Colonial Army

A bit of a break from Medievals....lots of red and white colonials...maybe it´s got something to do with having seen lots of people dressed in a similar fashion lately ...yo ho ho.
I´ve been toying with the idea of making a colonial army  for a while now, but got my finger out after seeing these gatling guns and looking jealosly at Duncan´s Blog 20mm Colonial Wargaming
This lot are the start of a "colonial" army who are getting ready to put down an insurrection in the Chocolate producing Principality of Khandihar...led by the incontinent Kailf..Mustapha leek
The mission has to be successfull, I mean..how will the ladies and gents back home get to sleep without thier mugs of hot chocolate in the evening ???

The army so far. The 9-Pdr I  painted some time ago, but the rest in the last 3 days :-D

Any historical similarity to any kilts pattern in existance is purely coincidental :-P

The red jackets..?? They look good :-D

Gardner Gun from Hat

Gatling gun from HaT

9-Pdr from Hat Colonial artillery

Heliograph and Telescope that come with the Gatling gun set. I´ve  based them seperately so they can be used as signallers or spotters for the artillery.  

Medieval Springauld / Springald

Another addition to my artillery park....a ballista. I haven´t painted the crew as Burgundian´s, I just like the colour scheme :-D
Available from Fredericus -Rex

The Ropes etc seem to have come out a bit white looking in the pics!! :-/

The set comes with a basket of ammo....but I suppose the Ballista could throw big darts or spears like this one;

This Spear throwing Springauld is also availble now from Fredericus -Rex..

Medieval market

Some of the bods from The Strelets Roman market..converted with a bit snipping and a bit of paint.

All the possible  "conversions" from the set. I could of got a couple more but it would have been stretching it a bit...too many medievals in sleeveless tunics starts to ..er?......look odd

The females don´t need a lot of work..well none really in the case of the poor peasant girl, but the woman with the basket has been careles and let the X-mas goose do a runner.

Again, just a bit of a re-paint. The guy with the whip has swopped his Pugio for a sword.

No change for the bakers wife...as with the baker (apart from some warm tights :-D ) The Amphore have had one handle removed to give them a less roman appearance. I could of cut the bottoms flat as well..but that would have meant risking the paintjob ......and  I´m lazy :-D

Hello to Peter celella from Sword and Sandal Gaming blog. A huge amount of Ancients (and other eras) in all scales.
Hello to Gowan from Gowan´s 1/72nd scale models blog. Fun and creativity..His fantasy medievals are great :-D

Medieval German War wagon

A sort of mobile Mantlet..or the first ever Ikea moblie Walk-in-Wardrobe :-D
Scratch built from bits of plastic card, aircraft kit sprue and some old Kinder egg suprise cannonwheels.

What´s behind the doors ? 

A trestlegun, made using the barrel from the bombard from the redbox hussite artillery set.All 4 doors slide open and shut.

German War wagon ca 1480 from the Mittelalteriche Hausbuch

Roman market (linear-B)

A new set  by Strelets (release date to be announced) commissioned and exclusive to Linear-b

All the roman bods out selling and buying

Slave traders and wares

Baker, potters and Butcher

Buyers and the woman with a BIG goose!!

Bread maker, cloth merchant and cobbler

For my  full review look here

Burgundian Archers

A couple of days ago I realised my Burgundian footsloggers were missing something.  Archers!!
This lot are the armoured archers using bods from Accurate´s Hundred years War english Men-at-Arms and the RedBox Men-at-arms and Retinue set. If you look at them on PSR...don´t panic...it appears, on the scans that there are just bods embedded in flash, but I think PSR must have got a pretty badly cast set. Mine were ok and needed only a little knife work to sort them out.

The three archers from the Redbox set..bowstrings added like this :-D

Based for impetus.BTW...a couple of you have asked about my opinion of Impetus. It would take up a lot of space to go into it but basically, it´s not a bad system which you can tweek to suit. It would also be difficult for me to compare..they are the only rules I am using..the last set of rules I used were the Newbury ones for napoleonic and that was 30 years ago

Hussite Heavy Infantry

Well, the ones with the pole arms. Bods from the Redbox´s  Hussite infantry and Strelets medieval Levy (1)

Based using one of my  "changeable" Impetus bases

 ...AND!!!! The whole army so far :-D

The infantry base looks a bit odd..too thick....it will have to be re-done :-/

Hello to Dean from Dean´s Hobby Blog...no posts yet but it looks like he´s another 1/72nd fan :-D (and Dean, your google friends isn´t put on the public setting, your Avatar doesn´t link back ;-) )

Bringing home the Bacon

A mini dio for a duel over at Bennos Forum.  This one was against my Arch duelling enemy Rich from the forum,  the proud owner of West models and figures Blog . and the person responsible for my starting this blog. Usually he beats me..he´s a great painter and a genius scenery builder  ..but this time :-D

Hussite Wagons (occupied)

The redbox bods have moved in along with a couple of mates from Airfix, Orion, Miniart and revell

Hello to gaarew from 15ml of fame.Looking at some of his painted minis..it´s hard to believe they are 15mm..
Hello to Howard...your google friends connect is not on mate
Hello toTimur from Carpat`Land  loads of minis..mostly medievals (good man :-D) and he isn´t afraid to mix genres in his wargames
Hello to Schrumpfkopf from Großbeeren 1813. Another load of  great painted 15mm and his homemade flags are wow..!!!!

Hussite artillery (Upgrade)

I´ve added another  gun to the Hussite army..this time the Veuglaire from the Zvezda Medieval field Powder set.
Would the Hussites been in possesion of such a weapon???
Maybe not but it looks bloody good so why not?:-D
The previous RedBox gun was painted along with the crew OOB..
This time I´ve swopped some heads from the Airfix Robinhood set and the Italeri English Knights and Archers set.

 Both guns together

Norman shield wall

Made up using bods from Strelets sets and the HaT El Cid spanish Infantry set. The Strelets bods are due to holding thier shields to the front, good for creating the centre of the wall and the HaT bods, holding thier shields to the left or right can be used to close the flanks.

The right and left flanks

Hello to RazorOne223 from Miniature Wargames Junkie Blog. He has a Painting service which is no wonder looking at his "rushjob" painting