No time for...

hobbies at present. Just a quick note to thank the 27 followers who have joined this blog over the last months. Your presence is noted and welcome.

There will be further updates on a variety of projects in the early days of May, but until then all time is on completion of college work. Such is life...

Cheers

The Lines are Drawn

The following are some pics taken last summer of a Basic Impetus Game between Polyibian Romans and Early Visigoths if memory serves correctly. The nots of the encounter are about some where but hopefully the pictures will tell their own story.

The battle lines in the early stages of the encounter.

First moves

Cautious Romans advance into the Impetuous Barbarian hordes

Closing in

Skirmishing begins

A break for the flank from the Romans

First blood to the Barbarian Hordes

The lines massing for the charge

The soldiers go marching, those masses align

First contact

The benefit of the large Barbarian units pushing back the Roman line

Pushing home the attack and tea

The flanking cavalry are held at bay by skirmishers

Drawing them in...

The reserve legion fails to break the Barbarian unit nearest the camera.

The lines clash again...

The Roman line starts to crumble but not without taking a heavy toll on the Barbarian hordes

...the end of play

Victory to the barbarian hordes but not without cost.

Hope the pictures give you the idea of the game and how it flowed.

Cheers for now.

Temptation Four

Some great looking cavalry from Redoubt Miniatures for their Trojan War range.

These are not painted by myself

(more details here)

Not quite sure how these would fit in to the Impetus army but they do look the part. Perhaps they could be reward once the studies are complete. On that note its off to work

Cheers

The Widow's Wall

Studies are taking up nearly all spare time at present, however you have to have lunch. The following pictures show the very slow progress being made on the Berserker base for the Vikings.

Rather than go for a large collection of bare topped frothing loons, the base comprises of figures with movement in varying degrees. The central figure from Gripping Beast’s Breaking the Widows Wall vignette is charging through the opposition shieldwall and everybody else is following his lead. Not necessarily that easy to see in black under coated figures but hopefully the germ of the idea is there.

The second set of pictures show the slow progress being made on the Royalist English Civil War army for Basic Baroque. That is the shot and pike bases completed bar painting the pikes on 2 bases. Don’t ask why they weren’t painted before being glued in place as no answer will be given, they just weren’t. A decision that will be regretted no doubt.

Lurking in the top right corner is a test figure currently being painted from Front Rank Miniatures; what the outcome of it will be remains to be seen... 

The Spartan cavalry are lurking there as well, with the ground work on the base slowly moving on.

The same unit from above, just because.

Well that is lunch over and the books beckon. Hopefully, there will be more for the next post but no promises.

The Great Hoarding

Well, that is the trading over and the additional figures required for the Seleucid and Late Macedonian armies are now all accounted for. As are several bases worth of Imitation Legionnaires, Thorakites and Thureophoroi, meaning that the future offers a few options and an early Basic Impetus Pontic army – there are not enough Legionnaires to make the army the later version.

The list below is a first interpretation taken from the full Impetus list that is up for comment of the Impetus Forum.

1 CP- Heavy Cavalry (*) 10 5 3 3 1 CL - Light Cavalry 12 3 1 1 Javelin 1 CP - Bosporans or Rhoxolani 10 6 3 3 Impetuous 4 FP - Phalangites (*) 5 4 1 2 Pike 1 FL - Galatians 8 4 4 2 Impetuous 2 FL - Javelinmen 8 4 1 1 Javelin 2 S - Archers 8 2 0 1 Short bow B Options 1.     change CL Javelin for CL Skythians CL- Skythians 12 3 1 1 Comp. bow B 2.     Changes 1 FP Pike for 1 FP Imitation Legion FP - Imitation legionaries 5 5 1 2 Pilum

In real terms the lead Mountain isn’t any smaller, but the figures that are there have a greater chance of actually being painted. This in itself is an achievement.

With college work full on at present, there hasn’t been much painting done, in fact almost none to be honest. Unfortunately, college is the priority  at the moment but that will change come early May. Here is a picture of the last figure for the Odalsbondi base for the Vikings as well as two frothing loons for the Berserker base.

Flags from Little Big Men studios

Will try to keep updating the blog over the next 2 months but can’t make any promises.

Cheers for now

Temptation Three

Just when you thought it was safe to look about miniature galleries and websites, Gripping Beast announce yet another new range; The Timurids. Whilst not a period that carries much interest at present, with teasers like this elephant, that could change.

Please note the above pic is from a GB newsletter and unfortunately not painted by me

The trades have started to arrive and the Seleucid planned army is now complete, with few figures left over for some other bases in the future to expand to a full Impetus army.

Still working away at the Spartan cavalry and the last figure on the Odalsbondi stand for the Vikings. Pictures to follow in the next few days.

Cheers for now

Moving forward, standing still.

At present nearly all spare time is being eaten up by studies, so not really much to add from the last post. A little brush work on another Viking and some more red for the Spartan cavalry.

That aside several good games of Basic Impetus at the club on Sunday, winning and losing as well. Yet another few things learnt about the game in the process of the afternoon's gaming.

A few packs of Redoubt swordsmen have been ordered to mix the infantry units of the planned Trojan/Mycenean armies up a bit. The surplus will also make go towards the swordsmen units for the full Impetus army if the project progresses that far.

A few trades should be completed soon which will see the completion of the Late Macedonian and Seleucid plans. Not really reducing the lead mountain, more changing it to something that will be painted. The remaining surplus will be going on eBay shortly.

Hopefully, there will be a bit more progress on both studies and painting in the next few weeks. More so the studying to be honest; as the deadline clock is ticking faintly in the background.

Cheers for now.