George Gush

 Just read on the Ragged Soldier blog about the death of George Gush - seems he died last year.

I remember George very well - few memories of us in the 70's standing next to each other at various conventions moaning when we saw people fielding unpainted figures in competition battles! Must have spoken to him several times before I found out who he was - saw his picture in a magazine and recognised him. Don't know if he ever knew my name.

Actually, he might have done - was talking to Alan Watson, editor of Sword and Lance magazine and he mentioned he wanted to speak to George about an article George was doing. Alan didn't know what George looked like, but by coincidence George passed by as we were talking so I yelled out 'George', he stopped, I introduced him and left them to it! 

For those who don't know him, George, he was the author of a useful book and set of wargames rules... even has his own Wikipaedia page, something I'll never have!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gush

(Sidenote - Alan published my very first paid wargames article. It was over 50 years ago!)

Next mould? - more Sarmatians

 

Still sorting it to a degree - might change a couple of things.

The cavalry figures are unarmoured horse archers, one of which is on an armoured horse.Useful for a number of  things - light cavalry, early unarmoured cavalry, etc. Going clockwise from these are a couple of conversions I did years ago - basically Fantasy Arabs. Next, Gallic standard bearer with cockerel standard to give a bit of variety. Then a couple of Sarmation standard bearers to replace the one that didn't work last time. Another Fantasy Arab - should have kept them together for the photo. Then three lancers with the bowcase removed. Apart from Sarmations that don't have bows, gluing a mace to the right side would make a useful Parthian. Or any other cataphract really. 

Update - figures posted to Pete. 

SS120 Winged Demon

 

Having realised that this figure wasn't on Lost Minis Wiki I thought I'd do one...

The 'beak' doesn't look right on the painted version photo...

Bit clearer on the unpainted version!

Beachhead 2026 - Steven

 It took me a couple of weeks to get sorted, but here a few photos from Beachhead 2026. I did four participation games, although each one was short and sweet. Didn’t buy so much this time as I have plenty in my backlog already. There is still Salute and Partizan of course. Had an interesting chat with the person manning the Model Army Ltd, who now own Baueda, stand about options for Jack Frost’s house (I need a HOTT stronghold for the Evil Christmas army I got for Christmas). Didn’t buy anything but I did promise to send him a photo of the Baueda prehistoric hut for their Facebook page. I sent that today as well, so will see if it does up on their page.

Figure 1 View of the main hall with traders and demo and participation games

Figure 2 A fun board game based around giant monsters (Kaiju) fighting over Tokyo.

Figure 3  Participation game re-enacted an aerial riad on an Italian naval base in WW2. I think it was Taranto? Would that make sense?

Figure 4 Native American buffalo hunt

Figure 5 I got three buffalo. Not too bad.

Figure 6 I manged to fit in four participation games. The final one was a demo of using some rules to build a world. I actually bought the rules for myself. The map in the photo shows the world I made using them. The rest of my haul is also shown.

Elamite Kallapani completed

 

So far I've done one four horse and two two horse Kallapani - should really be drawn by onagers but don't have any onagers.

I was originally going to do the crew in plain white skirts, but looking around red seems to be a colour associated with Elamites and tunics rather than skirts.

Good use made of paint  pens of course.

For some reason both the saddle cloth decoration and wheels didn't turn out as well on his one!

A Tardis has landed

 

So got an email from Mike saying he'd found a few more things in his garage including a load of Dr Who figures. So of course I had to say yes please... and today a Tardis arrived in a shoe box...

Apparently these are from a toy range called The Dr Who Micro Universe - which I'd never heard of!

So thanks Mike - setting up for some good scenarios when the weather gets warmer!

Gallic Noble chariots

First unit completed - should give me a good general figure if nothing else!

I admit I'm quite pleased with the result.

I'll probably do at least two more units as line rather than Noble.

I've used the GA1 Mounted General horse for these - will probably use the 'standard' cavalry horse for future 'line' chariots, as well as using bronze rather than brass for the brightwork.

Comparison between the new unit with my original test figure. Current one far superior in all ways so the original will be quietly retired.