Moritori Nullumus Mori II

Hoi,

Last Update I promised you pictures of my Foundry Roman Gladiators. Well they're done now and here they are. Before we take a closer look I have to make some comments of things I'll do different next time. The base sizes differ because I've painted the African gladiator separately from the rest and placed him on a smaller base. The wounded guy is on a round base since he wouldn't fit on a square one, this also gave me the option of adding a shield as added interest on the base. Now I know there would probably be no grass in the arena but the bases were really bare and so I added the grass to break up the empty space.

The idea behind the colour schemes is that they are paired off in 3 different colours: 2 blues, 2 whites and 2 reds. Either they're from 3 different lanista's or one lanista has divided the gladiators from his ludus in 3 teams. The shield designs are more personal to depict the gladiators own preferences.
To me these chaps turned out to be a test of skin-tone painting skills. I think I partly succeeded; both the blue gladiators turned out okay, the others which I tried to give a more Mediterranean skin-tone turned out too light.

Given all that I'm pretty contend with their overall appearance, so without further ado here they are!

A group-shot:

The Blues: an African- and Germanic Tribesman

The Reds, my personal favourites due to their armour and the shield.

The whites.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Tron Legacy, the soundtrack" by Daft Punk

Moritori Nullumus Mori!

Hoi,

Finally, another update! I've been terribly busy with all kinds of stuff not hobby related. Today I found a little time to finish off one of the little projects I had lying around being some Foundry Roman Gladiators

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/roman_-_gladiators/circus_favourites_glad013/?sector_id=12

I'll take pictures asap to put up here.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Roots" by Sepultura

More Nappies!

Hoi,

Some time ago I posted pictures of HäT Napoleonic Prussian Jäger, now I have finished their command stand, so here they are. I also got round to flocking their bases.

Closing up the Allied files is a HäT Austrian Landwehr trooper converted to Brunswick Avant Garde with a head from the HäT Brunswick Infantry box.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Industrial Silence" by Madrugada

Bag o' Babes...

Hoi,

Yesterday I got my missing zombie figures in the mail. They are some female zombies from the same series as my dogs and male zombies.

Close up they look like this, but let's be honest: who wants to get that close?

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "The Wee Free Men" a Pratchett Audio book read by Tony Robinson

Napoleonics galore!

Hoi,

Some time ago I was staring at some of my Napoleonic artillery bases and couldn't loose a certain feeling of un-ease. I have always based my artillery (arty for short) on circular bases and they just didn't get the feel right. I love the arty bases done by the Perry's and Front Rank but couldn't get why mine didn't look like that. And then it hit me: they are on rectangular bases. So here are the results of my trials with a rectangular base. Some Revell RFA with both a six pounder and a howitzer. The guns was left off the base so that I can switch between guns but also use the gun with the limber when mounted for transport.

Howitzer

Side view 

Front view

another side view

With six pounder

Some casualty markers made using esci and airfix figures

Cheers Sander,


Listening to: "Icky Thump" by the White Stripes

GOOD MORNING......

You can fill in the rest of the sentence in the title, and if you can't you'll probably not be impressed by this next post ;-)

I recently dug up some of my old ESCI US troops for the war in Vietnam. Most of those I gave to a friend who's playing a 20mm Nam campaign but I kept a few for myself and here they are.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Tour of Duty 4" a cd released while the TV series "Tour of Duty still ran on the tube. Loads of old school music.

Brains, BRAAAAAIIIIIIIINS....

Hoi,

A while ago I got infected with the zombie-virus (thanks JW) and so I have been painting up some figures and vehicles to start shooting dead-'uns. The rule set I'm gonna use is from the game All Things Zombie (also know as "better dead then Zed").

First up are some old Airfix civilians http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=366 I haven't had a use for earlier:

Next are a couple of Revell Humvee's, Yes the windows are very VERY blue, but I made these with gaming in mind so left all the fiddly stuff and omitted an interior so I had to paint the windows...

These 4 chaps are from two separate sets I have lying around the first two are from another old Airfix set: USAF personnel http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=47 the right two chaps are from an ESCI set: Modern US soldiers http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=524 I painted the latter as a SWAT team, I am going to do 2 more since I intend to make 4 man teams for the players. The civvies and USAF chaps are Non Player objectives. This means that they need to be rescued by the players.

Last up is one of my zombies, I call him Zed 01. He's from Zombies!!! The boardgame http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2471/zombies They do separate bags with miniatures, I have currently got a bag o' zombies and a bag o' dogs and a bag o' babes on backorder.

The zombie isn't much bigger then the 20mm figures but his base is rather thick so he towers above the other mini's but this rather adds to the fright they are going to cause the players... I hope ;-)

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "21st century breakdown" by Green Day (not their best stuff...)