Anamites

Hoi

A while ago my dear friend Uwe send me some sample figure of some of his new 20mm white metal figures. Since I caught some painting time yesterday I managed to paint a series of his Anamites (don't ask something to do with the French in Indo-China) and some 1688 Dutch Blue Guards. The latter will feature in a later update, for now the Anamites will have to sate your thirst for miniatures.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Over the Hills and Far Away" the Sharpe Series Soundtrack

Excellent service!

Hoi,

Today I'd like to bring you news of two companies who provide excellent service. First off is Wargames Illustrated.

I love the fact that I get a glossy magazine filled to the brim with wargames and related stuff. The only problem was that for several months on row the magazine failed to arrive at my home address. After an email from me to WI subscriptions officer Robert Townsend I got the missing issues resent each time, but the mags kept on disappearing, I really started to suspect someone at the postal distributions-centre here t-in the Netherlands of  nicking my stuff (other parcels failed to arrive as well) I rang the Dutch postal services and they blew me off. So in the end Robert suggested sending the latest missing issues in the most secure way possible and to a different address which worked out fine. It took us an enormous amount of e-mails and quite some time but just last week the mag arrivd here fine at my home address so I hope the trouble is now behind us...

Another excellent company is Avatars of War in Spain. From them I ordered a box of plastic Dwarf Slayers  and some characters amongst which is their newest Vermin Lord for my gaming buddy Mark! The last batch of figures I ordered (including Mark's birthday prezzie) was overdue and I was stressing whether the stuff was going to get here in time to be gift-wrapped and handed to the birthday-boy. I mailed Johanna of AoW and she told me she had been in hospital and recovering over the last month and would sent the order asap, 3 days later it arrived on my doorstep! Great Service that!

Well just wanted to share this with you all and assure you I am still active on the hobby-front be it a bit less then usual...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: still the Baby-monitor I'm afraid...

Enter the BIG guys

Hoi,

Believe it or not, but our son permitted me some painting time last weekend. I managed to finish some of HäT's 28 mm French Voltigeurs. Mini's I started with on the day of Arthur's birth. The pictures are a bit overexposed so the real miniatures are a tat darker.

I am not really into 28mm historics, heck if the GW (or other sci-fi/ fantasy ) mini's where in smaller scale I'd take them rather then the bigger ones, but these where really nice to paint.

Hope you like them!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: the Baby-monitor...

May the Brick be with you...

Hoi,

Since a newborn child is a huge drain on hobby time, I do not have any hobby related update to show you today but I have permitted myself an addition for one of my many other addictions: Star Wars Lego. As it happens I have been a SW-fan since first seeing the Original Trilogy way back as a kid. Back then the SW action figures were too pricey for my allowance or for my parents pocketbook so I never got any. When I got my own income the stuff had risen to collectors status and the prices went along accordingly. Therefore the release of the Star Wars Lego series was the absolute fun solution. I simply love Lego (but am not an AFOL as such) and the way they done up the SW minifigures is just about a dream come true. At this moment I have an healthy, or rather unhealthy, collection of OT series sets. Last week, overcome with the impressions  of being a father, I ordered a Scouttrooper key-chain, the new Characters Guide and an Advent Calendar. I am now trying to keep the latter closed till the first of December, will I manage this or will I succumb earlier?

Anyway Cheers Sander

Huzzah!

Hoi,

You might have noticed that I have been out for a while. Well that's due to the fact that Saturday the first of October our Son Arthur was born.

Mother and son are doing fine! Dad's a little frayed along the edges for sleep deprivation and worry, but I guess that's normal!

Cheers Sander

En avant mes amis!

Hoi,

When I posted my last Black Powder BatRep, I told you all I was doing something about my lack of French Line Infantry, well here the fruits of that labour. An all fresh Line Regiment. Since I was doing loads of white uniforms for Austrians anyway I decided to paint some of these garçons in their white uniforms and mix them with Bardin regulation blues in order to make an unit in transition-uniforms.

The officer is a metal Art Miniaturen mini the grenadiers and voltigeurs are  http://www.hat.com/Curr2/Bx8219FCm/Bx8219FCm.html the fusiliers are http://www.hat.com/Curr/Test8041.html .

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Vintage Whine" by Skyclad

Goblins Galore!

Hoi,

Well so far I am surprising myself with this Goblin Army of mine. This might actually be the first army for which I am able to paint the mini's within weeks of buying them and only have a backlog of just 1 or 2 mini's left unpainted... As I have developed a distinct dislike of GW policies as told here many times before, I will not buy their products at regular prices. I have been asking the mini's for birthdays or buying them at reduced prices at conventions and so I am now the proud owner of:

- horde of 40 Night Gobbo's with spears and shields
- 20 Night Gobbo archers
- 20 Goblin Spearmen
- 2 Shaman
- 3 Squighoppers
- a blister of Squig herd
- about 7 or 8 fanatics
- a Doomdiver catapult.

All painted, at the moment.

The archers were the last to be finished with the Doomdiver awaiting basing. Here are some pictures.

To be honest, and I think I've said this before as well; these are not my best work ever. I just want to build up a force of these little critters ASAP to be able to fight friend Mark's Skaven in a "Who turns tail first?!" battle. Mark's Skaven have a motto saying: "We won't fight any enemy armed with more then a kitchen knife" so I must be able to win some time with them Gobbo's, I'd guess.

Cheers Sander

Listening to some cd by Tool.