New stuff done for my 28mm Imperial Roman Army.

Okay so I have been painting like a mad man lately.  So far I have 6 cohorts of 20 Legionnaires, 1 Auxiliary Foot and 1 Auxiliary Cavalry Painted, also 4 Scorpions(yes the finally arrived), several Optio's and command figures.  For this post I am going to show you the painted, based and ready for the table top.  I still have all the foot troops to base which will be a big task, so I have been putting that off.  For the bases on this army I chose to make it like a semi arid region with little to no greenery.  OK so here goes, these are ALL Warlord Games figures, I hope you enjoy.  as I get the others based I will post them as well as well as some army composite photographs.  Also I have a special treeat in a few days, I review of the Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts. I won't give anything away yet ;)

Question: What rules should I get for 28mm Samurai gaming

Ok so I got a crap ton of Old Glory Samurai in a trade about 3weeks ago and was wondering what rules I should use?  I do not think that either Hail Caesar nor Clash of Empires will work.  I know of WAB 2.0 but it is very hard to find around here.  Are they any others that people have played that they like?  I have never been fond of the small army type games like Impitus or DBA, DBM so those are out for me.  SO I am looking for advise...

Cheers

Warlord Games 28mm Romans coming along nicely.

I got these guys about 2 weeks ago and have been painting as I can, I have not been painting as much as I usually do as I have been working at a new job and have some other life  type things getting in the way.  Anyway I found these guys nice to paint, I am absolutely in love with the "Army Painter" Dip specifically the Medium one called "Strong Tone".  I have used Dark Tone in the past and was debating about using it on these guys but when I opened my dark tone it was more Solid dark tone, so in the bin it went. So far I have 1 Legionarie unit done and 2 other almost done as well as 1 unit of auxiliary cavalry and 1 unit of Auxiliary infantry. My dip process is as follows:

My "Army Painter" finishing process.

1st. I first brush on the Army Painter dip after shaking the tub. I brush on until I get the effect I like so it is rather lightly.
2nd after it drys about 6hrs here, very dry climate....lucky me.
3rd I use the Army Painter "Anti Shine" and mist that on, it does not take alot just enough to remove the glossy appearance. I can not say how much I really love the Anti-shine.  It works miracles and is very fast drying.
4. Once that all drys I start highlighting the miniatures areas I want to bring out more detail with light colors of the base colors I feel like doing, on these guys I did not do much of this as I wanted them to look a bit trail tired so to speak and sun tanned. I did it mainly on the Tunics.
5.  After that I put on the Shield transfers IMHO the next best thing to a big steak dinner I love shield transfers.
6. I then put some GW 'ard coat on the shield transfers almost as soon as I am done putting them on the entire unit, also getting some under the corners that have turned up slightly. After covering the hole shield front with 'ard coat, I let that dry, again it does not take long, but that will vary with your climate. and lastly I do a very, very light misting of  "Army Painter Anti-Shine" on the shield faces I just got done doing and thats it.

So anyway that's it. So here are the first 3 units done. I still need to do the basing, but I am waiting for bases, although I may just go ahead and do these guys before they get here.  Also I still have not recieved the missing stuff from the army I got of which these are a part of from Warlord Games, they supposedly sent them out late last month and told me the other day if I dont see them by xmas to call them or email.  I am not going to say anything on that.... I think you can figure that one out on your own.  I hope you like the mini's....cheers

Also please participate in the Poll I have on the left side of my main page on Ancients rules as well ...:) 

Mini Review: Wargames Factory Celtic Chariots

I was just at my local FLGS yesterday and saw that they had a box of these guys, so I took the chance and picked up the box they had.  Well I am happy to report that I was very, very pleasantly surprised, to say the least!  Upon opning the box I was greeted with crisply done sprues of Chariots and figures.  The figure size is comparable with Warlord Games mini's as well as Black Tree Designs.  The chariots and figures are all multi-part and go together very well.  The casting of the mini's was done with a minimum of flash and very slight mold lines.  The best part of all of this was the price, $19.99 USD!!!!  Warlords Games Celtic Chariots go for over twice that, now granted they are metal which I prefer but still 3 chariots and crews for $19.99!!!! That is awesome!  I can not recommend this box set high enough.  So if you are looking for some Chariots for your wild Celts, have a look at these guys, I think you will be as surprised as I was for $19.99.  This company also appears to be releaseing in the very near future a bunch of different boxes of 16th Century Samurai, I hope they are as well done as these guys were as I am doing a Samarai army or 2 in 2012, I will be looking at those guys to fill out the metal ranks.

Cheers...

Miniature Projects for 2012

Well I have been gaining a lot of new stuff over the last couple of months through trades and with the existing stuff I have I have decided what projects I will be doing for next year.  I am going to list these in not any particular order, just as they come to mind...


 Stuff to finish
1.  28mm Napoleonics British and French - still growing  as of now
           1 Battery of French Foot Artillery - have Perry's
           1 Battery of French Horse Artillery - have Perry's
           1 unit of 12 Perry Metal British 1815 Heavy Dragoons
           3 boxes Perry Plastic British Infantry 
           3 boxes of  Perry Plastic French Infantry
           2 boxes of Perry Plastic French Hussars
           2 units of Dragoons Plastic Perry's
           2-4 boxes of Perry British Hussars whenever they get released around here

2.  15-18mm Napoleonics British and French   Almost done for now.
            3 British Infantry units 32ea - have AB's
            2 French Infantry units 32ea  - have AB's
            2 Portuguese Cacadores units 32ea - have AB's
           
3.  15mm Selucid army - I have partially done OG Selucid boxed army plus some xtra stuff
4.  15mm Opponent for my selucids - undecided as of now.
5.  28mm ECW Royalist and Parliamentarians 
            2 small units of Cav
            1 Box of Warlord Games Infantry
            2 Boxes of Firelocks

Stuff to start - I have everything or most everything

1.  28mm Samurai army - need some more units

2.  28mm Republican Roman army - Same
3.  28mm Imperial Roman army -Same
4.  28mm  Yet to be acquired foe for my Romans.
5. And if I have any time left, I have a TON of War of the Roses/Hundred Years War stuff I just got in a trade to paint.

Okay I think that is it.  What???  It's a long year....right?  ;)  If you have any idea's on who I should get for my Roman opponents in 28mm and my Selucid opponents in 15mm Please shoot me some idea's...


Cheers...          

I don't know what to say, Warlord Games???

Ok so I just received my order from Warlord games of the Hail Caesar Legions of Rome Big box set.  SO after waiting 2 wks for it to arrive to say I was excited was an understatement!  Well I opened the box and the excitement kinda disappeared. 

The parts I was missing are as follows:

1.  4 x Scorpion and crew - eg there were NONE in the box, but were supposed to be 4
2.  1 x Aquifier was missing
3.   Heres the best part there was not a sprue of bases in the entirety of the army, thats 8 boxes of guys and NOT one sprue of bases
4.   Next missing was the shield transfers for the Auxiliary Cavalry.

On a positive note the plastic was nicely done on the rest of the army. On a not so positive note,  the first box I opened to clean up and put together, the Auxiliary Cavalry you have to see the pictures below to see crap and this is what I got on every horse in addition 2 of the horses were not entirely formed with the only thing holding some of the hoof's on were the mold connectors between the base of the model and the leg.

  There was flash everywhere, connector pieces, slag on the bottom of the miniatures, in the last 30+ years of painting miniatures these were the worst I had worked on yet, and having already built one warlord games army, my ECW armies I was stunned.  I have sent Warlord Games several emails as I discovered stuff missing as I went and things like the missing base sprues did not register with me right away as well as the missing shield transfers.  I just hope they make good on all of this stuff and that this certainly does not happen to anyone else...  Several years ago when I had an issue with a $240.00 Battlefront FOW boxed army, the headquarters in New Zealand sent me an ENTIRE new $240.00 boxed army!!! Now that is customer service!  I am not expecting anything here as I didn't when dealing with Battlefront.  But that single act by Battlefront kept me as a customer.  Warlord Games???  We will see it is in their court now so to speak...

18mm AB 1st and 3rd KGL Hussars, Done.

I just rushed through these two units of KGL Hussar this morning and part of last night for our first game of Lasalle with my buddy this afternoon.  The figures we will be using will be from my collection as his Russians are not table ready yet.  He will be playing the British and I will be playing the French.  These guys were great to paint, although I could have done better had I not had to rush. Again these are on temp bases as I am waiting for my Litko order to get made.  Anyway I could not find definitive info on coloring for the KGL units so I took as stab at them from pictures I could find on the web, some of which were conflicting from one site to the next so I had to make judgement calls on facing etc.  The first unit will be the 1st KGL Hussars and the second will be the 3rd KGL Hussars... I also would like to apologize for me crappy picture taking, I never claimed to be good at that... :) 1st KGL

3rd KGL

Looking for 15-18mm 1815 British Heavy Dragoons....

I have been looking for some nice 15mm-18mm British Heavy Dragoons of the quality of AB or Eureka for example?  The ones I am looking for have the helmets similar to there French counterparts and NOT the Bicorne.  I am at a loss, I do not want Essex or OG  unless its the last resort. I know of the OG ones but  I am not sure of the quality.  Who am I missing?  I got a unit of 18  beautiful 28mm Perry.s the other day in trade, but they are a "little" big...lol  SO if you know of any other maker of these please let me know.  I have searched around on the net and found only bicorne types other than Essex.

Cheers...

AB 18mm British 7th Hussars and Royal horse artillery limbers plus guns

These are not my best paint jobs as I am rushing them for a Lasalle game this weekend.  First is the British 7th Hussars, these mini's were brilliant with beautiful detail.  I did have a ton of trouble painting the front of the tunics however.  Next are several Royal horse battery limber x1, as well as Regular foot limbers x2.  I have 3 battery's but one 9lbr is not there as the wheels were missing when I got them.  So I will spare you the close ups I am not happy with them but they will pass for now.     
Also please note that I have these mounted on temp bases as the Litko order I placed will be a long time coming.  I think in the future I will cut my own bases.  to wait 6 weeks for them to arrive is a bit much.  Especially when you thought they might get here in 10-14 days. After these guys I still have 2 KGL Cavalry units of 12 each and a 32 man Cacadore unit plus skirmishers to paint before Saturday God willing.  Anyway here they are...   God Bless you all and Happy Thanksgiving for those in the States.  Also it looks like I gave this post a +1 rating on google, I do not know how I did this, but it was inadvertent...sorry

28mm Perry 7th Hussars Done!

Okay so I just finished these guys up, I am fairly happy with how they turned out, I wanted to thank everyone that gave me advise on these it is much appreciated.  Anyway no long preamble  I give you the French 7th Hussars!  I do not know what I will be doing next, but I did just find a bunch of British AB 18mm Nappies in my collection that I had gotten when I was on my "break", so maybe those...