Roman and Greek rural houses

If you like the building in the background of my latest couple of photos, Paul has a few more for sale.
Check them out on his website battlesinminiature.blogspot.com. I highly recommend them as great pieces to add atmosphere to your ancient gaming.

leader of the pack

Here is my wolf guard pack leader, armed wth power fist and plasma pistol. I have not played 40k 5th edition yet as i have been busy with all my other wargaming interests these last few years. I did buy the rules when they came out which was around the same time i sold off all my armies, well planned as ever.... 

I will try and get a few games in before the 6th edition comes out next year.

I am going to try my hand at making an arctic conditions terrain board to go with the space wolves. Here is a pick of my helping hand Grace scrubbing out all my careful sculpted tank tracks. You gotta love 'em! 

Polemarch

Last night I took the night off work and commissions and painted this Wargames Foundry ancient Greek figure. I was happy this morning to see that it turned out ok as I downed a large bottle of Baileys at the same time.

He is the Polemarch who will lead the Greek mercenaries in my Alexander the Great collection, which I got for Christmas last year. Which means I have now painted three Thracian cavalry figures and a Greek, not much to show as I have had the lead four months.

Now back to commissions......

It all started so well...

Firstly sorry for lack of updates, I have been a little busy with commissions that needed finishing before Christmas, these included a large rebase project of Caesarian Romans and ancient Germans and to Finish painting a large batch of Normans and lots of Sassanid Persians. Now my desk is almost clear again I have begun to clutter it back up with my dark age collection. I have prepped up 24 heavily armoured Romano British spearmen including a new general and ASB. These i hope to have finished for a game on the 12th of December, so watch out for pics soon. I have also started work on a few more Vikings, including a Godi, another hersir and ASB along with GB plastic hirdmen. My lovely wife has bought me the Macedonian army deal from Wargames Foundry for Crimbo and while she wasnt looking i managed to sneak out the three Thracian cavalry figures which you can see painted above. These are fantastic figs and a joy to paint. According to my limited resources, the geometric patterns the Thracians are so famous for are a little more subdued and the stripes are thicker by the time of Alexander. This makes painting them a little quicker to paint but I am sure I will still go to town on the majority of them just so there is no doubt that they are Thracians. This will be a large project for next year, as i am planning on creating two armies for the period. Alexandrian Macedonian and Skythian with Greek and Thracian allies. It will be nice and colourful especially after the muted colours of dark age Britain. Now i must remain focused not long to go.....