As a bit of fun for the summer, and to while away those boring hours spent away from the painting table while you're on holiday, we present 'Pendraken on Tour 2011'! Inspired by an idea from goat major, what we're looking for is pictures of your Pendraken figures in the most unlikely/interesting places! You don't need to go lugging your whole collection about, but simply grab a picture of a base-worth, in an entertaining location!
At the end, we'll have a poll and see who the winner is!
What a fabulous idea - and clearly a 100% foolproof excuse for me to squirell away some miniatures to paint whilst everyone else is lounging round the pool!
Did I miss something - where did 2011 go?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 July 2011, 01:50:45 PM
Did I miss something - where did 2011 go?
Shhh...! #-o
Bugger. If you'd mentioned this a fortnight ago I could have taken a few janissaries to Istanbul. :D
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 July 2011, 09:37:03 PM
Bugger. If you'd mentioned this a fortnight ago I could have taken a few janissaries to Istanbul. :D
:'(
:D
Might be time to go gaming on the beach again...with the beer...and fighting off the surf-bunny hotties. With sticks. 8)
QuoteBugger. If you'd mentioned this a fortnight ago I could have taken a few janissaries to Istanbul.
And I could have taken a 9.2" howitzer to The Somme!
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 July 2011, 09:37:03 PM
Bugger. If you'd mentioned this a fortnight ago I could have taken a few janissaries to Istanbul. :D
coals to Newcastle ?
actually i'll be driving quite close to Augsberg.......hmmm
it would be really nice if we got someone to visit Tarleton in Lancashire......
How about James II?
I'm going to Soul Bay (Southwold) to visit Adnams this summer! He was the admiral of the fleet at the Battle of Soul Bay whilst Duke of York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solebay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solebay)
Quote from: goat major on 19 July 2011, 03:15:08 PM
it would be really nice if we got someone to visit Tarleton in Lancashire......
That's just up the road from me.
Is this to do with hats?
Quote from: fred12df on 19 July 2011, 09:07:27 PM
Is this to do with hats?
Almost certainly, certainly cant be about the sadistic, corrupt minor noble.
IanS
i'd love to see Ian wearing one of these :
(http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/images/collection_large/67185.jpg)
:d
Hi
Yep Banastre Tarleton of the famous hats and the bloody career in American War of Indepedence was of old Lancashire county stock and became MP for Liverpool after the war
Right, let's get this started properly:
Back from 4 lovely days in Southwold (okay, two and a half lovely days, one day of rain, half a day of sickness)
I did not get my order in in time to get the figures for Soul Bay through, but here are some mobile phone shots of Southwold, and a few attacking forces.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/TheinvasionofSouthwold1.jpg)
An American General trying to infiltrate through the lines, only to be repelled by the bucket and spade brigade!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/TheInvasionofSouthwold2.jpg)
16th Prussian Infantry regiment, Wedell's Brigade, X Corps.
They landed at Southwold Harbour campsite, then tried to turn North towards the idilic and unsuspecting town on teh hill. You can just see the light house and the Brewery chimney, their objective was Gun Hill, the green sward to the right of the light house, where they were to secure the 6 18lbers and the beach front (which during WWI the Germans bombed it and the town from zepellin several times, thinking the 18th Century 18 pounders were a threat).
This was shortly before meeting the insurmountable force of the lovely Mrs Lemmy saying 'What are you doing?' and them sneaking back to Prussian in embarresment!
I did not get as much painted as I wished because after visiting Adnams Brewery and two days on the beach in blistering sunshine and a dodgy burger, I was rather too delicate to paint for two days :)
Unfortunately, the action sequence of the Prussians adavancing up the beach at Southwold and then having an icecream on the pier has been forever lost, along with my camera and all the family photos, as I put the camera down somewhere this lunchtime, and by the time I had driven the 8 miles there and back again, it was gone! Thankfully it was the 8 year old spare and weighed as much as a brick, but had a load of good piccies on it :'(
kill
The wabbit ?
I like the thought of the prussians advancing on Southwold - it's like a chapter from a spy adventure set in 1900
You are very brave taking a whole regiment camping !
Bugger - Southwold is literally 15 minutes up the road from me :o We could have set up a small skirmish on the beach! ;)
I had the whole of Weddel's Brigade, 9th Dragoons and the remains of my Wurrtenberg division with me (2 infantry, 5 gun batteries)! I was planning to get loads done at night, but only did Dark blue and dark grey base coats before I fell ill ! :(
Nosher,. that would have been hilarious!
Quote from: Sandinista on 07 August 2011, 10:57:08 AM
oops, post pub posting phuque-up :-[
;D ;D ;D
I thought I'd really overdone it and it was a post kill! *phew*
well i'm off on me jollies this afternoon accompanied by some stowaways from the League of Augsberg. Hoping to get some pics of them sunning themselves when the wife isnt watching !
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/DSCF7275-1.jpg)
Horrah!
Quote from: goat major on 10 August 2011, 09:53:08 AM
well i'm off on me jollies this afternoon accompanied by some stowaways from the League of Augsberg. Hoping to get some pics of them sunning themselves when the wife isnt watching !
8)
This being a record of the Kings Foote Guards invasion of Italy in the Year of our Lord 2011
After crossing the channel, the Guards make quick progress into central France along a surprisingly well cobbled road
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/1.jpg)
The city of Beaune falls without a fight, the brave troopers survey the town spying out opportunities for plunder
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/2.jpg)
The Alps form a mighty barrier to most armies, but the Guards intend to follow in the footsteps of Hannibal
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/3.jpg)
The supply train cannot follow through the mountains so its necessary to forage - living on no more than Alpine funghi
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/4.jpg)
Decending into Italy a torrential river presents the next challenge
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/5.jpg)
But the Kings Guards are ever resourceful
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/6.jpg)
and now the Italian armies flee before them, leaving the Guards to relax with the spoils of victory
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/7.jpg)
Haha, that's awesome! Some well-travelled chaps right there! :-bd
That was BRILLIANT! The last photo deserves a medal on it's own, but the lilo! LOL! ;D ;D
Top-notch - love it 8)
Great Campaign report!
;D
:-bd
Excellent stuff! These guys have been around!
The lilo picture is classic. ;D
No painting with me, but just went through Mortimer's Cross on the way to Croft Castle with the family.
Mortimer's annoyed and Mortimer's pretty peeved next...
I hope it stops raining when you get there!
Have you been able to work out whether it was a north-south or east-west battle. Military historians cannot seem to decide. I have to hand it to the French mercenaries who decided sod this for a lark; let's just sit down and watch.
And i have now seen two parhelions in the last two years.
No Matt, we went this lunchtime and it chucked down!
18th Division of IX Corps of the Prussians army is currently encamped 4km south of Gesnes-Le-Gandilin, slightly north west of their final positions on the Me Mans campaign (by 45km) but we will travel through several of theor staging areas and battlesites inadvertently on the way to Eurodisney tomorrow! ;)
They got base coated last night after an epic 8 hour drive down (Should have been 6, but we got caught up in a horrendous jam on the M25), inked and highlighted tonight.
Excellent, we'll have to do a new 'On Tour' thread in 2020.
Leatherwork, metalwork, flesh done and inked and highlighted, guns finished apart from tidying and muddying up
I really hope you are on holiday on your own.
No, my eldest was doing her watercolours on the other side of the table, the youngest was in the pool.