Celtic cavalry

An unruly mob of Celtic cavalry. Figs are from Warlord.

El Cid complete

The last unit for my October Games Day is a squad of Christian militia crossbowmen, I now have ~2500 points per side for the big game.

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I also did a few Celtic chieftains for a WAB game next week. These guys are great, real characters:

And I am very proud to present the first few models (GW LOTR we picked up at a swap meet) painted by my daughter Sasha (age 9). Her favorite is Arwen. We also played through the four intro scenarios in Mines of Moria and she successfully won them all!

El Cid- almost done....

A few remaining bits and pieces for Christian Spanish, including some jinetes, mercenary command, a few archers and a priest:

North Africans and Military Order Spanish for El Cid

Getting close to finishing the El Cid project for WAB. Figures are all Old Glory, here are some North African skirmishers, zebra pattern shields:

Knights of the Order of Santiago, founded in 1170, with crossbow-armed retainers:

I have just a few peones and jinetes left to finish.

Bit of this and that...

I have done bits of painting over the last couple of weeks, I picked up a copy of Heroquest to play with the kids and a huge haul of Lord of the Rings models at a recent swap meet for them to learn to paint. That's a project I might blog at a later date- the 9-year old is not bad for a beginner. I also obtained some old GW Adventurers from Terry (ta!) and painted some of them to use in Heroquest. I quite like them- very colourful characters:

And while awaiting an order of 1/72 Swedes for Maurice, I also expanded my Spanish 1/72 stuff for my next Lasalle game. These are 1806 Prussians by Hat, I chose them for the bicorne which just seems so stylish it works for the Spanish:

Not just the artillery, but the cavalry too:

On the go I have my 28mm El Cid stuff to complete in preparation for an October games day. Just finished off the Almoravids, now to get to the Christians.

First Swedes and Cossacks

Over the past couple of weeks I finished a box of Zvezda 1/72 Cossacks for my Swedish GNW army, includes irregular mounted:

Foot (cool drummers) and artillery (on a cart)

Plus a box of Swedish infantry (enough for two units of foot) and some Russian dragoons painted as Swedish horse:

They are all based on 40mm squares, which makes things easy and accommodates anywhere from 4 to 6 foot figs comfortably on a base.

I am now back to Napoleonic Spanish for an interlude, then perhaps some more Swedes if they show up...

Napoleonic Spanish

I've been making progress on my Swedish army for the GNW, but still await bases to complete the three regiments already painted. Between Swedes, I have completed a brigade of 1/72 Spanish for my next Lasalle project (Albuera). There are no Spanish to speak of in 1./72, so these are Hat 1806 Prussians- vest and bicorne makes them look close to early war Spanish uniforms.