The Norsemen arrive

It has been a long wait to get these finished. Very little time has been available and getting past each stage has felt impossible.

At long last though, my sea raiders for Dux bellorum. 

The command stands are of course not necessary for the game, but may be useful for other games.

Otherwise there are companions, 2 noble warriors, 6 warriors, 3 skirmish, and 2 bases of berserkers, which can be used as skirmishers anyway.

They are all from baccus and we're very easy to paint. I wish I had kept note of the time spent on these as it certainly didn't feel like a vast amount, I just couldn't find the time.

Next up the Saxons.

The Great War

I finally managed to pop round to the post office to pick up my most recent kickstarter I backed.

This one has been tremendous with regular updates and has arrived in a respectable timescale.

So what's in the box. The usual suspects for a Richard Borg, 12x11 hex map, cards, counters, special dice and rules with 16 scenarios.

Another 2 scenarios come with the deal as well as 10 artillery models.

A nice additional touch is the inclusion of several plastic sealable bags to put it all in when you've unpunched it all.

Figures are chunky 15mm's but are nicely detailed and hard plastic so should paint up well.

That's all for tonight but I think this will feature again soon.

6mm dark ages

A very brief post about a little project I am squeezing into this years lot.

I had picked up a copy of dux bellorum and had many ideas for miniatures. Then it struck me, play it in 6mm on 40x20 bases. This meant a unit was a single base meaning an entire force may be just 10 bases. 

A quick visit to baccus and using there unit builder, I parted with about £30 for both Viking and Saxon forces and some casualty markers.

Here are my almost finished Viking noble warriors and a base of companions and a base of warriors. Only have 2 more bases to finish them but as I have some left over I will make extras.

And here are the casualty markers, I have seven painted but I have plenty spares again so I will make more with only infantry on them, the horse are a bit pointless until I get a Norman force.

Chow for now 

Dining table game matt

Well it's been quite some time since I've posted but I have managed the odd bit of gaming project.

I had read many blogs etc about latex covered cloth mats that can be placed over everyday objects to create realistic hills and rises.

So I had a rummage in the shed for suitable materials 

Some wall smooth from after doing up the kitchen, some artist paint and an old jug.

And of course and old dust sheet pinned down.

Then I mixed some paint and smooth over roughly 50/50 and spread it over with a rubber squeegee blade.

A couple of days later it had dried

So I trimmed it to a more relevant size and spread it with wood glue, and started to flock

Had to do in 2 stages due to lack of flock but after this I just sprayed the whole thing with a can of varnish then hoovered up excess flock.

And here it is with a couple of rolled up towels under it

Not bad but the flock still sheds a little 

Cheers for looking and keep rolling 6's 

In the name o the wee man

Actually wee men would be more appropriate.

These are the first few bases of my 6mm project for 2 armies.

Republican Roman and Carthage. Both are from Rapier miniatures and are from the warmaster 1000pt army deals. These give you a helluva lot of figures but are fantastic value for money.

Most of the triarri and a base of hastati, with the general behind.

Personal favourite, the Gallic/celtic warband.

I'm not sure what these guys are meant to represent but I will class them as Spanish or citizen infantry.

Numidian horse, never leave home without them lol 

And lastly, a Nellie with skirmish escort and one of many status bases I will make for both forces.

More soon hopefully.

The lost kickstarter

Hello all, well some excellent news from the attic this evening. Not only is it my birthday but after sending an email recently a nice chap from Italy looked into my missing kickstarter goods. 

They couldn't fulfill my initial backing but sent this bumper pack instead.

A whopping 12 ships and the starter set, and much more.

What a fabulous day.

Valhalla we are coming

Well now that a lot of other projects are out the way (all not painting or gaming based) it's time to get on with the show.

So this weeks little update concerns these chaps. Scandinavian raiders.

These are all metal minis bought to bulk out my plastic Vikings.

They still need a dark wash to tone down the colour but there not as bad as the photo due to camera flash.

Then some flock etc.

This little lady is another potential asha greyjoy, I'm not fond of the full plate armour for an iron islander but she is slight next to the Vikings which looks better and who knows, she is a lords daughter why wouldn't she have expensive armour.

That's all for now, maybe some more soon.