Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Rest of Mini's Arrive, Filing Overload!!

Title says all. The rest of the (beautifully scuplted) mini's have arrived and i've got more filing to do. Gonna take a break and paint the first six (Yep, you heard me!! The first six!!) before continuing the filing of doom routine :o)

Darrell.

Monday, January 28, 2008

It's a Dirty Job But Someones Gotta Do It!!

Here's one......
And here's another.......

Just to get me in the mood you understand. Anyway, neither of the above images are really that relevent as I'm going to be doing the Army of Clarence at Bauge where he overconfidently (undertsatement given the way in which English armies generally operated!!) charged the French and was killed along with many of his compatriots. Bit of a mistake really.......... although it did allow the less Impetuous John of Bedford to pick up the reigns who did a damn sight better a job than his younger brother.
OK, side tracked as I may be.......
OK, sorry to dissapoint folks but the title refers to the wonderfull passtime all wargames folk have to deal with; filing! Nearly done god knows how many and I've got another batch to do as and when they arrive. So, as they are predomintly done, I should be able to settle down to a sopt of painting over the next few days and have some pics ready for your perusal :o)

OK, sorry to dissapoint folks but talking about filing! I'm not a big fan of filing!! It gets under my skin. A neccessary evil perhaps but a pain in the ass too. Nearly done god knows how many and I've got another batch to do as and when they arrive. So, as they are predomintly done, I should be able to settle down to a spot of painting over the next few days and have some pics ready for your perusal :o) Let it be so.

Cheers,

Darrell.




Thursday, January 24, 2008

Havok!


Yep Havok! A Medieval WAB event to be run at the End of March by Martin Gibbins at GBHQ in Evesham. Looks to be a fantastic event if it was anything like the last one I attended run by Martin, which was in fact Cold Steel.

You may have a funny feeling that you have heard something like this before, but it is just the excuse I need to pull all those Perry Agincourt to Orleans mini's out of their box and apply some slap. And of course, a good enough excuse to buy a 'few' more.

So, I look forward to gracing the pages of this blog with my army as it grows and also including a full report of Havok!

Darrell.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

This should shake things up a little........ for the good

For those who are not in the know already, and I expect the word to have travelled throughout the wargaming circles like wild fire, check this out........ it concerns the Perry's and their next project:

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/146941/

Cheers,

Darrell.

Monday, November 19, 2007

As promised........ Italo-Norman Army Pics

Hi,

Well, it's been a few weeks so I thought that I ought to pull out the old camera and take a few snaps of at least one of the armies that I promised before the WHW Weekend. So, for now it's the turn of my Italo-Normans. There are still a few bits and bobs that I want to include in the army such as more variation in the Coloni, the addition of a few more Italian/Spanish looking Milites and commands, a unit of Elite Militia and a couple of big units of Levied Militia. There are even a few camp (not that sort of camp!) vignettes that are planned that are actually sitting on my painting table right now. But then again so are my British Kingdoms, my HYW English and my Hamdanid Arabs!!! Hmmm..... I guess it's a case of what grabs my attention first.........

Pics of a few of the British Kingdoms units to follow soon........


Army General
Army Standard Bearer
Mounted Milites One

Close ups

Mounted Milites Two

Close ups
Mounted Milites Three
Close ups




Coloni with Javelins

Close ups
Coloni with Slings
Crossbows close ups


Serjeants with Crossbows One
Serjeants with Crossbows Two

Aghlibad Arab Heavy Cavalry

Close ups





Aghlibad Arab Light Cavalry
Close ups







Wednesday, October 31, 2007

On Sunday I got back from a great weekend at HWHQ and the WHW campaign weekend. It was Age of Arthur all the way for me. special thanks to Jim Sweeney for lending me an army [as mine wasn't finished- yep I know, the shame ;o)] , also to James morris and Steve Jones for running a seemless campaign that was packed with laughs and last but not least all my oponents (Dave, Jack, Ivre, James, and all the skirmishers!) who playey within the true spirit of the game and provided a lot of entertainment.

I'm not going to prattle on so I'm here's a few pics that I have selected for your perusal:















There are many more pics and if you have a mind to you can see them all here on the SADWAB Forum:
Here too:
Hope you enjoyed them......
Cheers,
Darrell.