SAGA Welsh Army project WIP#3 - Terrain - Stone circle and Cairn

Well every army needs something to fight over and terrain can be so boring. As I've mentioned in earlier WIP posts, this project is also to complement my Dark Ages DnD campaign, so these will be a part of that too. On to it.

Stone Circle

I picked this up at a wargames show. It's either from Magister Militum or the Square, or Black Cat, but none show a picture of their offering. I'm fairly sure that it's supposed to be for 15mm, but it works as a 28mm piece too.

Moss on one facing

Neolithic Cairn

Again, picked up at a wargames show. Probably from one of the three manufacturers mentioned above, but an Internet search didn't help. Perhaps a reader can enlighten us. A nice characterful piece. EDIT: Eric Ducreux has helpfully pointed out that it's from Ainsty - http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/46/products_id/311/osCsid/360896fec175aaadf2bfdabbdf81f968

WIP on 4ground Saxon hovel

I still need to 'tame' the thatch with some PVA and water. I have a second one to make, so I'll do both thatches at the same time.

Help! It's the hair bear hut

In the pipeline are the first unit of warriors and more terrain. 

Laserburn Project WIP15 - Imperial and Redemptionist vehicles

A long time coming, here's part 15 of my never-ending 15mm SF project. This time up, some imperial vehicles and a cheap and cheerful red redemption flyer.

The first vehicle is an imperial ground attack aerodyne, which you may have seen in earlier posts, is a matchbox toy. I've done very little to it in terms of model making - a few mould lines cleaned up and a hole drilled for the offset base.

The metal rivet in the centre of the fan is a) too hard for most model drills and b) part of the functionality of the fan, so I drilled towards the rear.

The second vehicle is from Ground Zero Games. It's representative of a standard transport grav sled, widely in use across the imperium.

The last of the imperial vehicles is a Warthog APC from Atenociti's Workshop.

Finally, just because it's part of the same milieu, a red redemption transport, which you may recognise from a certain movie. It's a snap-together kit that comes pre-painted - all I did was give it a wash with army painter dark tone.

I'm sure there will be some more progress on this project at some point, but I have other things on my table at present.

Just as it was all going so well...

A few months without posting again, life takes over sometimes. My particular reason was the birth of daughters #2 and 3, so I've been seeing a lot of this view rather than my painting desk.

Still, there are snatches of time when one can get things done. As I had salute to look forward to (as a day off from babies if nothing else) I did some work on an old metal Tunnel dweller from heresy, more in a further post.

I did some more work on laserburn vehicles - this one was also entered into the painting competition, but didn't place either.

Whilst at salute I had a go at speed painting (20mins to do a figure) and won my heat. These are what I got, mine's at the front:

Finally here are a few things I purchased at salute:

I'm looking forward to using my new secret weapon washes and Darkstar TMM shades, not to mention getting my airbrush out for a spot of Angel Giraldez technique.

More soon

Xyston 15mm Late Spartan Greek army WIP06 - Spartan cavalry

The final batch of cavalry for the army, and my mounted commanders/generals.

As before, here are some close ups, but they're not really painted for such close scrutiny...

You may have noticed that the commanders are on sabots. These were made for me by the helpful chaps at Warbases.