New Projct: Migration Period

OK with over 100 followers (HOOOOORRAAAAYYYY) it´s time to start a serious project!

As I´m getting older and wiser and I realized that I´m not the painting-large-armies-type of wargamer. So I´ll concentrate on skirmish projects with a more heroic, story telling approach.


 I always loved the Late Roman/ Early Byzantine period, seeing the decline of Western Rome´s power and the raise of the German tribes, they of course only fleeing from the Huns pressing in from the east. So here are some great opportunities to build some small german or hun raiding partys and roman patrols to stop them looting.
My german tribe of choice are Saxons. I live in a city near the Teutoburg Forrest, an area where, in ancient times, the Cherusci slaughtered Varus´ legions, and the Cherusci later became Saxons when the allied with other tribes. So here the first ones, Witold and his younger brother Erkmar. 

Both are from Musketeer Miniatures Gothic/German Tribes range. The fellas at Gripping Beast (they owe MM now) were so kind to make a deal for me including all 18 different warriors on foot they offer, so no doubles in my warband. I armed both with a Sax, a long knife most of the part-time warriors used - swords where a bit pricey, and they have to kill some Romans first to get better weapons and some armour.
More to follow soon...

My 100th post

Wow, 100 posts. I´m quite busy actually, painted a lot for the LPL. And I bought this Faller Waterfall, added a base and some watereffects. I think it turned out very well. 

And last weekend Tilman from Conquering the Lead Mountain was here, and did very well as my personal painting slave...he did this gorgeous Dark Age miniatures for me. Look at the freehand shield design! He´s guilty for my newly awakened Dark Age Germans fever, primed and based 20 or so right after he left. And ordered some Musketeer Late Romans, because they´ll need some opponents.

 So more to come the next weeks.

Infinity Stuff

At the ast TACTICA I bought some nomads. I had the Haqhislam starter box for ages, but never painted the miniatures. I gave them to Tilman, two other friends went with ALEPH and Ariadna. Hopefully we´ll play Infinity as sonn as possible. The problem is: there´s a lot of terrain to be built!

Arthur´s Return

My entry for Round 7. I painted some new miniatures, but there are also some older ones involved. I like the scene and the pic is OK.

Hungarian Werewolf

This is my entry for Round 6. I always liked the WestWind Gothic Horror stuff, as well as the Chaos in Carpathia rules. So this is the start of my first warband. The Hungarians are WestWind Vampire Wars Hungarians, the dogs are Warlord Games and the magnificent Werewolf is from Otherworld.

Gondorian Glory

This is my LPL entry for Round 5. It was a bonus-round, theme "Tolkien´s World". I decided not to use the GW-Perry-sculpts (although they´re really cool), I took Musketeer Miniatures Goths, Late Romans and Berbers plus Redoubt Mycenean tower shields.
Happy easter to all of you
Cheers
Jan

Respect the cock!

And tame the pussy. This is my LPL entry for Round 4. They did rather well, I won against some nicely painted future wars stuff. I´m a bit hooked on the Bronze-Age-Thing since this years TACTICA. I got a load of Foundry´s Bronze Age Europeans and made this vignette of a shaman or priest praising his gods. The totems are scratchbuilt with wire, plaster and grey stuff. I saw totems like this in a museum in Germany. A bit naughty but- I can´t deny historical facts.