Napoleonic Battle.

I have posted a short report on the Southern Strategists blog of a recent game we had. Russians and friends taking on the French.

More photos on the Strategists blog.
http://southern-strategists.blogspot.com/

Bavarians entering a town during the battle.

The battlefield towards the end of the game.

Highland Laddies of WW1.

A Christmas gift from my wonderful wife was a bunch of Great War Miniatures figures. The first group to get painted up is these Highlanders. Very nice figures and easy to paint too. Only problem is, now I need more!
Couldn't decide on what regiment to base them on so I have left them fairly generic.

French Line Infantry .

Over the Christmas break I finally finished off another French Line Infantry regiment. This is the 4th regiment in a brigade of 4. The other three units have been painted for a few years now.  All the units are from Front Rank, 3 Line and 1 Light. Flags from GMB.

 

 

The Brigade.

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.

http://dispatchesfromthemess.blogspot.com/

http://southern-strategists.blogspot.com/

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.