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| As time goes on my wargames table gradually gets filled up with things that prevent me from doing battles or anything. So time for a bit of a sort... |
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| Adding to that, I'm filling a lot of boxes with figures at the moment and needed to sort some space to act as shelf space. |
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| Latest mould back from Pete includes the entire Medieval Era classical range. I'll have to see how well they fit alongside the 25mm Medieval archers and xbows. |
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| Basically means I've now got a production mould for the entire Medieval Era Range. |
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| One thing when Steven visits is that we tend to spend the odd evening doing games. This gave us the chance to play Sandra's latest purchase from Partizan - Forbidden Island. Turned out to be a good game, running around the island and trying to gather up all the 'treasures' before the island sank below the waves. Sadly, though, we lost... |
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| Next one was strange. A game we've had for years and has proven to be a favourite. Strange? Don't know how many times we've played the game, but this is the first time we've managed a three way draw! |
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| Another thing we do when Steven's home is some kind of wargame or project... Anyway, a while back I got Steven a 15mm Irregular Sassanid army. Of course, Ian then announced his retirement so Steven put in an order tofill out the army. his left him with the thought of doing a 40x40mm camp. Seemed like a get idea to give him a chance to play with balsa and assorted power tools... result, a couple of camps which he'll paint when he gets home (should add he did the design and modelling, I just provided materials and help in the techniques to use.) Should get some pictures oif the finished camps when he paints them. |
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| Definitely in a bits and pieces period... couple more of the elephants lying around. Should have made them Seleucid but already had eight Seleucid armoured elephants, don't need any more. So I stuck some Indian archers in to add to the Indian herd. Figures were just as they were - painted the mahout and stuck it on a base, that's it. |
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| Adding to the list of odd units that have been lying around for ages are these four elephants |
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| I got them from different long-forgotten sources and they were in pretty poor condition -had to give one a new trunk because the olds one was missing. Used a Garrison Seleucid elephant trunk - badly fitting and I haven't even filled in the join! Crew are from my stock of spares. Still a low grade unit but it brings my Indian elephant corps up to 13 animals including the general so worth doing! |
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| I also had a couple of elements of cavalry lying around so finished them off as well... |
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| With playing around making a sort of 20/25mm Newhaven I thought about getting some 1/76th scale cars to match - most of my current lot are more suited to 28mm. Expensive, but a one-off for cars and later I'll do an order for trucks and things - plus see what I've already got of course. |
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| This is another unit that has been lying around for ages. Not sure where the 'thigh armour and upper arms plates' are, but that's the written description! |
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| Until I spotted and bought this lot I hadn't even realised the figure had been released - it's not in the 1972 catalogue. It didn't come with an officer or standard bearer so I cast them separately. |
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| What I did have was a master figure that had lost it's spear hand. So the version I normally cast is a 'reclaimed' figure using a spear that is slightly longer than the original' Unpainted redone figure next to one of the bought figures. |
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| Met David and David... Handed over some figures David had asked for... |
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| Took too many photos to list here... |
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| Steven played a few games - PBI, Konflikte 47 for example |
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| Sandra bought a game |
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| I bought a few figures from Hayland Terrain... |
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| I alsoasked about getting a replacement for Dorothy... mine had a slight accident. I put a bandage on the wound but don't think the hand will grow back. |
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| Bought a T1E2 from Empress Miniatures |
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| And finally topped up my supply of paint brushes. |
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| Only 3 figures in this range - actually sorted the range because I was using the cavalry horse for another 'conversion' |
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| MC1 Mounted knight with lance |
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| M1 Foot soldier with poleaxe |
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| M2 Foot soldier with long spear and shield |
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| These are the figures I was originally working from - basically based on Medieval Islamic cavalry. |
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| The only 'modification' to the rider was to give it a shield from the Khmer range. |
(Update 21/5 - figures sent off to Pete Brown to have a mould made!)
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| First 18 figure Kushite heavy cavalry unit based on the Numidian cavalry. The gloss varnish on this lot aren't making for good photos! |
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| I chose to do a six base unit rather than a four base unit as this corresponds to my normal infantry or light cavalry basing structure. In retrospect, should always have done it this way... |
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| There is a second unit undercoated and waiting in the queue. |
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| I actually did seven elements - including a general. The Pharaoh is a Greek cavalry figure with a Rose Prestige Range head. The cavalry are a simple paint conversion - rather than sand down the Roman shield pattern I just lathered several coats of paint over the shield! |
Just added this to pages and placed it at the top!
Note: I've not included any of the 54mm figures, Pendragon figures or pohotos. The catalogue itself doesn't include any of the 1968-1972 'Classic' ranges of figures. Most of these figures should be available/castable, just won't always know until I try...
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| Rhoxolani MC - at some stage I intend to do an Alan/Rhoxolani conversion of the cataphract by cutting the kontos down, at which time I'll be able to do mixed LC/MC units with JLS/B/Sh. I painted the armour using Vallejo leather brown - can't say I like that choice, red leather would be better and use the leather brown for belts, etc. |
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| It's a nice figure - found the masters but no record of the figure, made it as a one piece casting because the original separate rider didn't cast easily. Must admit I like painting up the standards, just don't think of them as being in any way realistic! |
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| Over the years I've collected a lot of odd figures and units that really need to be spruced up a bit. This lot seem to have been sourced from at least two different places... |
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| Anyway, can't see me doing a full overhaul of these so I've pretty much done the minimum to make them presentable. At least it's another unit on the roster. |
