Persian Hordes

Back in June, 2017, I painted up a unit of 'rabble' for my Persian armies. As the last unit to be painted in 2018 (Christmas tree will be blocking my painting desk) I've painted up another unit of this figure to act as a few Hordes elements.

This lot are dressed as the dullest of the dull colour-wise. As such, they will be just as much at home in a Sassanid army as in the Achaemenids. Well, apart from the standard bearer.

Very plain outfits and very quickly painted - which shows.

Not based or varnished yet, still not sure when I'll be doing any more basing. New Year?

A Sparabara levy unit

I'm not going to get round to basing figures for a while so this lot is being posted unbased.

It's a unit of I-know-everyone-else-calls-them-Medes-but-I-list them-as-Persians type. Basically, 'cos this hat style was originally listed in wargames circles as the Persian style rather than Mede.

Again, calling them Sparabara is also technically wrong as they're carrying violin shaped shields rather than Spara.

Apart from all that...

Slight issue with them - I accidentally touched the figures paint up with the wrong shade of grey. Never mind, I'll try not to worry about it.

This unit is designed to be a plain local-defence levy outfit rather than one of the fancier types.

Some Roman archers

Spending too long painting Chinese toys and 6mm buildings... needed to get back to my roots for a while...

Transport and rockets

Can't stop messing with things, so it's natural for me to take things apart and see what I can do with them. So those rocket trucks... take off the rocket and it makes a decent ground mounted AT weapon... which leaves a truck...

Put a canopy on the back of the truck and you've got a use transport vehicle for troops or - well, whatever.

Simple comparison between the missile carry and lorry. Rather than this simple folded paper canopy I'll probably do a 'square' canopy; also probably paint it Earth or something instead of leaving it grey.

You can get more 'accurate' lorries, but put them next to the tanks and it looks silly. Mind you, put the figures next to the tank and it looks silly.

Grey's Armoured Division

Finally finished all the stripey tanks and missile trucks of the vaguely Communist/Grey Armoured Division. Not convinced the paper red stars on the missile trucks will stay, but if they fall off not that bothered!

The thing that always amazes me is the cost of these things. They work out at between 50p and £1 each including postage! Which means I'm buying more than I should of course.

TMP and Copyright

Firstly, I have no objections to people using photos from my blog (although would appreciate a credit or link).

A current picture from my blog appears on TMP:  http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=493650 I have no objections to this but:

TMP claims copyright for all content on their site:


Copyright Notice The Miniatures Page,
comprising all web pages at theminiaturespage.com,
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The TMP version is that TMP owns all copyright - in fact, re things posted by someone on TMP  'If it's your own post you want to copy, ask and we'll automatically give you permission to do so.' - which is one reason why (when I was with TMP) I always posted anything I wanted to use on my site first.

So...

If anyone wants to post anything from here, I'm generally quite happy with that, but would appreciate a credit or link. This does not confer ANY further permissions, so if you post anything of mine on TMP - don't ask Bill for permission, ask me.

For interest, the post it was taken from is:

https://easterngarrison.blogspot.com/2015/08/hms-gannet-chatham-dockyard.html

 

25mm Napoleonic British

At the moment I'm getting bogged down painting-wise with the 'quick Chinese soldiers'! This can only be described as ridiculous, stupid or both...

Anyway, back to the old days and Garrison catalogues.

Garrison produced about 5 variations of Napoleonic figures - which also comes across as ridiculous. However, these are photos from quite a while ago of various later issue British figures, including some of the Garrison painted figures that came with the company....

I did think about adding IDs for these but decided that it was making my brain hurt...