Miskatonic University, Newhaven campus

With the current heatwave I have to admit I've done virtually nothing over the last couple of weeks. However, I did get round to do a set of walls for the 20mm/1/76th card model of the University I built. 

 

It also gave me a chance to see how the Oxford 1/76th vehicles manage to fit in - look OK.

One of the issues I have making these walls is how to do gates. I'd love to do loads of nice ironwork style gates but finally decided to keep it simple - just another strip of balsa. The photo also shows how crude the build quality of these walls are - very much wargames standard - but look OK on the table. Very much wargames buildings!

As it's getting cooler I have done some limited casting to get figures together for my next moulds. I have now cast enough figues to be able to convert the figures for two moulds - one with Arab infantry, one with Arab, Gothic and Rhoxolani cavalry. 

ex Old Glory 42mm Victorians

Spotted a new source of figures for my 42mm 1897 figures... and Old Glory were selling the range. So I bought it... Limited range, all Brits and no firing infantry, cavalry or guns but...

 

The range came with 6 moulds, 25 painted figures and 6 unpainted. The unpainted figures have now been undercoated.

The figures are bigger that Zinnfiguren or Irregular, but roughly the same as Shiny Toy Soldiers - which are now available again.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at my 25mm armies, especially concerning the space they are taking up. So I'm going to pare down my Minifigs figures - first up will be the Minifigs Gauls. The army totals 189 infantry, 20 cavalry and 8 chariots and I'm offering it here first for a straight £200 including UK postage. If it doesn't sell, it just goes back into the army pool... Usual thing, email me if you are interested at garrisonminiatures@gmail.com  Later I'll look at my Macedonians, Perians and reduce the Indian and Egyptian armies to more manageable sizes!

Dalek Emperor and Cyber Leader

Just for completeness - couple of figures from a company that shall not be named and a project that quietly died because said company is just so bad at communicating or sending out figures...

 

Increasing my Pulp armour

And now for something completely different... 28mm Empress Miniatures Pz1A and American T1E2. The Panzer 1 I've had a while, the T1E2 I bought this year at Partizan. 

 

Second lot are 20mm Whippets from the now defunct Frontline Miniatures... they will be missed. Wish I'd built up stocks but... same is true about Irregular... can't get everything...

Developing the Medievals

 

With only two infantry figures in the Medieval Era range I've had to look at other ranges to fill the gap. That means either the 25mm Medieval range and the Normans and Saxons ranges/

So these are my choices... archers from the Normans (the Saxon figure didn't look right), crossbows from the Medieval range. And the result... they pretty much fit though the '20mm' figures are a bit on the slim side. It just shows that, generally speaking, the Garrison 20mm range is really a 25mm range!

Meanwhile, foes... cavalry no problems. The two at the front make good general Muslims from several periods/countries. Standard Sarmatian cavalry with Khmer shields. The two behind are mostly head swap conversions. What I haven't done yet (way behind schedule) is sort out infantry conversions.

Personal conclusion? Looks promising.

Gallic Army Review 2026

Short one to show the combined forces. This is roughly the size I intend to make the Garrison Gallic army...

 

I have to admit it does look quite impressive. 491 infantry, 78 cavalry and 17 chariots.

Garrison Gallic army Review June 2026

 

Much bigger than my Minifigs host - 150 Gallic warband infantry and 80 Galatians against 135 equivalent Minifigs for a start!

9 chariots rather than 8. The centre is quite impressive. I plan on roughly doubling the numbers eventually...

48 Garrison cavalry compared to 20 Minifigs - and no Garrison Ancient Brit light cavalry added yet though there is a command element to let me use the Dacians!

Second of the two cavalry blocks.

Side view of army. Again, light infantry I have far more Garrison - 72 compared to 54.

So where does this leave me regarding Gauls? Probably on pause for a while - looking at those Garrison Medieval Era figures at the moment, plus want to look at generic Medieval Muslims, Goths, Elamites, Kushites and of course the Spanish infantry to go with the Carthaginians... bearing in mind that this Gallic army was originally looked on as just a bunch of Carthaginian mercenaries