone had a good time and Santa was good to them.
I'll be trying to finish off a few projects this year.
SYW, some hussars for my Austrians and some Von Kleist cavalry for my Prussians.
WW2, finish my 10mm Belgians.
Saga, must get these Conquest cavalry finished, I've put GB viking heads on them and shaved down the leggings for Scots.

Saga hits home

Saga has fired up a few ex WABers at the club to dust off some of their Shieldwall minis. Great fun to be had with these rules. The Welsh faction are well and truly hated by the Viking players now that we are getting to grips with the rules/boards. So I've moved on to Normans as a faction. The Saga forum is advertising the new factions for early next year and Scots will be included as well as Bretons. So it's goodbye to the Welsh and my Scots will finally be used as Scots.

These Normans are all plastic conversions, bodies are GB Vikings, heads and shields Conquest, xbow and arms from Perry War of the Roses mercenary set, transfers by LBMS. Note to self add static grass soon!!!!
Pictures are a bit off as my camera has gone to meet it's maker and I'm using her ladyship's one and have yet to find the best settings.
All the best for Xmas and Happy Hogmany.

Osaka game

Some of you will have seen that the "Anything but a 1" lads had a big Samurai bash this weekend.
14 clans took to the table and there were still some in the boxes for reinforcements.
I spent some time making up walls for the castle that Ken provided, as it turned out we only used the castle and walls for a scenic backdrop. My camera played up a bit so there are not that many pics. Suffice to say that SaxonDog, JP and myself held off the Imperialist attack on our table on day one but our allies were beaten on the other table. Some fun moments by all. Night fell and off to the bar and restaurant we went. Afterwards a few SAGA games were held with more fun and ale.
Next morning JP,Ikko Ikki, SaxonDog, Kikawa, and myself, Konishi, were pitted against 3 other Imperialists, Ishida, Ii and Oda. JP deployed my Ikko Ikki promptly rolled a blunder and went off the table. SaxonDog and I were under the cosh at this point but failed command rolls by Ishida, who had changed sides overnight, meant that his cavalry were unable to exploit our weakness. Our opponents Ii and Oda were reinforced by another Oda clan, then SaxonDog went mad and attacked. The day started to get better when the Ikko Ikki returned and more reinforcements, Fujiwara, sallied from the castle. However all was really lost when out commander blundered and changed sides in the middle of the battle. His face turned as bright as his red dice. Despite being offered a spoon to commit Seppuku he disengaged from the Tokugawa clan and turned on the Mori and Satsuma clans on his right. This left Tokugawa free to support the remnants of 2 Oda clans against my Konishi. Kikawa and Ikko Ikki had been fought to a standstill against Ishida and Ii, and the Fujiwara were still moving into position, but were now also threatened by Tokugawa's cavalry.
Rules were Black Powder with the Gleaming Katana add-on by Rich Jones, BP Forum files section, We have made some additions to make them more clan specific. Each player had a 25 point clan to start with.
Most of the minis were Perry. A standard unit was an Impetus base, but 60mm deep for the infantry. Large units made by adding on a half size base.

Castle walls made from 50mm insulation board covered in embossed doll's house wallpaper. Firing port section laser cut for me by Warbases, 240mm long 40mm high and 3mm deep, thanks Martin. Tiles just some corrugated card I had.

Day 1 deployment on our table.

Quite a bit later

Had not realized that it's been over 6 months since my last post. Not painted a lot either, mostly 28mm ACW for a mate and some more Samurai for a big wekend game next month.. However the release of SAGA spurred me on to rebase some of my WAB minis. Also to buy some more cos you can never have enough toys.
Anyway, the Scots first, all the minis I want to use have been done in time for a game this week, 7points in all.
Then I got some plastic Normans from Conquest. Great service 2 days from ordering to arrival. Nice minis as well. Used the 3 in cloth tunics to supplement the metals I have so now there are 3pts of Norman cavalry ready. Will get some plastic inf when they are released approx Dec to make up the full 6 pts.
Lastly the Vikings. Saxondog is bringing me a box of the GB plastic Hirdmen and I'll get some Bondir when they are released. They will be the main force with the Foundry females I have being used as levy. Well artistic license dictates that they are settlers in Britain and are defending their homes/selves from raiders.