Prussians for the Jolly Broom Man & thinking small!

 37 figures by Fightin'15's painted for JBM's Victorian Sci Fi project. Enjoyed doing them. Note the central unit wearing gas masks, with the requested silvered lenses giving them a quite menacing appearance. They are finished with a satin varnish and JBM will be texturing them. I did attempt a test paint over the white base coat but really could not make it work so they all got a thinned wash of matt black before I started.

Couple more ECW units for Graham coming next and then next week I'll make a start on John's latest box which as usual contains some really interesting figures. 

Now then, thanks to JBM sending me a link to some beautifully painted and based 2mm (yes, 2mm) figures I simply could not resist seeing if I would be able to achieve the same standard of painting on them. I had actually been looking at them on the Irregular site for some time, but the wonderful examples on the Sidney Roundwood blog pushed me over the edge ....... so I have a small (!) order in for some of the ECW blocks. I'm rather excited about this as a potential challenge. Take a look at these wonderful 2mm games,  The Siege of Portsmouth 1642.     Lutzen 1632.

 

Back to more 15mm's for the week ahead.

With two packages ready to go tomorrow - one for John and 48 ECW horse for Graham - I'm going to turn my attention this week to 37 x 15mm Prussian infantry for the Jolly Broom Man! These are intended for his Victorian Sci-Fi project and are really nice little castings. One unit of 12 are wearing gasmasks and all arrived ready based and undercoated so no prepping required. 

I also have 3 more regiments of foot for Graham in the pipeline, one has been finished and flagged as the Kings Lifeguard as requested.

Poles!

Just require varnishing now but about done. Last of the previous box for Old John.

First, the Hinchliffe Winged Hussar.

 

Pancernci by Hagen of Germany.

Rear: Lithuanian officers (Minifigs S Range) 

Time to get packing!

Another small box of figures arrives!

Follow up box from Old John, did make me laugh when it arrived. I always take great pleasure in carefully unboxing these and discovering the model soldier treasures within and was not disappointed, more as things progress. Painting the final dozen mounted figures from the previous box today and Wednesday, Polish Pancernci, Polish/Lithuanian officers and the winged Hussar, Then I will switch between more ECW Peter Pigs for Graham and JBM's Prussians which are intended for his Victorian Sci-Fi project.

I have lots of photos of  Johns Ottoman figures which had belonged to the late Eric Knowles, they are wonderful in their diversity so will be putting them all together on a page which I will link here as I'm sure others would like to see them.

Another productive week.

Not bad going for a weeks painting, 40 x ECW cavalry for Graham C. plus the 7 x 20mm infantry featured in the previous post for Old John.

The cavalry were painted in units of 8 with variations in coat colours and horse blankets etc whilst trying to retain the overall look of blackened armour and buff coats. Basically the same for Royalist & Parliamentarian horse save for the red or tawny sashes. 

Tomorrow I'll prep up what's left of John's current box, a dozen mounted figures and the next box is due to arrive! 

I also have in the pipeline 36 or so lovely 15mm Prussians (1860's era?) by Fightin'15's for 'Jolly Broom Man'. These arrived ready undercoated in grey.

The figures for John this week include this fine old Hinchliffe Winged Hussar. The Hagen horses are beautiful sculpts too. 

The figures from JBM arrived in splendid style tacked down to the bottom of the box and packed out with pillow stuffing!

More painting and some photos of Old John's table and collection!

 So far this week I have painted 16 Peter Pig ECW horse for Graham and these 7 lovely 20mm's for John. They are 'Miquelets' by Spanish maker Minairons Miniatures and sculpted with wonderful character and detail. John wanted a mix of yellow and red cuffs to the coats as they represent militia types. I like how some have the coats slung over the shoulder.

On the subject of John and his figures here are a few photos of his wargame table in action. For  those who don't know John he has been an avid collector of 20mm/1/72 soldiers since he bought his first box of Airfix Guardsmen and his collection now consists of many thousands of figures covering many periods. Like the ex Eric Knowles Ottomans featured in the previous post many are vintage castings and I have had the pleasure of painting for him for the last decade. The table is 10' long x 5' wide.

John has not updated his blog for several years but it's well worth a look: 20mm Nostalgic Revival.