It’s been a bit quiet on the hobby desk of late in Chateaux
Dai. Moments to pick up a paint brush have been a bit few and far between in
the past… 2 weeks or so since my last post. Until that is, this weekend….
Exciting, eh?
Not much done mind, but enough for a wee post I think. First
off, the flags I ordered from Stone Mountain Miniatures arrived for my
Confederates. Of course, silly ol’ me neglected to order some classic Army of
North Virginia “Diagonal Blue stripes over Orange background” Stainless Banners
(Not that every Southern army born them in any case, but they are certainly
instantly recognisable)… But they do
have some earlier “Stars’n’Bars” efforts for the now (And a Florida State
flag.) which will serve for our earlier games in mine and Stewarts’ (Who’s
playing the Union boys) campaign next month.
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| Pedisclaux's Brigade |
Better pics of the starting Brigade were promised and here
they are – the campaign will follow a fictional duel between two brigades over
the years of the war in 9 meetings (Per the Longstreet “Grand Campaign”
rules.). The Campaign encourages that we both name our Brigade commanding
General and it’s component regiments, which I’ve done below. Each side begins
the campaign with 3 infantry regiments of 10 bases, 1 cavalry regiment of 8
bases and a 3-gun battery of artillery.
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| Everyone's eager and ready to kick in Northerner face. |
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| Artillery on the left. LA 3rd and 4th infantry top and bottom at center, with the 12th FL in between. On the right are the 26th Florida Horse with their "Dismounted" version at the rear. |
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| My splendid boys marching on. |
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| Guns ready to deal out death to the Northern invader! |
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| The dashing and debonair General Jean-Claude Pedisclaux moving his boys onward from horseback. Although generals play no part in the Longstreet rules, it's fun to at least have a fig on the table to represent them. |
Stewart and I will get the first games of our campaign started on June 18th in a day long (thedaybefore)Fathers Day gaming extravaganza! AAR to be posted thereafter.
I also finished up a couple of Dark ages figs - a Saxon Thegn and a Jomsviking Warrior.
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| Saxon Bondi to bring my Saxon Thegns up to 3 units of 4 for Saga. Shield's a bit pants, but I just wanted him off my desk. |
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| Jomsviking warrior with a large red shield. His face was a crappy sculpt with almost no nose whatsoever, so I left the red wash on heavy so it looked (At least to me) like his nose was all scar tissue after a nasty wound or something. |
Some work got done on my commission too. A 40K metal Ogryn and a sculpt that's pretty fun to paint. I liked this version of the Ogryns as they were less cartoony than their previous releases. Still to do armour/metal plates and ammo-belts. No idea what colour to paint the plates though...?
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| Lighting makes his skin look well messy, but it's not in real life - promise. |
And last, but certainly not least - I finally (After a year of sitting on my shelf) fixed my mate Dave's Heroclix Great Cthulhu mini/statue. This thing's huge! It was handed to me after his son and my own were sneaking into Dave's hobby room (Whilst we played Kingdom Death) and one of the little sods knocked it off it's shelf, breaking off the wing... Dave tried to fix it with some pinning and wire, but the wing was far too heavy and it bent right off in no time. So I offered to sort it out and with a wood screw and some grey stuff (dries harder than Greenstuff) along with a little paint on the putty it looks pretty good and as long as it's not dropped again, should stay on there for years to come!
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| The Great Cthulhu's very presence will drive a man mad. And take up far too much space on his hobby desk. |
And that's it for now. The Ogryn commission is my priority right now, then back to some more Confederates in case my brigade is lucky enough to receive reinforcements between games in the upcoming campaign. But otherwise, my focus will be 28mm Soviets for Bolt Action.
Ciao.
