Will's Wargames Blog

31/10/2023

Rebased Norman Cavalry

These are the last of my Norman Conquest rebased. The figures are a mix of Revell and Strelets.

The Bretons are really the Revell mounted Saxons with a few other Strelets

The Norman contingent with their two commanders Duke William and Bishop Odo

In addition to these there are another 18 Norman and 12 Breton cavalry that were based to my current standard when I painted them.

30/10/2023

Bundeswehr M113s

A quick diversion to paint three West German M113s. In Battlegroup Centag these are an option instead of using Marders so I included them in the latest print run.

29/10/2023

Rebased Norman Infantry

Continuing the Dark Age theme I have rebased all the Norman Foot to my current standard.

There are four units of spearmen, two of archers and one of skirmishers.

This just leaves the Cavalry to do

27/10/2023

Napoleonic Prussian limbers replaced and rebased

I have replaced all my old converted Airfix limbers that I used for my Prussians with the new versions I have 3D printed'

At the same time I rebased about half the limbers to my current basing

But it seemed silly to rebase the limbers without doing the gun crews so I did them too.

18/10/2023

Rebased Saxons

It's been a while, but I was completing a major task, rebasing all my Saxons. The figures are mainly the old Revell ones, which aren't the best representation and also a number of Strelets.

There are 3 command stands, 6 units of huscarls (16), 8 units of Fyrde (16) and 3 units of skirmishing archers (8)

Of course, now having finished these I have to work on my Normans

12/10/2023

Latest batch of 3D printing

I've just finished my latest batch of printing and I've worked through most of my current wishlist.

A quick summary of the output From top to bottom and left to right

German Lf.5 limbers and AA wagons
German sdkfz 10's for my DAK, ready crewed and stowed
2 x British Grants, scaled to match my existing Grants
3 x M113 for my Bundeswehr
12 x Napoleonic Prussian limbers modified from an Austrian STL file I had
Two pairs of 88mm limbers to go with my old Airfix 88mms that have long lost their limbers
German limber horses for the Lf.5 and the Russian ones as well
3 x Japanese Type 97 Te-Ke light tanks (with a couple of misprinted hulls)
2 x Lanchester armoured car hulls (to replace exploded versions) and a pair of Model T Fords
4 x Russian universal limbers plus a heap of home designed gates
"The Fellowship" some fantasy figures looking like the LOTR characters
ECW dragoons both mounted and on foot scaled up to 28mm from 15mm

09/10/2023

Pictures from the Other Partizan 2023

A dump of the pictures I took at Partizan yesterday. Unexpectedly I had to spend time on the Lance and Longbow stand, thanks to Andy for his assistance. Zero purchases as there was nothing to tempt me!

Battle of Graus (1063)