My latest wargames project

Flintloque - fantasy napoleonic skirmish level gaming

The picture shows some of my first set of figures for these rules - Nepolise Todoroni. I've started painting these up in white uniforms, with the initial base coat as grey then a paler grey shade above and a white highlight as shown in the following pictures.

The paints used so far are Citadel Foundation Kharlog Green for the skin, Iyaden Darksun for the eyes and Vallejo 992 Neutral Grey as the base for the white clothing. The final appearance will have white uniforms with black bicornes, boots, leggings and equipment and white webbing. The facings will be in amaranth to add a splash of colour.

Officer from 56505 Bella Lugosi militia and noble from VLE07 Artist Goyah

Singer, Standard Bearer and Sergeant from Bella Lugosi militia. 

Bella Lugosi militia troops. 

I'll do some more posts in the next few days showing the painting progress.

Gaming update - February/March

Finding the time to write to my blog has been tricky recently as I've been working long hours and having to fit in various things domestically as well.

This has meant that I've had little time to do much miniatures work, but I have been able to keep up with my play by post RPG where I'm playing in a number of D&D games - one in a homebrew world of the DM's devising, one in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy and the other in the Dark Sun setting. The other pbp games that I'm playing in are 1920s Call of Cthulhu set in Edinburgh and a RuneQuest game that is currently on hiatus. I'm also looking at joining in a couple more RQ games online.

On the miniatures front I've got a couple of new projects in my mind using figures from Alternative Armies. The first is to actually finish off the Sidhe (Irish Elves) that I have had knocking around for many years and get some Formorians as opposition using the Erin rules. The other is to give Flintloque a try and I've picked up some Todoroni miniatures and the free Flitloque light rules towards that end. My WWII figures will be getting progressed soon as they are close to me having a couple of squads for the US and Germans allowing a game to get played. 

Wargaming Projects update

WWII German Infantry - the first tranche are now painted up and I've started basing individuall on 20mm card squares. These are in early uniforms, but examples of this being worn can be seen pretty much all the way through the war particularly on the Western Front. So far I've painted 1 officer with pistol, 2 LMG gunners with MG34, 1 MG no2 with rifle and ammo box, a sniper with scoped rifle, 1 Gefreiter with SMG, 1 private with SMG, 1 rifleman with a Panzerfaust and 9 riflemen.

The WWII Revell US Paras and Italeri WWII US Infantry in Winter dress have the few figures painted and based and just a few more to varnish up and base to add to the set. I'm aiming to have at least a squad for each side to try out the Nuts! and Flying Lead skirmish games with.

Next up are some late war WWII German Infantry from the Revell set and the Italieri German Elite Troops set. Some pictures will come up soon when I get a chance.

On a midnight dreary?

Today January 29th was the original publication date of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven.

I thought it would be an appropriate thing to celebrate as a fan of the fantastic in literature, so maybe I should raise a glass (but not a cask) of Amontillado this evening.