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The 2019 To the Strongest Worlds! Part II
Connor Truby I think, vs. Peter Ryding?Ā Here are the balance of the photos that I've been given from Saturday's To the Strongest! Worlds.Gareth Purchon vs. Barry Lee. I fought Garreth, later in the...
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The 2019 To the Strongest Worlds! Part III
Swiss civil war at ChalgroveI thought people might enjoy some modest stats on the tournament!List of the competing armies, in alphabetic orderAlmoravid BerberCaesarian RomanClassical IndianEarly...
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Celtathon V
I've been posting less, of late, on account of all the basing I've been doing for my Mancetter 61CE Salute game.Ā Above are the warbands for the game. The sharp-eyed will observe that five bases are...
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Gardes, Gardes!
I was doing a photo shoot yesterday for some newFlatpack Terrain river and track productsĀ that I'm selling, and found I needed some marching figures. In my loft I found these; they've not seen the...
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Flocking Britons
Chum Ian on Day 2 of the annual pre-Salute flockathon.Ā That's around half the Britons.
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Flocking Britons Day 4
Day 4: The entire dining room is covered in a thin layer of flock. Beer in hand, Ian is contemplated the last remaining unflocked unit of slingers.Ā After this there are the 18 chariots and the laager...
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Meet the Flockers!
Here am I (left) with chum Ian Notter (right) with the 100% flocked and tufted British army that we've just completed for our huge "To the Strongest! Salute game. Many thanks to Ian- it's not something...
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Mancetter to Salute! Part I
Here are some lovely photos that chum Ian Notter took of our To the Strongest! Battle of Mancetter 61CE game. The shot above catches the back of the laager, warriors, slingers, Roman skirmishers,...
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Mancetter to Salute- Part II
Apologies for the delay in posting the second part of this- I have been frantically busy since Salute! All of these lovely close-ups of our Mancetter 61CEĀ To the Strongest! game were taken by Alan...
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On my basing trays!
Mea culpa- it's been almost 4 weeks since my last post. Since Salute I have been painting and basing various things- mostly late medievals- that have been stuck in queus behind my Celts. It's great not...
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La Garde march North!
Here are another detachment of La Garde just about to march to Leven via Newark.Ā These grognards are exceptionally well travelled, having flown to Paris where they were painted by chum Lionel Bechara,...
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The Black Bands of Giovanni
This is my first proper Renaissance unit, representing the pike element of the Bande Nere of Giovanni de' Medici, as they might have appeared in the 1520s, after his death. Uniform details for his...
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Machiavellian Swordsmen
Here is my first completed Florentine unit, some unusual-looking Italian swordsmen; I just love the character of these chaps. It's quite uncommon to find infantry equipped with just a sword and no...
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Florentine Mounted Crossbows
These are the mounted crossbows who will accompany the recently-posted Florentine swordsmen.Ā Some people think that Italian chaps such as these might well have ridden to the battlefield but dismounted...
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Wargaming Butterfly
Much of the time I'm painting and basing on some huge project or another, against a tight deadline. At the moment, though, I'm not and consequently I'm flitting about, completing projects that have...
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Louis Quatorze's Warses
This week I've had a really heavy cold and haven't been fit for much other than some light basing duties. Here are some miniatures that David Imrie (Saxon Dog) painted that I've finally managed to...
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Tournaisis
Here is the first finished battalion for my Late c.17th project, in fact the very minis that attracted me to the period. David Imrie very kindly sold me these miniatures some five years back. They...
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Royal Dragoons WIP
I've been very busy painting and basing, recently, too busy to post very much, although I will catch up. But here is a WIP shot of the Royal Dragoons, for a future Sedgemoor project. They are North...
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Gallic Horse
Here are some photos of my extended and re-based Gallic horse. These are, strictly, part of my Gallic army as seenĀ at Salute in April, but they weren't needed for the Mancetter battle. Shaun McTague...
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Fun with de-basing
I believe that only three things are certain, in life: Death, taxes and the need to re-base miniatures.I base well over 1000 minis a year, mostly onto the very large bases I designed and use with "To...
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