More Italians

Middle of winter and I have the flu, God I hate the cold, bring back the heat please. I have slowly been adding to the Italian platoon and below is what I have completed to date.

All minis are "Perrys" except the HMG team which is "Warlord".  The Warlord minis are a lot smaller in size, maybe they are just young teenagers manning the gun.

I have just a few more units to add, mortar, anti-tank gun etc then that should suffice for now.

Cheers.

Italians

A few more Roman bases completed. Auxiliaries, I did complete a third base but forgot to photograph it. 

And 3 half size bases, (60mm x 60mm) of legionaries. Probably should have completed a few more but the painting mojo deserted me for a while.

 THEN.............like we all do do, I got side tracked on another small project. Perry Miniatures WW2 Italians. They are still from the Italian peninsular I guess. (MG team from Warlords)

I used a painting guide supplied from Mark of 'Over Open Sights' blog. Very very helpful. If you haven't already check out his blog and view his brilliantly painted figures. http://over-open-sights.blogspot.com

Just ordered the rest of the platoon............................................gotta stop buying more lead.

   

Cheers.

Additions to the War Cabinet

A few more additions.

 Another German Warlord from err, Warlord Games

 Romans from Blacktree Miniatures.

 4 x units at this stage (120mm wide x 60mm) . I might add another half base to each to widen them.
I used the same size basing as my ancient German because of the chunky figures so now I'm thinking of placing the Germans on deeper bases to represent 'deep' units for "To The Strongest"

BUT!!! I hate re-basing...

Ancient German Command

 A command pack from Warlord Games. The Germans have attached commanders in "To the Strongest" rules and I had seen something similar to this elsewhere (brains fading), and thought it was a good way to represent it. 

 My CinC is mounted on a round base to differentiate between himself and the sub-commanders.

 The base was just a mdf beer coaster I picked up from a hardware store and sliced in half. Cheers.

Ancient German warband No5

Another warband finished and a wee bit of rebasing.

 After much deliberation I've settled  on my basing sizes. (Is this where I place my disclaimer)  Cavalry will now be on 120mm x 80mm and the warbands on 120mm x 60 and 60mm x 60mm.

This allows for any changes in grid sizes when using the "To the Strongest" rule set.

The cav was a pain to remove and rebase but achieved it without damaging the figures.

 Thinking maybe I should have made the warband bases slightly deeper as I'm currently painting a few Romans, as a break from the Germans, and the figures are from Black Tree Miniatures which are quite large. As a result they look great on a 60mm depth base which is the same as the Germans.

Maybe I'll just combine two warbands to give the impression of depth, Bugger, I'll have the purchase more figures.

Anyway, this is the completed Ancient German hoard so far. Will have to get them to the club sometime for a game and maybe combine with another German tribe for the evening.

Lacking a few lights sub-generals at this stage.

Cheers.

Presently on the painting desk.

Another Ancient German warbands

And still they came..........

Warband number four......slowly, slowly will get there eventually.  Mainly foundry figures based for Simon Millers "To the Strongest" rules.

Ancient German warbands

Spring is here, so unfortunately less painting and more enjoying cold beer and great food in the sunshine. 

Below are two units of ancient German fanatics. Figures are predominately Black Tree Miniatures with a few Foundry ones thrown in. I've used the majority of my naked and semi-naked figures for these units to give them more of a wild look.

The banners are actually orc banners from puppetswar.eu. I thought they looked the part being nice and furry like the bits of the clothing the warriors are wearing. 

I've also given most of the figures wicker shields to make them semi-uniform and stand apart from the other German warbands. I have one other warband finished, so only 9 to go!!! So much for the winter project......mmmmm............maybe a spring project instead.