The Dog Legion

Following a resounding victory in the Teutoburger Forest, the Roman Empire expanded at a rapid pace, taking into it´s borders the whole of russia and the far east.
Now some 3000 yrs later the world has fallen into a terrible civil war that has lasted some 70 yrs and poisoned great swathes of the planet in poisonous gases.
Here we see a member of the elite Legio Canus IX. After the successful 4 year long battle of Newyork, the Legio Canus IX was recalled to retake Paris and the surrounding flood plains.
Motto of the Legio canus IX "come back carrying your body bag or wearing it!!"
The trooper wears the type 65 GT helmet, Mk 47 gladius, Kevlar shoulder pads and greaves.

 Ration packs supplied by Burger U..I´m eating!!, Oxygen tanks by Pro-pain inc. Uniform By Gangreen Chemicals Corp

Pegasus farm Animals

So, all together now..2..3..4..Old mcDonald had a farm, ee eye eee eye oh... and on his farm he had some.........

GOATS....

 ...Some PIGS ...

 ....Some COWS....

 ....and some SHEEP..

....ee eye eee eye OH

...but I haven´t painted the chickens and geese yet,  so no, "with a quack quack there" 

Old "converts"

So, it´s the end of the month and for me, the end of one year of blogging, well, this is post number 365  :-D
I´ve reached my target..a Post everyday, and then most of them Hobby related.
Virtually everything I have posted is from the last year or so or is actual...ie; Just painted, made or whatever.
I´ve seen a lot of other peoples work and learnt a lot,  made contact with some great people  and!!...It´s been great fun!!!!! :-D

This little lot are from the begginings of my obsession, some 35+ years ago...In the days when there were few manufacturers and you had to make do, always wishing that Airfix would bring out the 1/32nd stuff in HO..or the other way around....oh what Joy!! :-D

I´m not sure anymore what regiments these lot are supposed to represent!!

Wagons roll!!

In those days it wasn´t a matter of accuracy..it was the having the "different pose" that counted.

A testimony to the holding power of Humbrol gloss paint...

Add a drawing pin and the bod on the left gets a shield  

As can be seen, I liked bods with MP´s. The one in the middle has had his MP40 replaced with a Panzerfaust (a pin)

Hello to Andy from Modest miniatures. Very nice VBCW in 28mm and as Andy says;
However unfortunately I never seem to actually get to game; I just spend hundreds of hours modelling and painting, occasionally producing the odd bit of scenery and a scary amount of time making endless army lists for devastating forces that shall never see the light beyond the end of the miniature display cases.
I Know what he means :-D

Emhar Vikings (conversions)

After getting back from hols in the UK a couple more conversions from the Emhar/Imex hard plastic Vikings.
During my visit I finally found an excellent modelshop, one which reminded me of the sort of model shops from my younger days...the Hereford Model centre. If anyone lives in the area and hasn´t heard of it, it´s well worth a visit..Great range of models and kits and helpfull friendly staff.


The whole gang so far

Saxon Houses (how to)

A little article on how I made the saxon houses

Tools needed...some green insulating foam, Matchsticks, some thin woodsheeting (an old drawer bottom) sharp blade, scissors, woodglue, Bailingstring, pins and paint.

Cut the foam into a triangle, cut the doorway out

Cut matchsticks to size and glue into the doorway as the door frame. Make sure they stick out a couple of millimeters above the foam.

The "planks" are made from the bottom of an old drawer, the type that is made up of layers of thin wood. Leave it oustside for a week or so in the rain...then lay it in sunlight...it starts peeling apart, so no unecessary work manually parting each layer. ;-D

Paint the front of the foam triangles dark brown, and glue the "planks" on

When dried, simply trim the "planking" with a good pair of scissors.

Glue the sides on and paint them brown, glue the whole structure to the base. It´s best to paint the inside area of base which the hut covers with dark brown...it´s easier now thantrying to paint through the doorway later

Using thing pieces odf wood glue the above structure on.

When all is dry, cut off finger width sections of bailing string, dab one end in some wood glue and attach using a toothpick or whatever to spread the "sraw" evenly, occasionaly pressing the "straw" into the glue.

Keep going, layer for layer until the above effect is achieved. When it´s all dry, snip the straggly bits of straw off....bit of base decoration...finished!!

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