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.

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.

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.

Adventures in Storage

Well after Mark at club offered up some old steel lined boxes. I have embarked on the storage adventure that is magnetic basing. It's something I've been pondering for a while for my 10mm stuff, rather than foam which I think is probably more suited to 28mm stuff.

So I bought some magnetic tape at Claymore and tonight I've sat and cut it into strips and and stuck it to the bases of my WW2 Germans and my Saracens (that are done so far) It seems pretty solid for what I'm needing which is really only for shelf to table, and occasionally to club as in the past I've felt my Germans slide across their old box when I've picked it off the shelf. The extra little rim under the base will also aid immensely when trying to pick them up from a flat surface without having to resort to grabbing hold of the miniatures themselves.

So all good I think.

My 10mm Warhamster hordes continue to expand with 2x 1500 pt fantasy armies already finished (Battle of five armies, Goblins and forces of good) and another 2x 1500 pt on the way High elves (almost finished) and Undead. I also have my Saracens and Crusaders (Courtesy of Dave) under way.

The last one is Mongols after Pendraken tried a kickstarter type thing through their forum. Apparently they should be ready by Oct/Nov time so that will be another 1000 pts or so to fight my crusaders from the North while the Saracens take them from the south.

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.

Claymore Update

Well it was Claymore at the weekend, came back with more stuff for the missus than I did for myself! This keeps happening at shows, it was the same at Salute this year.

Anyway, bought the big Arab pack from Pendraken to make a start to her Saracen army. Got some of it tidied up, the horse archers are going to be a pain to clean due to the flash that has formed between the bow and the arm that will all need to be dug out.

Either way though it's given me the following for Warhamster
3 units spearmen
1 unit light horse archers
2 stands of med & hvy cavalry. (1 further pack of each will give me 2 units of each)
1 unit of archers

I'll get more packs from the likes of Old Glory and Magistar Militium to add more variety in the units, (including the compulsory camels that she wants)

So it's a good start, I'll work on this one over the winter I think and then start getting my crusaders. (and world war 2) Until then she'll need to be content with running down goblins and elves.