Fairies wear boots

....well maybe not these ones.

These were a recent add on to make an order up for discounted postage.

They were only £2.50 so a decent addition to the collection.

Not sure what I will use them as but they may be suitable as children of the forest for westeros.

The 28mm figure is eowyn from lotr, she was bought as a possible asha greyjoy but I'm not so keen now she's painted.

I could probably use them in 6mm for a multitude of things, as long as I don't use the bases with mushrooms and toadstools.

Bye for now 

An army in a pint glass

Continuing my purge of the huge box of epic models I have put together several forces from the masses. 

First up for a quick build n paint will be a white scars space marine army.

These guys have a very mobile doctrine so I went for lots of fast units.

So a couple of hours this morning saw them built n based, should get some primer on them lunchtime and may get paint on them tonight.

Thanks for looking

Ps the elephants aren't in this army!

Battlecry in 6mm

I have finally based up my 6mm ACW figures. These I paid someone to paint, a first ever for me, and they are very good.

Main delay on this project is me! I couldn't decide how to base them.

After a lot of thought I went with 80 x 40 for all infantry and cavalry and 40 x 40 for artillery. Command is on dinky little 40 x 20. 

Base needs inked, dry brushed, and flocked but you get the idea.

Of course this has started another project, making a larger board for the game, well I got the easy bit done last night, getting the hexes on the cloth. The hard bit will be getting something to represent all the terrain tiles.

Thanks for looking 

Ice and fire pt 1

I thought I'd post my first game of lion rampant for my ice and fire themed games.

It will in no way follow the books but take its own path and will have many twists and turns along the way.

It starts with a scenario from the rule book whereby one force has to find and safely retrieve an escaped enemy captive.

Young Rob Stark has not long been crowned King of the North, word reaches his camp that his mother, Lady Catelyn, had been travelling through the Riverlands when here escort was ambushed.

She is said to be hiding in a nearby village. Immediately Rob mobilises some men and they head out.

As they reach the village enemy banners are spotted to the west. It's Ser Gregor Clegane and his men. Backed up by a few Lannister regulars.

He must find his mother quickly.

The Stark host in the east

The Lannister host

Good fortune, Lady Catelyn is found by the outriders. (Jammy turn 2 dice)

The Clegane yeomen respond quickly 

The outriders start to escort Lady C from the battle

The Stark serjeants form up to cover there retreat.

Elsewhere the opposing forces close in.

Yards from safety, she drops an earring.

(Needed a 5 on 2d6)

The yeoman keep up the pursuit 

She drops another earring 

As she looks for it, Lannister men catch Greatjon by surprise 

And swiftly rout his host.

To no avail though as Lady C finds her earrings and is safely escorted from trouble.

Well an interesting game that I thought may end without a blow being struck.

Also seems highly ironic that the stand in unit of numidian horse was the star of the show. The law of sod strikes again.

Thanks for looking 

Epic orks

So the gorging on food and drink has passed, and I'm already itching to be productive.

As a break from the medieval posts recently I have revisited some neglected 6mm miniatures.

These are a mix of various wagons for epic orks. I use a simple system for painting these by selecting a base colour (usually red as they go faster!), then pick out any metallics, and finally glyphs or embellishments or crew. 

They are then inked with either black or brown before Matt varnish.

Simple but effective at this scale.

Some progress pics

Base colour etc

Bikes and trucks at various stages 

Some wagons awaiting varnish 

Thanks for looking back soon with more updates 

Pre Xmas present 2

As posted earlier was a pic of the boxes, now a couple of pics of the parts and finished buildings. These have had a coat of 3 different spray paint and await the details picked out by hand.

An additional benefit of the buildings are the fact they can be unbuilt and stored in the original box 

Very handy indeed 

Pre Xmas present

I have not had much spare time recently so the blog has suffered accordingly. However many new and existing posts will be updated in the next few weeks.

As a continuation of my 28mm medieval posts I picked up these at half price.

A nice little set of buildings for under £40.

I currently have them in the shed getting under coated, full pics of the parts to follow.