Victrix napoleonic French

 

Here is a couple of pics of my victrix napoleonic french, a full regiment of 24 troops, I got a box and did half up as french and stuck them on Ebay and converted the rest into Warhammer 40k, for more on this project see my warhammer 40k and all that Blog. The Victrix are fun figures although a little spindly compared to wargames Factory or Gripping beast, but better than the Spanish Succession figures from the Affore mentioned. They paint up well and you dont have to invent detail like ton so many lead figures these days.

Viking Fortress & Village

 

This was a commission order and the first time I ever tried doing some 28mm dark age scenery. I enjoyed doing the buildings they proved very interesting, the Fort took a little more thinking.

 

The Fortress walls are of sticks of the kind you get in the garden centre, I like the tower best, and the whole thing fits the figures very well.

The buildings for the village consist of a Blacksmiths Forge with well, a Cottage and two Hovels of the Viking style. In 28mm they look passable I think.

Napoleonic Prussian

 

A Small Napoleonic Prussian force of Infantry and Cavalry, this is one of the set armies we have on our shop, and on the Ebay Store.

The figures are Adler.

I cannot remember the rules they are based for but regardless to say any basing of Adler Figures is not going to go well, but I guess you get used to it.

American Forces Vietnam

 

I went to Tripples Last year and ended up with a bit of money left over and no idea what to get, and I ended up with these! They are American Vietnam stuff from Pendrakens 10mm Range and are great figures, I love most of Pendrakens stuff.

 

I based all the Nam stuff in 4's for the Infantry, and smaller bases for the HQ, Forward OB and Heavy Weapons. I put together 4 helicopters for them just made out of bits from my bits box and a bit of Green stuff, this was just to have something to play with before I got around to getting some proper models. Sadly this never came about.

 

To go with these figures I also tried out a bit of Brown-water navy, thinking this would be the next big thing, I made a Helicopter monitor and some monitors and Landing Craft. They were fun to make.

10mm Vietnam Scenery

 

When I Got my Nam stuff I realised quite quickly I would be needing scenery, and a lot of it. Here is a collection of what I came up with.

 

I started out with 20 Fields, made of torn corrugated cardboard, Then the buildings which were grouped in 2's and 4's were made of a card frame with Milliput modelled on them for detail, a quick layering of paint came up very well and the villages did fine service while I had them.

 

The Fire-base didn't take long to do, just trenches cut in card with sandbags of clay and wire for barbed wire, I Never really finished it by the time I decided to sell on my Nam collection but it did make a nice piece to play with, If I ever field Nam again I will love making another Firebase.

NVA Battalion

 

Back at Tripples last years I found myself buying lots of nam packs just for something to do on those cold nights, and these are a good addition to them, they come from the indo china battlepack, and are a mix of NVA and bits from the Viet Min & French Indochina packs. I based them all together and painted them as North Vietnamese.

Overall I ended up with an army much larger than the one here, some 120 bases of all sorts but split them up to sell them.

Vietnam VC Battalion

 

Here is a small Viet Cong Battalion to add to any nice Vietnam game. The VC army Packs come with Mortars and HQ so you can get a lot of variety in the pack. Some of the figures are from the early part of the war when the French were still hopping around but the basic paint was much the same.