Quailty Street Uniform :)

Chocolate box soldiers.... ?

Painted for commission, GW Mordians, as Spineguard Traitor Guard, also known as Spire Guard apparently.

Cheers Shaun

French Indian Units for Mukaets & Tomahawks Rules

Good Injuns?

Bad Injuns?

Its the Green family... from Hertford, England... come on down.....

Its George W and his colonial militia... come to save the day?

Officers, Gentlemen and boys.... and an axeman

Front Rank Present....

Front rank fire... i hope you didnt aim...

Devils in skirts... figures converted fron Foundry ? 1815 Highlanders Frenchies to follow. Rangers and Couries de Bois to be ordered from www.Gallopingmajor.co.uk at the weekend (curtesy of the painting commission). Cheers Shaun

40K IG Painting Commission

Painting commission - 49 figures 40K Imperial Guard Cadians - painted as Spineguard

Re-inforced Command Squad

Squads I II & III

Heavy Weapon Support Squads I II also showing unit designation markings on the base rim cheers Shaun

Slowly slowly painty figure

Have quietly been pushing pigment for a couple of months now, SAGA Normans for 108pts SAGA Saxons for 20pts FIW brits, colonials and injuns for 71pts And on commission GW Imperial Guard for 10pts Still painting more for the FIW... Gray frenchies and more commission IG Then back to the SAGA stuff... Which is based individually but sabot based for impetus Shaun

They think it's all over.....

It is now.....

So with painting points at an all time low..

And the winter being spent reboxing and sorting out what figures I actually have, I have invisibly bought a card game.

Yesterdays club night saw the seal being broken on Shadows copy of BLood Bowl Team Manager. Liked it, can see huge potential and have now bought it off of eBay.

And the bonus is I don't have to paint anything!!

Seasons greetings

Cheers Shaun

Plastic fantastic -history schmistry

Hi all,

Well didn't go to SELWG, petrol vrs no spending money would of meant a poor return for my hard earned pennies.... So went to see "Real Steel" or rocky the robot And " three musketeers" which was much fun, good to Titus Pullo again.

So i have over the years acquired a few boxes of plastic figures, never full priced and usually impulse bought. So what to do with an eclectic mix of bits n bobs...

1box of French napoleonic hussars
2 boxes of French napoleonic heavy cavalry
1/2 box of French napoleonic dragoons
3 boxes of perry napoleonic French infantry
1 box of perry British napoleonic infantry

2boxes of perry ACW cavalry
8 boxes of perry ACW infantry

on top of this I really want to get some of the Ansar tribesmen and zouaves.....

Then i got to thinking..... Didn't the Indian army of 1840s dress in napoleonic uniforms? Wasn't that only 20 years before the ACŴ ... Whose uniforms were bought from european warehouse sales.... So could there be a little bit of mythstory here.

Rules will be black powder, so units of 18 foot regulars, 6 cavalry and 24 irregulars, single guns n crews.

So maybe Sittingbad wasn't the last napoleonic battle fought after all and if it's a fantasy European force the colours can be .... More erm, colourful and the poor invaded far eastern country can be a mix of regular and tribesmen.... Very nappy meets colonial and i don't need to get more figures other than the Ansar and zouaves, which i will only end up buying anyway.... Weak willed hobbyist.

Anyway back to painting warmaster orcs and goblins for impetus bases to fight my Pendraken Romans ... Just making do with the figures available again

Kings of war 2nd edition... An unwarranted attack on the hobby

It's been ages, where have you been? Oh it was me ... Yeah well I'm back now for a bit, well a post maybe..

So i picked up lots of mantic figures ages ago and played the throw .. Er I mean give away rules at the time, didn't liked em, tweaked with the aid of Rich and just sort of ignored them... The figures are lovely tho, dwarves and skellies, what's not to like

Now i have been lulled into buying a 2nd edition set.... Mugged is a word, never mind

Things i like about them..
Units are bought and fight as units, no figure removal
Units look like units... Well maybe not the 5 man line... But the 10 archer and 20 spears do
The stat line is easy to remember and works well
The Igo ugo works ok to a point... See below
..... Done

Things i don't like,
no player interaction.. No armour saves, no morale save... I'm hit, I'm hurt and then I'm told I have routed.... I want my dice rolls back!!!!
Army composition... Geared towards abuse by 'those' kind of players... Legal army of 5 spear units and 5 dragons.... Or vampire cavalry armies dealing death and healing off of the same dice rolls... Broken!!!!!
No army moral leading to benny hill style chase scenes as units attempt to pillage the last victory point from the clutches defeat...

This isn't a review by the way it's just a rant... No point in denying it... And I am sure there will comments of don't play them then :) but well after years of being in a hobby of ever diminishing returns and around a year of painters block .... Combined with a total loss of funds I find myself at an impasse, ironically a chess term not lost on any one that's played KoW using a clock timer....

looking back the melaise set in when i was made redundant, but 15 months later something has to change surely... No I didn't call you Shirley, grow up. I think this has been followed by the release into the hobby of some severely half arsed rulesets *coff-foundry-coff*, some over priced figures that were supposed to be the poor mans saviour... 1£ a go for a plastic foot figure?? Really??? and to top it off going to shows to be inspired and well leaving feeling the need to just end it all... No not suicide, just one big bring n buy hit with all my figures, buy a board game And join the number crunchers... But even then the stuff would just get knicked of the bring and buy stand... Theiving tw@ts had my stuff three years ago and I still ain't forgiven them... Or maybe eBay so i can feel really ripped off as I post off my paint figures at less than lead costs....

I must tho, at this point, say thank you to all the blogs i follow as i do read most of your posts... And it is comforting knowing that the hobby isn't dead yet... Also to all the forums I browse over for there continued efforts to spread the hobby... I know this post isn't nice reading, altho maybe it raised a couple of titters in places I just needed to say something is all, an icebreaker if you will to get back into making posts.... Like the Titanic of posts maybe.

Cheerio, shaun