Alice, Malice, couple of horrors and a panda...

 

I've bought a few figures for the pulp collection. Figures are from The Little Soldier Company  - Alice and Malice from the Alice in Gerunderland Range, Soulslayer and Liche from Dungeon Adventures.  The idea of Alice and Malice are to produce versions of the Red Queen and Little Red Riding Hood.

The Red Queen will be painted in a scheme inspired by the Mollie Tuttle and Golden Harvest version of White Rabbit... While Little Red Riding Hood is loosely based on the large number of Horror films using versions of the character! Still not sure whether I'll change the weapons that Malice/Red will have.

On a trip to the North Norfolk coast I also picked up this panda... looking at using it as inspiration for some oven baked clay figures...

Fantasy Arab 4Bw

 

Cheap and cheerful, I've gone to the white robes with stripes format.

This lot gives me 6 elements, enough for most DBA sized armies! As far as the current Fantasy Middle Eastern armies go it leaves me with just one more unit - Turkish style infantry spears - to go before I officially end this part of the project. At some stage I'll do a load of Tuaregs as a camel army and see about some robed Arab cavalry - but could be a while before I look at that.

British 7YW artillery

 

The Garrison guns are not the best in the world, but easy to cast and paint.

I've set up one medium gun on a base with a crew for immediate use. The guns look blue - actually painted neutral grey!

Also got a heavy gun, light gun/howitzer and limber painted ready to use if needed.

Past 2 million views...

 Considering it hit a million in March this year... then another million in 6 months when it took 12 years for the first million...

British 2nd Horse

 

First of the British army - '2nd Horse '. Artillery is next in line, three guns but only one crew so far nearly done.

The trumpeter's uniform is based on the picture of a kettle drummer I found on Pinterest.  

Other figures from Kronoskaf. Also 'based on' - for example I've painted belts white rather than natural leather!

Austrian Grenadiers finished

 

Which also finishes the Austrian component of the 7YW armies.

Currently working on some Arab 4Bw archers. On 7YW part way through the British 2nd Horse, some artillery and Grenadiers.

Meanwhile, the Garrison range is limited and doesn't include Highlanders or Light Dragoons. I'm looking at the SKT AWI Range for these though sadly the Highlanders aren't wearing kilts.

Garrison 7YW Trade Board

 

Sometimes there are answers hiding in plain sight... for instance, instead of spending hours trying to match (often misplaced) figures from the masters boxes to codes forthe cavalry I could have tried looking in the old Garrison trade boards that displayed Garrison figures at conventions...

Having said that not all the figures are present... the cavalry standard bearer I originally (ie, up to a couple of days ago) thought had a plain flag staff was actually the French one - a close look at the coats meant I now know which one is the 'correct' British standard bearer. I'm currently painting up 7BC1, 7BC3,7BC8 (standard bearer) and 7BC11 and will post pictures when they are finished.

Pity some of the missing ones are cavalry - especially the musicians.

The Prussians all have a different tricorne to the other nationalities - makes them a bit easier to identify compared to British, French and Austrians that all have the same heads!

French cavalry weren't included in the SKT catalogue listed below. 7FC4 was originally dentified as being British...