LAF: Colonial Painting Expedition [1]

Hey All,

I thought I'd join in with the Lead Adventure Forum's 'Colonial Painting Expedition'.

Simple concept - paint up and post a photograph of any solo colonial figure.

Anyway, I entered this guy;

Perry Miniatures Zouave.

Inspired by the Painting Expedition I thrashed out a few more generic Central Asian types this week;

 This motley group are a mix of Old Glory Egyptians and Perry Miniatures Zouaves. Paper banner by the Grimsby Wargames Society. 

During my last 'episode' of colonial wargaming I painted up a small force of 1870s Russians, with the intention to expand the collection so that I could put on games based around the Russian colonial expansion into central Asia, and 'what if' scenarios based around The Great Game in India. The 'Arab' contingent of this project never got started, but now their time has come....

MM.

The Lead Tally - 2014

Acquired: +38       Painted: +21          Total: -20

Little Vicky

Hey Internets,

Ever since I was *yay high* I can remember going to the Bovington Tank Museum every year or so, and each time coming to the conclusion that the Vickers Independent was the finest example of an armoured vehicle in their expansive collection.

When Copplestone Castings brought out a kit for the thing I bought it without really thinking, and ever since it has bolstered the forces of the Tsar in their apparently eternal struggle against the foul Queen Victoria.

However, for a long time 'Little Vicky' had been painted in a rather unbefitting, gordy black and gold colour scheme, with some crappy bits of plastic crudely glued to it for a smoke stack (if you want to see it, its somewhere in the archives of this blog) - but times have changed.



Here she is in her new green and white livery. I chose the colours after seeing an Ottoman warship from the 1870's wearing the same paint, and deciding that it looked rather nifty.



Here she is with some Eureka Russians, just to show scale.

I have to say, I'm rather chuffed with her, and am quite looking forward to see her steaming across the table.

What do you think?

MM.

May Day in Khiva

Hey Internet,
I've accentually got a bit of painting done this week. I had two days off last with a nasty virusy bug thing, but put the time to good use, wrenching models off their naff old bases and glueing them on to pennys.

The bases are just fine gravel with tuffts of static grass.

They are painted with a simple 3 stage drybrush of Coat 'd Arms (CdA) Barbarian Leather, followed by CdA Mid Stone, followed by Games Workshop (GW) Kommando Kaki over a base coat of CdA Chocolate Brown.

So, here they are, with their new bases.

Some Russians. Figures are from Eureka, with a converted West Wind Officer in the background.


Some Arab Types. These figures are from all over the place, and not great...well...at least I am not happy with them. And I need more. Lots more.


And of course a few colonial adventurers. All from Wargames Foundry.

28mm Colonial Wargame

Just a few pictures from a game that I had over the weekend against a friend of mine who was back in the area. He played as the British, and I was the Sudanese. I got slaughtered in true colonial fashion, but managed to take a few down with me.
 The Miniatures were all his - most are Perry's but, some are from elsewhere.  The rules were The Sword and The Flame.
Great fun was had all round - I even got Spaghetti and Wine! Thanks Pete!

























MM.

Generic Un-English Buildings.

I made these, start to finish, in the space of two afternoons. They are made out of Foamboard over Polistirene cores, with doors and windows either cut out or added out of balsa wood. I gave the things a good coat of a 50/50ish mix of PVA glue and Polyfiller to add a little texture, then painted them up. I’ve made them with VSF Turkistan in mind, but they will do for everything and anywhere East of the Holy Roman Empire. Hope you like them.