Incursio Barbarica 24: Roman General

His face is a bit out of focus, but here he is in all his glory: Titus Sempronius, Commander of my (not painted yet) Late Roman force. Together with Verax, his gallic bodyguard and banner bearer, he will not let the hairy germans cross the Rhine...well that´s the plan so far.
I used, as always, the Musketeer Miniatures Characterpack "Vortigern", labelled under their Saxon range. I replaced the banner with a larger one, freehand Jesus on metal foil.

Liebster Blog Award

Liebster Time again! I´m really happy that my blog is nominated by Curt C and my mate Doc Phobos.  I did not follow Curts blog regularly to be honest, but I´ll change that in the future! He has some wonderfully painted minitatures, and even shares my love for SCW requetes! His "greyscale" WW1 project will take your breath away. Thanks for the nomination, very appreciated.
What can I say about Phobos blog? I met him personally, as the waraming scene in Germany is quite small. And I liked him from the start. Apart from that, he´s one of the best painters I know, and that´s no flattery. Check his blog, and you´ll see what I mean immedeatly. Thank you mate, I´m looking forward to see you again in January.
I like the idea of the Liebster Award. It´s always good to discover inspiering blogs and build a network amongst us nerdy wargamers :-)
Here are the rules:
 The rules of the award are:
- "Copy and paste" the award on your blog, and talk about it a bit.
- post a link back to the blogger who gave you the award
- Select for the award your five favourite blogs with less than 200 followers, leaving a comment on one of their post to notify them that they have won the award. You need also to list them in your own blog.
- Enjoy the moment, knowing that you have just made someone's day.
- Of course, there is no obligation to pass the award, but it is a good deed really.

So here we go:

Moiterei´s bunte Welt

A relatively new blog. He shares my current interest in the migration period and has a lot of fantastic Musketeer Late Romans on his site. You´ll also find reviews and FoW stuff. Nice.

Tank Girl

For me, Helen is the Grand Dame of wargaming. I know her from the start of my wargaming career on the Lead Adventure Forum. I doubt that there is a nicer person outside than her. And she really knows how to splash paint on minis!! Here WW2 Pacific stuff is gorgeous, she even wrote an article about painting Imperial Japanese for the WSS Magazine...and it´s on her blog, too!

Kampfgruppe Engel

Engel is a very productive painter and gamer, I visit his site almost every day to see the new goodies. His Treemoss-Scandinavian-mythology project is so cool, so if you like trolls and beards have a look.

Harness and Array

This blog is about the HYW, and you get wonderfully painted miniatures en masse!! Painterman has another blog, this time Swiss and Burgudian Wars. Also high quality stuff, this guy is busy. I love the colourfull painting,

Greywolf´s Last Valley

A master of atmospheric photography, he has a lot of cool stuff on his blog, from Huns to Weird World War 2...he makes it. He defeated me once in the Lead Painters League, I hope for a rematch in the future.

There are much more great blogs outside, I know it´s some work to run a blog but it´s very satisfying to get feedback and see inspirational stuff from others. I´m out,
Cheers
Jan

Manchuria, 1905

Hi all!
After painting so much armour and colourfull clothing and shields my eyes needed a break. After Björn wrote some Russo-Japanese-War army lists for Triumph&Tragedy I decided to paint some khaki wearing Russians. For a link to the army list pdf have a look at the Tsuba Miniatures site. There you can buy this fantastic miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks, the Russians also can be used to represent the "colourfull" regiments of the South Russian Army during the Russian Civil War.
I experimented a bit with different khakis and washes on the shirts of the Russians. Their official summer dress where white shirts and white cloth cover for their heads. But they soon realised that the Japanese where good shooters and order was given to dye the white cloth or stop washing them. The dying was done by local chinese labourers and the result where a wide variety of khaki shades.
Enough said, I´m happy with how they turned out,
Cheers
Jan

Incursio Barbarica 23: 2nd Big Man

 The second Big Man, from Musketter´s Hengist&Horsa pack. Orvin, Haethelmar´s best friend. The shield nearly drove me insane, I repainted it four (!) times. It ended up like this, I´m not that happy but hey-it´s only a shield.

Here you see the whole bunch ganged up. Champion, Warlord (with Dog and Standard) and two big men. Now I´ve to finish the rest of the warriors and my Dux Brittianarum warband is complete.

Incursio Barbarica 22: Little farm

I didn´t paint for ages, but this weekend I finally managed to get my farm done. Dwellings are Gripping Beast, the wattle fence is Renedra and the rest is built from scratch. I did this for my germans, but I will look the part from the bronze age until medieval times I guess. 

Incursio Barbarica 21: Barbarian Standard Bearer

Yesterday I finished my Big Man´s standard bearer. Inspired, again, by the Warlord Chronicles I sculpted a bull´s skull as a banner top. A little bit "fantasy-style", but it looks convincingly savage to me. He´s also dressed in black, Beorwald gave one of his older shirts to his loyal follower. You can see the different base sizes, 30mm to 25mm to distinguish the big men from the lesser mortals.

Incursio Barbarica 20: First Big Man

So here he is, the first Big Man for my Germans. I used the Aella miniatur from Musketeer Minis, a miniatur I fell in love with the first time I saw it (all you fellow wargamers will understand I guess). In the Warlord Chronicles Aella wears a black bear-fur-coat, and I liked the idea of a grimm and dark veteran look. So black tunic, black coat, brown hair, black shield. To add some contrast he wears golden armour, some grey streaks in his beard and fancy striped trousers.   
Because of his fur coat I name him "Beorwald the Bull" , Heathelmar´s most loyal follower.
His personal standard will follow soon...