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I'm thinking hard about putting in an order for some of the beautiful old school type miniatures from Nightmare Games but before I do so I was wondering if anyone knew about how reliable the...

The final part of the 500000 views on my blog!


Here's the link to the page- this time fewer games I I focus in on what I've managed to paint during the pandemic.


There are pictures galore...

Welcome to Part Two of my celebration of reaching 5000000 views. A mix of some of the most enjoyable games I've seen at shows and my own painting. Most of the images are "clickable" should you wish...

I really wasn't certain of where to put this post so please feel free to place in the requisite board if I have got it wrong :)
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Thanks mate. :)

Many thanks CyAniDe

And more.....


Still not quite back in the rhythm of things with the brush but definitely an improvement on my output of late.


The second rank of the 24 man unit of Huscarls ands Fyrd...

Some how, somewhere I have managed to find the strength to start getting back into my painting. As I have mentioned before I am battling real demons in terms of mental health and it is no...

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Thanks BloodASmedium, appreciated :)

Thanks amigo. I have LBMS Transfers to thank for those ;)

The thought of painting two lots of banners for both the Early Byzantines and the Anglo Danes was just too much for me :doh!:

Thank you Cyanide (that just sounds wrong LOL)

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Thanks mousekiller. The Perry HYW range is a real pleasure to paint up. The attention to detail on the models is unsurpassed. It would have been rude of me to to give my best efforts on the heraldry...

As leader of the "English" faction, I lost every single game at the Warhammer World Hundred Years Campaign weekend :nailbiting!:

It was a great laugh and still sticks in my memory today :)

I've been trawling through my old website again on the hunt for pictures that could be potentially be rescued from WaybackMachine. It is quite a frustrating process as more often then not the images...

Hi,


A few years ago I painted up some of the test sprues for the Perry Desert Rats plastics that were planned for release for Salute and aimed at being presented as a diorama. When the painting...

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Many thanks Gorb :)

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Thank you for the kind words Mousekiller

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This piece was written for my old La Journee blog but as I'm resurrecting the Verneuil project I thought it might be i/ a good introduction to what I'm going to be doing and ii/ the...

Thank you for the goodly words Krulebear :)

Thank you Gorb. Very much appreciated mate :)

Hi,


A bit of a long story so please defer to my blog article for info. This is my latest piece for the Spanish in Italy, Italian Wars project and also The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.
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See my blog for details:
http://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2022/01/varnishing-disaster-help-urgently.html

Fully cured before another layer was added for a week at a time, between gloss, so called matt and them matt again. Kept at room temperature for over a week in dry conditions.



TBH, after all...

Warning,- I'm going to name names in this article. I'm at once both distraught and furious! I have never had a varnishing disaster like this before in all my decades of experience.


Help! In...

For those who don't want to, or have time to pop over to my blog here's all the single bases:

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Back in the groove!


It seems like a very long time since I actually managed to work on any of my own stuff. I've started working on some Heavy Cavalry which will join the Early Byzantine long...

Thanks, appreciated :)

The first mini's I've managed to paint since August 8th!


I'm a little out of practice but I think they have come out quite well.


Many more pictures and the usual blurb on my Just Add Water...

I wasn't exactly sure as to where to put this. Sort of half commercial and half gallery? Please feel free to move this post to the most appropriate spot. Thanks :)

I have recently had a number of...

Empress Maori's still For Sale

Pics of Empress Maori'S ADDED

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For two separate projects.


I'm looking for the horse that come with the Viking range that Mark Sims Sculpted (pics below) and the Un-Barded Late Roman Horses.


I'm after 13 from the...

A project too far.


I'm selling my mint (still in small boxes provided by Perry Miniatures and still in the bow that was mailed to me.


Asking for 70% of retail value.


Original price...

Africa: East Africa - Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900 (Armies of the Nineteenth Century
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I'm after a copy of Africa: East Africa - Tribal and...

I forgot to add, they are Footsore Miniatures Goths:'
https://footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/goths-germanic

With a few of their Early Saxons sprinkled in (with larger shields):...

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I'm not going to be able to get very...

The slow death of a laptop is a sad thing indeed. Not only do I have to say farewell to Photoshop CS2 but I cannot find the password for either CS2 or an old copy of Elements so I had to splash out...

No probs Miapll :)

Spanish Arquebusiers Close Ups of Single Bases - 05/08/2021

A new post whilst my brush is out of action of the beautifully sculpted and cast Spanish Trastamara range of...

Thanks, appreciated :)

To be honest, I didn't really take stock of the time as they are the first unit in an army of hundreds. Unusual for me as I normally do have a rough idea of how many...

If I appreciated time when I was 30 like I do now, I reckon I would have painted a lot more stuff! LOL

They 28mm mate.

Thanks Krulebear

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Not to blow my own trumpet but I am amazed...

Many thanks BloodASMedium :)

Thanks Graishak. There are several hundred miniatures in both the Early Byzantines and the Ostrogoths so I have gone for as clean as possible but not too over the top as I want to finish the army...

That's easy, they're from Pete's Flags.

I don't mind hand painting banners, but with six armies on the go all with several hundreds of miniatures belonging to each, I have to pick my battles.
...

Thanks Mousekiller :)

The second batch of Steppe Nomads to complete the fist unit of 12 is now done and dusted. OK, all complete bar the varnishing process; stage one, the gloss, which is about to take place tomorrow.

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For the banners?

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The first unit of what will be the army...

I haven't bought any GW miniatures fir over 20 years! Not that I have anything against them - well I'm not very keen on the new AoS and 40K models.

Thank you mousekiller :)

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More pictures and historical meanderings on my Just Add...

Wow! The posts are really pouring out again. This is actually not a result of my painting speeding up but rather because there was a back log of stuff that needed varnishing and I don't like to have...

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At the risk of stretching myself a bit thin on the...

No not yet, my mate asked for specific pictures so I set things up and did what I was asked :)

Yesterday morning I was up at, 5:30am and taking pictures(!) of a few units of my Norman army, painted 20 odd years ago. The vignettes are more recent, 2019 to be more or less precise. :)


Today...

Cheers. appreciated :)

First Stradiot/Stradioti Unit fully tarted up and ready for action, sort of.....

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Thanks mate :)

Thanks :) You have LBMS transfers to thank for the details on the shield. I have over 240 infantry to paint and there be at least 70 off cavalry models and it just isn't practicable to paint the...

Thank you ever so much for the kind words.

Miniature painting is honestly just practice and patience. I learned a long time ago at Unit in Life Drawing class, which was open all week, when I...

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There is a whole gamut of pictures featuring the...

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New pics of older conversions...

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There are more images of the unit ...

Thanks. They don't look like they're the best of mates do they?

My idea was to give the command a bit of a look of panic. hopefully I've achieved that? :sinister:

Here's the latest unit finally complete- or nearly complete as I forgot to to matt the banner down prior to taking the pictures but I positively refuse to go back and retake the pictures now lol....

Just a quick post to keep things up to speed. I have been experimenting with different colour schemes for the tunics for the different Unarmoured Skutatoi Units that will be standing as the main...

Thanks amigo. It's just black showing through, occasionally amended/tidied up if I screw up and the brush slips.

Cheers. Appreciated :)

They were once described as the best infantry in Europe (for the time). Not good enough on the day though :D

Thanks Gorb, apprecaiated :)

Thanks :)

They're 28's so not that small really.

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I have finished the brushwork and varnishing of...

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It has been slow progress of late on...

Another set of eight Anglo Danish Huscarls and Fyrd complete for the fourth unit. Three more units to and 12 bases of skirmishers to go but they will be on hold for a while as I am going to be...

I just had to buy these Footsore Miniatures Matthew Bickley Anglo Danish sculpts just as soon as they were available. The sculpts are just so dynamic and full of life; they have the actual appearing...

The third unit on what will be a seven or eight unit army (with plenty of room for more as well as Norse Allies!)


It's been great fun mixing and matching the miniatures in the units, most of...

The last week was a its and bobs sort of week on the painting table. I finished a few pieces that were destined to hover around in perpetuity if they didn't get any attention so I'm happy overall

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Thanks for the goodly words, much appreciated :)

It's been a week of putting together a lot of bits and bobs as well as waiting for some LBMS transfers to arrive, which they did, but are now sitting patiently in my "quarantine" pile :)


I...

Thank you for your very kind words- that exactly what I aim to do- breath life into the little metal bods :)

Cheers, much appreciated. It was easy on some of the more up to date mini's but some of the older castings, which were done as a one off as they're (very) OOP Gripping Beast mini's it was a little...

Thank you :)

I've been messing around trying to create convincing markers for my Anglo Danes for when they go into Shieldwall........


I think I've finally nailed the correct size for the bases to number of...

Thanks :)

Hopefully by the time we're all out of this collective mess there will be about 6' of them and some Norse to dace them too. I already have a full Norman army but I'm planning on putting...

The second unit is now complete and apart from some rough work trying to prise the miniature from their previously superglued bases I did get to paint up four or five extra mini's so not all was so...

Thanks.

The banner is all down to Steve at LBMS transfers. I've been hand painting the banners for one army, my Early Byzantines (see below) but I've got three large armies on the go so doing the...

Over the past year, every now and again I've been rebasing my Anglo Danes. They have been in a seemingly perpetual state of having no bases, no filler, no texture, paint nor tufts. After a day of...

Cheers Mila :)

Thanks again Gorb :)

It's not freehand, it's an LBMS transfer :curl-lip:

I've still got over 200 to paint and that's just the infantry so painting the shields is a no-no. You can practically buy the equivalent of the...

From messing around a bit yesterday morning. I took a few of shots of the Skutatoi Shieldwall with the Command Base and a couple of close ups of the Skutatoi on their own which will hopefully portray...

Early Byzantine Skutatoi Combined Unit Command Stand


To go with the newly finished unit of Skutatoi in Shieldwall


More pics and the usual conversation on mu blog here:...

I've had great fun painting up this unit of combined arms Byzantine Skutatoi. I was initially slightly worried about how they would base up but using the 40mm wide by 50mm depth has payed off I...

These little fellows were meant to be based a few weeks ago but I managed to lose them! They were found again wrapped in bubble wrap right under my nose. Literally under my nose as they were wrapped...

Thanks Gorb, great to see that you like them. I'm a little behind in the third rank as I forgot to varnish two shields :silly!:

Finally the gloss dried and I was able to apply a coat of matt varnish to the second rank of the Skutatoi in Sheildwall yesterday.


The second rank were every bit as much fun to paint as the...

Cheers, appreciated. It always looks daunting when you look at your work several times the actual scale :glasses-nerdy:

Thanks you. I'm taking my time with them, which at the moment isn't a problem :brushwave:

In between messing around with my early Byzantines and the Sudan projects I managed to squeeze in some time to get this vignette put together. I'm sure you all know that the Malalai miniature came as...

This project has been slowed a little as I've been feeling under the weather of late.


I've got two more complete ranks and a fourth on the way. It seems like such a long time since I posted...

Skutatoi Shieldwall First Rank Added- Please Scroll Down:

This 'little' command stand completed yesterday evening.


Hand painted banner based on the famous Justinian mosaic from S. Vital.

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Thanks. Apologies to one and all. I didn't realise that as mean't to stick to one thread.

I've already started a thread which will cover all my stuff on the advice of another member.

You can...

Thanks, unfortunately I can't take any credit for the banners as they are LBMS tranfers :neutral:

Starting off with.......

Yet more Beja for my Sudan project.


Sorry about the quality of the pictures. They were taken very early this morning. Too early in fact.


I'm not sure I quite...

EDITED. Please Remove.

Thanks

Thanks- appreciated.

I'll probably wait until my next post later today then ask the mod to combine the threads.

Thanks :)

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm relatively new to the CMoN Forums, though not the site so I'll do just that.

Is there a way in which you as a moderator could combine my threads thus far...

Unfortunately for Harold he hasn't managed to make it to a battlefield as of yet :wasntme:

I've just today completed my first unit of Early Byzantine Psiloi.


I took y time with them like I have done with the Dismounted Bucellarii and the torsion Engine but no doubt they they will be...

A few months ago I was asked by Gripping Beast to take some larger file pictures of a vignette I put together of Harold Godwinson surveying the Norman army just prior to Hastings.


It has taken...

I managed to finish off the varnishing on these 'test' miniatures this weekend so I thought I'd pop up a few pics.


They were not quite 'speed painted' but more 'medium paced'; think Paul...

The title reveals pretty much everything. Harold Godwinson looks down at William the Bastard's troops just prior to the bloodbath that was Hastings.

Close up images etc on my blog here:...

Thanks :)

The banner was free hand and was actually a pleasure to paint. I was kind of dreading it as it's been years since I painted up a free hand banner of any description. There really wasn't...

Thanks- appreciated :embarrassed:

Some of the miniatures on the bases are some of my first kit bashed/converted Beja. I'm really happy with the way they have come out.


Speed painted again.


If you have a mind to you can see...

The first unit in my Justinian/Heraclian Era Byzantine Army complete.

've added in a couple of extra characters like the officer with his hand in the air, commanding the archers to loose and the...