SWISS WIP

 HI GUYS
A very quick post.
Just thought I'd share some WORK IN PROGRESS, (WIP).
This time Some PERRY MINIATURES French Infantry pained as the SWISS 1st and 4th Regiments.
I'm painting 3 Battalions of these chaps for gaming with LASALLE.
Coming along nicely I think.
I got all the info I needed re 'Uniforms' HERE

Comments Welcomed.
Cheers

LITTLE WARS '12

 Hi All
Well, LITTLE WARS (Melbourne's 'Wargame Day Of Fun') has come and gone for another year.
It was, as usual, a great day out. I manage to sell some stuff at the 'Bring and Buy' so actually walked away with my wallet slightly thicker than when I walked in, (for a change).
There were as swag of excellent games on display.
The Best one was, (in my opinion) the BLACK POWDER 'Borodino' Demo game. Beauitiful 28mm miniatures on excellent terrain.  See a swag of photos below:

 BELOW: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM,...... boom boom boom? OLD GUARD Artillery in action.

 BELOW: Ancients being played using Board game rules. An adaption from the COMMAND & COLORS (colours?) board game

 BELOW: FIELD OF GLORY: NAPOLEONIC. 15mm Napoleonics played on 'Teddy Bear' fur.
The battle was Waterloo. Apparently no Teddy Bears were harmed,...

 A great looking game, though the unit 'Tags' detracted from it I think.

 BELOW: FORCE ON FORCE! 28mm Modern combat in Afghanistan,.... when I last had a look the Coalition forces had sustained some heavy casualties. Sure to look bad in the papers and put Mr and Mrs 'citizen' off their breakfast. 'sigh'.

 BELOW: A rather spiffy game of English Civil War action using Black Powder PIKE & SHOTTE rules I believe.

 ABOVE: ZULUS!!! FAAAAASSSSSSSANDS OF 'EM.
BELOW: I entered my Peninsular War British Light Dragoons in the Painting comp and they collected a Silver Medal!!

All in all a cracking good day of Wargame Goodness!!!!
COMMENTS WELCOMED!

DBA and Emu's

Hi Guys
Had a couple of games of DBA the other day with Stan.
Romans, Ancient Brits, Successors and Carthaginians all had a hit-out.
BELOW: Celts V Romans

 BELOW: Celts V Successors.
My Chariots move off on a flanking manouver,..

 Seems the local bird life had the same idea.

 They then beat a not so hasty retreat,... "Move along, nothing to see here".

Apparently they were simply checking out if their copy of 'MAURICE' had arrived.
Cheers

Dutch Militia

ABOVE: My Dutch Militia Colour Party and Battalion Commander. Miniatures by PERRY, Flag by GBM.

Hi All

I thought I might share my first Dutch Belgian units I have finish for my WATERLOO PROJECT.

Dutch Militia and a Command Base.

They are all PERRY MINIATURES. I picked up some painted miniatures from DRAGON PAINTING SERVICE (DPS) and then painted some more, (about half) to match. I think I did OK, and I suspect most people will struggle to tell which ones I painted and which ones are the DPS painted.

 BELOW: My 'Command Base'. This will make a nice Objective marker for LASALLE games or a rather nice Line Of Communication (LOC) marker for FIELD OF GLORY - NAPOLEONIC (FOG-N). I'm thinking I might add a table with some bread and wine, (maybe a little cheese) to this base yet. Not too sure,...

UPDATE:

Here are some more pictures, this time in better light.

Cheers
Scott

Grasshoppers: The Perry Miniatures 95th Foot

BELOW: The 95th for SHARP PRACTICE (SP) and Song Of Drums and Shakos (SDS).

Hi All
Here are some photos of my PERRY MINIATURES 95th Foot (Rifles). I've based them on individual 25mm 'Round Bases' for use for playing SP or SDS.
The Bases are from Battlefield Accessories. They are resin bases that simply needed a slap of paint, dry brush and then some static grass appiled.

 BELOW: "Follow me lads"! An Officer leads the riflemen forward to battle the Frogs.

 BELOW: "BANG"!

 BELOW: And what would an Officer do without his trusty Bugler to relay orders?

 And just for a splash of colour, (Red to be precise) two VICTRIX MINIATURE British officers. I pained the chap in the Bicorn Hat. My good mate 'Gunner Dunbar' painted the Highlander.

Comments welcomed.
Cheers
Scott