The year past and looking Forward.

So that's another year. (And 6 months or so since my last post) 

Updates have been good this year with a lot of targets made.

I've finished off my 10mm Germans for BKC. (Actually all painted and based)
My 10mm Arabs are done.
10mm Crusaders done to 1200 pts
10mm Undead, High Elves, Mongols based and mostly done. (alongside some Romans)

I rebased my 15mm Seven Year War French in Canada in line with Maurice. Hopefully I'll pick up the remainder at Vapnartak.

28mm Tuetonics finished and based for Impetus.
28mm Viking/Dark Ages enough finished and based for 2 Dux B forces.
Purchased and painted up a bunch of supplementary stuff, livestock, carts, Monks etc 
Painted up some Valhallans for the Steampunk game In Her Majesties Name.
Touched up and rebased a bundle of Amazons (About 40 Old Grenadier models so far) for IHMN in the Congo.
Rebased and touched up most of my old 25mm RPG figures. (about 20 figs)
Painted my Dork Tower Miniatures.
Painted a set of Talisman Miniatures for a friend.
Painted a group of Napoleonic British (Thanks Kev)

Lastly model wise I glued together my Terrablocks I got for Christmas. These are a 3d dungeon type landscape models from Sally 4th, pics soon, but one of the reasons I wanted to get some of my old RPG figs touched up and rebased. I guess my monsters will need to be done soon as well.

Looking forward, I'm not sure I'll be making a huge amount of model purchases this year, I need to start concentrating on storage :( so that I can get everything tidied up properly. This also means that I want to get some of the old stuff sorted out properly in time for the Bring and Buy at Claymore unless anyone wants to sell it for me at Carronade. (Time to be ruthless if I can muster the courage)

So most of my painting this year will be concentrated on finishing off armies and warbands that I already own.10mm a must finish for this year.

Biggest challenge coming up is going to be keeping the Dux B Campaign going smoothly as we're still not sure how it's going to pan out past the 1st round.

Also I need to sort out some rules for doing some Scifi skirmish gaming for a Star Trek style Computer Game we've started playing, some non Tabletop gamers in the group so I'm thinking I may stick to Spacehulk rules and see how it goes, my other main option I think would be the Dr Who miniatures game rules which would work quite well as well.

Crusades

Getting round to some of this slowly, Crusaders and Arabs based for Warmaster about 1200pts available from each.  This goes alongside the 3 fantasy armies already made up already (High elves, forces of good and evil from middle earth.)

First up Arabs.

Then Crusaders

It only leaves me Undead and Mongols to finish off for my current 10mm armies. Though I do have some Romans I picked up at the Carronade flea market, (That had some hoplites in the bag! which unfortunately just fuels my ideas for the Peloponisian wars)  For another day methinks.

Darkages to Vikings

Well it's been a while and it's been a busy time with lots of painting going on to finish off a variety of armies. First up my Vikings, pretty much everything is Gripping Beast and this gives me enough for two full Dux Britanarium forces as well as enough figures to cover any other skirmish game we try out for this period.

The army in it's entirety.

Harald and his Champion























Huscarls, Hearthguard,

Bersekers, Cavaly











Freeman, Bondi etc

Levy, Leidang etc

Skirmishers.








As always, apologies for the crap pictures but trying to get a decent amount of sunlight into the room with all my stuff is a challenge.

I have another Lord but I need to get round to painting his banner before it's finished.

Next will be back to 10mm....

Mongol Comparison

After talking about it at club tonight, here's the pic I took of my various 10mm (Historical) cavalry

From the left, Mongol, Mongol, Knights, Arabs, Mongols, Knights, Knights. The Mongols and the Arabs are from Pendraken and the Knights are from GrandScale I think they're called. (The OldGlory Uk 10mm stuff)

The Mongols although small when sat side by side are very crisp sculptures and you won't notice when arrayed in an army by themselves.

Painting Update

Well it's been a while since I last did a proper post, I've mostly been concentrating on my 10mm stuff for quite a while now. With the exception of a Zeveda ME109 my German Army is finished now, the reason for this was so I could enter it into the Pendraken Painting competition, seeing as I started it 2 years ago and entered the first infantry unit I painted into the comp 2 years ago. I did the big push at the start of the month to get the Tigers and Panzers finished for the deadline.

Other than that though I've been soldiering on with my Arab army and I only have a couple of Cavalry Units left (about half way done) and they'll be done for the moment. Enough for about 1100-1200 pts for Warmaster. (and I have enough for another Infantry Brigade)

Now that I'm at that stage, I've prepped all of my Crusaders and Mongols and I intend to do them one unit from each at a time to help relieve the monotony of doing an army of entirely horse archers and one of mainly armour.

If these get too much, I also have the last few High elf Cavalry and my Undead to get stuck in about to finish them off to the 1200pts I'm aiming for. Alternately I can finish off basing my 28mm Medieval stuff for Impetus, Dux Brit, Saga etc. Or get started on my Airfix North Africa stuff.

Picture Help

Anyone know what kind of settings to use to get good quality pictures?

I'm having the following issues.

I've managed to up the exposure to get more of it in focus due to them being small and up close, but now I'm not getting the lighting.

2014

Seeing as it's been August since I last posted an update is in order, I've mostly been painting 10mm Arabs and finishing off my WW2 German tanks and without the transfer cable for the camera I've not done much about posting those.

Plans for this year involve lots more 10mm. I need to get the camera sorted out to take pics as I've now completed 3 brigades of Arabs. But I'm waiting on my Mongol order from Pendraken being prepared as I've run out of basing materials and I do all of my 10mm by adding the sand and models onto the base before undercoating.

So once that arrives, I need to make the choices of Arab Cavalry and Characters, Crusaders, Mongols, Undead or High Elves to get started on next.


Seeing as I've been enjoying the Longstreet Campaign and the likelihood that Maurice may well follow I've been debasing and cleaning up my SYW French that I have had sitting around forever. I think I need to double what I have to be able to get enough for a Maurice army, but that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish I hope with the likes of Timecast. I want to find pics as my existing models are Essex, but the Timecast Oldglory 15's I have for ACW are comparable so if their SYW are similar then all is good and in bigger packs than I would get from Essex stuff.

The last thing I really want/need to get round to this year is finishing off the bases on my 28mm Vikings and Tuetonics.