Perry Plastic Medievals and Perry Metal Chasseur a Cheval

Hello,

First are eleven of those plastic Perry medieval miniatures, that everyone has been painting up.  They recently saw their first action in a game of Lion Rampant.

Here they are running away, just like they did in their first battle.  When playing Lion Rampant don't let your troops get caught in rough ground, by ferocious troops.

 

Here's a couple guys beating on tambourines.

Here are eleven Perry metal Chasseur a Cheval.  I loved painting them and my only complaint is the swords are metal and will likely be mangled by the end of their first battle. I constantly bent the stupid things while painting them.

Here they are running away from my sword bending fingers.  I base most of my cavalry on a mix of single and multiple bases.  It allow some ease of movement, with the ability to use the minis in a skirmish game.

Here's one the GW LotR Ringwraith minis.  I wish I had a few hundred of these guys, they paint so fast I could double my score in a week.  It's a extremely versatile miniature that can be used in all manner of games.

Here he is as a French Officer leading a cavalry charge into some disorganized billmen.

 

"Chargez!  Ecrasez-lez!"

Till next time, when I hope to have some more minis including a few French Fusiliers.

Love and kisses,
Baconfat

Lion Rampant, Dwarves/Elves vs Burgundians/Hussites

Hello,

I don't have alot of painting to show you, but I promise to have alot in a day or two.

In more exciting news I played my first game of Lion Rampant.  My valiant opponents brought dwarves and elves.  I brought Hussites and a made up list of Burgundians for my fellow general, who failed to show.


First off, a 4' x 6' table is not big enough for 48 points a side. I couldn't even get all my troops in the initial deployment zone.  We stretched all the way to the edges and I still had troops to bring on during later activations.

We chose the first scenario, Bloodbath or something like that.  Here you can see Dwarves advancing on most of my Burgundians.  The Dwarfs had men-at-arms, bidowers, archers, and two expert Sergeants.  The Burgundians had two expert Sergeants, two bidowers, crossbows and archers.

 Elves advance towards the Hussite side (there's also some Burgundian bidowers that wouldn't fit on their side).  The Elves had two expert archers, expert Sergeants, and a men-at-arms.  I think he shorted himself two points.  That's only 22 points.

I've since done the math expert archers are no match for crossbowmen with pavise.  Even regular archers will get destroyed by regular crossbowmen in a shooting battle.   Expert archers activate/shoot 71% of the time, while crossbows activate/shoot 57% of the time.  Sounds like archers have an advantage, but the crossbows hit so much harder and the pavise makes them as tough as men-at-arms versus archery.  100 units of expert archers would average 35.5 hits a turn, but vs the pavise they'll only kill 9 troops.  After the 57% activation rate, the 100 crossbow units would average 28.5 hits, 14 of which would be kills.

the Sergeants with the red thing got shot up by the archers and will leave the game on failed rallies.

The dwarves aren't doing great at activating and the Burgundians are setting up units to support each other.

About the middle of the game, the dwarves are about to charge one of three units.

Men-at-arms are tough units, but crossbows hit hard.

The elves are continually failing activation and increasing their time in crossbow fire land.

I foolishly charge the men-at-arms and lose a unit of billmen and the Burgundian general.  Luckily every unit of the human side passes morale.

Elvish Sergeants about to charge the crossbows.  The pavise makes them almost as tough in battle and the elves fail, due to poor courage tests.

The dwarf men-at-arms charge my billmen I've place in rough terrain.  I forgot men-at-arms were ferocious.  Billmen run away and next turn dwarves wipe out a unit of bidowers.  Luckily for me my archers and crossbows have about shot to death the rest of the slow moving dwarf army.

Shooting seems to win the day, at least without cavalry on the table.  There's only three beat up units of pointy ears and hairy short men on the table when the shooty humans have all but three units remaining.

I think cavalry and using bidowers to screen men-at-arms will defeat a shooty army in Lion Rampant.  Archers lose to crossbows.  Hopefully the guys will want to play again.

I did manage to finish one guy in time for the post.  He's a drummer that I've been painting since November.  I keep making mistakes and repainting over the old paint.  This guy has so much paint on him, you could keep him in a box of pointy rocks for years and never see bare metal.

Till next time, when I promise billmen, French cavalry, and more.

love and kisses,

Baconfat

Rob Lowe Survivors

Hello, 

I've painted a few more Wargames Factory male Survivor up as a Rob Lowe zombie hunting team.  

Here's the current crew standing in a line.

"I'm Rob Lowe and I have Direct TV."  I stole fancy paper from my wife's crapbooking supplies in an attempt make a red carpet.

"I'm Super Creepy Rob Lowe and I have cable TV.  My cable's out so I'm down at the Rec Center killing zombies."

"I'm Far Less Attractive Rob Lowe.  With cable you get pictures and some sound of me killing zombies."

"I'm Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe and I can't go pee with zombies in the room."

"I'm Crazy Hairy Rob Lowe.  I have arm hair curtains.  And I don't like that."  Once again, that's my old lady's hair on his arms.  I painted it brown.

"I'm Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe.  I guess I'm not having any mayonnaise."  I made the little tennis balls out of Sculpy clay.

"I'm Meat Head Rob Lowe and I can't stop saying "Bro", bro!"  He's got GW imperial guard arms.

Here's a bunch of Rob Lowes fighting zombies.

These guys were a quick poorly done job; I hope to add Paranoid, Peaked in High School, or Bad Decision Making Rob Lowes in the future.

I've been spending most of my time trying to teach my new grafted-on set of arms to paint.

Love and Kisses,
Baconfat

French Line Grenadiers and Random Minis

Hello,

I've managed to paint half a small unit of Perry plastic French Grenadiers.  Here you can see the 13 of them marching somewhere.

Another angle of them still marching.  I frequently force march my French, because I am a cruel emperor.

I only painted two poses; the ones in their supposedly great coats.

The Perry plastic box has four poses of marching Grenadiers (or Voltiguers); I'll paint the two poses without said coats on, next.  There are two back pack options which will give the finished unit eight minor model variations.

 

I painted a few other minis too.  Some sort of thief or assassin, most likely from Ral Partha or Grenadier.  A John Conner model of unknown origin, whose face I ruined with drunken highlighting. It says John Conner on his base.  There's also two LotR GW Rohan leaders.

I found the two Rohan in a FLGS bits bin.  Eowyn's sword is managled and Eomir's is missing.  I'm going to pretend it's the invisible Elfin blade, Loirleilei.  Loirleilei is only mentioned once very briefly in the Silmarillion, one of the really awful back chapters that no one really reads, trust me.

From the back, it looks as it Eomir is waving a chocolate ice cream cone.  I've been meaning to give a friend this little terrain piece for many moons.

No!  The evil bad assassin is going to kill humanity's last hope.  Stop now, or you'll go on a forced march!

John's wearing a dark gray polyester twill blend two piece tactical combat suit.

John has a cute little robot head on his pre-manufactured base.

Till later then, I hope to have some zombie Survivors done and maybe even a unit of French cavalry, Chasseur a Cheval.

love and kisses,
Baconfat

Uruk Hai Berserkers and Prussian Cavalry

Hello,

I decided to paint some more LotR minis.  Uruk Hai beserkers seemed a fun choice. These are the plastic Uruk berserkers that came with the Uruk siege box set.  One was missing a torch, so I'm armed him as best I could.  

Here are three metal Uruk berserkers.  I think they made four versions in metal.

You can't tell in the pics, but I gave the guys veins on their rippling muscles.  I put on varnish, then spray on clear matte, before the varnish is quite dry.  The matte drys quicker than the varnish and pulls it into small spidery ridges that quite resemble scars or veins on flatter  surfaces.  Only try this on nude or nearly nude models as you may ruin clothing and armor.  It would also nearly destroy a tank model, which is how I stumbled on to this trick.

Here they are all together, about to realize their weapons are useless versus thick stone walls, "Run away!".

A spot of gardening.

I've also managed to finish painting seven Old Glory Prussian Landwehr Cavalry. 

They are from the 4th Regiment of the 4th Silesian Landweher Cavalry. They are wearing frumpy schirmutz caps instead of proper shakos. Instead doing my own research, I filched the color scheme from the terrific "Blunders on the Danube" blog.

Here they running towards the left of your computer screen. I've included three previously painted models, that I posted maybe a month ago, before I ran out of blue paint.

Here they are running away.

Here they are helping the Rohirrim ethnic cleanse the land of orcs.

Till next time, when I'll have a few more French Nappys and maybe a couple LotR minis done.

Love and kisses,

Baconfat

Centaurs Running Around

Hello and Thank You for Visiting,

I finished a small pack of Centaurs.  

Here's a picture of them all together.  Everyone but the standard bearer is a Mega-Mini.  I have no idea if Mega-Minis bought the molds from someone else, or has since sold them. Mega-Minis have great stuff, but their catalog constantly changes.

Here's a couple that are quite Greek looking

Here's the standard bearer and one that almost appears possibly Asian.  The standard bearer is an old Ral Partha or Grenadier sculpt; I wonder if Tom Meir made it.  It may be quite rare, as I can't find much on them using the Google machine.

Here are a couple evil looking centaurs.  

Here's a few more classical style centaurs; they strike me far more like the wild ones of myth, who get violently drunk and go on booze-induced rape and killing sprees.  Then Heracles or someone will have to kill them all with poison or tricks.

Till next time, when I'll have some Prussian cavalry done and maybe some Uruk Hai berserkers.

Love and Kisses,
Baconfat