SAGA countdown

On Wednesday night the Southern Strategists will have their first games of SAGA.
With that thought in mind I decided to finish off these two Viking dudes. Given to me by my friend Geoff last year when I was making the Longboat. They were both originally swinging axes but after a fair amount of carving out lead and drilling holes in their hands they are now hauling on ropes to help beach the boat.

I have no idea what make of figures these guys are.

Axes removed and now with ropes in their hands.

 Last weekend I also decided to have a wee play with Photoshop. The thought of having four separate measuring sticks floating around the table during a game didn't sound like a winner to me. So armed with a download of the measuring sticks I cut and moved and rotated them around until I came up with a one piece measuring stick. The "S" and "M" are also staggered so as to be able to quickly see the distance. With "VS" at right angles it is very easy to measure between figures.

It was then a matter of printing it out and glueing it to some cardboard.

My measuring stick

Checking unit formation.

Some levy checking the range to these Berserkers.

Beserkers on the move.

Looking forward to my first game of SAGA.

WW1 Flamethrowers.

Some of these guys I painted up a while ago but only recently finished off the last few.
They are from Renegade Miniature set WW1G 112.

I have been busy finishing off a few sets of figures like these recently so more to come in the next week or two.

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Zulus

A few years ago now I picked up a box of each of the Wargames Factory Zulus and the British infantry. I have made up most of the British and even painted a couple but don't like them that much.I thought the Zulus might be just as bad so they have been sitting around untouched! Finally, the other week I was looking for something other than WW1 to paint, came across the box of Zulus and proceeded to make some of them. There are 30 in a box , so, I have split them into a group of 18 that will be spear armed, and a group of 12 that will have rifles and muskets.
Here then are the skirmish chaps, armed with muskets and  Martini-Henry rifles, with a few mods.

The photos were taken last weekend when there was next to no sun about.

The firing figures are crap! But the guy in the centre here got a bit of surgery.

There are some powder horns on belts to be worn over the shoulder but I changed a couple of them to have the guys carrying them in their hands

The way the powder horns are meant to be positioned.

Along with the captured Martini-Henry rifle this fella has grabbed an ammo belt as well.

This guy has also grabbed an ammo belt but he is wearing his one.

All 4 stands.

Zombies!!!!

A couple of weeks ago my photographer daughter Mandy told me that she was arranging a photo shoot of Zombies. Although not really into the zombie thing I thought there would be a few of you out there who would like to see the end results. Making use of some of her friends to act as the zombies, a bit of makeup and some props, and they were into it. These are just some of the photos she took. I have reduced these photos a fair bit so some of the quaility has been lost but hopefully you get the idea.

WW1 German Artillery.

I picked up this WW1 German 77mm Field Gun and Crew a while ago and have finally finished it. This one is made by Old Glory. Comes with a crew of 6 but I have only based 4 with the gun and then based the other two guys on washers. Although labeled as 25mm it does not look too out of place with the 28mm stuff I have. Sorry about the photos being crap.

These are the other two dudes you get in the set,

WW1 Building.

 Here is another somewhat damaged building for our 28mm WW1 games. Built the same as the last one. The shell crater in the ground did not work out as good as I would have liked but it will have to stay. Although there is not enough rubble for the amount of damage, I intend to make some piles of rubble later that can be placed around to suit. Too much rubble on the base just makes it too difficult to place the troops in there.

 

Great War Miniatures German Jager making use of the cover.

The first two buildings together.

In use as a First Aid post.

Wounded on stretchers made from plastic. The wounded are made from plasticine, covered with tissue paper and PVA glue, and heads are from the Wargames Factory Colonial British.

Closeup of the rubble.

WW1 German Jager

 These guys are another group that I received as a Christmas gift last year.
 Great War Miniatures make some truly outstanding figures and these are right up there with the best. Nice poses and all of them are different.

 

On patrol.

  

I have also been working on another damaged building for our WW1 stuff and I will post some pic's of the latest one soon.