Perry Miniatures 28mm Picton Uxbridge Wellington Mounted

Here for who is interested are some more pictures of my latest figures painted.  They are of the British Commanders Wellington, Picton and Uxbridge from Perry miniatures.  Again they are unbased as I am unsure what to do with these figures, they may end up on Ebay.  Unless anyone reading this fancies them?
They are lovely sculpts especially the horses.

I painted these using an undercoat of black rather than my usual white undercoat and feel I shall stick to a white undercoat from now on.  It was a test to see how they would turn out with a black undercoat.  The end result is okay and does make it easier to paint figures quicker, but its white for me from now on.

Thanks for looking and any comments welcome.

STAKEOUT 28mm Dixon Miniatures Apaches

Back again with another couple of pictures.  This is a set that Dixons sell called,  Stakeout, all I added was an Indian pony from Dixons and a hat also. Dixons in their day were about the most poular and largest company, but seem to have fallen away of late.  I always rated and still do their horses as the best on the market.

As for the figures themselves they are okay, not as bad as some.  They always tended to have pumpkin heads, but these are more in proportion. I hope you enjoy looking at these, any comments welcome, thanks for looking.

28mm French Officer 7th Hussars Trent Miniatures Wargames figure

Hello again, after another long wait I have eventually got around to photograph some of my latest work.
This is a 28mm model from Trent miniatures of a mounted Officer of the 7th Hussars.  I am guessing its been sculpted by Copplestone but not 100% sure.
Anyhow its a lovely model and I enjoyed painting it.  Trent have some nice stuff if you trawl through their pages. Although the pictures they have of their models are not great and some of their models are not of a high standard like this one.  You are best to look at their models in the flesh so as to speak.
I did try NMM for the Gold on this model, not too successfully but it looks okay, practice makes perfect as they say.

Again thanks for looking,  more to come.

Mexican Spy Company 40mm. GRINGO40s

As promised I have finished painting the Gringo40s Spy company vignette, not 100% as I am not sure how I am going to base them yet.

Thanks to Ged at Gringo40s for helping with colours of uniforms etc.

As you can see from photos these are 40mm figures, solid and well sculpted.

The history of this unit is quite interesting as they fought for the U.S. and not Mexico as I first thought. Mainly made up of Ex Jailbirds and the like but led by proper Officers, a kind of early Dirty Dozen if you like. As you can see from the bands on their hats, they actually wore these! they were called the Spy Company.

Go to Ged's page for further details etc. http://gringo40s.blogspot.com/

Any comments are welcome. Thanks for looking

Reb artillery 40mm Wargames Foundry

Well here we go again with a long awaited post.

I went to Salute in London and entered a couple of my painted pieces. The picture seen here is of my 40mm Reb artillery piece which came first in the Wargames other category. A pleasant surprise to win with this as I actually thought my other entries had more of a chance.

Anyhow I had a really good time and managed not to spend too much on figures to add to the ever increasing lead pile!

The picture shown is straight from the Salute webpage as I have not had time to photograph my newer painted figures.

The figures I used are 40mm Wargames Foundry that I bought when they were first released and sat unused for about 15 years! They have now been rereleased and are nice solid sculpts.

One purchase that I did make was of a couple of figures from Gringo40's of a Mexican spy Vignette, a mounted trooper and a Officer with spyglass. I am not sure of uniform colours for these but will have to start hunting for info, unless anyone reading this knows?

Thanks for looking.

Custers Last Stand 54mm Andrea Miniatures

I decided to take a break from painting to again photograph some of my older painted stuff.

This is 2 of Andrea Miniatures kits joined to make a decent representation of the well known Last stand, Heroic or stupid? We all have our own opinions.

I painted this a couple of years back but it always had a sheen to it when photographing it. So I gave it a quick spray with the Army painters anti-shine varnish, as recommended by Dave Imrie. I would also now highly recommend this spray varnish to people as I have tried almost every matt varnish on the market, I dont do shiny figures!

Anyhow I hope you like it and any comments welcome, thanks for looking

Artizan Mexican Infantry 28mm

Well hello again to anyone that has a look at my blog.

The Painters block has now gone and I am back to painting! The fact that I booked to go to Salute this year was the only thing that got me painting again, I always need a deadline or one almighty kick up the back end!

I will be staying at the Crowne Plaza for the weekend and hopefully have a couple of figures to enter into the Painting competition done by then.

The figures shown are Artizan Mexican Infantry that I painted about 3 or 4 years ago, I did intend to do more and obviously Crocket and the boys but you all know what our projects end up like!

Anyone fancying a blether whilst at Salute about painting figures etc please let me know?