Triarii

Here are 6 bases of Gripping Beast Triarii for the MayDay game project. I've decided on a historical battle to base the scenario upon - Metaurus (207 BC) from the Second Punic War. A very important battle which saw the Romans defeat Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal Barca with his reinforcement army in the north of Italy. Hasdrubal's defeat (he lost his head too) spelled the eventual end of Hannibal's campaign in Italy.

Modern microarnour: Bundeswehr 1985

I finished some modern GHQ and CinC microarmour for a game I want to run on Tuesday using the Epic rules modified for early Cold War. Here we have Lep Is, Luchs, Raketepanzers and some infantry fireteams.

Carthaginian war elephant and velites

The last stuff to be finished in 2014 is a Foundry Carthaginian war elephant with howdah - nice model that I've been meaning to tackle for some time:

And a few stands of velites by Crusader - I love Crusader sculpts, they are definitely on the chunky side, but always a treat to paint:

1/72 Nassau Brigade

Perhaps the last stuff to come off the bench in 2014, here we have two battalions of Napoleonic Nassau troops for the Waterloo campaign. These are 1/72 by Hat.

Russian light infantry, 1805 style

I finished today a box of Hat 1/72 Russian 1805 light infantry (jagers) working towards a CCN scenario next semester at EWG. Love these Hat figures, and as I was painting them thought that I ought to come up with a top ten list of why I like and stay with this scale.

Anyhoo - here they are:

Modern microarmour and Battle of Five Armies

I just finished working up a bunch of modern microarmour to play a 1985 Cold War scenario using an adaptation of the Epic Armageddon rules by GW. I have played Epic once and thought it was a lot of fun, I actually think it is a great ruleset for adaptation to moderns. So here we have:

A company of T-62s by GHQ

 

BTR60s, BRDMs and artillery (CinC and GHQ)

Infantry and support weapons (GHQ)

Hind D (CinC)

An Airfix 1/76 Sdkfz222 for next weeks game of Chain of Command

And also, one of my chums requested that I post some pictures of my Battle of Five Armies 10mm stuff by GW. I painted these 10 years ago when the GW box game was released as part of their Specialist Games range (all of which I think were fantastic, such a shame they killed them all).

Beorn, Thorin's gang, eagles and Gandolf:

Dain and men of the lake

 Dwarves

 Wargs and warg-riders:

 Elves:

Goblins, Bolg and a shaman:

Napoleonic Russian Hussars

By Strelets - look like hell on the sprue but paint up very nicely as usual. I am working towards a CCN scenario in the New Year.

Yes I know hussars usually left their banner in the barracks, but these ones didn't!