Belgians, Slaves, Wizards, etc.

An odd assortment of items rolling off the workbench today….

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Belgian machine-gunners from Great War Miniatures.

Another view of the same…

… and another..

…and one more.



A Scots Rifleman also from Great War Miniatures.

These miniatures above were painted for the Lead Adventure Forum's Great War Painting Club

Slaves/captives from Black Tree Design.

A roman up to no good tha I converted from a Warlord Games figure.

Finally a wizard from  Reaper Miniatures.



Some sort of Devil Dog - also from Reaper Miniatures - I was trying to go for roughly jakal like colours... but I think he may have turned out a bit yellow... 

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I have a couple of merchants stalls I was working on last night and will hopefully finish up this evening… I hope I might get in another game with the kids today… we shall see… 

More Romans

(and a Great War Highlander!)

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The whole batch for the last couple of days…

Five legionaries from  Black Tree Design

Two more Legionairies – these are from Wargames Foundry, but didn’t come with scutum or pillum so I got some extras from Black Tree Design when I was ordering the last batch from them.

Dwarf Legionaries!? (also from Black Tree Design)

Dead Legionaries from Warlord Games

An old, old Roman Auxiliary cavalryman from Citadel Miniatures.

…and now for something completely different

I noticed, yesterday, that Lead Adventure Forum had a Great War Painting Club thing going on right now… and I’M a Great War Fanatic… and I’ve got no shortage of Great War figures to finish up… so I thought I’d get in on the action and dug this fellow out of the drawer last night and painted him up and started a couple more I’ll post over the next few days. (The figure is from Great War Miniatures)

Entries to the club are supposed to be single figures. I’m not really used to painting SINGLE Great War Figures… I tend to do them in unit batches of 15-30!? So this was a fun and interesting experience… Perhaps I’ll do an MG team or a gun crew for later in the week – as it counts as a single based “figure”.

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Probably a few Great War things this week… them back to ancient things… maybe another game or two… 

40mm Masters Progress

I got a bit more work done on the 1914 Great War 40mm masters...

I'm working on a British Officer (left), and Highlander (centre),  and a British infantryman (right). 

What Have I Been Up To!?

Speaking of daft ideas... Look what I started this week.

Hands up! Who can guess what these are...?

Let's make a game of it - I will send one painted sample of each (whenever I happen to finish them) to the first three that can guess the a) Scale, b) Conflict, c) Nationality, and d) What the heck am I planning on using them for!? 

This may or may not be tricky - depending on how close you follow the blog. (You might find a hint in a recent post!) 

Guessing is open until I post the next progress picture... which might be tomorrow, because I'm really kind of having fun with this!

Still More Great War Scots

Last of the Great War Scots (well… for now…)

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These chaps are from Renegade Miniatures.


Here they are skirmishing with the rest of the unit…

Of course now I have another unit of early war Scots from Great War Miniatures (as well as a unit of Highlanders) to do… (see previous post)

I also happen to finish up some WW2 Soviet Officers:


These are from Crusader Miniatures. My friend Mr. Miller found them in a bargain bin in some store in Vancouver a week or so ago while he was visiting and picked them up for me. I knocked them off because… well.. they’re quick and easy and every other 28mm WW2 Soviet figure I have is painted… I couldn’t have four unpainted infantrymen hanging over my head when the rest of the collection is completely painted… (Well… at least all the foot… I think there’s a couple of three T-34s to assemble and paint…)

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Last night I finished up some skirmishers for an DBA Greek Hoplite Army, which should be up on Analogue Hobbies today (and here tomorrow).


Rapidly approaching completion are the last of the Renegade early Great War British infantry… gunners are getting there too… Invading the workbench are some more Greeks (Hoplites!) – though I need to manufacture some spear for them. After polishing off those British infantrymen tonight I’ll probably spend a bit of time manufacturing a whole lot of spears for the Hoplites and Normans and them prepping, priming said Hoplites and Normans as well as the Great War Minis…

More Great War Jocks

A couple more lads I finished up the other day.

Suddenly keen on finishing up some Great War stuff… (probably because I just ORDERED a bunch MORE Great War stuff…). This threatens to derail my plans I should really be painting those DARK AGE Scots (for the DBA campaign in February) and 1812 infantrymen (for Queenston Heights in the fall)!

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These Jocks are also from Renegade Miniatures. I really like these models – nice clean (if a bit exaggerated) details – totally easy to paint. No guessing involved.


Their backsides…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Prepping and priming loads more great war stuff… not sure what I’ll paint next. Probably some of the Great War stuff...?

Great War Scots Officers

Well I don’t have the highlanders to show you yet. I’m supposed to wait 24 hours after Curt posts them over at Analogue Hobbies for them to count in the2nd Annual Winter Painting Challenge. He’s holding off on posting them right away… something about demoralizing all the other participants… I can post today's pics because they won't be counted - as they were (mostly) painted before the start of the challenge.

Anyway, I decided I needed some officers for the Highlanders and Scots. As Renegade doesn’t make their own I decided to convert some.


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These are converted Renegade Miniatures British officers (From WW1B04 British Command – I can’t seem to find the post where I originally painted them…) Anyway, I carved off their Service Dress Caps and for the Highland unit’s officer I modeled a Tam and painted his pants tartan to look like trews (though, technically, I think he should be wearing a cut-away jacket with them – it seemed like it would be to fiddly to try and carve away part of his jacket and pockets…). For the Scots officer I added a Glengarry…

As the rest of the Scots arrived yesterday. I stuck them to bases last night and will probably prime them today sometime and get cracking on them tomorrow to finish up that unit!

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

On the workbench, much like yesterday, War of 1812 British Infantry and Militia (though they are now primed), 20mm British Paras, other assorted and sundry articles… and now some of the recently arrived Renegade models…

As Amanda’s got a week off I should get some extra painting time in – and I’ll probably use it to the fullest – not really just to demoralize my fellow competitors – but just to get some stuff DONE as I imagine my painting time is going to diminish some in the new year…

Machine-gun Jocks

You (and I) will be experiencing a bit of time-delay for the next three months. As part of the Analogue Hobbies 2nd Annual Winter Painting Challenge all entries must be posted there first and allow 24 hours before posting them on our own blogs… So I was done these chaps yesterday… and they were posted on Anologue Hobbies HERE

If you mosey on over to Analogue Hobbies you can see what I finished up last night – some of the 1812 Militiamen and Great War Royal Artillery 18-Pounders!! (They’ll be posted here tomorrow evening).

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These are Early Great War Scotts machine-gun teams from Renegade Miniatures.


Well the not-so-kilted guys are supposed to be Early War Scots and, I think, are supposed to be wearing Glengarries like the Lowland Scots I did last week. When I went to prime them I realized they weren’t in Glengarries but some sort of Field Service Cap (Which I didn’t even think was used in the Great War…?) – after I’d started painting I notice a little bit of a loop hanging off the back of the head and at first thought might be some flash I'd missed, but on further inspection realized it was probably put there on purpose and supposed to be the tails of a Glengarry!? So it was either carve off the tails and use them as guys in a Field Service Cap OR carve of the wings and call it a Glengarry… well it looked more like a FS caps so I carved off the loop/tail-thingie… I’m guessing the sculptor had already done a team in FS caps and thought it’d be a quick easy job to re-do them as Scots in Glens…? but… well… forgot to file off the wings and buttons and stuff.. Or did a head swap with the other Great War Vickers team – but grabbed the wrong head and tried to fix it by adding a tail to an FS cap and hoped no one would notice…? I have no idea…

I’m not terribly concerned These’ll probably see more action as Army of the Scottish Republic in the 1938 Civil War – and by then the British Army definitely WAS using Khaki FS Caps…



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As I mentioned you can see the 1812 Milita I painted last night over at Analogue Hobbies today (and here tomorrow). The kiddies are sleeping at my folks tonight so I’m gonna git some stuff FINISHED! I have some Highland Infantry rapidly approaching completion and a second 18-pounder with crew, primed, assembled and on the workbench…. then…? Some sculpting to do…? More casting…? We shall see…

Great War Lowland Scots

More random bits of painting….

While these are Great War era figures, I’d kind of been imagining them as Army of the Scottish Republic for the 1938 Civil War…

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These chaps are from Renegade Miniatures. I’ve ordered a second pack to finish off the unit…

I have to get a regular wargame night set up in the new year…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

A game report of some HOTT/DBA action.

I just poured the second half of the moulds for some new figures (mostly War of 1812) – should be casting them by tomorrow night and painting them Tuesday!! Huzzah!!

Tommies, Jocks…. and Another Zombie

I'm having a fairly productive, if somewhat random, week.

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A few Tommies and Jocks from Renegade Miniatures


Another zombie from Mega Miniatures (NOT in her underwear!)

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Zombies… and probably some other stuff…

Twi’lek Jedi and more o'the Machine-gun Jocks

Another star wars figure:

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The figure was produced by West End Games.


This is one of the later figures - a bit bigger and more dynamic than the earlier ones. Also it was made to go in a slotta-base.

…and because someone over at the Lead Adventure Forum asked if I’d post some more/different angle pics of Machine-gun Jocks I painted back in May…






I live but to serve…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Hopefully a battle report of Thursday’s game and then… Gladiators! (and then some more Zulus and British and Martians…)

Martians, Hobgoblins, Russians, Machine-gun Jocks…

Busy days… I was up waaaay too late Friday night (Saturday morning…) and had a good chunk of the rest of the day Saturday to work on things as well. So I managed to finish up a number of things that had been haunting the workbench… and a few things that I’m not entirely sure how I got to doing… but got them done, nonetheless…

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These Hobgoblins are from Otherworld Miniatures.


Six dead or dying Bolsheviks and a Tsarist cavalry officer (presumably responsible for the state of said Bolsheviks). Four of the dead and dying Bolshies are from Battle Honors… or maybe Old Glory…? I can’t remember which now… The other dead Bolshies are actually western gun-fight figures in “dusters” that I painted to look like Bolshevik greatcoats. I got them in a trade and have no idea who manufactured them. The Tsarist Currassier is actually also a “western gunfight” figure from Crusader Miniatures old west line – the pack was, I believe, called “the Foreigners”… or something like that… It included my favourite gunslinging Scotsman!


Oenotrian artillery – Crew are from RAFM and the gun is from… Huston…? (another ebay purchase… not really sure)


A pair of Martian scout/guides – also from RAFM. Experimenting with Martian skin colour again..


Finally a Jock MG team for some Great War or Very British Civil War action. The figures are from Renegade Miniatures.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Should have another batch of hobgoblins finished up tonight and posted tomorrow. Hopefully have those all finished off by the end of the week! Then it’s on to Zulus… or Zulu war British… or Martians…