New house, new painting/hobby room!

Now then,

I thought I would throw a couple of pictures up of my new paining room, its still a work in progress, as I intend to get some proper shelving and a glass cabinet for some of my armies, but for now it certainly does the job.

Boxes of painted miniatures, games and terrain, currently stacked up on the floor, I have grand plans for some decent shelving and glass cabinets.

The old bookcase sits in the corner, it will be replaced when I get the shelving put in.

On there are the first gaming books I ever bought, 40k Rogue Trader and Warhammer 3rd, with the supplements.

Here is where I spend most of my time, painting and generally making a mess!

Tucked away under the desk is part of the lead mountain.... In various boxes and containers....

Anyway, bit of a random post, just chuffed I have my own geek space finally!!

Cheers,
Steve

Lord Byrons regiment of Foote

Now then,

Here,s the latest Unit for my ECW project, Lord Byrons Regiment of Foote. I couldn't find any uniform info or coat colours so decided I wanted a white coated Regiment so here we are!

This is the last foot unit for a while, so ill be cracking on with some more cavalry next before moving onto the dragoon regiment.

All the ECW stuff can be seen here - LINK

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Prince Maurice's Regiment of Horse, April Challenge update!

Now then,

Here the first unit done from my MMM April challenge, Its Prince Maurice's Regiment of Horse, a Royalist Cavalry regiment from the English Civil War.

These have all been painted in the last few days, whilst on the regular paint and chat sessions on google hangouts.

Whilst I was doing the cavalry I painted up a light gun as well.

 Here is the light gun, generic clothing for the crew, it could easily serve for Parliament as well.

All my ECW stuff so far can be seen here -

ECW PAGE

All these troops will form part of my ECW Royalist army for Impetus Baroque.

Next up will be Lord Byrons regiment of foot, a white coated regiment. (Actually I couldnt find any references to the coat colours of this unit so just decided they would be white..!)

Anyway, cheers for looking,

Steve

The plan for April.

Now then,

I have been very quiet around here recently, what with sorting my house out and moving in etc, but now im here I think its time to start getting some proper painting done (figures not walls......)

James over on the the mad tin hatter blog has started a painting challenge for April, so I thought id jump in, and try and motivate myself. click on the link below to find out what its all about -

April Challenge!

So im going to try and paint up the following (in no particular order) -

Lord Byrons Regiment of Foot - 28 figs
Prince Maurices Regiment of Horse - 9 figs
1 light gun and 3 crew.

All these are 15mm figs from peter pig.

Ill see how I get on!

Steve

First game in new house!

Now then,

I have moved! (again).... This time its different though, I have moved into my own house, and have my own geek room, and use of the dining room downstairs for the occasional game. (once my planned shed is built I can have bigger games and leave stuff set up etc).

Anyway, my brother popped down for a game of Rapid Fire this afternoon, a good quick game was had, with the soviet defenders (me) beating off the mighty SS with relative ease.

No battle report as such, but heres a few pics.

German forces mass on the right flank,which causes a traffic jam and a juicy target for artillery!

The Pz III Bn sweeps over the low hills towards the outskirts of the distant town and the main objective.

T34's arrive later in the game and its game over for the already struggling SS battlegroup.

Despite the Germans terrible luck with the dice, it was a fun game, and really nice to get my terrain out and set up. Hopefully we will have a rematch later in the week, where we will be swapping sides and playing the same scenario.

Anyway, cheers for reading, updates soon!

Steve

German Vehicles

Now then,

I sat and finished these vehicles off last night, mostly just basing but the trucks in particular needed a bit of work on the camo.

First we have a Panzer IIf.

I tried a dark wash on this one, it has turned out a bit dark, but works ok I think, It just looks a bit dirty....

Next I have a Sdkfz 250/3 command vehicle with a bedstead antenna.

(This is the battlefront "grief" model)

Here I have my Schwimwagons, These are forged in battle models and are very nice.

Again Ive been experimenting with different washes, some are darker than others......

I really enjoyed painting these, with the little drivers and passengers.

Last up I have some trucks, pretty bog standard and boring to paint (id rather be painting tanks...)

These will be used to transport my Panzer grenadiers in the lorried Battalion.

I shall have a proper update tomorrow,

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Panther G and Puma Fixed!

Now then,

I have spent a bit of time over the last day or so going through my WW2 collection, and my Panther and Puma were still sticky from the varnish that was applied in 2014!!

I fixed the problem by putting on  a fresh coat of matt varnish, A simple fix....Thank god for that...

 The Battlefront model comes with 2 turrets, so depending on what you want in your force, you can have either the:

Sdkfz 234/1 Armed with a 20mm cannon, and a coaxial MG.

or

Sdkfz 234/2 PUMA.
An up armoured version, with a fully enclosed turret, armed with a 50mm AT gun

Loads more to come!!

Cheers for looking,
Steve