More Battletech!

Hoi,

One, if not the most, beloved of the Sci-Fi wargames I play, is Classic Battletech. This game not only has a decent ruleset, it has tons of background-material in the form of sourcebooks, Tech Read Outs and novels. Next to the regular CBT tabletopgame there's also a RPG and a 25/ 28 mm game called Battletroops. For this game these Draconis Combine forces are made. Now no longer in production I bought some DC and Steiner troops from Pijlie and have started painting them up in earnest. More updates will follow surely so watch this space.

Also Battletech related is this 'mech. It's an Unseen model as far as I know and sold to me as a Shadowhawk. But on the latter I'm not sure: is it a Griffin? The present production model doesn't look anything like this and all pictures I found of Unseen shadowhawks show a Rocket launcher on his right shoulder. Also as you can see, it was badly painted when arriving here from ebay. So I will re-paint it, probably in my Aragon Borderers scheme. The mechs laser weapon had broken off during transit and I replaced it with the muzzle of a 40K Imperial Guard lasgun. Why? well the original laser had a nozzle on it's end and just putting in a copper wire just did not look right therefore I fixed this solution.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "The Best of the Who" by The Who

Chevau-legers de Berg

Hoi,

Zvezda has done a very nice set of Polish Lancers of the Guard and due to some friend's generosity I have enough for about 9 tabletop regiments. I have finished the Polish Lancers of the Guard, which you can see elsewhere on this blog, and now I've done up the Lancers of the Berg regiment. This uniform has been one of my favourites ever since I got hold of the brilliant book Soldiers and uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars by F.G. Hourtoulle (free DOWNLOAD). This is about the best uniform book I have and worthwhile for every Napoleonics enthusiast.

Anyway, as I set out to paint the regiment I was feeling elated to finally have a go at them. This elated feeling dissipated quickly when I realised I had  used the wrong green paint as base. Redoing it was no option and therefore I now have a regiment with a mediocre paintjob...

Judge for yourselves:

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Dookie" by Green Day

100 followers!

Hoi,

The title says it all really: with the signing up of mister Amos, at Happy Valley,  as follower the counter has reached the magical number of 100. When I started this blog I could have never imagined any 20 people interested enough to read let alone follow my musings on the internet but I guess I was wrong.

To all you followers: thanks for all your time and kind replies over the years, I'll try to keep it going for some time yet.

Cheers Sander

More Flashman

Hoi,

As promised a while ago today's update brings you the Native American girl which should accompany Harry Flashman on his American adventures. As I said earlier she does not resemble the one on the book cover at all so I had a free rein in the paintscheme.

The pair of figures put together. Perhaps you can now see that the girl seems to be made in a slightly smaller scale then Harry.

The facial detail of the girl is awful, from behind she looks like a young girl while up front she's more of an old crone. Even my wife said so...

Finally here's the cover from which they were derived, just for your reference.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Transformers" the movie soundtrack

She's a witch! (boobie alert!)

Hoi,

Some time ago I bought a bunch of miniatures from Avatars of War, some dwarf and goblin characters and the Dark Elf Sorceress seen below. I've had her standing on the workbench for quite some time because I couldn't decide on what skin-tone to give her. Now right after painting the Barsoom figures it came to me: the Dejah Toris figure had some in-satisfactory skin colour so I decided to try to get a better one and here it is. She will double as a Barsoomian witch if necessary.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Days gone by" by the Offspring

Flash Harry

Hoi,

Just a quick post. As a reaction to my Flashman topic Mister Rosbif asked where these figures can be obtained. They were originally done by Chiltern Miniatures but they do not exist any more. The Flashman range has been sold to SHQ miniatures and you can find them through this link

Now I am not entirely pleased with the mini's. I have finished the Native American girl that comes together with the Flashman I posted earlier and they both seem to be in a slightly different scale. Also the level of detail on the girl is far less crisp and most important she does not resemble the book cover at all. I will comment on this further when I am able to post pictures of the completed pair.

Hope this satisfies the people wanting to get their own Flashy miniatures (pun intended).

Cheers Sander

Listening to: ""Californication" by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Sir Harry!

Hoi,

Having read all the Flashman novels I was totally elated to get my hands on some sets of Flashman figures. These come in pairs and are inspired by the book covers of the series. Below is the Flashman figure from Flashman and the Redskins.The native American girl completing the duo hasn't been done up yet, but will be posted when ready.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Blunderbuss" by Jack White