Garrison Byzantines

This lot have now been added to the Pages menu: https://easterngarrison.blogspot.com/p/garrison-byzantines-infantry.html and https://easterngarrison.blogspot.com/p/garrison-byzantines-infantry.html

 

7 Years War Prussian artillery

 In a bit of a messy period re periods and painting. I've got the Byzantine moulds back so should be getting on with then, meanwhile sidetracked by the 7 Years War...

Prussian gun crew, very much basic wargames standard!

There are four artillery figures for each of the powers.

I'm thinking of doing small armies of four nations - Austria, Prussia, Britain and France. Garrison don't do Russians and I probably won't do  a Hanoverian army. The Austrian one will be done last because I already have an Austrian army that I bought on ebay - very low chance of doing another...

One thing I will be looking at is very small armies - 3 12 man infantry units, 2 6 man cavalry squadrons and 1 gun crew with a choice of 3 guns!

SKT 35mm AWI Figures

Tucked away on a mould is this useful but mediocre range of 35mm AWI artillery pieces - though more useful as 25/28mm ECW or 7YW  guns. With plain wheels I've also used them as Victorian era Chinese.

ART1, 18lb field gun

ART2, 12lb field gun

ART3, Howitzer

ART4, 2 Horse limber

There's no horse associated with these guns, but I would be happy using them with something like the Sung cart horse for 25/28mm.

This is how I know they are meant to be 35mm guns! These figures appear on the same mould as the guns but are unlisted and undocumented!

So no codes availanle. There is a mould with the barrel on.

Interestingly the artillery figures use figures with plain wheels rather than reinforced rims.

Finally 3 unlisted AWI infantry!

Playing with mould list/internal catalogue.

This started off as starting to get pictures together when Lost Minis Wiki started updating to include historical ranges. That's got me taking loads of photos and now I'm extending it to play around with my paper storage systems - which will take a while, I know!

Mostly it's taking a screenshot of the pages in Documents - this is a screenshot of the Sung. I'm also updating the file names so they can appear on the screenshot.

This is the Sassanid list with mould list added. On the printout you can just about read descriptions on the pictures...

Anyway, still working out what's best.  It's similar what I've already done with the S&S and Admins ranges though there the ranges are bigger and the mould lists aren't on the same pages as the pictures.

As I said, playing.

The Watch

 

Looking at SS80, High Elf Spearman, I always thought it would make a good figure for a Terry Pratchett style Watch figure. So I've painted a few up as such...

Building up the Clibinarii

 

I seem to have slowed a bit with my painting recently. This lot have been sitting around for months...

I'm thinking this year could be Sassanids, Byzantines and Goths. At least, that's the current plan. The Sassanids have been limping along for quite a while so I hope they'll keep going...

Byzantine infantry moulds

Continuing my upgrading of Garrison moulds I'm getting a load of (mainly) Byzantine figures together to send to Pete Brown.

B01 Front rank Skutatos (SHI), B10 Second rank Skutatos (HI) and B11 Peltast, as well as a load of spears and maces. 

B02 Infantry officer, BO3 Infantry standard bearer, B04 Armoured archer, B05 Light or medium archer, plus 1 each of B09 Camp servant with sling and B13 Slav LMI javelin shield - the last 2 needed so I can get production moulds made of them!

B06 Psilos light javelinman, B08 Varangian guard (SHI)with 2 handed axe, B12 Rus (HI) with spear and shield, and finally B14 Rus with axe and shield.

And finally a few Adventurers plus elvic archers.

One reason for doing this lot now is because I'm thinking of 2025 as the year to finish my Sassanids and also start a Byzantine army. But you all know me...

A balsa Churchill

Back in the summer Steven was home for a few days so I went over carving/building tanks from balsa. Forgot to take photos of his :( . Originally I did this without cutting out the suspension.

However, recently had a go with a little pen engraver - crudely done and not what you would call accurate, but it does give an impression of being a Churchill.

Not quite the 3 Doctors

The '3 Doctors' arc of Dr Who included creatures 'made' by Omega called Gell Guards that attack U.N.I.T. Headquarters. Another use for the Sarissa Manor House...

In the original the Guard just kept popping up all over place - so having them walk up the path like this is my variation. 

The Crooked Dice 'not Dr Who' soldiers on gate duty lock the gates as they retreat firing - bullets have no effect on these things.

Again slight variation - I have them able to pass through solid objects rather than just teleporting all over the place.

More soldiers appear...

Even more soldiers appeared but bullets have no effect. The original Gell Guard used their claws as a gun firing explosive 'bullets'.

Direct hit from the bazooka ...

No effect... the TV one didn't work either...

So everyone retreats inside the HQ.

And the scenario ends as the Gell Guard all pass into the building.

Front view of my Gell Guard - I just did them orange as per the ones on the Black Tree site but they should really have been a rather deep red.

Munchkins painted. And Centauri. And the 'Industrial swamp scorn lovecraft monster'...

Next, need to do the villagers...

I like the way these turned out. They do have a 'cuteness' factor going for them.

Centauri very crude, but the swampy thing I'm quite pleased with. Could more of these or variations.

Medal update

 

Firstly, Sandra bought replica/replacement ribbons for the medals so they are now all correct. Now all she has to do is find out who the other ribbons belonged to...

Palaeo Diet - Eat Or Be Eaten

Steven brought his cavemen and the Paleo Diet rules with him so we could 'playtest' the rules...

Can't call them games - more a case of 'Let's do this and see what happens'

The first 'What happens if' consisted of charging a mammoth. Mammoth 2, Cavemen 0.

Next one was a bunch of hominids trying to kill a cave bear while a bunch of cavemen tried to kill the hominids...

Messing about, Steven started setting up reaction tests to make the cave bear attack the hominids who were attacking the cave bear (I know what I mean :))

Then the situation changed a bit as I was able to have the cave bear attack the cave men... Problem: What do you do when your god is trying to kill you? Do you fight back? - didn't resolve that, time to stop...

Steven's comments:

Who'd have thought charging a mammoth would end badly.

I spend a lot time painting and very little time gaming, so it was good to get a couple of games in with my prehistorics. It was fun and the rules are set up for solo, cooperative or (as in our second game), oppositional games. The combat is simplistic (although there are aspects - hounds, archers, fire, which we didn't explore this time), but there is a lot of emphasis on reaction tests for the animals. There is a lot of potential for unintended consequences and general carnage. I look forward to trying this out more when I go home.

I see there are a couple of expansion rule sets, which I will definitely be getting. One is pulp, so expect Victorians vs Dinosaurs from me at some point in the future.

Gell Guards and Centauri

 

More attempts at sculpting. This lot are Gel Guards or Gell Guards from the Dr Who universe. Easy to make but doing all those balls of protoplasm took an age... The U.N.I.T. soldier is Crooked Dice 28mm.

And this one is Alpha Centauri from the episode The Curse of Peladon.

5th January the tree comes down and I can start painting some of them...