The CCC ( Colonial Camel Corps)

I really don´t like painting camels...there´s so much of them!!!! :-D
This lot are made up from the HaT british camel corps and the HaT Egyptian Camel Corps
Nice sets...only one thing..there could be a couple more dismounted bods to create a firing line.

I went for two different camel colour schemes..lighter ones for the British..to off set all the grey and darker for the Egyptians to offset the white.

I painted the helmets as they should be..but I didn´t like the look so went with plain white without the green band.

The faces have turned out looking a bit too dark in the photo...

Definately a lack of different dismounted bods!!!

I nearly forgot...what rules will I use for them?. I´ve got a set of napoleonic wargames rules written by T.J.Halsall and A.M.Roth and published by Newbury. All the basics are there, melee, morale, movement etc..I´ll just have to upgrade weapons ranges, fire rates, come up with an idea for gatling gun effects and bingo :-D

Hello to J Womack Esq. JW, long term blogger has 5 blogs!! I´ll pick one...Victoria's Boys in Red (fits with my present painting theme :-D ) Victoriana / Steampunk...another gaming theme which I really like the look of...   

Colonial Light horse and Marines

Firstly, thanks to all for the big response to the Colonial army post...:-D
@Mike...the Army will get a just bit bigger.. it´s not a long term project.
Now for the lastest additions to the army.

The Marines from  the "Black Pig"

The Trumpton lighthorse. Captain Flack is off having a cup of cha. Pictured are Troopers Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

Hello to JeffM from The lair of the Evil DM blog. There´s some..very interesting models pictured there ;-D
Hello to Gauntlett from Duwburg Gamer. blog. All periods collected and played. He´s only been blogging for a couple of months but already has a fine little collection posted.
Hello to brownk29, Thanks for following....no link??

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..!!!!