10mm Confederate artillery and cavalry

Here are the remaining elements for the Confederate order of battle for Pea Ridge using Altar of Freedom. Two cavalry, four artillery and a general - in this case Johnston standing in for Van Dorn.

Nice figs - all Pendraken, I'm really impressed with them. Starting to make me wonder about doing more 10mm - it is such a nice compromise between mass and detail.

Dervish warriors

A mix of Hat and Waterloo 1/72 Dervish warriors including jezzail armed skirmishers, warband and some camelry. This is a very slow burning colonial project that I am thinking of converting Lion Rampant to play.

Knight for Lion Rampant

Here are two groups of 25mm knights for a Lion Rampant crusades game I will be hosting this week. The first group are in a red/yellow livery followed by a group of mixed livery. The figs are 25mm Old Glory - not bad, lots of animation as one would expect.

10mm Confederate regiments

Here are 10 regiments of Rebs in 10mm, mix of figures from Old Glory (back row) and Pendraken (front row). I have a slow burn ACW project on the go that I managed to make a dent in this month. I am thinking of Altar of Freedom or something else grand scale - Battle Cry is always a possibility too.

 

"Hanoverian" Napoleonics and the best-ever-tin

Apologies for being out of touch for a while, the family and I spent 10 days in Florida building beach fortifications:

And after we got back, I head-swapped some vintage Airfix Prussian Landwehr with Hat British infantry heads to create a couple of units of Hanoverian militia for the Waterloo project. Yes, I know that Hanoverian militia wore most British uniforms in 1815 by the time of Waterloo, but I was inspired by the unit cards from Sam Mustafa's Blucher to do something different with them so that they stand out. Plus, these are genuine vintage 1980s Airfix figures and I wanted to find a place on the table for them. Left the flags in dark blue since I have no idea what to do with them.

Finally, the missus found the World's Best Tin Box at a garage sale down the street - it rocks!

Lego Minifig for scale below- I shall use this very useful box to store unusually tall and unwieldy models - such as High Elf chariots and dragons that have very tall profiles.  Score!!!

1/72 Napoleonics and Red Devils

Feeling a bit unfocussed recently, so been doing a bit of this and a bit of that. Here we have a box of Hat Napoleonic French light infantry, which are needed for the ongoing Waterloo project:

and a few Italeri British airborne. Sculpts are okay but Esci sculpted some goofy poses.

And my dog looking sad because she has only been on two walks and had one breakfast so far today.

Early medievals and the rebasing conundrum

Over the past two weeks I painted a few small units of 28s for Lion Rampant and/or Saga. These were of Byzantine archers:

 Armenian archers by Perry:

 
Armenian crossbowmen by Perry:

And then played around with the thought of rebasing my 20mm British paras on unit stands for a company level game (stand = squad), then thought better of that and tried to make a magnetic skirmish tray that would hold 4 models to represent a squad - not sure if this works or not, so I bought another box of paras to do on unit stands just in case.

I must be nuts, it's bad enough to have some armies in multiple scales (e.g. 1944 Brits and Imperial Romans I now have in 3 scales each) but based in multiple formats within the same scale. Aieee...