Back!

I've been away for ages due to holidays, work and now now home internet!! Once normal service is resumed i'll be able to update where I am properly. I now have a 20 man regiment of Confederate infantry done and looking good. I've said before that despite the cheapness of the figures they actually turned out ok.

I've built up my box of cavalry and they'll be my next painting job. Currently on my workbench I have the following to get done:

Wild west buildings - I've got about 4 scratch built buildings to finish off. It's my first attempt at this so results are mixed!

Wild west figures - 4 or 5 citizens to fill out the town (may need to get some more)

ECW cavalry - 2 boxes of Warlord Games ECW cavalry to build and paint although having now played a few games of pike and shotte, I already have more than enough so these boys can wait

WW2 US jeep - I picked up a US jeep on holiday for next to nothing, it's a die cast model so just needs some weathering. I also have 15 US infantry to build and paint for Bolt Action but I've got more than a 500 point army done already anyway so no rush

Dungeons and Dragons - I picked up a vintage D&D box set game at a boot fair recently that included some Ral Partha metal figs. they look cool so I thought I'd paint them up for a laugh

Templar/feudal Knights - I bought these on Ebay ages ago and have done nothing with them, they've been painted already but look poo so I'm going to redo them. I don't know what for at the mo' we'll see.

Hedges - Hedges, hedges and more hedges!!! I now have more hedges than I will ever need :-)

Like I said, once the internet is back at home I'll post some pics and a proper update.

Warlord Games Pike and Shotte English Civil War Infantry

Here are a few shots of my ECW army. I bought the basic starter army box and expanded it with some extra infantry, cavalry and artillery. Here are some of the pike and shotte figs.

The flag here is one of the ones from the infantry box. I think they look quite good. I've based all my guys on 40x40mm bases which is a bit of a squeeze at times.

I've got a sneaky figure from another range here. The cavalry guy is a fig I got from Ebay. He may be Foundry, I'm not sure though.

Welcome

As this is the first post on here there's nobody actually reading this! This blog is hopefully going to add a bit of insight into getting armies on the table including scenery for not massive outlays of either time or money.

I'm not the most patient of people and the building and painting of figures and scenery is not for me the best part of the hobby, it's the games themselves. Sure, the satisfaction of finishing some figures is great but if it's between speed painting twenty figs in one sitting or getting one competition winner done, I'll take the former every time. My main goal when painting up armies is speed. At the end of the day, if they look good on the table, that's good enough for me. I'll be posting up lots of pictures over the coming weeks showing results I get. I'm not a great painter and never will be but I'm happy with the results and if others get something out of it, great.

For starters, here are a couple of shots I've quickly found...

First up, Celts. I bought these to try out Saga rules but haven't yet gotten round to playing it. In the background are some cowboys for Dead Man's Hand and in the rear some Perry plastic archers for Basic Impetus.

Next up, the Dead Man's Hand cowboys before washing and basing. These figures were from Dixon Miniatures.

Oliver Cromwell leading the troops into battle. Sadly this was just before he screwed up his order causing a blunder and taking his troops off the table!

Finally a shot from our recent Pike and Shotte battle. Troops in action. Most of the figs are from the Warlord Games Pike and Shotte series

That's it for now. Next time I'll do some better close ups of some figs and a run down of my process for painting. Cheers