Another unit done for a friends Macedonians. Alexander, not painted like the later European artists often depicted Alexander with blond hair, likely due to cultural symbolism associating blondness with virtue and heroism, instead with reddish brown hair. Also I have forgone all that purple silliness and went with more natural colors for uniforms.
Got a chance to finish my Carthaginian/Balearic Slingers for my growing Age of Hannibal warband.
Maschinen Krieger or what was before and also known as SF3D is a science fiction genre model kits that have finally become available in 15mm pewter from Slave2Game (click the link and scroll to bottom and select different armies to see the models available).
I've been a long time fan of the scratch built kits made by Kow Yokoyama (click here to get background story) back in the 1980's. They even came out with a couple of boardgames that where Panzer Blitz/Panzer Leader style games, both of which I own.
I always wanted to game with these but the scale in 1/20 and much later 1/35 kits was way to big for what I wanted to do on the gaming board. So I was really happy when Slave2game came along a few years back and has been adding more models since.
Below you will see one of the earlier war grav vehicles called a Sdh.232M Sandstalker. You will notice the WWII'esk style of how the kits where designed way back when they were offered as plastic or resin model kits.
Here are three Sandstalker vehicles I've painted up.
Finished some of my Huns for Saga back in January of 2023 and for some reason I missed posting them. I thought I did but I can't find them on my blog. Chalk up another it sucks getting old moment. Anyways here is Attila and 24 mounted Hun bowmen.
So I decided to paint up some mercenaries for my Carthaginian Army and I painted up the most expensive, totally cool one that I could pick out. The Greek Mercenaries. A formidable force as they are considered Hearth guard, have determination (basically get a free activation without spending command dice), can close ranks and add +1 to their saving die rolls, but if they charge they only have an aggression of 1 instead of 2 (which means charging them will be insane), and finally because of their well kitted out equipment they are armor value 6 against shooting.
They ended up being a total bust being included in the army because mercenaries can't use the advance Saga abilities, and the cost of 2 points keeps you from getting that extra unit you need for this army.
BUT THEY WERE SO COOL!!!! Everyone who knows me the rule of cool is what I live by, win or lose.
The strong right arm of "The Authority", the Harlow 1st Reaction Force are the elite mercenaries of Harlow Kinetic Solutions. Equipped with jump jets, smart weapons, and combat inorganics (AI robots), the 1st Reaction Force hits hard, and they hit fast.
The above is the quick snippet for this formation for the Science Fiction game called BLKOUT. Skirmish level, which hits my sweet spot for sci-fi action game played on a 2 X 2 with lots of terrain and a couple teams on each side.
The following I have painted up for a friend who lacks the skill or interest in painting. So now I have an opponent vested at least into the figures to game with.
I painted this for a friend as a commission for his Age of Alexander army for Saga. The model is from Wargames Foundry. It's an older figure line from them and is a metal model. I was not a huge fan of this model. It was metal parts that had to be glued together and it was clunky and had many gaps that I had to fill with green stuff. It was probably the top of the line for it's day but it hasn't aged well. I normally place my figures on thick paint sticks using blue stuff, but this model was to heavy for that so it was harder to paint.
But I trudged on and finally got it done. Here are the results.
Finished up a friends Thessalian Cavalry for his Macedonian Saga Army. Working on the Elephant now. That will leave me one unit left to do, but that one will wait on the list while I move onto another project for another person. Rotating projects helps keep it fresh for me, plus I rotate something in for me in between those.
Well because of the simple paint job I was able to knock out 12 Libyan Javelinmen for my Carthaginian army for Saga in a couple of days. Per the Victrix site that sells these they supposedly wore red tunics, and were heavily tattooed. I didn't go nuts with tattoo stuff, just enough to get by on the game table.
So this past week and a half I have been diligently working on my Carthaginian General and one point of warriors being Gallic Cavalry.
I started out painting some Macedonian Cavalry for a friend and some Scifi infantry for another. The idea was to place paint on each grouping (including mine) to keep it fresh and to whittle away the pile. It started off okay until the cool models from Victrix, and the Little Bigmen shield transfers stole my heart.
Well that was that and I was off to the races. This project has been and on and off subject for two years and I now find myself within one point of fielding an army. Of course there are some odds and ends I would like to paint to flush it out and give myself some versatility, but I will maintain my focus on the next 12 levy I need. I’m going to try to put these and the other two groupings on the same plate again to see if I can get a little more done for my friends.
Here are a couple of pics.
Wow! I finished my first 16 models for the Carthaginian Army for Age of Hannibal back in January 2021! Unbelievable!
Since then I finished one War Elephant in early 2023, and just today finished a second War Elephant for the Army.
Over the past few days I've assembled 12 light infantry, 8 warrior cavalry, and a Warlord for the army. I've completed placing media on the bases and have them all primed and ready to paint. That will give me the six points I need to play a game, but my goal is to paint two more units of 8 cavalry each, and two more units of 8 warrior infantry each. I've been wanting to finish these forever but other projects always seem to get in the way. Like painting up a Macedonian Army, Franks, and Byzantines for one friend, 24 WWI Russians for another, and around 10 or 12 models science fiction models along with around 56 WWII Bolt Action Soviets for yet another. Plus two Saga Armies for myself, but hey who's counting.
Here are a few shots of the finished one, along with a shot of the two completed ones together.
No this is not about Sergio Leone Western masterpiece. This is about my psycho, just over one year old, Shitzu.
I had just painted up three NASA astronauts, three Russian astronauts, and was in my hobby room laser focused on building a lunar vehicle when I heard my little lad chomping away in corner. I was so focused I thought he was chewing one of his toys. Then he disappeared and soon after my Wife walked into my hobby room and handed me what you see in this picture. Somehow my foam tray of painted astronauts ended up on the floor upside down in the corner. Fortunetatly the way I pack them only one fell out. Of course he found it and decided it was an excellent chew toy. The head, arms, moon rock, and most of upper torso are gone.
After having lost three other non painted models to the BAD, I thought I had learned my lesson and had model security under control. NOPE!
Though I swore a few times, no animals were hurt while going through this episode.
But mannnnn, it’s sooooo hard loving this cute faced dog sometimes.
As always thanks for looking.
Cheers
Kevin
