Hun horses - basecoated waiting for oil rub

These are about half the horses for the Hun army (I'm not going to give accurate numbers incase there are spies about).

Primed and then coloured with various Humbrol emanels to form a good base for the oil rub tomorrow night.

Will do the horses all at once and the riders 12 at a time. 

Huns - the beginning

OK, finished off my US armour this evening (pictures to come tomorrow), cleaned the desk down for space and pulled out the recently purchased Huns with some of their Germanic helpers. 

These are a mixture of Foundry bought on their last special and Musketeer Miniatures for the Germans. 

Bases were ordered from Litko some two weeks ago - but they are still showing on their site as 'In production"

They are going to be painted and based for Impetus using their beta lists from the website. 

This is all quite foreign to me as it will be my first Ancients army - but I am loving playing Impetus so wanted to get one.

I am going to attempt quite an aggresive schedule for these - but I am not putting it into writing publicly lest I fall short and have to take stick for not getting it done.

WIP on next batch of US stuff

Nearly finished these.  Need to glue back on all the broken bits, then a little bit more painting on details and then it is to the matt varnish they go.  Hope not to loose too much pigment through varnishing.

Sorry pics are so poor - but just a quick shot to show that I am not sitting around doing nothing.

More US armour - with heavies this time

Here is a bunch of US armour that was put together around Christmas time.

 

They are all Milicast vehicles with AB and Battlefield crew and a mix of resin and metal stowage.

 

 

 

Construction of a heavier type



Sorry for the tardy posting, there will be a miniatures related post along in the next few days.

 

Having been pretty happy with how the games room turned out, I have started the next phase of the remodelling of our house to accomodate this crazy hobby.

 

Our whole family loves books, and we are lucky enough to have a library installed in a spare bedroom.  Unfortunately, the lure of Amazon and AbeBooks (and others) is too strong and we long ago outgrew the library.  So something needed to be done.

 

So last weekend I started my project to build the Military History Library Annexe.

 

The room I use for painting and where the computer etc is located had a very questionable built in wardrobe installed when we moved in.  The wardrobe has worked well as a place to store (hide) many of my painted and unpainted stuff over the past 10 years. 

 

First few hours work was removing the wardrobe and all of its paraphenalia. 

But it is never as easy as you think when doing DIY.  Turns out that the wardrobe was installed before the room was covered in plasterboard and carpet - hence the bloody thing is built like a brick sh**house and constructed into the frame of the room.  This also means that the plasterboard and carpet have a gap in them where the frame attached to the walls, floor and ceiling.

So this morning a trip to the hardware store was in order to get a crowbar and the fun started.  Two hours (and a very sore back) later all is removed and I am ready to get new plasterboard to fill the gaps.

Big model build

Have spent most of the last 3 days in a big build effort so I can get base coats on a load which I can then work through over the coming month or so once I get back to work.

A range of Shermans with a brace of Chaffees and an M39

Then a range of "specials"

And the hardest model I have ever made (and its not yet finished)

Finally something that i have wanted to put together for the year or two that I have had it in the cupboard