A return to 40mm .

 

It's ages since I painted any figures for my Homecast 40mm Prince August SYW-ish collection . These have been sat on my bookcase for years and to make them usable I needed some more to make up a viable unit. 

So I rooted around in my box of moulds and one wet afternoon I cast these up to go with them . I've got them based and undercoated and hopefully will get a start on them next week .

To celebrate the rare appearence of the sun I took the painted ones out onto 'The Great Patio' (which needs weeding) for a photograph. 

Shiny Wild West Characters.

 

I have finally got my four Western 54mm figures painted and glossed and taking advantage of a spell of fine weather took them outside for a photo shoot.. Here are the James boys.

The other two took a while longer as I tried to find a hint to suitable clothing colours from the black and white contemporary photographs . Here we have William Bonney (?) and his assasin Pat Garret .

'2 Armies in a Box' markers.

 

I know I said I was not going to add anything to my "Two Armies in a Box" project , but one of the scenarios in the rulebook needs a marker to bring on reinforcements to a beleaguered force. Now you can just use a counter to track the messengers progress , But I'm not having that ! , so I found a couple of spare cavalry figures in my bits box . I cut off the Union figures sword so it looks like he's waving a dispatch paper and the Confederate - I thought a Trumpeter figure would be apt. 

Wargaming humour (?) No. 12

 

Found somewhere on Facebook , feeling slightly guilty. 

Fifty shades of grey (and blue)

 

I have got started with my new project , I already had a couple of units painted up already. I am just painting the bases very generically with no unit specific uniforms - so the Confederats are in various shades of grey/butternut . (GRR ! I've just noticed the standard of this unit has got bent ! - I hate it when this happens - and EVEN more so when I take a photo of them and not notice it !)

A generic Union Regiment - without a bent standard . There are four Infantry units per side , so I will be cracking through these pretty fast I think.

There are two guns and crew per side all in plastic - here's the first Confederate one .

And here is the Union one . I do like glueing together the plastic Perry figures - takes me back to making  model aircraft many years ago. 

Here is a better view of the two Commanding Generals . I'm enjoying getting these two forces together and will post any further development next week.

 

Two Armies in a Box

 

Many years ago - I was going to say 20 - but I fear it is more like 40 , there was a idea touted in various modeling/wargaming magazines (when we still bought magazines) about having 2 opposing armies in a box and the idea was this limited the collection to what would fit into the box . I never got around to doing this - but several years ago I bought this box off the Perrys , it has sat in 'storage' under the wargaming table , I recently recovered it and thought "Two Armies in a Box" !

The box contains the above models, a cabin, fencing and a set of simple rules - "Two Armies in a Box" 

The box and the rules , which are simple but quaint , the box is a suitable boxfile.

I'd already glued up and painted two of the eight infantry units , so we are up and running ! 

What ever box needs - a label and here are the two respective Generals , I will report back as more progress is made - rather looking forward to this project as it has a definate end in sight ! 

"I wish I could afford those" !

 

Found on Facebook, think I've seen this photo before - the figures look like flats or semi-flats and the tank looks pre-war, the figures nearest the camera seem to be hollow cast 54mm ?  The cars in the background seem to be the style of the 30's through to the 50's and the figures being flats could point to France or Germany ? 

B***ER !!!

 

No words ...........

Riders of the Purple Sage (part 2)

 

Several months ago I painted up some of White Towers 54mm Wild West figures .: Riders of the Purple Sage * (tonystoysoldiers.blogspot.com) , I came across some more of the range on eBay and being reasonably priced I felt I was duty bound to buy them .

They are rather fine figures and look like the contempory photos of the characters I've seen. Here we have Jesse James and his brother Frank.

Here we have Billy the Kid and his nemisis Pat Garrett. 

Based and ready for undercoating ....