These are the second to last installment of MTB02 - French Army - French and Indian Wars army pack being painted by Graham. We met up for breakfast Sunday morning to exchange hostages. As always the figures have been beautifully executed and they put my own painting efforts to shame.
This is the start of my ACW project for the release of Kepis and Bayonets but I may end up playing Sharpe's Practice instead. I received a collection of Perry Miniatures, both metals and plastics, as part of a bulk purchase. I sold half, gifted another quarter of the figures which were used by William in my previous blog post about the ACW Sharpe's Practice game we played and kept the rest for this project.
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| ACW Figures as is |
After another member of the Montreal Historical Wargaming Club, posted about the start of his Confederate Army I reponded that I had some troops available to save the Union. As you can see above they have a basic block painting style. I started with a rebase and experimented with a couple of styles of Kraut Cover Scenics.
I will repaint the flesh as they currently look undead, or at least did not get any sun. I'll add some detailings and finish with a wash to give them depth. I've seen what some of the OMG (Ottawa Miniatures Games) group was able to do with similiarly painted figures from the same source.
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| My treated artillery, I now have 96 infantry to update. |
A couple of orc banner men with banners flying purchased from Flags of War. Not a clean fit but with a little work on placement and superglue, serves its purpose.
On April 30th, Graham hosted a Sharpe's Practice game for 4 players at the Abyss. William provided the scenario, Graham the terrain and both supplied the troops. John and myself were willing bodies in the front lines. Here are some photos from the evening's encounter.
Ball's Cross Roads August 21st 1861, resulted in a confederate victory, when Lt Carter and his three units of Volunteers, suddenly appeared at the edge of the cornfield in front of the Union troops and unleashed two devastating volleys of fire into the massed enemy columns slowly advancing through the orchard. Union forces under William and John, Rebs under Graham and myself.
Upon revisiting the rules, it was discovered that the deployment disk which allowed Lt Cater's Volunteers to appear was most likely too forward. None the less, IMO it will become a gaming moment to recount.
Yesterday, Chris a local brush for hire dropped off his latest work for me. After completeing the Orcs I asked him to work on my collection of the men of the east. These figures were from Harlequin Miniatures LOTR line. Seaching online I believe I have one box of each of the following and that the line was 32mm figures, not 28mm.
Herumor's Southron Spearmen. LRB003 Harlequin,
Ar-Feinel's Corsair Spearmen. LRB012 Harlequin
and Castamir's Corsair Archers. LRB010 Harlequin.
Each box contained15 figures, 12 fighting men, and command. All were ebay purchases many years ago. I will finish the bases this weekend.
Another 20 Lord of the Rings Orcs from the old Harlequin Miniatures line are complete. As with the first batch and as part of my ongoing triage I commissioned a local painter to paint theese figures.
Outside completed projects, the figures I amassed over 50 years is roughly divided into 1) projects I will paint 2) projects that I will commission to have painted and finally 3) miniatures for projects that I will never use and must thus must desposed of. I thank Chris for his assistance in helping me move forward with my Orc Warband.
Now that the Canadian tax season is almost behind us, I hope to devote more time in applying brush to metal. Belonging to the Montréal Historical Wargaming Club has provided much needed focus for various projects. The group really forced me to up my game and akso helped reduce my mountain of shame.
This is the first half of a group Lord of the Rings Orcs that were painted for my Army of Darkness. I am basing the figures to match the orcs I originally painted in 2010. The figures were produced by Harlequin Miniatures, the company which had the rights to LOTRs before Games Workshop. IMO the Harlequin orcs were closer to my idea of orcs, than those of Peter Jackson. My introduction to both LOTRs and DnD dates back to the early to mid 1970s in high school. My dream then, to field an orc warband on the tabletop.
This was an army that I inherited almost 10 years ago. The figures are from Black Raven Miniatures. Recently I was able to have it painted and I now have a fairly large dwarven force assembled to go up against my Undead. Other than the command stands I attached the figures to metal bases and I actually like the bare metal look.
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| First Dwarven Corps - Still waiting for the glue to dry. |
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| Complete Amy in it's storage box. Enough figures for three HOTT armies. |
Museum Miniatures offered a some camel figures that look like a generic line. I purchased 6 packs of 15/AC71 Camel Lancers and another 6 packs of 15/AC72 Camel Archers. It is enough to provide 12 DBA elements. Now I have to locate an army list to fit them in. Otherwise I'll just use them as a HOTT nomadic desert warband.
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| Painted by Old Guard Painters |
This was a spontaneous purchase on my part last year when Museum Miniatures offered their annual 25% off sale. I thought the figures looked nifty and as you can see they painted up really well. Although they are advertized as 15mm, IMO they're closer to 18mm.
