Showcase: British 15th Hussars

 

Heyhey, here's some more 18mm AB Miniatures Napoleonics. It's the British 15th Hussars!

Showcase: Crimean War Highlanders.

 

Heyhey, look, it's even more Highlanders! Again, without bases. Some of the people I paint figures for prefer to do the basing themselves. Either way, painting these here I learned something about 19th century Highlanders: People seem to be overly concerned with painting kilts for some reason. Those are pretty easy actually. It's those bloody socks and the things at the front of the bearskins you should be afraid of! 

But anyway, once all that's done, they make for a magnificent view, don't they. 

Hope you like them! Next figures I post will come with bases again, I promise. ;-)

Showcase: 1940 Highlanders

 

Heyhey, here's some figures I meant to post for a while. It's a collection of very, very pretty Highlanders for the dawn of WW2 or for WW1.

These are 28mm figures by Pulp Figures and they are excellent. Lovely sculpts, flawless casts. The only thing I regret is having taken that photo before I fully finished the bagpipes. They aren't 100% historically accurate for the time (kilts!), but they make up for that with character.

Hope you like them!

Showcase: Transport for the Wounded

 

Heyhey, today we got another little Napoleonic special. Not even a combat unit this time, but a hay wagon, repurposed as a transport for the sick and wounded.

Showcase: De Watteville Infantry Regiment

 

Heyhey! Today I got something special for you - it's De Watteville's infantry regiment!

Showcase: 6-pdr Anti-Tank Gun

Here's an addition to a platoon of British Airborne I did a while ago. It's a mighty potent 6-pdr anti-tank gun.

Showcase: British Airborne

Heyhey, I'm back with some nice 28mm figures!

These are British Paras from WW2; minis from various manufacturers, and I hope that you like them.

Showcase: Western Desert Force Reinforcements

Yesterday I sat down to paint a few reinforcements for my own little early desert British, just so they get some more support options.

Showcase: Western Desert Force reborn

....well, rebased really. But as soon as I got the little fellas on their new single bases the platoon felt differently. It's funny, as soon as a mini has it's own base I get the urge to not only make it a little more individual and neaten up the painting a little. This is what I did. Redid the skin on the models, some blacklining, slightly different colour to the webbing, some new shading and so on.

Before

After

While I also got a platoon of 3" mortarts I kept those on their rectangular bases because it's not too likely that there will be 3" mortars on the table for now. 

It's a full platoon: Lieutenant, Platoon Sergeant and platoon command including 2" mortar and Boys anti-tank rifle team, three rifle sections of ten each including a Bren gun team each, led by a Corporal and a Lance-Corporal each. Then there are six surplus dudes I can use as artillery observers, disembarked vehicle crews, additional troops, or what ever else the scenario reqires. They of course depict British troops in mid-1941. Basically a rifle platoon but i can turn them into a motor platoon easily (remove two guys from each rifle section mostly). The figures as all from Battlefront miniatures, 15mm scale.

Two of the rifle sections plus some support

...and the third platoon, platoon HQ and some additional guys who can represent a whole nuimber of things.

They of course are based for skirmish gaming, mainly with Force on Force and Chain of Command in mind. I played Force on Force WW2 with those models before but the multi-baases proved to be cumbersome and required additional bookkeeping with that set of rules and with the first test game of Chain of Command on the horizon rebasing the whole platoon made much more sense. It's a nice feeling to see the platoon ready for action now on their new bases and shiny new paintjob. Now all I need is some names for the officers. Any suggestions?

Don't forget that any WW2-themed painting/modelling project commissioned during all of December is -20% off! - Extended until January 17th!!