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Below are my five most recent miniatures related photos. These used to be freshly painted miniatures only, but now include game photos as well.
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Below is the most recent shot of what is on my painting desk.
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The first of the Swedish cavalry are done - they’re the first company (half squadron) of the (and I shudder to think in how many creative ways I’m spelling the Swedish here) Åbo och Björneborgs läns ryttare.
A company in 1:20 for Swedish cavalry regiments around the time of Poltava comes to (very roughly) 6 figures, so a squadron is 12. I’ll be trying to paint a squadron for each of the regiments present in the main battle at Poltava (11 or so) - these are the first.
The figures are Reiver Castings whose horses look absolutely horrendous in the metal, but who luckily do look the job when painted and based up.
I also finished the first command figure - major general Roos, who took a third of the infantry strength of the army off to swan about trying to capture redoubts instead of bypassing them. He’ll be based on a somewhat elaborate base, so he gets three points instead of the normal 2 for a mounted figure.
As always, pictures to follow, but I’m counting 15 points for these - 12 for the 6 cavalrymen, 3 for Roos. Next up is probably a bunch of Romans again, as my black primer has run out for the moment (and the Romans are grey primered).
Full marks for the spelling this time. No judgement on the painting yet (no pictures! :)), but I’m sure it will be the usual high quality.
And here are the pictures of my latest paint jobs.
The Empress’ Cynical Smile, the human flagship joining her friends:
And their slightly more scruffy adversaries:
More pics of the orc ships in their own set on Flickr. As you can see, these were again painted with speed in mind rather than beauty. Oddly fitting, for orcs :).
For those who have been missing them, the various archive pages are working again. They were a victim of my recent rebuild of the templates of this here site when I switched the blog software behind it to a new version, which lost backwards compatibility with my (admittedly ancient) templates.
So, month and category archives work again. Rejoice!
And another bunch of tubs is ready to set to sea. This time some ships for The Uncharted Seas:
According to some ridicilously arbitrary formula I made up (2 points for the 6 frigates, 1.5 points each for the remaining Orc ships and 2 points for the flagship - many sails to paint) I’m giving myself 13 points for these, for a total of 32 so far this month. Next up on the painting table are some Swedish GNW cavalry by Reiver Miniatures.
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