Augustus and the Praetorian Guard

Here we have the Emperor Augustus and his bodyguard in 28mm by Warlord Games. Super models, gotta say I love painting Romans. I now have Imperial Roman armies in 4 scales....

Napoleonic Spanish and lancers

The last few weeks have been insanely busy at work, but I still completed 3 new regiments of 1/72 Napoleonics - enough to fill out the CC:N order of battle for the Albuera scenario. Here I have two regiment of Spanish infantry from Hat and a regiment of Polish guard lancers from Zvezda. They are glossy because the temperatures have not really allowed for dullcoting.

Napoleonic Russians and Dragoons

Last week I started on Napoleonic Russians - I have quite a horde of Zvezda and Strelets picked up in a job lot earlier this year. These are very nice figures, I did some Guards infantry and Cuirassiers by Zvezda, and a unit of British Dragoons by Hat that have been patiently waiting their turn in my painting queue for about 6 months.

USMC and Matanikau River

I have just finished a batch of Marines with US Army artillery support sufficient to fill out the OB for the Memoir 44 scenario Matanikau River, this was one of the bloody struggles on Guadalcanal:



I am not sure of the manufacturer of the Marines, they are 20mm metals, and there may be more than one, but the 75mm pack howitzers are from Waterloo 1815 and are a very useful 1/72 plastic kit - 3 guns with crews.

Banzai!!!!

Over the last two weeks I completed this force of Japanese army in 20mm for use in Memoir '44 and Fireball Forward. The metals are a batch I picked up in a swap and are mixed manufacturers. The Ha-go is a Dragon 1/72 kit and the Chi-ha is a resin of unknown manufacturer. The 70mm guns are the Waterloo 1815 kit - nice.

I am very fond of the anti-tank mine....very Japanese...

Maximillian Imperial army complete

Here is my completed DBA-RRR (I/9a) army of Maximillian Imperial (1494-1506) which is decidedly Germanic in flavour. There are 3 men-arms (Kn) including the General, 4 Landsknecht pike (Pk), 2 supporting verlorene haufe with halberd (Bd), 4 arquebus (2 as Sh, 2 as Sk), 1 great gun (Can). Figures are all Foundry. I will now work on assembling a French army featuring Swiss mercenaries as opponents.

Renaissance Great Gun

Wargames Foundry Great Gun with Landsknecht crew- based for DBA - RRR.

On another note, sure is irritating how I can no longer save text boxes in Blogger. Like, WTF? What's wrong with leaving things alone? I have not been able to update any of my sidebars for more than 2 weeks now. I've sent feedback off into the void several times now...grrr.....