Saturday 2 March 2024

It will be ready when it is ready!

 A welcome, to what the Italian troops in Fiume in 192?, affectionately call "Il Ristorante delle Polpette Sospette." A little vignette to dress the table at a planned demonstration game at Partizan in May set in the "alternative reality" of the 1920s as played by the League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers. Viola Turpentine, the forces sweetheart, has been flown in from Rome, to entertain the troops with her special blend of Baltic-Sicilian-Ethiopian folk with accordion accompaniment. Clearly, one poor soldato can't take anymore! Figures are from all over the place and a Kriegspieling chum provided the resin printed dining table, chairs and bottles...clearly "liberated" from somewhere close by.











Saturday 10 February 2024

Front Rank French SYW Regiment La Sarre.

 All based up for skirmish gaming. Twenty four figures comprise this standard Battalion pack from Front Rank, sixteen of which are in the same firing pose, hence only a few of these are pictured. I am rather proud of the drummers. The flags come from GMB Designs and the finials from North Star Military Figures.





















Saturday 13 January 2024

Crann Tara WAS/SYW: two chaps with a ladder

 These figures from the Crann Tara French WAS/SYW range have been painted up in the uniform of the French Swiss Regiment Castellas. The photos reveal a small piece of basing material lodged under the mustket stock of one of the figures...I'll get rid of that later!







Thursday 21 December 2023

Thirty Years War/English Civil War Painting Guide out in January.

 My latest painting guide is now available for pre-order from Caliver Books.

https://www.caliverbooks.com/bookview.php?8ljv6e1vcam6uct41je98034t6&id=30350

Tuesday 19 December 2023

Sunday 3 December 2023

Crann Tara SYW: 1st Bn. Infantry Regiment Prinz Birkenfeld and some Staff Officers.

 More Crann Tara SYW Savoy figures painted up as 1st Bn. Infantry Regiment Prinz Birkenfeld for my Palatine force. Also, a single Perry figure (a special edition that a chum procured for me from a show) painted up as Generalmajor Christian Georg Freiherr von der Osten and a base containing two Eureka Miniatures' SYW Saxon mounted figures and a Perry AWI French officer to represent Generalleutnant Ferdinand Wilhelm Freiherr von Isselbach and staff.  The flags come from Frédéric Aubert now available on  his new website: https://adhoc-edition.com/en/11-uniforms-flags