A few Prussian Landwehr

Hello,

I only managed to finish a seven Prussian Landwehr troops.

Whoops, didn't capture the whole unit.

The tall guys are Warlord plastic Prussian Landwehr.  I had a few left over from when I originally painted the box up.

I have no idea who produced the little guy, but he looks a bit like a Prussian.  My Prussian recruiting office allowed him to join up.

Here they are marching off to the right.

Till next time, when I hope to bring you some Cthulhu goodness.

Love,
Baconfat

Prussian & French Howitzers, Raid on Bennington!

Hello Dearest Internet Viewer of Brilliant Perception,

I have been preparing for the 5th Analogue Painting Challenge and have been assembling hordes of plastic minis.  Despite having accidentally cut off several fingers and super-gluing the remainder completely together, I've managed to complete a few models for your viewing pleasure.

This is a Perry Prussian 7" Howitzer.  The models were designed to be posed with the piece, so my separate basing technique was not the best choice.

Here's another Prussian 7" Howitzer.  The Perry Brothers produce two different Prussian Howitzer crews, so I had to have both.

 Here's all the guys lined up.

Here's a French Howitzer, I think it's a 5.5" model, but I honestly can't remember what I bought.

 Here's all my French artillery models.

 I actually have more, but they're ancient models.  You can see they don't look quite right next to the modern Perry sculpt.

I lined up what I think is all my Prussian guns.  Eight should be enough for small scale skirmish gaming.  Though I need a Prussian twelve pounder for the group.

Whoops, completed one last model.  I keep spare troops on the table to soak up spilled paint.  This guy who used up a Vallejo volcano of Gunmetal, is an late medieval Old Glory Black Army Armored Infantry (DIF-16) model.

Now on to the action!   The Raid of Bennington!  The rules are the both fun and free ""Sons of Liberty".   The master of ceremonies was the terrific gamer Dave, the man who owns more trees than the rest of us put together.

The British forces lacked actual British and consisted of filthy loyalists, greasy Canadians, dimwitted Brunswickers, and a small group of godless Mohawk warriors.
The valiant Americans consisted of mostly brave militia, a few stalwart Continentals, and a small group of heroic native Americans.

The table was mostly forest (heavy and light), rough hills, a river, some hardened cabins, a mill, and a large redoubt filled to the brim with cowardly Brunswickers.

Here's a close up of the foul nest of evil Brunswickers.

Here's the cabins and a small rat pack of nicely painted loyalist scum.  Why did the villains leave them out "alone" as sacrificial lambs?

Recon over, we march to do God's work and clear the country side of evil.

 We advance all over the place.  Those dirty loyalists are starting to shake in their foul boots as we bravely march forward.

 Oh goody, look how well we advance.  They villains should surrender now, the day shall surely be ours.

We continue in proud columns towards the cabin, where we will swing around and surround the viper pit of a redoubt.  Just look at the puny loyalist panic and get stuck on their silly bridge, due to terrible movement.

Our march is like a victory parade.

Everything turns to poop.  The cabins reek of bacon, Canadian Bacon!  They're full of Canadians!  We charge all the hardened cabins and fail to take them, take heavy casualties, and a fourth of our valiant army falls back.

Well, half the force decides well take the redoubt by ourselves, while the other half is mired by the cabins.

It doesn't go well, militia is terrible at taking redoubts.  Then some Mohawk Indians show up and frighten off one of my units, completely off the table.  At least my proud Indian warriors convince some gunners to evade their cannon.  (PS, the only rule I dislike in Sons of Liberty is how easily gunners can shoot and evade.  You can't catch and kill the bastards without cavalry).  We should have waited on the redoubt to our fellows wipe out the Canadians and advance together.

Oh terrific, the gates of hell have opened and spit out more satan spawned Brunswickers.  See the beasts crossing the stream.  On top there's artillery showing up on the road.

Well almost everyone on the table is focused on the redoubt now.  Our regulars are trapped between the redoubt and reinforcements.

See the good hearted green jackets charge into the bees nest and wreak Godly inspired confusion.

Everyone charges in a last ditch effort.  We forgot how bad we are at charging redoubts.

The charge fails and we decide it's time to call it a day.  Perhaps we'll redeem ourselves at Freeman's Farm.

Till next time, I'll have some space marines and a couple French Nappies.

Love,
Baconfat

French Lanciers and Large Zorndorf Pics

Hello,

I haven't managed to finish to many miniatures for today, but there are several groups of models almost done for the next post.  A unit of Perry metal French Lancers.  Please don't notice that I somehow forgot to paint the hooves.

Front view

rear view

I base them on one, two, and three model stands so they can be used for casualty removal skirmish games, but not to fiddly to slow down movement in larger games.

Here are some pics of a great game put on by my buddy Steve.  Zorndorf, Russia vs Prussians with about 1,500 models.

Next time I'll have some Space Marine scouts and some Rohan infantry.  They're 95% done being painted and really only need a protective clear coat and bases decorated with dirt and whatnot.  If I'm productive, there will be a 2' x 2' terrain piece of a completely bombed out church.


love,
Baconfat

Perry Prussian Reservists, Bugundian Bowmen, Space Marines, and a Bag of Dog Food

 Hello,

I've recently finished painting some more models.

First are some Prussian Reservists, metal Perry models.  They were a breeze to paint until I sprayed them with a clear coat to protect their paint.  The clear coat completely frosted most of the models including the command group.  They looked like they had just stepped out of the freezer or froze to death in the disastrous Russian front.  I won't bash the company, but their initials are GW.

Here they are after I've repainted over most of the frost.

Ugly side shot.  Some frost is still visible.

Here they are walking over to investigate the odd terrain.

Here are some Perry plastic archers, painted to look like Burgundians.  Please don't notice that I've got some of them holding their arrows on the wrong side of the bow.  Definitely ignore the fact, that I completely forgot to give most of them more than one arrow.  They're posing in front of my castle; I got it cheap; fixer uper, hopefully I can turn it around for quick cash.

Here they are preparing to shoot their limited ammo at something you can't see on the other side of the aquarium terrain.  As a fun idea I took most of these photos inside of a giant fish tank.

Here are four more marines in my quest to paint every space marine chapter.  Eight down, 992 left?  I'm starting with the easiest chapters first, but now I'm bored of blue and will be moving on to reds and greens.

The chapters are Imperial Paladins, Star Dragons (silly name), Heralds of Ultramar, and Emperor's Hands.

And as promised a bag of dog food.

Almost finished another 2' x 2' piece of urban rubble terrain.

Till next time, when I might have some French nappy lancers, more space marine chapters, or possibly something completely different!

love,
Baconfat