That Sinking Feeling

A couple of wrecked ships for Cruel Seas ,had these a while but only just got round to painting them, both 3 D prints from Magpie Designs ,I will use them as either scenery or as objectives in a rescue mission .The first is a 3 piece merchant man I tried to show in the act of breaking apart and the other aarmed trawler going down stern first .Based on card with Vallejo sea effect

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ACW Matrix game

Another skype matrix game was played over the last 2 nights ,this time set in the later days of the ACW ,Sheffield Wargames Society showing that a pandemic cannot prevent the use of good toys ,silly hats and rediculous arguments .Great fun and I managed to do quite well this time hitting all  of my goals a number of times.A big thanks to Tim for organising it and looking forward to the next one,A write up on the game will be here  http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com ,in 2 or 3 parts I believe ,well worth a look .

Burrows and Badgers -4 more

Finished 4 more of the kickstarter figures including 2 of the free ones ,as always lovely figures and full of detail but a real pleasure to paint . There is a Magpie Entrepenure ,waving is top hat in welcome ,"war Mother Toad " a nasty looking warrior wearing the skeleton and fur of some poor unfortunate ,tried to paint this one as a common toad ,not sure about it though .The 2 freebies are a Shinty playing stoat and a undead mouse Ghast both I believe figures from upcoming ranges for add ons to the main game.

Good day Sir are you interested in buying a little Protection today

A proper War Mother 

Quick gentle Game anyone 

Boo

Flaming sword ,rusty armour and bare bones ..

Dracula

A Frank Langella looking Dracula ,he was actually very good 

Shows how evil Dracula is when he has 3 wifes 

This one I think is based on Cushing in Brides of Dracula

This ones definitely Cushing from the 1958 Dracula 

Always been a Dracula buff ,love the book and the old Black and White Universal movies and I am a Hammer Horror addict so always wanted to game the genre but most rules involve sword fighting vampires and vampire hunters with automated stake firing gatling guns so never bothered ,but have got these figures together and may just try to organise a game along the lines of the book . The figures are mainly Bad Squiddo except for the Candlestick Van Helsing which is a wargames Illustrated offering.

Armour Upgrade T55 or T72 mr Bond

A cheap purchase has made its way into my African rebels force ,the model is the T55 posing as aT72 from the James Bond Golden eye movie .The thrown together look suits a rag tag army I think ,what ever the warlord seems pleased .I think iyt will only appear as a target or piece of scenery in my spectre games , a rusting sign of better times in the war torn country .

Churchill?

Just finished this beautiful miniature from the Oathsworn kickstarter .A huge resin piece who will go by the name of Sir Winston of Church Hill . I tried a different approach with the varnish on this one ,I normally spray a satin varnish then when dry i spray again with a mat finish ,with this I tried a gloss brush on then brushed on a matt on the cloth and fur so the armour and eyes stayed gloss.

Jacobites

Finished these a while ago but putting my Royal Ecossaise command away ,I realised I never put these lads on the blog ,a unit of 12 clansmen and 2 leaders 1 real and 1 fictitious .All flags of war figures to be used with the  sharp practice supplement 1745.

`the full unit

John Roy Stuart

The Red Fox

Royal Ecossais-

I am getting through lots of painting but to stop getting fed up ,I m picking random packs out of the lead pile ,no way to get armies painted but its more fun . `Here are the command group of the Royal Ecossais a French Regiment of mainly Scottish Volunteers who were sent to aid the Jacobites in the 1745 rebellion . Figures and Flags by Flags of war .The finished unit will be used for the Jacobite Rebellion using too fat lardies Sharp Practice.

"In addition to red coated Irish Picquets Lord John Drummond, the commander of the French Troops, also brought some 400 men of his own regiment, the Royal Ecossois. This was a Scottish unit raised in 1744, for which Drummond was given permission to raise a second battalion in Scotland. A couple of officers and some men can certainly be identified as having joined the regiment after its arrival in Scotland, but the projected second battalion never materialised. Unlike the Irish regiments there was no polite fiction that these Scots soldiers were merely 'on loan' from the British Army and consequently, instead of the full-skirted red coats worn by the Irish, the Royal Ecossois had a rather dashing blue uniform." - Stuart Reid, 'Like Hungry Wolves'

Stalingrad -by Skype

Being wargame recluses at the moment ,Tim came up with the idea of playing amatrix game by skype  and it worked wonderfully ,really good fun .Shows theres always a way to get together without endangering each other . Full report on Tims blog here  https://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com