10mm Catch Up

This one is some Orcs and Trolls for Warmaster,

I've got a lot more 10mm to show but I've still got another 4 units of cavalry to build and a further 3 infantry to paint up for my Crusaders/Bretonians. Then it'll be onto the Arabs/Araby.

The Blue Army

So the mighty 'Blue army' is done, or I should say was done, finished them up a while ago, just never got round to taking pics and posting because work was all over the place. 

Either way that's 2 full forces for Pikemans Lament done and I've been motoring through the additional bits with 3 bases of Cannon, a unit of Pike done and a unit of Trotters about to be based, which leaves the Dragoons and some bits I need to buy sometime for scenarios, Cattle to rustle, Wagon train to raid etc.

Pikemans Lament Finished Army

 The red army is finished, the blue is half done.

Pikeman's Lament

Another catching up post almost, finished these a few days ago. Given it's 10mm I'm not zooming right in to see all of the issues. Well gone are my days of painting chapter badges onto 6mm Marines.

These are for Pikeman's Lament, two bases with a dice space to mark through casualties, full/half strength etc. This approximately 12 points so half an army for the rules, another 3 sets of these and I'm good for 2 forces.

Mongols Finished

Well after finally playing in their first game of Warmaster I made a big push to get the remaining Brigade of my Mongol army finished and that's finally everything, painted, inked and flocked.

And a shot of them in action before I got them all finished off. The Skirmish rules in Warmaster Ancients are a bit of a pain to get your head round but using them a couple of times it made a lot more sense.  I think it could get very frustrating very quickly for the opponent but Ric said it wasn't too bad once he'd figured out how to combat the evasions.

Or at least that's them as finished as they need to be right now. I'm sure there will be more joining the ranks eventually, get them brought up to a 2,000 pt army but this was fine for an evenings game.

10mm Finnish army.

Managed to finish off the last of my Finnish forces a week or so ago. Now that they're done the next step is to flock these and the Russians to match each other and then buy some tanks and trucks etc for the Russians to round off the forces.

These will of course be used for BKC2 but if we get round to it, we're going to try using some of them in Chain of Command as well, see how that feels scale wise.

Russians

So finished off the main part of my Russian Army for BKC, I've been alternating between Russian and Finnish forces on the painting table and these were the first to be finished. Still need to get some support options, Armour, antitank, etc. But this is well more than enough to get started with as I'm planning to try them with Chain of Command at some point, see how we get on pretending that they're 15mm with some winter war action against the Finns.

Once the Finnish are done I'll flock the bases in one big batch to ensure that it's uniform across the forces.

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.

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.

Saracens WIP

With Reenactment season here I've not been doing so much in the way of painting etc but I have finally managed to finish my first brigade for the wife's 10mm Arabs. (Though as I post this up I notice I forgot to do the speartips on 2 of the units) Bah.

BKC Germans

Mostly finished my BKC stuff, still need to finish off my 3 tigers, 4 panzer IV's and base up my artillery and that last Recce Unit. Anyway here's my force for tomorrows game, the major part of one of the Panzer Grenadier Battalions, with one of the Panzer Companies and some artillery.

BKC Germans

Seeing as I'm taking pictures, here's my finished (So far) WW2 Germans. Couple of WIP's, my painting competition entry and then the finished ones. Fallschirmjaeger on the left and middle, Heer on the right. Everything is from Pendraken, the infantry are German Para's Army Pack and added are the 2 Pak40's, 2 Stug III's, 3 Opal Blitz Trucks and 3 SDKFZ 251/1's. The draught horses are some butchered high elf chariot mounts for warmaster.

So next for these I need another 6 transports for the company on the left, the Heer will remain on foot and the addition of an Engineering section and some Panzer Companies to finish it all off. Then it'll be the Russians up next.