15mm Hundred Years War English Archers

 

My first batch of English Archers for my Hundred Years War English Army that I am building specifically to recreate the English Army of Agincourt. The bases comprise Corvus Belli (Old metal figures), Donnington NE, Khurasan, with Peter Pig Stakes. There’s also some figures from a manufacturer I can’t recall included on the Stake bases. Anyone know who the manufacturer is?

I’m really pleased with the mix of figures and how they all worked together. Initially I had reservations about how they would look mixed on the same base as some of the Khurasan figures seemed larger than their Corvus Belli and Donnington counterparts, but I am very happy with the end results. They all share the same look and feel which helped.

I’ve got some more Donnington, and Khurasan archers and knights waiting in the wings to be painted and I’ve ordered the newly rereleased Corvus Belli/Ultracast English starter army, and will be working through the rest of the army in future posts. I only bought a few packs of the metal Corvus belli figures before they went out of production, so am pretty excited by their rerelease. Never painted 15mm plastic figures though, so we’ll see how that works out.

The command base is depicting Sir Thomas Erpingham. I tried to emulate the figure and paint job from one of Osprey’s HYW books, and think he looks the part. Interestingly he was born in my home town of Norwich in the UK, and is buried in the Norwich Cathedral grounds. Nice to see a local lad do well.

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15mm Gladiators

This post is literally Years in the making. I started this project in 2010 and have finally got round to completing it to some degree this weekend. Like many projects, every time I thought I was closing in on completion, i'd find another manufacturer I hadn't heard of and I'd end up with more unpainted metal to the pile. Still a poor excuse really as they're 15mm!

It was actually a TMP member "HarryHotspurEsq" that reignit interest in this project back in 2013 and it still took another 5 years of procrastination to complete, but finally I'm more or less done. I'll have to rebase the original gladiators I painted to suit the magnetic hex bases I opted for in the end, but other than that and unless someone else has brought out new 15mm gladiator sculpts or I've some how missed a manufacturer, that's it.

I've lost track of exactly which manufacturers each model comes from, but from memory includes: Museum, Rebel minis, Mick yarrow, Outpost, Strategia Nova and War and Empire

I downloaded a set of rules by war games vault years ago so will have to dig out the link, print them out, buy a pre printed mat to use for games and away we go. Finally. Haha

Being the glutten for punishment I am, I had thought  of getting some 15mm beasts for the set, but we'll see...

Comments, feedback welcome.

Painted RAFM Crewmen

Bought this pack simply for the pilot figure which I think is the best 15mm offering on the market. Will be using him as a dropship pilot in my USMC army. I decided to use a couple of the other figures for characters in the army as well.

I did a head swop to one of the figures using GZG's heads; now I think two of the figures will be well suited to the role of general in "the beloved corps". The final figure I will use as the dropships crew chief.

Hope you like the pic.

comments welcomed.

Painted Battle Robots (Terminators) The Scene

Pictured are my recently painted Battle bots squad from The Scene. Came across them when I discovered the US Special forces set; they produce and thought they would make a good addition to my Terminator army and would go well alongside the Alternative Armies Automatons I have.

I have also included a comparison image of The Battle bots and Automatons together.

Hope you like the pics.

Comments welcomed.

Chris

Painted US Special Forces - The Scene

As soon as I saw these guys I had to have them. They really capture the look and feel of the characters in the Predator movie in every aspect and look great in 15mm. Looking forward to using them in some cool scenarios.

Hope you like them. Comments welcome.

Regards

chris

Painted 15mm Conan figure

One pic to share of my painted 15mm Conan proxy for use with my 15mm gladiators (There are more pictures in a previous post if you're interested).

The figure is from Majister Militums fantasy range. He came up quite puny next to the 15mm Gladiators I had already, so I mounted him on an extra penny to compensate for the height difference.

Really like the figure and great addition to my Gladiator school. Just have a few final figures left to paint then I will be buying some 15mm animals to add to the collection.

As an after thought and question from a TMP member I thought I would include a pic of the rest of the Majister Militum fantasy pack.

Thanks for looking, comments welcomed.

Regards

Chris

1st painted Automaton squad

Wanted to share some photo's of my painted 15mm Automatons. Just the first test squad at the moment. Really easy to paint and quickly too, so I imagine more to come quite soon. I bought enough to have a similar size force to pit aganist my USMC marines.

I have always been a real fan of all the clasic 90's sci-fi movies (Predator, Aliens, Terminator etc) and have really enjoyed finding so many excellent 15mm ranges of near perfect (In my mind at least) proxies on the market to re-create armies based on my favorite film characters. With all the graphic novels and books available as part of the expanded universes for each franchise there is a near endless source of inspiration for cool scenarios.

Doing a Terminator themed army spawned from me recently getting hold of a copy of the- Aliens V's Predator V's The Terminator graphic novel. After reading the story (Excellent BTW, check out this link for a wiki break down if you're interested)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_versus_The_Terminator

I had to get some of Alternate armies Automatons to recreate scenarios from the graphic. Also there is endless potential to expand on these for large army sized engagements.

Hope you enjoy, thanks for reading.

Regards

Chris

“Ummm bad asses” (Completed 15mm USMC marine corps: Figs from QRF)

“Ummm bad asses” (Completed 15mm USMC marine corps: Figs from QRF)
This post is a testament that projects can be completed! I have to admit to being one of those collectors that flits between projects and never actually ever completes one. On this occasion I have broken my own rule.

Find pictured my completed 15mm colonial marine themed (of Aliens fame) infantry forces. I have split them in to 4, 10 man squads including: Sergeant, x2 flamers and a smart gun in each. Each squad includes at least one head swap from GZG’s heads to add a bit of character and I have tried; where-ever possible to not have duplicate poses with-in a squad.

I have to say over-all I am really pleased with the results and with the benefit of hind-sight would only have added camouflaging to their kit. Especially having recently read a really easy “how-to” that I thought even I could have followed.

I am going to invest in a number of rules sets so I can use these figs for several game variants. After much help from TMP I have decided to go with 5150 and the upcoming “tomorrows war”.

Future of this project:

I have already bought x2 of Khurasan’s awesome APC models, one of which is painted and I have nearly completed the basing (pics to follow shortly) and x2 dropships from GZG. So each squad will have its own transport. I will be adding some of Khuraran’s new walkers to my forces and have a few drone gun proxies from GZG. Once painted I think it will be a force to be proud of but for now at least the infantry are competed.

Thanks for looking comments welcomed.

Regards

Chris

Painted 15mm Gladiators comparison

This is a new project that I have been working on. Pictured are miniatures from the three companies I have managed to find that make 15mm Gladiators. If you know of any more I would be keen to hear of them.

Pictured from left to right in both images: Museum miniatures, Miniature wargames, Outpost wargames, Museum miniatures, Miniature wargames, Outpost wargames.

The size and build of the figures differ quite a bit between manfacurer but I don't think they look out of place next to each other.

Comments welcome.

Regards

Chris

Blood bowl sideline figures

This was a really cool batch of minitures to paint and offered a welcome break from some other projects I have been working on.

I have been trying to get hold of "Orc from Bilbao's" referee figure for quite some time and was lucky enough to see one for sale on ebay recently. I really love this figure and not just because I am a massive batman fan but because it captures all the fun and character of the game.

He is pictured alongside Heresy's Deathball coach and GZG's "Gentlemens collectables" nurse figure. I will be using her as my teams apothacry.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Khurasan's painted APC

When I first saw this model on dropships blog I knew I had to have one. It was exactly what I was after and really captures the feel of the movies and looks great alongside my figures.

To do the miniature justice I bought some of forge worlds weathering powders. This being the first time I have used powders on a miniature I would appreciate any views or tips on how you feel the effects have turned out. FYI I used the rust and dark mud powders.

I was quite happy with the end results but it's always nice to get a 2nd opinion.

Thanks for looking

Chris

15mm painted "Alien" comparison

I've seen some very helpful blog posts giving comparisons on the scale of the various 15mm Alien figures available out there, but thought it might be nice to do a compariosn on how they look together when painted and based in the same theme.

Hope this post is of use.

Figures from left to right: QRF's Large Alien bipeds (2 figs), GZG's xenomorph, Khurasan's Space demons, which are my personal favorite (2 figs) and finally QRF's small Alien bi-ped.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Pendraken Alien eggs

Hi guys, been a long while since my last post but let me asure you I have not been idle and have a number of project updates to share this time.

First off; Pendrakens 10mm Alien eggs pictured alongside some of QRF's Deep space marine casualty figures and small alien bipeds to give you an idea of scale. Although they are meant to be part of 10mm collections I still feel the scale fits with the rest of the 15mm figures in the picture and am pleased with the end results and quality of the Pendraken figures.

Thanks for looking.

Chris

QRF marines with GZG head swops

After seeing an excellent heads swops tutorial over on Mark's blog "Dropship horizon" I thought I would have a go myself. I am really pleased with the results especially as this is the first time I have tried any level of miniature conversion in the decade plus I have been collecting models.

The GZG heads are awesome and I can't wait to find a use for the rest as this is just a small selection of the two packs I bought. I only used a few just to add some personalisation to my marine squads.

Have ordered some of Khurasan's superb new APC models which I will be getting stuck into as the next part of this project. 

Feedback and comments welcome.

Thanks for reading

Chris 

Painted GZG Xenomorphs

Hi guys, just the one pic of my weekends progress painting some of GZG's Xeno's.

Really nice figures. Will look good alongside the rest of my Aliens horde. I also bought some of GZG's 15mm sci fi heads last week which i'm going to be using to do some head swaps with QRF's deep space marines. WIP pics to follow, hopefully by next weekend.

As always thanks for looking.

Finished Star wars miniatures Fringe collection

Although these are pre-paints I thought this still warrented a post.

I started collecting the WOTC's Star wars miniatures shortly after the Clone strike set came out. As a huge fan of the films and multi media I have been trying to complete a collection of all my fovorite Bounty hunters, Jedi, Dark jedi and other Dark side characters from between the Phantom menace era right through to Return of the Jedi era.

I had been quite happy plodding along buying a few miniatures here and there from ebay until I heard that WOTC are discontinuing the line so they will be oop come August this year! Since hearing this news I have been franticly trying to complete my collection before they become harder or more expensive to get hold of.

With this is mind I have just completed the set of Fringe characters I want, failing any cool new releases coming out in the Masters of the force set due out next month!

Thought i'd share a photo with you.

Characters from left to right; Maris Brood, Komari Vosa, Aurra Sing, Zam Wesell, Boushh, Greedo, bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, 4-Lom, Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk and IG-88.

I think they make quite a formidable squad!

As I complete the other parts to this collection I will post a few images. Hopefully I should complete my Seperatists squad by the end of the month.

Cheers

Chris 

Get away from her you bitch; Painted QRF Alien Queen

Hi guys just a quick update on my painted QRF Alien Queen. 

Hopefully by the end of next month I will have this project completed, just need to order the last of the figures I want from Khurasan and GZG. I was going to order from Khurasan this month but after seeing the awesome APC model they have coming out I thought I would hold fire and order everything at once. 

While i'm waiting to order the miniatures I am going to concentrate on painting up one of my two WZ Hurricane walkers. I put one of the walkers together at the same time as the Alien queen so it's primed and ready for painting; just need to decide on a colour scheme so I have been flicking through all the old Target games books I have to get some inspiration.

I've had another distraction this week; The new AVP game for the xbox 360. One word; Awesome. Any fans of the AVP universe from the films and graphic novels etc should definately own this. The back story surrounding the colonial marines missions is panning out well and the game play is fluent. That being said it is quite hard as you need to be sparce with ammo use and it's a very jumpy game! If you ever remember playing the 1990's PC version at night with all the lights out in your room then this game is for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC8RM1udgiY

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Warzone Imperial Ordnance officer

Latest blog addition; Painted WZ Imperial Ordnance officer. I was lucky enough to get this miniature from a fellow TMP member who kindly sold it too me and sent it to me all the way from the US. I stripped the paint down so I could paint it to keep in theme with my already painted Trenchers. 

I have nearly bought all the miniatures I require for this project; having managed to pick up a rams air cavalry model from ebay last week. So just require one more rams air cav model and 4 Imperial trenchers regulars and all I need do is paint it all!

The picture was taken using my flash as the weather in the UK this last week has been some-what overcast so sadly the Green looks alot brighter than it is in the flesh.

Hope you enjoy the pic.

Chris 

Painted QRF Aliens and face huggers

My latest pics are of my recently painted QRF Aliens and face huggers. I decided to split the force in two even halfs and paint them different shades; the first I painted Midnight Blue then dry brushed them with Enchanted Blue the second I painted Dark angels Green then dry brushed Snot Green. They were then inked with GW black ink, based and varnished. It was a very quick way of painting them and looks quite effective in my opinion.

I split the force in two halfs so that I could play Alien vs Alien games as well as combining the force for AVP or Aliens vs colonial marines scenarios.

The inspiration for the Aliens vs Aliens games came from reading an old Dark horse comic; Aliens Genocide. Essentially a schism forms between two groups of Aliens when the Alien Queen mother is taken from her home planet and killed at the end of the Earth war story ark. This forms two distinct tribes of Aliens that have a civil war for control of the planet. Throw of party of marines landing on the planet to collect the Queens "Royal jelly" in to the mix and you have the basis of a very exciting scenario! 

I am going to order more Aliens from Khurasan and GZG at the end of the month and also some Aliens eggs from Pendraken so expect further pictures early next month of the completed project.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Chris