Wednesday 8 January 2014

In the Bleak Midwinter, take 2

There's still more to share. The original post was getting too long, so I did "historicals" and "what-if historicals" in the first and I'll do the more imaginative stuff in this one.

From our Imigi-nations campaign, Freedonian horse artillery
(Frying Pan & Blanket Wayne's Legion artillerists)

Freedonian Marines (FP&B AWI British Guards)

Freedonian militia battalion "Gummo"
All the militia battalions are named for the Marx Brothers. I think the next one will be "Cheeto", the least known and cheesiest brother.

Three stands from Colonel Pepper's Dragoons, a mercenary unit based on the cover of the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." My daughter insisted I paint four of the troopers in the colours of the Beatles uniforms from the cover. (Figures are some Russian plastics in 1/72)

Freedonian Dragoon Regiment Scungili (three stands of FP&B's best)
Fine Italian horsemen. Don't laugh! A lot of the Italian cavalry was first class.
Reaper Miniatures space marine of some sort. I liked how he looked even if his weapon is the size of a refrigerator.

A dwarf king from an unknown manufacturer. He'd been sitting around for a  LONG time.

Reaper's rather gruesome undertaker/grave digger.

A Sci-fi accountant with lots of paper documents. Sorta dates the figure, doesn't it?

Games Workshop dwarf miner/prospector. I thought the jeweller's loup was funny.

A werewolf either Rob or I had painted a long time ago. I found him in a box with his right arm and tail broken off.
So he's a "renovated" figure.
GW undead cavalry jazzed up with some extra and less GW-undead looking weapons, shields, and helmet.

Pendragon 10mm galoglaich/galloglasses for Warmaster fantasy or historical

GW's Warmaster 10mm Chaos troops from some northern country
Maybe Timmons? (Eh, Martin?)

Epic scale Orc vehicles for GW's Epic Space Marine game. I still like it and I ran into these things at a swap meet.
I painted these "Temple Dogs" from Reaper at Rob's prompting. He asked for them in a style that made them look like they were carved from jade. I think the photo doesn't look quite right;
they look more "jade-y" in person.

Not fantasy, just forgotten. Aztec Otomi warriors from Tin Soldier. These sat languishing in a box for along time until Martin and I began to play DBR with has an Aztec list. So I rebased them and began to finish what was unpainted.

Tin Soldier's Aztec warrior priests. These can be quite colourful figures!

Tin Soldier's Aztec warriors with two-handed Macuahuitl - basically a club with sharpened obsidian on the edges. Horrible against skin and cotton fibre armour but almost useless against metal armour.
Still nice figures though.
All for now. I hope to have more AAR's soon.

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  1. My that's a colourful collection!!!!

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    1. Thanks, Ray. Some of the figs, like the Aztecs, need colour.

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  2. Another of the 'bright and colourful' school of wargames military tailoring... Yes!! Excellent, dude!

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    1. Thanks! Some of those blues show up a lot brighter in photos than they do to the eye. I don't understand it.

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