Trade: Huge 15mm 5,000+ piece Napoleonic's collection trade deal in the works!!!

Well, I am slowly but surely trading off my GW stuff and this time leaving my house are my Lizardman and WOC armies. In return I am getting a huge 5,000+ piece collection of Essex, Old Glory, Minifig. 15mm Brit, French, Prussian, Portuguese, etc miniatures, NOT PAINTED IN THE BAGS STILL! I guess he got them at an estate sale or something anyway, along with that I am getting about 1,000 pieces of 15mm ACW stuff and a little 7YW stuff to boot! I will post pics when I get the miniatures sorted out...

Perry French Infantry "Dallimore" Update #2

Ok well, I am not sure I like how they turned out, there are some parts I like and some I do not like. I still have not painted the Shako details or the oil skins as I am trying to find the right colors. I decided to make this the 21st Ligne Regiment and the other regiment I had done already the 18th as I painted the facings on both a Scarlet, Red color. Anyway any idea's on colors for the oil skins? Also on the Shako details?

Perry French Infantry "Dallimore" update # 1

Well here is the first try at doing a "Dallimore" paint job. It is a lot more time consuming than I would like for general troops, but I will have to see. I think I like the results so far, as for these pictures they kind of show a step by step process of painting these 28mm Perry French Line Infantry up. Anyway any feed back on these would be great...

28mm Perry French Napoleonic Line Infantry 1812-1815

In this series of blogs, I will make a first attempt at the Foundry "Dallimore" 3 color paint scheme. First up is the Perry Bros. excellent "French Napoleonic Line Infantry 1812-1815" unit of 24 based for Foundry's "Napoleon". I got a little ahead of myself in posting the images after I started painting. I wanted to have the first pics to be of primed only figures. Here I have the base coat of flesh painted. After I finish this series up I will then do a Perry Bros. "British Napoleonic Line Infantry" regiment of 24 and based up for Foundry's rules "Napoleon".

Wargames Foundry Napoleon Rule book has arrived!

After purchasing several rules sets I could not decide on which one until now. I first started "back in the day" with playing Guarde Du Corps when you had to buy it, which my friends and I played a lot. We also played Empire III but stayed with the former. So after being out of Nappies since the mid 80's I decided to get back into it, and on the recommendation of some guys in my local club got Age of Eagles. Now while I like the support out there, and the rules are good in general, I did not like the Unit sizes. Each unit is a Brigade and the units can vary in size from 4 stands to 15 or more stands. What I did not like is that the unit was several regiments combined into the one unit with one command stand and it seemed to me no way to collect an army. So then I got Lasalle, which was a step in the "easier" direction that I was not necessarily looking for but it appeared that the units where Battalions with 2 making up a regiment, please correct me if I am wrong. Anyway while the format and presentation was nice it just did not strike me as what I was looking for. Lastly and just recently Wargames Foundry's "Napoleon" arrived and after looking at the game, how the units are presented, the historical materials and background included in the rule book, and the rules in general are just great! I am hoping to play my first game with these rules soon, but so far I have a winner "Napoleon" from Wargames Foundry. I will post more on the rules as we play.

28mm FOG Foundry Principate Roman Army

I got this in a trade for some of my FOW Desert Brits I had. After I got them, I then discovered much to my surprise, that they were foundry mini's! Yes I am pretty happy about it, so at some point this year if I can not find work I will be painting these up. Also got 2 boxes of Warlord Games Roman Auxiliaries as I did not get any in the trade. I do not know why whoever bought these had a things for small bolt throwers, as I got 14 of them in the trade! For FOG armies I can only use a total of 3 BG's with 2 bases per group, so that is 6 that I will be using. Anyone need some bolt thowers LOL???

15mm Old Glory Seleucid Cataphact

Here is half of one 8 base unit of Seleucid Cataphract. Again they have those lame metal spears, I wish I could find a better manufacturer of 15mm Seleucids, I like the Old Glory figures, they are inexpensive, easy to get etc. but hate the spears. At some point I would like to make a Seleucid army in 25mm/28mm but the Figures I like for this army the most are Gripping Beast Miniatures but from what I can tell are not available in the States. I wish they would get that sorted out soon...

25mm ACW OLD GLORY Rebel Infantry

Here are a couple of stands I have been painting up for my 25/28mm ACW games. I have been using Johnny Reb III and once you get past the lousy rules layout of the game, it is very fun to play. Anyway here is one Regiment I have finished so for of a 12figure Regiment.

15mm Old Glory Seleucid Argyraspides in progress

Well here is some of my miniatures I have been working on for a while. In these images are my 15mm Seleucid Argyraspides, they are Old Glory and mounted for Fields of Glory. Over all I think the figures are splendid but I have never taken a liking to the metal pikes that are supplied with these figures. I think they turned out ok, I am still working on the shield emblems. I have the first shield done in the center of the first rank as a test piece. Anyway what do you think?

Change of scenery so to speak

Well I have not posted anything for several months as I have been desperately trying to find work after being laid off last year in May 2009. Well that search is rather like wading up an avalanche trying to get to the top of the mountain! There simply is very little work out here in California and what little there is out here, there are probably 100 applicants or more for each position. Anyway I have traded off a lot of my Warhammer 40k, Warhammer fantasy battle and Flames of War armies and getting both 15mm and 25/28mm American Civil War miniatures, Ancients in the form of Foundry 28mm Principate Romans(100A.D.), some 15mm Seleucids and lastly Napoleonics in both 15mm and 28mm. I am hoping to finish a trade this weekend of my Lizardman army(WHFB) and other bits and bobs for a huge unpainted collection of over 4000 pieces of Essex 15mm Nappies, French and Brits along with British Allies. I also have gotten into Seekreig III after not playing that since the Mid 80's. I got into this by accident as I got some 1/2400th scale ships in a trade with a guy in Tennessee. I traded my FOW Russians for some wonderfully painted Foundry/Old Glory 25/28mm ACW figures and the ships came with this trade. Anyway I will have more to post as I go along...

Cheers for now...