Zombies at the Mall!

A group of us went down to the mall the other night to get a few things. Nothing unusual there you might think. Well, there were Zombies about, and that made things very interesting.
Our brief was to get into the mall, get whatever supplies we could find and get out again.  Simple!!!

Zombies heading for the mall.

The mall and carpark.

My group of humans.

View from inside the mall as we arrived at the main doors.

Entering the mall.

Heaps more photos and more of the story on our other blogs.

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Napoleonic French Carabiniers.

I have finally finished painting these guys. I had half of the unit for several years but only ordered the remaining figures in August.  I painted them in October and eventually got round to basing them over the Christmas break.
 The Carabiniers have always been one of my favourite Napoleonic units, the big red helmet crest , the brass/copper cuirass and mounted on dark horses must have made an impressive sight on Napoleonic battlefields all over Europe.

Front Rank figures and the flag is by GMB.

Happy New Year.

2012

To kick off the new year here are some pic's of Roger's Rangers that I painted up a while ago. Still yet to see any action on the tabletop. These chaps are made by Front Rank and are a real joy to paint.

Hopefully 2012 will be a much better year for my home town of Christchurch. 2011 saw the city practically "shut down" for a day or two because of snow, twice within two weeks! Several thousand earthquakes during 2011 have not been kind to this city either.

 Thanks to all of you who take the time to look and comment on this blog, I really do appreciate it.

I wish you all a very Happy New Year and hope you all have a great 2012 of painting, making collecting and playing with model soldiers.

Just clicked midnight here in N.Z.

Rebel Cavalry.

Confederate cavalry from the Perry brothers. I picked these guys up from a wargames buddy about a year ago and finally put them together last month. I have painted them in various colours to depict a typical bunch of rebels. The flag is one I bought in a Brisbane wargames shop many years ago. Not the best but will have to do for now.

20mm Bavarians and French, Part 2.

 In this post are photos of the Cavalry, Artillery and command stands for the 20mm Bavarian army. I have also painted up a couple of French units. One unit is the HaT early war French infantry in bicorns and the other is the good old Airfix French Infantry.

Just had to have a flag with this unit.

Brigade commander.

Army command stand.

Nice old Airfix figures.

20mm Bavarians

As it has been a while since I last posted to this blog I thought I would share a few photos of my 20mm Bavarian army. Here are the infantry units, Three Line units and  two jager units. I will post the cavalry, artillery and command in the next post.

These guys were painted a few years back now and are all from the HaT range.

Dragoons, Generals and ADCs..

No French Napoleonic army can be complete without some French dragoons. This is the first of at least two heavy dragoon units I want to add to my French army. The next unit will probably be a "yellow" faced unit. As I only had a few photos of them I have added some photos of some of my French commanders. All of these figures are from Front Rank. The dragoon's flag is from GMB.

Here they are in their pink facings.

French general and A.D.C.

Marshal Soult and A.D.Cs.

Line foot artillery command.

Heavy cavalry commander.