A wonderful set of miniatures from Cavalier/ Minifigs site. Wayne's wonders. Nice exact crisp castings and wonderful to paint up. added to the ranks of my collection
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Last Boy on earth and others painted up
One of my all time favourite comics was Kamandi the last boy on Earth from the great Jack Kirby, it was one of those who made me want to draw, after too long perhaps i have made the character along with his friends Dr Canus and Flower. (personal collection)
Another long time this set is from the Black Plauge game and a special guest Paolo Parente, Undraal I have wanted along time and lost the metal chance due to extensive post and packing but this set saved me. great miniatures and so fine to paint.
the rest of the pack of Copplestones African Princess very nice work as one would expect
I have known Drew of SDZA for along time and he sent me these wonders again great to paint up and exact miniatures
Another long time this set is from the Black Plauge game and a special guest Paolo Parente, Undraal I have wanted along time and lost the metal chance due to extensive post and packing but this set saved me. great miniatures and so fine to paint.
the rest of the pack of Copplestones African Princess very nice work as one would expect
I have known Drew of SDZA for along time and he sent me these wonders again great to paint up and exact miniatures
Tuesday 4 October 2016
Infinity, Darkest Africa , Carry on gang, and the Dragoncaller
I bought the new Red veil box set for Infinity some superb miniatures and with my limited skills i painted them up to add to my collection, above is the Heavy assault Al Fasid suit
Yu Jing force
Haqqislam force
Copplestone Ngoni female archers to my darkest Africa collection archers
And well I had to buy these from Northstar, Pte Widdle, The Khasi and Bungdit Din. superb miniatures the rest of the cast needed now for all my Victorian games
One of the new African princess from Copplestone nice exact miniature
One of mine based on a certain berserk but to me he is the "Dragoncaller"
Monday 3 October 2016
"Pig War" The men who would be kings battle reports
Today after about a month we finally got a game in the men who would be kings , from Osprey, we have both decent British intervention army's and ACW forces so the Pig wars were a first choice to test out the scenarios. My British vs the Americans, 24 points aside. Scenario A "Just passing by"
Alec's Americans, sharpshooter Zouaves, 1 regular and 1 irregular units and a gun
My British BIF , Elite guards 2 regulars and poor trained gun
I laid out the table and the objectives were to get off the opposite sides,
Deploying in opposite corners we set off
the British moving to intercept
as the American chose to flank side move
the British guards got to a blocking point the regulars from the American taking the hills and engaging first
the Zouave sharp shooters were very good
the British regulars in the centre taking casualty's even at long range
cutting into the ranks and pinning.
the guards fared no better to the fire there elite adds giving them no pins
the American flank the British
the irregular infantry advance at last
the centre unit takes even more fire
a lone officer stands then is taken out
the Zouaves take casualty's
the Americans advance as the guards are wiped out and the last infantry is demolished a victory to the USA
we then played scenario B Seek and Destroy, an area of cover and objectives held by the British is attacked by the Americans full force and the British reserves come to the aid, I swapped Elite and a reg unit t for an irregular infantry and some Cavalry.
the pigs had to be on the table again.
The Americans advanced
the British cavalry moved to intercept the flanking alerican irregualrs
the British irregulars advanced they were very good 5+ command
the Americans attacked the camp needing to destroy the camp
the cavalry fired on the irregulars to make them easy pickings
the regular British unit in the camp is fired on and double 1's the officer is a casualty proved to be very critical
falling back they were then routed
the cavalry charge home and push the infantry back inflicting heavy casualty's
the British irregulars enter the camp and give fire as the American shoot into the encampment
the cavalry destroy the infantry then are shoot down by the American infantry there units unable to damage any of the encampment the British are victorious.
Two very entertaining games and we learned a lot, the best thing was Alec had never played and after about turn 2 he knew what the rolls caused and effects. good fun and great to use our miniatures.
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