The Leutnants Diary

Something you should have seen!

2012-01-05T04:15:00.000-08:00

Today I recovered "Grimm´s Hangar" . I will meet this crazy guy this weekend and remembered his site, there´s a lot of cool stuff to find. Enjoy!

2011 review - 2012 preview

2011-12-30T05:29:00.000-08:00

Again I´m just copying Christophers ideas.
So what did I achieve in 2011?

That was the plan:

Jason and the Argonauts for the Tactica 2011
100% complete. I built the terrain, painted some scelettons and varnished and based all the miniatures Tilman painted. The whole set up looked cool at the end and most people enjoyed gaming with us at the TACTICA.

The Warlord Chronicles

60% done. I need some more rank-and-file warriors and some more buildings.

Steampunk

Only a few miniatures painted. Not good.

Post-Apocalyptic

See above.

Well my output was a bit low last year. I painted some Dark Age Games Miniatures, 40mm Nappies and even some 40k stuff, but I think I´ll save the pics for the ext Lead Painters League.

For 2012...

...I will paint and game more. I hope. Real life can be very time consuming.

But there are already some plans (which may change during 2012).

Troyans - again I´ll have to paint miniatures and build terrain for the TACTICA 2012. I´ll run a game together with Tilman of "Conquering the Lead Mountain". Deadline: End of February.

Future Wars - a friend of mine will build me a FW board, so my Post-Apoc miniatures might get some paint o.

Fantasy Stuff- something "WH-like" but with Lead Adventure Miniatures. Also terrain.

And I would like to paint some samurais, Late medieval stuff, some more SCW...I´ll see.

Happy new year to all of you

Cheers

Jan

Troy...a lot of work to do!

2011-12-10T23:43:00.000-08:00

I cleared my workbench of all non-troian-stuff. Now my focus lays stern on bronze armour, boar-tusk helmets and cowhide shields. Tilman from Conquering the Lead Mountain and I will run a participation game at the TACTICA 2012 in Hamburg.
I´ll have to paint a lot of troians and their allies, miniatures are a mixed bunch of Foundry and Redoubt. BTW if anyone have some Foundry Sea People spare and want to sell them-give them to me please!

SCW Character No. 4 and groupshot

2011-11-28T09:51:00.000-08:00

The last character isn´t converted that much, I only added a whip to his right hand. He wears the uniform of the Moroccan Regulares.

All four characters together, you can see different nationalist uniforms worn durig the SCW. Left to right: Moroccan Regulares - Spanish Foreign Legion - Carlists - Falange.

SCW Character 3

2011-11-26T03:06:00.000-08:00

The miniature I´ve converted the most. I clipped off the right arm and sculpted a new one, the hair, moustache and gorillo cap are also add ons.

SCW Character No.2

2011-11-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

Second conversion, this time a faithful carlist requete. This one had a minor miscast: Where the mouth and jaw should have been there was only a hole. So I sculpted the missing parts as he was shouting ( motivating his troops for sure). He looks a bit like Jason Statham, doesn´t he?
Here you see both fellas side by side.

SCW Character

2011-11-05T10:48:00.000-07:00

OK I didn´t show any pics for quite a while. But when I saw Orctrader`s cool SCW Character I ordered 4 from Force of Arms. They are all almost finished, I did some minor conversions to represent Officers of La Legion, Carlists, Falange and Moors.
I start with the Legion:

Ignacio "El Leon" Vidal, Veteran of the Rifwar:

BeST 2011 (gaming session in Berlin)

2011-09-25T04:24:00.000-07:00

Some impressions of the Games:

Seven Samurai Game (Wasa´s own Rules)

Post-Apocalyptic Setting (Level 2)

Conan Game (Broadsword Adventures)

Brasilian Special Forces (BOPE) vs. Drug Dealers (Force on Force)

Cartago vs. Rome (Field of Glory)

British vs. Mahdists (Sharpe´s Practice)

As always I was too lazy taking more and/or better pics. There were some more games, 11 in total.

I played three games on Saturday: Force-on-Force, Malifaux and Gruntz 15mm. All this rulesets were new to me, but I liked them all.

There will be more (better pics) from other players in the net soon, I´ll post a link then.

Post-Apoc scenery

2011-08-22T08:52:00.000-07:00

I wanted a rusted roadsign for my Dark Age Games project. This is a little piece from my girlfriends garden (with permission of course), the rust is oil-paint stippled on with blister pack foam. I painted it two weeks or so ago, but oils need ages to dry.

"Lat se man kummen!"

2011-08-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

A while ago two friends and I talked about starting some grand-scale Horse and Musket stuff. The conflicts me liked most where the SYW, WSS and Napoleonic. With all the plastic-goodness available we decided to play the "Befreiungskriege 1813-15". This wars give us a nice selection of colourfull troops.
I started with the IR3, the 2. East Prussian. This regiment will later enlarged to 24 man, but 16 is enough for the beginning. Two layers only (except fleshand trousers) to reduce painting time. Flag is a repainted GMB flag (highly recommended), miniatures are Perry plastics with some minor conversions, including an arm from the Frenchies box.

It´s been a while...

2011-08-13T08:46:00.000-07:00

...since my last post here. I´m still working on my Dark Age Oustcasts and some hairy Germans for Sir Godefroy´s and my Tactica-project 2011. I don´t show pics because I´m waiting for my August-pay to buy a new camera. I always have problems to make good pics, and I´m sure it´s because of my stone-age-cam. We´ll see.
But, no post without a pic: This is Menelaus from Foundry´s troja rage.

Dark Age: Hoj, Warlord of Samaria

2011-07-11T13:57:00.001-07:00

Well, Dark Age again- but completely different from my Arthur stuff. I discovered Dark Age Games when I was looking for a Dark-Future Game. The whole range is based on Brom´s incredible artwork. So I ordered some miniatures from the "Outcast" faction and started. This is the leader of the Outcast gang.

Perry Samurai for SW-Forum painting swap

2011-06-28T12:36:00.000-07:00

Painted this one for Regulator. I´m very close to the deadline (01.07.), but he´s finished. At first I didn´t like the miniature, but when I started painting I was in a flash immediatly.

Arthurian miniatures from different manufacturers comparism shot

2011-06-20T06:58:00.000-07:00

There are plenty of opportunities if you want to play Arthurians. When I started my project I gave the 5 manufacturers a try listed in the pic above. Sizewise they work together very well, except the Foundry mini which is shorter and not so bulky.
A short overview:

Black Tree: The Late Romans are some of their nicest minis. They aren´t very detailed and not very well casted. But they paint up easy and look good then!

Musketeer: I loved Bill T´s sculpting style from the start. Here you can plunder the new Late Roman, the Saxons and Goth ranges. They fit my painting style, my favourites so far- the only reason I didn´t buy the Late Romans is that I ran out of money this month...

Gripping Beast: Again a vast number of useable miniatures in their programm. They´ve got all the characters from the novels, even Wolftail warriors. Their faces are great, but some poses are a bit weird.

Foundry: The smallest, most expensive in this line up - but also the most beautiful with all their crisp detail and very good poses. You can use the Late Roman range too.

Westwind: Some cool vignettes and character packs. Unfortunatly I don´t like their seperate head system, and the shields are too small for my taste. I use the musketeer ones with them.

There are other manufacturers like Artizan but I didn´t try them, I already got to much in my lead mountain. Hope that helps a bit if you´re interested in gaming this period.

Druids at work

2011-06-19T12:33:00.000-07:00

A nice little vignette from Westwind´s Arthurian Range, Pack DAS 03 "Druids making a Sacrifice". I added some putty-beards. The druid wielding the dagger is inspiered by the chariot-driving-one in "The Eagle of the Ninth". It was raining cats and dogs the whole day, so I had a lot of time to finish this piece. I painted it up for no particular reason, may be it will serve as an objektive marker.

Chieftain´s Hall

2011-06-18T04:42:00.001-07:00

I finished my Chieftain´s Hall today. It isn´t that large, but big enough for a sub-chief with 20 Warriors or so under his command. For the bedroom I´ll have to check Hasselfree for a nice girl or two (undressed).

Romano-british Noble

2011-06-16T11:33:00.000-07:00

Some news, I´m still painting some Dark Age Minis from time to time. Actually I´m infected with the Arthur-virus again (no EHEC) and building a chieftains hall with removable roof, post pics some pics of it when it´s finished. The Romano-British noble was painted this afternoon.

More than 50 followers!

2011-05-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

When I started this blog my aim was to get 50 followers. Thanks everyone, I hope you enjoy my blog. I have to apologize for the lack of updates, but I´m very busy at work. I´ve painted a Helldorado Saracen for the SD-Forum painting swap, the pic is crappy, but it´s a new pic.

Arthur´s Banner

2011-05-07T03:02:00.000-07:00

Painted this Foundry Miniature last night. My Arthurian Army is growing slowly...very slowly!

Something new

2011-05-01T13:47:00.001-07:00

Just a quick shot of two miniatures I´ve painted today. I tried Saxon Dog´s Army Painter technik (OK I used Cote d´Arms SuperShade, but I think it gives the same result).

The White Hand

2011-04-23T03:13:00.000-07:00

Some of my friends play Impetus Fantasticus using GW´s LotR stuff. I painted this unit as a test. Usually I paint my miniatures in the 3-layers-technique (OK sometimes 4-6 layers). The problem is that I´ll never get an army finished this way. So I digged out some washes and started yesterday evening. I think the whole unit took me around 6 hours, and I´m quite happy with the result.

The Hills have Eyes

2011-04-10T03:39:00.001-07:00

My entry for Roud 4 of the Lead Painters League. Foundry Hill Tribesmen.

The Beauties and the Beast

2011-04-03T08:16:00.001-07:00

My 3. Round entry in the LPL Comp. Bronze Age Miniatures with some minor conversions done.

Indian Summer

2011-03-27T02:00:00.001-07:00

That´s my entry for the 2. Round of the Lead Painters League. Unfortunatly I lost, but it was rather close. I enjoyed painting them, may be I´ll get me some Perrys and assemble a little Indian Force to encounter my French Marines.

Arthurian civilians

2011-03-20T05:16:00.001-07:00

Some civilians. Mix of Foundry, Gripping Beast and Warlord. My entry for the 1. Round of the Lead Adventure Forum painter´s league.

Raised store

2011-02-27T12:45:00.001-08:00

The second buildig for my Arthus-project.

Repainted my girl´s snowboard

2011-02-27T04:16:00.001-08:00

I repainted my girl´s snowboard, nothing wargaming related, but I´m quite happy with it. You can make an educated guess what´s her name ;-)
The little monkey is hangin´around there cause her nickname is "Monjat", that´s indonesian for...monkey.

Dark Age wattle and daub dwelling

2011-02-23T14:01:00.000-08:00

First scratchbuild house for my Arthur project (or any other dark Age/Medieval setting). I´ll do a small village, it was a lot of fun to built this one. I´m very happy with the roof, it´s a old towel cut to stripes and hardened with a lot of PVA Glue/water-mix (thanks to Rusus for sharing his wisdom with me).

Post-Apoc Girl

2011-02-06T05:52:00.000-08:00

I apologise for the lack of updates but I´m busy at work and working on some stuff for the Tactica .
I painted Rose from Hasselfree, she might be useful for a STALKER scenario. This miniature is tiny, so I sticked her on a BIG base.

Post-Apoc Bases

2011-01-18T11:56:00.001-08:00

I built some bases for a small STALKER Gang (yep 5 men). I tried to imitate broken concrete, used thin cork for that.

Sweetwaterforum Miniatures Swap Miniature

2011-01-15T08:06:00.000-08:00

Today I painted this Miniature for another member of the Sweetwaterforum. You can see pics of the swap here.
It´s a Privateer Press Hordes Miniature, "Dr. Arkadius to be precise. I painted him to a high standard, I´m very satisfied with the result, but my poor photographing skills don´t show it too well :-(

A usefull thing...

2011-01-15T05:16:00.000-08:00

...this paint rack! It´s from Miniaturicum and holds 96 bottles...quite enough for me!

Didn´t post for a while, I´m waiting for a GB/Musketeer order to arrive, I´ll then bring Derfels Wolftaild to full strength and add some civilians to my DA project.
Meanwhile I painted some
Lead Adventure Miniatures , but they went south with Alex so he can take some pics for his gallery.
And I sculpted a bust, roughly 40mm:

Arthur´s death vignette

2011-01-05T13:32:00.001-08:00

It´s done.

Arthur vs. Mordred Vignette WIP

2011-01-05T08:24:00.000-08:00

I wanted this Salute 2006 Give-away so bad, and posted requests on Lead Adventure Forum and Steve Dean Forum. Now I have this one from The Dozing Dragon and will get another one from famous RJ ! The base is ready, my mate Christian will come along in 30 minutes for our weekly painting session and hopefully I finish it todnight.

There´s a Competition on Massive Vodoo (great blog full of cool stuff anyway) that caught my attention: Build a "Mad Max Car Competition" Have a look!

2011...my new year resolutions

2011-01-04T13:32:00.000-08:00

So everybody did it (Tilman, Chris, Dimitri) and now I do it too. Last year was a bit stressful because of my new job and some private reasons. But now it´s 2011 and everything will get better!

There are some projects that I´m interested in:

Jason and the Argonauts for the Tactica 2011

That´s a participation game I´ll run together with Tilman, Maik and Christian. I have to built 4 60x60 Boards, the frames are made but I have still some work to do. Deadline is end of February..

The Warlord Chronicles

I´m totally hooked by Cornwells "Warlord Chronicles". I did some miniatures and will paint some more for sure. As a joined venture with Dimitri and Christian we´ll also build a small Dark Age village. I´ll have to paint up 30+ Miniatures for this project.

Steampunk

Two of my friends started their own miniature company Lead Adventure Miniatures
They produce the fancy Ratnik miniatures from Russia in lead. I already painted some of the Steampunk miniatures, and I would like to build a small but nice board.

Post-Apocalyptic

Again the LAM fellas produce the Ratnik Post-Ap minis. Grimm and Alex already built a board, so I only have to paint a dozen or so miniatures.

I don´t think I can manage this all, and a lot of new and exciting things wil appear on the market..there are ebobs ´Nam range, 40mm Perry Naps etc.
We´ll see.

German Warlord on foot

2011-01-03T10:21:00.001-08:00

Today I spent the whole afternoon with painting and photographing this miniature for a painting tutorial that I did for the Sweetwater-Forum. It´s in german, so all you german-speakers read it and all others may have a look.
Beside of all the work this miniature is so f****ing amazing! It´s a warrior from BillT´s Musketeer-Miniatures Goth range. Bill you´ve got magic hands. Start sculpting Arthurians now!!!

Romano-Brits

2011-01-01T04:56:00.000-08:00

I think this two miniatures are some of the best I´ve ever seen. And painted. The sword armed could serve as a more romanised (and more christian) Arthur.
Happy new year to all of you, I´m a bit ill today because I drank a bottle of Red Label last night. Bad idea.

Wolftail Warriors

2010-12-31T02:39:00.001-08:00

Some warriors for Derfel´s warband. And a groupshot of the Wolftails so far. On Derfel´s right side stands Issa, ready to protect his lord.

Agricola and Derfel´s new banner

2010-12-27T10:52:00.000-08:00

Agricola from the Christian Kingdom of Gwent. He´s th most "romanised" Miniature that I have from B so fits perfectly!

After some critic that the banner was too "ordinary" I added a wooden wolf head (GW Space Wolves Bit) and fur to the banner. I think it looks much more barbarian now.

Mordred-and " Frohe Weihnachten"

2010-12-24T05:52:00.000-08:00

Mordred, Arthurs Nephew. I painted him dark, he´s mostly clad in black. His shield bears Uthers Dragon. I changed the head cause I want him to wear a golden face mask.

2010-12-22T13:29:00.000-08:00

Derfels battle-banner. Musketeer Goth with LMB flag.

Galahad

2010-12-20T11:37:00.001-08:00

Galahad, Lancelots Brother and Derfels best friend
And the whole bunch so far. I wanted them to look "bright", cause they´re the good ones. Mordreds men will be much darker.

Derfel Cadarn

2010-12-19T05:24:00.000-08:00

Young Derfel.I´ll do one with a facemask when my Westwind order arrives. This one is a slightly converted GB Athurian Charakte.r, I added the cloak, wolftail, beard and hair. Shield is handpainted.

Merlin

2010-12-14T11:48:00.001-08:00

Gripping Beast´s Merlin

Arthur ap Uther

2010-12-13T12:38:00.000-08:00

Gripping Beast´s Arthur.

RCW Weekend

2010-12-11T03:16:00.000-08:00

This weekend we meet with some friends from the south for a massive RCW encounter. Here you see Markovs and Kornilovs Officers Regiments gathering in Bylefeldsk centre. I´ll post more pics later. More pics here

LEAD ADVENTURE MINIATURES

2010-12-01T13:10:00.000-08:00

Two of my friends started a new miniatures company! They are producing Ratnik Steampunk and Post-Apoc in metal...so I´ll be broke soon. Visit their homepage and check the miniatures out. Masterclass painted by Prof. Witchenheimer.

Some WIP

2010-11-24T09:54:00.000-08:00

I started building a small greek temple for our participation game at the Hamburger Tactica 2011. It´s the second attempt, the first temple went so wrong that I destroyed it and threw it away! This one looks OK to me.
And some more riders for the gothic army.

Goth Bucellarii

2010-11-14T11:45:00.000-08:00

Finally I manged to finish my first stand of Visigoths. At first I wanted to place 5 Riders on the base, but it looked too close. So only 4 Horse per base. For a Basic Impetus army I´ll have to paint 3 more bases Cavalry, 4 Bases Heavy Infantry and two Bases with Skirmishers. I don´t know if that is realisable for me. But I hope so.

Today I...

2010-11-08T12:15:00.000-08:00

..cleared up my painting desk. You don´t want to know what it looked like before. And I stored everything I need in this small boxes. I then matt varnished the Bucellarii, they´re all done now. Horses manes and tails next.

Crisis aftermath

2010-11-07T04:25:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I was at CRISIS in Antwerpen, Belgium. I spent a lot of money (possibly too much) on Gripping Beast Arthurians and Musketeer Goths. And Dallimores new Book, pure eye candy that thing!
I´m crazy about the Arthurians because I´m reading Bernard Cornwells "The Winter King" at the momment. So I converted a Arthurian heroe into Derfel, the main character in the book. He is described as wearing a green cloak and having a wolftail attached to his helmet. Because of his saxon origin he has blond hair and is bearded.

Sweetwater-Forum painting swap miniature

2010-11-01T12:17:00.000-07:00

Some members of Steve Dean´s forum painted some figures for each other, and I stole the idea for the german Sweetwater-Forum. The funny part is that you recieve a miniature, and the only advice is it has to be 28mm. So I was suprised when this grim looking Landsknecht found his way to my home. I don´t know the manufacturer but he was definatly a joy to paint and I hadn´t done anything simillar until now. For those who like to see the other results

The Goth riders are done, I painted kthem over the last week. Now I have to paint their horses..and I hate painting horses, don´t know why.

Goths WIP

2010-10-25T14:04:00.001-07:00

I didn´t paint for days cause I had to play the "CoD: Modern Warfare" split-screen campaign with my mate Erkan. Today I finished blocking in all the Base-colours, attached and finished the shields plus all the metalls. The Draco will be added later.

Goth bucellarius

2010-10-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Finished my first gothic heavy cavalary man. Pic isn´t that good but you get an impression. I ordered two packs of the new Musketeer (now available at Gripping Beast) just because they´re beautiful. I really enjoyed painting him, the shield is a LBM transfer with some extra damage and dust added by me.

The Rock

2010-10-17T11:57:00.001-07:00

I´ve seen a lot of scenery where Rocks were made of bark. I tried it myself and I like the result. It´s more brown-grey in flesh, not blue-grey like on the pic.

Avatars of War Priest

2010-10-08T08:13:00.001-07:00

I think this is the best-looking "Sigmar" Priest also he´s not GW. I painted him for fun, no new Project. I´ll add a gw-empire-shield when I´ll get one.

"Der Rattenfänger"

2010-10-04T10:59:00.000-07:00

I was so excited the whole day to get him painted...left my work in a rush and three hours later that´s the result. I´m more and more happy with my pics, thanks to everyone who gave advices (sorry I can´t remember you all ;-)

Ratcatcher WIP...scenic base

2010-10-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

I´m very happy with the base, the first I really put some time in. Copplestones and sidewalk made of grey stuff, Newspaper of...erh..paper.

Victorian scenery

2010-09-24T11:41:00.000-07:00

Found this little statues in my local art shop. I think they´ll look quite disturbing with the right paintjob. may be in a Park of a mansion? I like them and they were very cheap.

Konrad Kluftinger

2010-09-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

Konrad is an Inspector from Bavaria, the Allgäu region to be precise. He helps his Prussian fellas in the streets of Berlin...well if I ever manage to build a steam-punk version!
That´s the hole "Kaiserliche Sondereinsatzgruppe für Okkultes und Übernatürliches (KASOK)".

Baron Edelhardt von Dampfewitz

2010-09-14T13:08:00.001-07:00

The Name is silly, I´ll think of a new one. He´s the chief of the two cops I already painted. may be I´ll call them Ballauf und Schenk. I also tried to increase the quality of my pics, using different lighting. So which do you prefer?

I spent some money...

2010-09-11T04:00:00.000-07:00

...on this stuff. Placed three orders last Sunday:
Pardulon (Germany) - crates and barrels, rigth side and undercoated - arrived Tuesday.
Skytrex - more crates, barrels, etc. on the left - arrived today
HLBS - this fantastic little steamer- also arrived today.
THAT´S FAST!!

I´m really in love with the steamer, it´s 1/48 scale but fits perfect with this 28mm Brigade Ruskis. When I watched "Sherlock Holmes" two weeks ago I asked myself "where to get one of those dirty little steamers?" Thanks to Doc Phobos for showing the link to it on his blog ;-)

Just gimme di Light

2010-09-06T14:43:00.001-07:00

The one with the light, Sean O´Paul from Ireland.

Barrels/Cover

2010-09-05T02:26:00.001-07:00

Some cover for those who need it...
Finished them. They were easy to paint, some drybrushing and washing.

Some Barrels

2010-09-04T15:18:00.000-07:00

I started painting some barrels to bring some more life on my gaming tables. They are very nice resin castings from elladan.

More Steampunk from Russia

2010-09-04T04:47:00.000-07:00

It has been quite a while that I painted something. Today I finished two more of Ratnik Miniatures crazy Steampunk minis. I like the diver, he reminds me of the Bioshock Big Daddys. Unfortunatly I´m too stupid to get a better pic of him.

Steampunk

2010-07-12T14:43:00.001-07:00

I really like the stuff that is made by Ratnik Miniatures. Unfortunatly they are based in Russia and it´s not that easy to get them.

Aegyptian Wargod!

2010-05-06T08:12:00.000-07:00

I painted this extremly nice modell as a hero for a Songs of Blades and Heroes Catfolk gang. He´s a Basti Harbinger from Crocodile Games Wargods of Aegyptus range. Nice figs. Painted him a while ago, but didn´t take a pic.

Heavy Support!

2010-04-12T15:00:00.000-07:00

A Mech for my Neo-Kornilovs. I love Mechs, this is a Rackham AT-43 UNA "Fire Toad". Simply repainted and rebased. Miniatures for Size comparism. Pretty big I think.

FUTURE WARS - 2. Russian Civil War?

2010-04-03T04:23:00.001-07:00

I wanted to paint the Copplestone Neo Soviets for such a long time. I thought about a setting in near-future-russia. Some Neo-Soviets, Monarchists, Orthodox Christian militia and foreign mercenaries (probably hired by a mighty gas-company?)
My first two are from the Neo-Kornilov Armoured Regiment. I´ll paint a 10-man unit over eastern and will then watch out for a transport vehicle (may be from Old Crow). I also got a AT-43 Mech which fits very well with my Russians.

Musketeer Miniatures HMG painted for Kornilovs

2010-04-03T04:20:00.001-07:00

This is the nicest Russian HMG Kit I´ve seen so far. Painted for my Kornilov Shock Regiment (who else?)

Firestorm Armada: Dindrenzi Claymore Class Carrier

2010-03-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine buyed all four fleets for Spartan Games Firestorm Armada . He forced me to decide me for a fleet, and I chose the Dindrenzi. I decided to give em a "Star Wars - grey" look with Kornilov Markings in red-black. It was a quick n´dirty paintjob, grey primer, inked with VMC Smoke and black ink, highlightd with Bleached Bone and some drybrushing with brown and black.

Birch Trees "Indian Summer" style

2010-03-09T10:50:00.000-08:00

Finished these trees today, some more will follow. Trunks are from LEMAX and foliage is Mininatur "Spätherbst" (Late autumn) 1/45+
I added a pic of train personal and anarchist, painted them for the TACTICA-and forgott them at my home.

2010-03-02T11:31:00.000-08:00

Our RCW Demo game at the TACTICA Hamburg last weekend. Report of one of the three games here

Red Cavalry

2010-02-25T12:03:00.001-08:00

My Cavalry so far. I didn´t manage to paint ten, TACTICA is on the weekend- but a friend borrows me some of his, so no Problem!

Birch tree

2010-02-05T07:18:00.000-08:00

I build some birch trees. This is very "russian" to my eye, and I can use it for FIW and SCW too! I´ll add some more when I get more foliage.

Russian train crew

2010-01-26T02:52:00.000-08:00

These are Brigade Miniatures. I love them, especially the signaller. I´m pleased with the way the blue and the leather came out.

Church WIP

2010-01-14T06:56:00.000-08:00

I had some problems with my left wrist, so no hobby activities during december! Yesterday I started my church, still some work to do before painting. Hope you like the first look!

2009-11-14T04:32:00.001-08:00

I found this pic of a russian wooden church. I´ll try to build mine like this.

9 to go...

2009-11-12T07:03:00.001-08:00

Base still has to be done...

DA Force Publique

2009-11-10T07:33:00.001-08:00

Not the best pic, sorry. I like the Officer on the mule.

Horse Change

2009-11-06T05:23:00.001-08:00

I´ve never been happy with the Copplestone horses. So I mounted this Cossack on a (slightly) converted ACW horse. I also spent more time on the horse.

Historical accuracy

2009-11-04T13:15:00.000-08:00

I´ve been told on sd-forum that the shoulder boardrs are wrong. I painted Infantry patches, artellery is black piped red with a yellow K and crossed gun barrels. I corrected that.

Heres a link with examples of patches from koz10 (thanks mate)

RCW coloured regiments

Captions: Furazhka (wheel caps) and Shoulder Boards (top to bottom, left to right)
Alekseev – Infantry Units: Captain (1), Private First Class (2). Artillery: Lieutenant (3), Cannoneer (4). 1st Horse Regiment: Colonel (5), Junior Unter-Officer (6).
Drozdovskiy – Rifle Units: Captain (1), Lieutenant (2), Private (3), Sergeant Major (4). Artillery: Captain (5), Junior Cannoneer (6). 2nd Horse Regiment: Staff Captain (7), Senior Unter-Officer (8).
Kornilov – Infantry: Colonel (1), Captain (2), Cadet (3), Private (4). Artillery: Captain (5), Cannoneer (6).
Markov – General Major (1). Infantry: Captain (2), Staff Captain of the 1st Company, 1st Officer’s of General Markov Regiment (3), Senior Unter-Officer (4). Artillery: Colonel (5), Bombardier (6).

Kornilovs get some fire power

2009-11-03T00:56:00.001-08:00

As I can`t motivate myself to paint horses at the momment, I finished this cannon. I plan to add two more cannons and an ammunition waggon one day, to create a small battery like Imrie did with his french. I can´t decide what to do next, church or cavalry...

Reds in Town!

2009-10-24T02:52:00.001-07:00

The first two riders. I have to do a unit of twelve for our demo game at the Tactica. I have already painted three russian houses made by Pegasus. Nice and cheap these are! I´ll build a wooden church as well.

Kornilv Command base

2009-10-11T14:36:00.001-07:00

Finished my company command base. These fellas are part of the famous Kornilov Shock Regiment that fought in south Russia 1917-1920. It was one of the so-called colourful units, the "official" uniform was black or dark blue trousers, Black shirt plus a red cap. But only some higher ranks officers wore the full dress. The vast majority wore everything they could get, mainly Imperial Russian uniform items. This officer was lucky enough to get a brandnew british jacket.

WIP for the Tactica

2009-10-10T10:12:00.001-07:00

White Guard officer of the Kornilov Shock regiment. I´ll add a standard and rifleman for a command base. Hope to ge them finished this weekend..

2009-10-07T14:03:00.000-07:00

I painted the "Hilltribe Command" from Aventine miniatures. This is not the start of a new project, I painted them just because I love the figures.

2009-10-05T07:56:00.000-07:00

I´ve painted my first Machnovian Anarchist for an RCW-Game me and some mates will run on the Tactica, Germany´s best wargames show! Here´s the link tactica 2010

The 1. Texas Regiment

2009-01-28T09:48:00.000-08:00

The 1. Texas Regiment!

1.Texas State Flag

2009-01-19T09:33:00.001-08:00

The beginning...

2009-01-18T02:12:00.000-08:00

Hi there. I decided to start my own blog, as I like watching other wargamers blogs a lot. So I´ll show you pics of my latest works, share some ideas about the hobby etc. Currently I´m working on the Texas Brigade at Sharpsburg (or Antietam for you Yanks) for some ACW games.