Imperial Guardsmen and Last of the English Civil War Horse

Well not the LAST last… I do still have one more batch of mounted to finish up at some point, but likely the last I’ll be finishing up for now. Interests are shifting and when that happens it becomes excruciatingly painful to stay focused on stuff I’m no longer interested in – no matter how much “sense” it makes to finish up the last few bits. It was hard enough to finish these – and I was only able to do so because they were half done. The others will have to wait until I catch the ECW bug again.

In addition to the three elements of Horse I have another 10 elements (80 figures) of Pike, 8 elements (48 figures) shot, and a gun and crew of four… I do have a few more Scottish horse inbound – which I may get to painting when they arrive (because new and shiny stuff is always fun to paint).

I have a feeling I’ll be moving onto the Seven Years War for a spell as we are reaching that area of history in the books I’m reading with the kids. So expect some colourful men with muskets in the not too distant future.

I was also inspired by Millsy’s Mad Mega-post of the Astra Militarum’s Military Might and dug out a few of my own Catachan figures to finish up.

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version):

English Civil War Horse – figures from Old Glory.

These are a few old Cobalt 1 figures I picked up from Black Hat Miniatures a while back. I thought they might work for player characters in a Rogue Trader game.

These are some really old GW Imperial guard (well… some of them may have been “pirates”…?) that I thought I’d use as “veterans” in my Imperial Guard companies.

Here, with some previously painted figures of similar vintage, is a complete veteran squad. Dang, I was sure I had ten of them for a full squad…. I must have missed someone!?

I can just imagine the Lascannon gunner tellin’ stories “You young pups have it easy, back in the day we didn’t haul our lascanons around on wheeled carriages – or grav sleds like those sissy Eldar – no sir! We humped them around and fired them from the hip like the badass muthas that we were!”

Proxy Catachan type… not sure where he cam from? I want to say Kryomek…? But I don’t know for sure…

Some more assorted Catachan types… all Games Workshop figures.

For the Catachan-type imperial guard  I have a company command, one complete platoon (Platoon HQ plus three squads), a couple special weapon teams (snipers, demolitions), an second (understrength) “proxy” (I-Kor Void figures) platoon (Platoon HQ plus two squads), a veteran section (above), a Sentinel walker, and two Abhuman squads (Ogryn and Ratling). I think pictures of most of them are posted on my 28mm Sci-Fi Gallery. Still to do is a third complete (Platoon HQ plus three squads), a couple more figures to make another special weapons team (probably plasma and melta guns – for up close and personal tank destruction!) and possibly another Sentinel walker…? Which isn’t much, in the grand scheme of things, so I’m feeling like I should just finish those up! Not sure if it’s a viable force in 40K… but it’s what I have collected up, so… just have to make due.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I’ll likely shift focus and start painting some Seven Years War stuff and very likely some more 40K stuff!