New stuff coming soon...

I can't believe I haven't posted since July! Admittedly after that things went a bit quiet on the painting front. Both inspiration and time dried up with hasty abandon, what with yours' truly starting his third semester at art college and having plenty of work to do. However worry not you young bloggers for there is more on the way.

SCW artillery, cavalry& infantry, Napoleonic infantry, a colonial paddle-steamer, modern Africans and much more. I'll just have to wait till the light gets good and take some more photos...

Till then watch this space

1st Gurkha Brigade

In the order I placed this week I got 1 squad (8 figs) of New Anglican Confederation Gurkhas just to see how I got on with them. They are fantastic troops and I'm going to use them as a stand alone unit in my upcoming British force. I painted them based on a concept for the new F.I.S.T (Future Integrated Technology Soldier) program being developed by the British army.

A concept for a FIST equiped infantryman of the future. For more info visit the website I took this image from http://www.army-technology.com/projects/fist/ .

Here are some of the painted up Gurkhas.

And lastly myBritish MBT (name to follow...) which I brought from Old Crow. Old Crow make some fantastic models, they aren't too far fetched and they are made of the best quality resin I think I've encountered in this hobby. My only complaint is that their vehicles are very big, this tank especially looks like it should be about the size of a modern day Scimitar tank but is infact quite large and maybe a little too tall.

Pan African Union Infantry

Or in our universe 'Zanzibarland Republic' Infantry. These are some of the original figures I bought all those years ago finally painted up. I spent a couple of days mulling over how to paint them and what style. I wanted them to be 'near future' but not too over the top, I wanted them gritty and realistic and I wanted to be able to visualise them marching across our TV screens in the year 2040. In the end I settled for a futuristic version of the Portuguese uniforms warn in the African colonial wars of 1961-74. I imagine these are what the troops were originally modelled on seeing as how many of their uniform features are the same, especially the 'casquette-bigeard' type cap with neck piece which I chose to paint green.

Here the notorious Afrikaans mercenary Major Pattison poses for a shot with a Zanzibarland infantryman.

Sniper and anti-vehicle support trooper. Note how the sniper is wearing ther green variation of the Zanzibarland standard infantry fatigues.

An infantry squad posing with their commander. Though their clothing and kit may look dated their weapons and equipment are more than up to the task. One of RofZ main backers is the Peoples Liberation Army and they are roumered to recieve covert funding from a number of other states.

New GZG

Or should that be not so new. Spent a day with my cousin painting up some of the Ground Zero Games stargrunt figures we bought at Salute. That is Salute 05. Don't know why we never painted them sooner, just never got round to it i suppose. Bt their done now and I'm so pleased with the result that at the start of the week I ordered some more. And next week when the guys at GZG are back from their Hol's I'll probably place another. They are truly great figures and they look fantastic when painted up. The range of troops availible is great and they are so versatile and with their scale at True 25mm they can easily be mixed in with some of the larger 1/72 kits and troops on the market.

Been away for a while, but I'm finally back after some mamoth painting of all the miniatures I got a Salute. Here are some pictures of a wargame I played today using my new Yugoslav wars figures (being a mixture of Liberation Miniatures, ESCI warsaw pact, Orion Modern Russians and Ceaser Miniatures modern urba resistors).

The aim of the game was for the VRS (Bosnian Serb Army) player to keep the main highway clear in order for reinforcements to be brought up to the frontline. However Bosnian Militia and paramilitaries have set up roadblocks along the highway and are gathering in strength in the town.

The VRS first objective is to clear the roadblock in order too get supplies and troops to the front.

Secondly they must establish the strength of the Bosnian units in the area and if possible route them out from the town in order to negate the threat to military traffic.


In turn 1 the VRS troops leapfrog toward the nearest buildings, taking it in turn to cover each others advance.



Bosnian reserves emerge from the woods to take the advancing Serbs.

Bosnian militia in the town get ready to ambush the approaching VRS squad...

...But the Serbs send in their former JNA T-55 to clear the streets with it's cannon.

A shell lands amongst the defenders rendering most of them casualties.

The sniper in the towerblock avoided being hit but was taken out by the combined fire of the approaching VRS infantry.

The second VRS squad comes under fire from the Bosnian reserves hiding in the woods, a firefight breaks out in which the VRS officer is killed.

The tank trundles down the streets hoping to cut off the retreat of the Bosnian reserves.

But a well aimed RPG finds its' way to the poorly defended rear of the tank.

The tank crew flee to join up with the VRS troops bogged down in the town when another RPG explodes in their midst killing both tank crew.

Here is an overview of the action. After this was taken there was only 1 more turn in which both forces exchanged ineffective long range fire before the VRS troops decided to call it a day and ordered a general retreat back down the way they came.

It's fast coming up to that Salute time of year again. As such I thought I ought to paint up all of the models I had lying around from last year before I go out buying more. So Here they are my collection of H&R, GHQ and Irregular Minis Micro armor moderns. 

Here some GHQ insurgents plus an Irregular technical cab defend a small compound in the face of coalition forces.

Here's a closeup of the American M1A1s & M113s advancing supported by British infantry.

Here in the town the Insurgents use their captured artillery to shell the coalitions advancing forces.

The view of the town(currently unfinished).

A closeup of the gums and supporting troops.

The British HQ in foreground.

A British Mortar platoon covers the advance of the US Armored column.