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.

Waste not want not - Elamite Kallapani chariots

 Having already cast a load of ship's masts (from the Garrison 1/360th scale Ancient ships range) and long spears for chariot poles and yokes, plus a load of long spears for axles, then stuck them on card as the base units for Gallic chariots ready for the sides to be added...

Then realised that the 25mm Gallic ABS1 chariot would do the job a lot better if I simply cut out a cross piece on the yoke, moved the yoke closer to the chariot body, and used the classic horses I had intended to use anyway... so now nearly finished three chariots.

Wasn't going to waste that work and thought 'Elamite Kallapani'... tried it, these are 2 horse types (meant to be onagers but don't have a mould for small onagers - the ones from the 28mm Sumerian range will be too big. Having said that haven't checked them out!)

Elamites easy, just my universal archer figure. Next questic, which wheels would be best? Assyrian or Rose artillery wheels? Thinking Assyrians the best option. For a four horse (onager) chariot just add a couple of extra horses - the kallapani floor is big enough to take the extra archers.

Spanish long shield cavalry

Unit of the Spanish long shield cavalry finished - Greek cavalry officer and conversions from Gallic GAC1 'Cavalryman withspear, shield and cloak, unarmoured'. I've gone with the same  'Lowland' red cloak with these, still need another unit or so and will probably give them black Highland cloaks.

Command group... I did think of rounding the edges of the shields to make them oval, decided against considering a google search suggested most people use them with round shieds! Might use this figure with a rounded off shield for Spanish infantry. The apparent yellow paint on the tunic of the standard bearer isn't visible on the figure! It's actually at the back of the shield and the shield outline is nowhere near as obvious as it is here. Which is why I didn't notice where the shield edge was!