Interesting distractions

For those of you interested in the Great Northern Wars and Basic Impetus Baroque have a look at the blog below. Its in its early days but will grow in content knowing it's owner; a fellow member of Legion Games.

Anyway here's the link:

mylittlewargameblog

More updates to follow shortly.

Cheers for now

Pro et contra

Mixed feelings today about a variety of things.

Firstly, welcome to the most recent new members, glad to have your support and hope that you find something of interest in this blog.

Secondly, past the ten thousand hits mark yesterday which is great! However, feeling slightly cheated due to the massively increased number of hits over the last week or so. Not sure what is causing this but ten thousand plus hits is ten thousand plus hits, so thanks for all your support over the last year. Hopefully, the blog will continue to grow and maintain your interest.

Thirdly, the venue that Legion Games meets in closed last Sunday as numbers of other visitors - British forces veterans  - have been dwindling to the point that it is no longer economic to open the Legion in the afternoon. As a club this present several problems, the foremost being finding another venue that meets our requirements and that isn't too expensive. There are several options for a new venue at present, so fingers crossed something will present itself.

An alternative is to use the facilities already in use by another club. Whilst this will allow the club to continue meet, the identity of the club will be gone as an independent entity. There are pros and cons to this and only time will tell.

On a more positive note, the peltasts are nearly finished and the first unit of Allied Hoplites are undercoated and taking shape. These figures are all from Gorgon Studios range of Spartan Ekdromoi and were selected to look like poorer troops in older equipment than the majority of the other Spartans in the army. A unit of cavalry for the Macedonians has been started as well. Pictures of all to follow shortly.

Thanks again for your support.

Cheers for now.

Spartans on the Hoof 2

A few pictures of the last unit of Spartan Cavalry for the Impetus army.

The next few pictures show both units together and how the texturing on the bases fits with each other.

Thats all for now as the club meets today and still have kit to pack.

Cheers for now

The terrible business of the push of pike

Gathering a few images to help with the next units for a new Basic Impetus army - Early Macedonians for either Phillip's or Alexander's reigns.

P. Connolly 1975 The Roman Army

Alexander 2004 O. Stone

The actual painting hasn't started yet but the preparation is well under way with the figures selected, filed and under coated. Sources for colour reference and images being gathered as shown above. This is as important as the actual painting as it allows a theme to be started for the army. This develops a feel for the period being painted and the army being represented. Whilst not all the sources used will be considered authentic, they all help to gather a variety of interpretations of what the actual units may have looked like.

There will be a further update later this week with some more progress on the peltasts and Spartan cavalry.

Cheers for now

Spartans on the hoof

Here are a few pictures of the first completed Spartan cavalry unit along with a screen of slingers. The cavalry have been painted as Spartiate with the classic red tunic. Not altogether sure if this is historically correct but from the artistic point of view it helps keep the army together and will help for identification on the gaming table as well; unfortunately for both sides though.

The base was completed without the planned water effect. The texturing was painted as rock to blend with the colouring of the base which hopefully it achieves.

The second unit of cavalry is well under way and will hopefully be completed over the next week or so. Anyway here are the pictures:

The next pictures are of a few pieces of ongoing work; first a mercenary peltast unit for the Spartans and second a frothing loon for the Viking berserkers. The Vikings are on the back burner at present but the intention is to paint the odd figure in amongst the Spartans to break things up a bit. This helps to keep things fresh and motivation high by chipping away at other projects at the same time.

That's all at present but will hopefully be back soon with some more on the second unit of cavalry, peltasts and some more information of what is coming up on the painting table for the remainder of 2011.

As always please feel free to add any comments.

Cheers for now

Back to the brushes 2

Just a few pictures of Spartan Cavalry and a Late Roman Scorpion base that has been languishing in the side lines for some time. Both are fully painted with only the texturing and painting of the bases to be done.


The Spartan cavalry are first and the original plans was to have a water feature on this base. However, the product which was bought for this is not suitable as it doesn't dry like a resin more like a tacky gel which is no use. The texturing on the base will be left on and most likely used to show some sort of wadi or similar. The casualty figure may not be on the final base as just not sure if it sits right.

The commander for the Scorpion unit was painted over the last few days to allow this base to be completed. The shield is hand painted and the pattern is based on a historical image from the Notitia Dignitatum and can also be seen on Saxon Dog's blog; the colours have been changed to suit the colours of the unit though. Anyway enough rambling here are the pictures:

Hopefully these bases will be completed over the next few days, work permitting. In the top right corner of the Spartan cavalry the first figure for the Viking berserkers can be seen but more of them in the future.

Cheers for now.

Carronade 2011

In the previous post Carronade 2011 was mentioned, a gaming and hobby show run by the Falkirk District Wargaming Club every May. The show has grown each year and support from both traders and clubs is good, with variety of demo and participation games and a large amount of wargaming eye-candy.

Here are the best of the pictures taken on the day of the Impetus Table showing the Great Italian Wars in full swing:

Sorry that there are so few pictures from the show, but somebody forgot to charge their camera and the battery went after a few pictures.

Well thats all at present

Cheers for now