Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Georgia Provincials

Added the new basing material to these 25 provincials I painted up a couple of years back.






Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Virgina Provincials

Finally finished my 26 Virgina Provincials for FIW games. This brings my total number of completed models for Muskets and Tomahawks to 59. Unfortunately all but 8 of those are British forces so I need to start on some French before I can get a game in.






Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Family Diorama




I finally finished the diorama of my Great Great Grandfather in time to give it to my father on Christmas. Grandfather was part of the Powhatan Artillery from Powhatan VA. commanded by Capt Dance. Their unit was stationed in the defenses around Richmond when Union force nearly overran his battery, if not for the timely arrival of a Tennessee unit. In the fighting my Grandfather lost his arm and his brother. In memory of their sacrifice I wanted to capture the battle in a diorama and give it to my father as a gift. It was my first diorama I have ever made. In the center are two costume made miniatures of my ancestors by a sculptor in Russia. As an exact account of the battle is not available I took some cinematic liberties. We do come up pone a letter written by another soldier who was at the battle and I have used it as a guide.

First up is the letter about the battle.





Next here are some of the Work In Progress pictures.







And finally the finished product:







Frostgrave is back

After 3d printing and painting a bunch ruins I finally got another game of Frostgrave in. Have to say I really loves these set of rules and they play so well on a nice crowded table.

First some shots of the table setup:







My Warband ready to go.

Action shots. In the end I ended up having to men knocked out (one later died) but got away with 1 more treasure. 






Eastern Ukraine game

Some photos from late last year where Pro-Russian Separatist where trying to keep Government forces from capturing a Russian "adviser".