Medieval camp (knights tents)

The upperclass of the medieval era have got some canvas cover whilst on campaign.
Scratch built with card. The tent pegs are bits of metal rod. The flags are stuck on with pins so they can be swopped or removed completely for storage.

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Strelets dacian cavalry

They got a bit of a bad review at PSR, due mainly to the addition of bods waving falx´s above thier head whilst on horseback...a two handed weapon infantry weapon, and the fact that Dacia didn´t really have much cavalry of it´s own..so these are more likely to be Sarmations.

I painted the standard with a bull´s Head because....well because I couldn´t come up with anything else :-/

Just to say I was on holiday this last week...I had access to a PC until tuesday when   the bloody thing lost contact with the broadband reception....!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the recent posts were saved and put on schedule...so I haven´t been ignoring anyone and it looks like you´ve all been busy so I´ve a lot to catch up on...:-D

Strelets Germanic Horsemen

Strelets ancient Cavalry week??? Why not...I´ve got a bit of a soft spot for Strelets figs.
They got a bit of a bad review at PSR on the historical aspect but they are still not a bad set..usefull for supporting J.Caeser in vanquishing vecingetorix´s  Gallic Hordes. There are some good little touches like the heads of enemies hung on the horses!!!

Two of the "wolf riders".....

OOOH my aching head!!!

Strelets Roman cavalry in battle

As with the Strelets roman cavalry on the march set, every bod of the 12 is different. The only real alteration I made was the swopping of the standard for a home made one..
PSR review here 

Strelets Roman cavalry on the march

One of the last sets of Romans I painted. They were intended to go with the Roman legion on the march set but I never got round to basing them...which I have now done.
PSR review here.

I like the original poses that strelets come up with, like the one of the officers struggling  (it looks) to pull his sword out of the sheath.

LOOK!!! The one at the far right is waving!! :-D

I added some bed/cloak rolls (pinched from 1/32nd Tamiya German infantry) and instead of having the shields attached to all thier backs as intended, I attached them to the sides..it gives a more varied and realistic look.

The Hanged Man

No picture here...I´m not too keen to show scenes which may upset anyone, especially younger viewers, and as I don´t want to put a warning etc  on the front of my blog...the warning is now here...
So as I precaution I´ve linked it internally to a neutral post here 
Things like this did happen so that is why I have re-created it...
I know there are already models available of such events, like the Atlantic Outlaws and Sherrifs set but I feel it´s not necessary   to splash it all over the net so younger viewers can see it without being warned first.

Arrow catcher

Bravely he ran to the fight, but alas he caught an arrow!!! :-(

He was part of a duel over at  Bennos Forum...I got a deserved kicking from Rich ( West Models & figures Blog ) 

I am at the moment using another PC, ....I can see that I have two new followers but only on the dashboard(thanks to both of you) but I can't see who, on front of page or on the dashboard..it won' t load up...sorry...I' ll say hello properly in a few days :-)
Same goes for commenting on other blogs or forums!!!!!Nothing works at the moment!!! I can only edit posts..which are all saved as drafts and set on automatic posting

Saxon Houses

The ones the poor folk would have lived in....:-(

Saxon conversions (Emhar)

A busy day yesterday, cutting off arms and heads, twisting arms and legs with a bit of gentle persuasion and a small pair of pliers :-D

The whole gang, so far

Saxon Warriors (Emhar)

Or, as with the Vikings...Emhar or Imex. as is shown in the PSR review.
Like the vikings, these are made of hard glueable plastic, and I´m in the process of converting a few now. The head swops are a dream...cut the head off one bod and glue on another (obviously the recipient has had his old head removed first)  using normal plastic kit glue.

These were sent to me along with the Vikings by Dan from the Command tent..and I say again, thanks mate...they are real fun to paint and convert. :-D

I went for a toned down colour scheme, no brightly coloured shileds etc.   I consider these the levy type of foot soldiers, no chain mail, basic helmets and weaponary.

One thing to watch out for...the thin parts like the shafts of weapons...only use a very tiny bit of glue on them...they melt very quickly!!!!

Federation Force Troopers (Dark Dream studios)

The only thing I´ve found that comes close to a review of this lot is at Toy Soldier HQ (scroll down), PSR haven´t covered them...yet :-D
A big thankyou to Alex for sending me these weird and wonderfull bods :-D 
I´ve also got the machines but so far have only managed to work out how one of them fits together. If anyone knows where I can find the build instructions, especially for the Imperial Force Cyborg Destroyer "Long Shadow" I´d be very gratefull.

Rifle group

Heavy weapons. From left to right, MG, some sort of ray gun, missile launcher, grenade launcher

The whole team in the ruins of @°§*'! (sorry, the alien for this place doesn´t translate) backed up with my scratch built A.P.U

Hello to Sasha (Zed1) from Zed´s Napoleonics blog Sasha is into Napoleonics...and a great job he does of them...some of his conversions are inspirational...he even paints their eyes!!!
Hello to Haarken from Martians & and Machine Guns blog .Colonial & Science Fiction Wargaming in the Victorian Age, very HG Wells, his Martian Tripods are lovely.
Hello to Smillie from Painting Diary Blog. A great painter with a sense of humour...his lateset post about PVA gold is well worth a read...I agree entirely with it..
Hello to Andrew. I´ve found you on Google + but no blog??

Revell Albatross D.III (Lt B. Loerzer 1917)

I´ve already built one of these, painted up in the colours of Ltn . Werner Voss, Jasta 2 Boelcke, June 1917.  but I really like the look of Albys so I couldn´t resist doing another.
This one is in the colours of Lt Bruno Loerzer, Jasta 26, westen front, summer 1917.

 Stringbags!!!! I love em!! :-D

Hello to Chasseur...from For Honour´s Sake blog. Long time member of the Bennos forum he´s now gone over to the "dark side"...the bigger than 20mm stuff!!!!!!!! :-D
The idea of making a drill into a mini lathe is a great one...I´m going to pinch that one mate.