Fred - 2017 Painting Diary

[lowlylowlycook]

Both are looking good!

[Ace of Spades]

Very nice!
Where do the Space Marine Breachers come from? Never seen them before...

Cheers,
Rob

[fred.]

Thanks guys. The Breachers are from Vanguard who now have big ranges of sci fi stuff often with echoes of newer GW stuff.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looking cool Forbes

[Ace of Spades]

Thanks guys. The Breachers are from Vanguard who now have big ranges of sci fi stuff often with echoes of newer GW stuff.

Thanks! That might come in handy.

Cheers,
Rob

[fred.]

The Vanguard stuff is very nice - well worth a look as they are bringing out lots of new stuff.


Sudan
Thinking of doing some British troops for the Sudan - and they certainly used a lot of different uniforms! The three main options seem to be
* Grey
* Khaki
* Red jackets, blue trousers

I can skip the Red jackets choice, at least initially by using Zulu war troops.

I had been planning on going with Khaki as the main troop colour, but now having done a small amount of research think that Grey may be more useful for a longer period of the conflict. I know the ultimate answer is do both, but I have some troops I want to get painted (they are code NW1 if that makes a difference for the cut of the uniform).

[paulr]

You might find this Perry guide useful, https://www.perry-miniatures.com/pages.php?page=sudan-uniform-guide

If you google "perry sudan uniform guide" you can find the pictures the article refers to.

[fred.]

Ta Paul - that's what had moved me away from my initial thoughts of khaki. As it seems to indicate grey was very common early on.

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[fred.]

Battle - Lizardmen vs Beastmen

Back to some fantasy gaming, my Lizardmen (green) around the outside, vs Jon's Beastmen (brownish) in the centre. On the most colourful of gaming mats!

We used the new(ish) Warhammer AoS card deck to generate a scenario, it worked well. Giving a basic kill victory condition,  an interesting deployment with the defender in the middle, and the attacker in the 4 corners. I choose to stick to just two corners, as I didn't want to spread out too much, and the heavy woods on one side would have slowed my troops down a lot. The twist was a magical storm, giving all casters a +1.





This was mid game. On the left it was all a bit cagey. With a few of my better quality troops holding up rather a lot of lighter beastmen.
On the right (top) the Beastmen heavy infantry are making rather too good progress. At the bottom right, my cavalry have been engaged by the beastmen cavalry and a giant. My cavalry dispatch the enemy cavalry but the giant smashed them up in return, before I was able to surround it an bring it down.

The battle turned out very bloody, with huge casualties on both sides. I won by about 200pts (out of 3000) when we did the final count up. My Stegadon (large dinosaur) hadn't done much during the game, but in surviving it denied a lot of points to the enemy!

[Techno]

Sounds good fun, Forbes !! 

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks Phil. Was good to get back to a fantasy game, and the game cracks along at a good pace, 30 units a side, all over in 3.5 hrs including setting up armies and packing the whole table away.

Finished off basing the Zulu War British this week


And got the first 3 colours on the next batch of these chaps last night.

Also painted these giant sand snakes during the week

With liberal use of washes and dry brushing

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work chap

[Techno]

Wot Will sed. 

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

 

What size bases are those Zulu War British on? I'm thinking about the Sudan again (would use one of our current rule sets, V&B )