Napoleonic army

My napoleonic french army that i painted about 20 years ago it is based for Navwars 5mm rules.
these rules played quite a good game with a nice section on deployment. i would allways attack from the march with my lancers leading and roll up half of my mate's british army untill he got his rifles on the table and they would spoil my fun

Line infantry

Hussar regiment

Big guns!!

lancers

whole army

sdkfz 251/2 WWII

3 Heroics and Ros sdkfz 251/2 81mm mortar carrier painted for circa 1944/5
not too bad a model although the single gunner in back might get a little tired in a sustained bombardment

Jagdpanther WWII

3 Heroics and Ros Jagdpanthers in 3 different camo schemes i don't know how accurate they may be but they look right to me and i ain't doing the ambush scheme http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/misc/vehicles/germany/stewjagdp.htm

Sarmatian Ancients

A 6mm Sarmatian DBA army consisting of 12 bases of kn(F). All irregular miniatures, had to chop some of the bases to get six cav on each as irreg do their cav in fives

Sarmatian ancients

A close up of one base of sarmatian knights, these are riding armoured horses. The irregular battlepack contains both armoured and unamoured horses in equal numbers making it more of an early sarmatain army.

Ancients

 Here is a couple of pictures of some figures i painted about ten years ago,  they could stand rebasing

Baccus numidian light horse

H&R Sassanid clibanarii

Egyptians Ancients

Here is the start of my new kingdom egyptian army

 Irregular miniatures chariots
paint up ok, like all irregular can look a little like a blob but also the cheapest

 irregular miniatures archers
come 6 to a strip so need to combine strips

 H&R close fighters
better than irreg good detail lots of varients
snap off easy at the ankles though
(ineed to blend the bases in )









irregular close fighters
all spearmen
look good en masse

Painting

here is a guide to  how i paint
its quick and easy because i don't really like to paint but i don't like to use plain metal minis in my games.
i've seen much better paint jobs but it'll do me
i use vallejo paints mostly because of the exact camo colours they make  but also cheap acrylics from art  and craft shops for basic colours like white and black
i'm painting some german armoured cars a mix of H&R sdkfz 234/1(2) and 232

painting

First stage undercoat

for this i use a humbrol spray black

painting

next i brush on the base colour (middlestone)

painting

then i add a set of wavey lines (reflective green)

painting

then the second colour (some cheap brown)

painting

next in the case of these A/C's is to paint their tyres black

painting

then i give the models a quick wash with coat d'arms black wash. this is a water based paint which is easy to use, you could mix your own but this is right thickness allways and is there when you want it.

painting

last step is to varnish i use a spray can of matt varnish from games workshop but even though they say matt i've never found a varnish that dosen't shine, then i came across tester's dullcote. what a miracle! goes over the varnish and total dulls it. now everything i paint gets a coat.

T34 WWII

CinC T34-76, miles better than H&R, don't know how compares to GHQ haven't got any but comes in 3s not 5s so less waste when building units, luckly for me i wanted just 3 for a company for blitzkrieg commander.
in the uk i recomend getting them from wargames emporium in sheffield excellent postal service

T34 WWII

WWII

H&R pak 40 75mm
all these models are based on a 1 inch square bit of mdf with a square cut out of a woodlands scenics grass mat stuck on (quick and easy)

Modern

GHQ BMP-3
this one is representing a commander hence the aerial
(paint brush bristle)

modern

Ghq 2s6 tunguska

Ghq t-80u

a CinC german stugiii and sdkfz 7/1 20mm flak

and now for something completely different
my son plays warhammer so to teach him a lesson i've started a sisters of battle army

click on the pictures to supersize