My previous blog was getting rather long - in particular the archive was taking an age to load, so I thought I’d leave it ‘dormant’, or hibernating, or something - it’s all still there, under ‘Old Blog’, so you can see the entries, but I won’t be adding to it - instead all new entries will be here.
Friday, 10 July 2009
Saracens!
I have finished painting the first unit of Saracen infantry. I’ve posted a couple of photographs here.
The figures, as I think I’ve said before, are from Musketeer Miniatures, and the shield transfers and banner are from Little Big Men Studios.
The painting is very much the same as for the
Monday, 6 July 2009
Oh Dear me!
I had been working away, when time permitted, fairly happily on my first unit of Saracens. But then, this morning, an email arrived from Adrian Goldsworthy, appended to which was a draft of his next article for Slingshot: “Thinking About Romans - Part Three”. This is all about legionaries. I
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Kingdom of Heaven
Here is my first, unfinished unit for the new project. It’s a unit of dismounted Knights Templar. The figures are from Gripping Beast. I’m quite pleased with the way they’re turning out, so far. I still need to make a banner (for the bare-headed bloke) and a movement tray, before the unit will
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Plastic Auxilia
At long, long, last, Warlord Games have shown my plastic auxilia in their newsletter, so I am able to show them off. I am particularly proud of these, because they don’t use LBMS shield decals, but rather some that I designed and printed myself. The figures are painted in my usual way. There
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Local Colour
I painted a few Foundry models - see the New Ancient Photo Gallery. No use for fighting, but they provide ‘local colour’ to get in the way near the table baseline.
In the absence of any dromedarii from Warlord Games, I am painting a few Crusades infantry from Gripping Beast. And today I
