Facebook - An Addicts Nightmare

Whilst I had a spare half hour I was browsing a few of the Facebook Groups I belong to and saw that a chap was selling a 28mm Burgundian Army for sale at a knock down price.

It worked out to be around half lead price and was painted! Seemed too good to be true but I gave it a go and within the week I was the proud owner of a Burgundian Army.

It needed touching up, rebasing and the cavalry were missing their lances but apart from that was in very good nick.

One week later the results are:

8x3 Essex 

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8x2 Essex

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8x2 Essex

Close up of Mounted Archers

8x3 Essex Crossbowmen

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14x3 Essex Longbowmen

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10x2 Essex Handgunners

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All in all a very nice Army based for FoG and ready to take to the table.

I still have 40 Mounted Knights that need a repaint and enough leftovers to make up the necessary Command Bases.

Well chuffed with a virtually 'instant' Army for under £180.

Legionary 2015 - Exeter

Saturday 2nd May was a very enjoyable day spent in the Matlock Centre, Exeter with Nick Turner helping with his 28mm extravaganza 'Trouble with the Borgias (Part 2)'. Nick fielded over 1000 beautifully painted figures and we spent a fun day fighting out a marvellous game using Warlords Pike and Shotte rules.

I'm afraid that I forgot my camera but I can assure you that the table was stunning.

There were about a dozen or so demo/participation games and best in show went to the Abbeywood Irregulars with their very impressive 28mm ACW game. There were two Bolt Action Games, two Wars of the Roses, a Napoleonic one using 15mm figures using  an adaptation of Muskets and Tomahawks, a Naval game and several others.

There was a good selection of Traders including Warlord, Colonel Bill and Charlie Foxtrot Models. The latter set me back a few quid as I walked away with another 4 28mm MDF.

The Bring & Buy appeared to be well supported and I managed to grab:

An unmade Warlord Plastic Pz IV Ausf F1/G/H for £10
A box of Warlord Polish vistula Legion for £10
A box of Warlord Celtic Warriors for £10
A box of Warlord Imperial Roman Praetorian Guard for £10
A box of Perry ACW Cavalry for £10

The latter will be the basis for my WWII Mounted Germans!!

Plus at a bargain price of £2 each I picked up the following books:
Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Citezen Soldiers by Stephen E Ambrose
SAS - Operation Bulbasket by Paul McCue
Eastern Inferno which is the jurnals of a Panzerjager on the Eastern Front.

All in all (and as I explained to 'She Who Must Be Obeyed) I saved a pretty penny!!

A cracking day at a nice show amongst like minded individuals and an couple of American tourists who had never heard of Wargaming but just happened to be passing!!

April Painting - It's (nearly) All Greek To Me!!

First my New Years Resolution well and truly bit the dust. Having been diverted by old  Macedonians and Indians I ended up buying 4 boxes of Warlord Plastic Greeks and 2 boxes of Victrix Plastic Greeks and just for good measure 6 boxes of Victrix Plastic Carthaginians plus 4 packs of Warlord metal Thureophoroi/Thorakitai!!!

Right then back to painting:

All in all a good month

8 Victrix Greek Slingers

8 Victrix Cretan Archers

24 Victrix Medium Peltasts

24 Victrix Light Peltasts

Close up of a couple of the light Peltasts

Last 12 of the Indian Archers

One of the two Warlord Panzerbuchre 41s manned by Fallschirmjager.

82 figures and 2 guns which isn't bad for a month but there were also another 40ish figures and a building nearly finished but carried over to May.

p.s I almost forgot to mention the 2 packs (60 figures) of Old Glory 28mm Thracians with heavy weapons that bought!!!