Gendarmes

Two bases of Foundry Gendarmes for my DBA-RRR project - these will be in the service of Maximillian.

Dwarf Warband

I picked up these handsome fellows up in a swap meet last year. I painted them over the last couple of weeks, might run them out next week using either Song of Blades or GW-LOTR against goblins and trolls in a Moria setting.

Landsknechts!

I have tucked away a large assortment of Italian Wars by Foundry and others. Decided to finally dig them out. Over the last two weeks I painted my first few stands of landsknechts - here are 4 bases of pikes and two bases of skirmishers. They are time consuming to paint, but are they ever purdy to look at! I love Foundry stuff...

I'm workings towards a pair of armies to play DBA-RRR. These will be mercenaries in the employ of Maximillian. 

Microarmor for 1944

Here is a batch of 1944 Germans to fill out the first scenario of a MarketGarden series of games I will run at the club over the next year or so. The hetzers are standing in for Pzjd IVs...shhh... Infanty are mostly Adler, rest are GHQ.

Dice bargain at Value Village!

Yesterday I found a bargain at the 34th Ave Value Village thrift store when I was rummaging around with the kids - a bag of 50 high quality assorted polyhedral dice for $5! Whoo-hoo! I picked up one bag and there were two others on the shelf in the toy section when I left.

Now, I suppose I don't really need all these lovely dice....but you can never have too many, and they normally go for a buck each or so.

 

This one is a bit of a mystery - anybody know what this icon on the 6-face represents? The other sides have normal pips.

Romans done, 6mm moderns

Just finished the forces for two of the Roman Civil War CCA scenarios pitting Caesar vs Pompey. Here we have some medium legions, light cavalry and commanders.

And also some modern microarmor that I picked up at a club auction a little while back. Here we have some some Sheridans done in my first attempt at NATO 3-colour camo scheme. I have always wanted to do some Cold War stuff, mid 80s central Europe, but I have not yet found scenarios or rules that work for me. Suggestions welcomed!

Reaper Bones and some more 10mm

I tested a batch of my Reaper Bones bonanza of figures, here are 12 goblins:

They are not bad, the sculpts have lots of character, perhaps a bit less sharp in detail than metal, as you would expect with a polymer casting, but they take paint well. They are cast in a rubbery plastic that apparently does not require priming. I coated mine with Vallejo sepia wash prior to painting to bring out the detail. Worked perfectly.

I also made more progress on the 10mm Roman Civil War CCA project. Here are a warband (Pendraken)

Medium legion:

and Lights (use of ahistorical green was intentional to key them as lights for CCA)