Pyrrhus of Epirus

Just completed the basing on this command stand today, and it just so happened that I also received a photography light tent in the post. No better time to try it out I guess.

Below are the first attempts. The figures are from Aventine miniatures once again.

 Comparison with roman command.

The lighting box in use, must remember to switch the lights off as they get bloody hot.

Aventine Heavies

As promised, an addition to my Pyrrhic Army. A great looking model from Aventine Miniatures to stomp some of those pesky Roman chaps.

 Removable crew.

And yes Simon, if your viewing this I've just ordered a light tent you recommended, so hopefully the next set of photos will be a lot better quality.


Oh yeah, and another Russian squad to add to the growing horde. Blacktree miniatures

                                     

Galatian Mercenaries

Galatian Mercenaries

I saw a unit of Galatian mercs on BIGREDBAT's site (cheers Simon), and thought - must have a unit of those in my collection and as I had a few similar figures scattered about I thought I'd have a crack. 

Most of the figures are foundry with a couple of Blacktree miniatues. The command is from Aventine Miniatures - 'Northern Italian Hill Tribe command' - thought they looked the part.

Apologies re the photographs.

Aventine Thureophoroi

Once again I've amazed myself and completed another unit..............well nearly another unit...........I'll explain later.
These great figures are from Aventine miniatures and the paint job and shoddy photography was done by myself. The photos were taken using a Nexus7, I might stick with the camera next time.

The inspiration came from BigRedBat, nwhistoricalwargames, ancientbattles.com and other fellow bloggers and gamers (Chris). Thanks lads.

Now, as to nearly completing the unit, you will notice one figure missing. This is because I couldn't fit 4 figures on a 40mm x 40mm base. (To many cloaks)  So instead of a 24 fig unit with 8 wide and 3 deep I now have 25 figs with 10 wide and 3 deep. So lucky I had a spare figure.

For gaming purposes I will go by base size, so the unit will fight as a 30 figure unit. Not bad, larger unit with less figures. (Obviously this will depend on whom I game with!)

Cheers.

Numidian cavalry

Not bad, only 9 months since last post.  But I have managed to do a small amount of painting, so hopefully I will post my other results when I work out how to drive this 'Nexus7' tablet I received for my B'day last month. (My young bloke thinks I might finally be moving into the modern age. Who knows, I may even carry a mobile phone one day!)

Anyway, here is my latest unit, a small unit of Numidian cavalry. The figures are from Crusader Miniatures. Two of the shield designs are from LMB.

Something to 'blog' about......

Finally got around to placing something on the old blog. Its only taken about 6 months........although I've been doing a bit of painting, just havent photographed anything.
I find if I dont paint I tend to stroll through those lists on e-bay, and we all know what that means.

Finished another unit for my Epirote army. I was intending to build 32 figure units but those extra 8 figures per unit are quite a mental hurdle to get over especially when it comes to my painting rate. So 24 is a  convenient number, maybe I could add another 8 figs sometime in the future. (yeah right!)

The next unit is now on the painting desk. Hopefully this lot wont take as long.

All figures are Aventine Miniatures.

My young bloke has now starting blogging. OMG I've created another geek in the family much to the dismay of SWMBO. Here's the address:
 Lair of SP1T-F1R3

Australian Wargames Convention - CANCON 2013

Travelled a lazy 3000 odd kilometers from Perth to Canberra last week to attend the Australian Wargames Convention - CANCON 2013, with my son and friends from our Perth club, Napoleonic Wargaming Society. I have to admit ---- it was a lot larger than I thought it would be.

Should have taken a lot more photographs than I did, but I sure there will be others posting similar shots of the event. The event covered competitions in FOW, Warhammer, DBMM, FOG and Bolt Action just to mention a few.  There was also a plethora of trade stalls, card gaming areas and bring and buys.

As I was mainly interested in historical 28mm, the games that interested me were a couple of the participation games, and the one that really stood out was a Franco-Prussian War demonstration put on by Doc of  Doc's 'Art' of War . and his partner in crime Doug.

Stevo from Perth, my son and a very serious looking Doc - (obviously casualties on the Prussian side.)

Doug and Doc ran two fantastic participartion games over the weekend which involved a number of members of the public including  quite a few of the younger generation, which was very pleasing to see. ( No magic or lasers here, mate. Not that there is anything wrong with that!!)

The other games of note covered Zulu's V's those blokes in the red coats and a War of the Roses game.

Picked up a few goodies while wandering around, but thats another story.  A great time had by all.