Dacian light cavalry

 

First actual wargames unit of the year painted and based - which gives me the entire 'allowed' native Dacian cavalry...

Unchanged Gallic cavalry with a tunic painted on instead of being bare chested. Standard is my converted Sarmation standard bearer figure.

I've given quite a few of them 'tartan' tunics and cloaks on the grounds that they could have worn tartan tunics and cloaks :) Tartans simply drawn using paint pens.

Must do some archers and light infantry javelins at some time... Archers using my universal archer figure? possibly add a short cloak? - also need to convert a figure to act as a Dacian infantry standard bearer.

Gods of Egypt

Very slow start to the New Year but finally starting to get things done...

First ones finished are some Minifigs Gods of Egypt. There should be six of them, but one seems to be MIA somewhere between getting it's undercoat and reaching the painting table.

The pictures on these look a lot worse than the figures! One hint about this - their clothing is acually ivory without even a hint of blue! 

Another lot of figures nearly finished is this unit of Celts repurposed as Dacian light horse. There is another unit of Celts undercoated - I've also undercoated a couple of extras so that I can use these as Celts by changing the command element!

And finally a couple of Minifigs Martian tripods undercoated. All the Minifigs figures were kindly donated by Santa (OK, Steven) while the Dacians were test castings from my new moulds.

New moulds RY155 and RY156

This one fills in a few gaps in the classical Roman Range.

 

Mostly an attempt to expand the Gauls by giving them a few swordsmen as well as upgrading the cavalry moulds. Not 100% successful - some of the conversions didn't survive the mould making.

Haven't a clue what happened to the colours on this photo - the blues seem to have gottten lost somewhere. It's a royal blue tablecloth for instance! Meanwhile gives an idea of the 'new' figures - they'll really need another mould.

Been a bit windy...

 

So that's one unexpected job to sort...

Happy New Year everybody!

New Year's games ...

Drinks and nibbles (Philly cheese, salmon, lumpfish caviar and quail eggs on blinis

And drinks time...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Nutcracker soldiers

 

Found these on Amazon via Facebook. 30mm to the top of the hair and costing £10.99 for 50! Made of a vaguely rubbery substance so can't really be repainted.

Bit late for this year, but next year?

Merry Christmas everyone

 

Random photo of the lighthouse a couple of miles from our house - Sir Peter Scott used to live there, which is why it's usually called Sir Peter Scott's lighthouse. Thought it would be better than another picyure of a Christmas tree...