Perry Salute Releases (OK, The Medieval Stuff Anyway)

Just taken from The Miniatures Page- definately out  for Salute:

Cottage should be usefull from 1300-1600 plus with the addition of the smoke hood. Looks splendid and as it's plastic it is opens up the possibilities as far as conversions go. A real surprise to see this cottage released.

Announcing New Blog; Just Add Water II

It is now some years ago that I put together my first blog, Just Add Water. If memory serves it was full of Dark Ages/Sub Roman miniatures, many of which have now been sold on but I still retain an army or two. I really enjoyed putting together just Add Water as it was not 'period' specific and as my two current are placed firmly in the 15th C I thought it would be fun to let loose with some pics of stuff that I will be painting over the next few months. As I'm a full time professional miniature painter this will include armies, units, vignettes, step by step's and single miniatures etc.

Anyway, if you'd like to check out Just Add Water please click HERE

Here's a quick sample of what you can expect:

Hope you enjoy it!

Darrell.

It's Not Often That.......

Hi,

It's been what seems like a very, very long time since my last 'real' post. Indeed it most certainly is! I've been unwell of late and have been unable to get much done in the way of painting and modelling. I'll be making an announcement as regards my illness on a couple of the wargaming fora that I will be returning to in the near future but for now it's best to concentrate on the matter at hand! Wargaming of course!!

Todays topic then, is Claymore Castings. This range sculpted by Paul Hicks and commisioned by David Imrie and Andrew Taylor does indeed show great promise. The miniatures are based on the Battle of Otterburn and the sculpts that I have seen really conjure up the look of the Scottish force lead by Douglas on that fatefull day in Northunbria. The stylistic difference between other companies versions of the Scots in the Late 14th C is a subtle but marked one and works very well indeed- the Scots Spear really look then part. Again, based upon what I have seen much of the the Claymore Castings range would also be great for other armies in North Western Europe at the end of the 14th C and many would be fine for earlier in the century as well.

I should be receiving a sample or two soon which I'll paint up (immediately!) and post a pic or two here. In the meantime I'll let the pics do the talking:

OK, that's about it for now. As I've said, I hope that I'll soon have a few painted up in all their glory. You can follow the news of how the range progresses on Dave Imrie's Saxon Dog Blog.

Gripping Beast Late Roman/Justinian/Heraclian Byzantine Army For Sale

A bit of a change.......

Hi,
This army has won "Best Painted Army" at a couple of events. All the miniatures are very well painted and are of a high standard. The army was all painted within three weeks before one of the WAB events (Beyond the Golden Gate organised by the guys at Gripping Beast and hosted at GWHQ if anyone's interested?). As such, the army is not in my usual painting style but that's not to say that a great deal of man hours have not been spent painting the army- rather, I just dropped everything and spent three weeks painting it up.

I'm looking for £800 for the whole army as one job lot. I can deliver the army to Cold Steel at Gripping Beast HQ or arrangements can be made to post the army- which will of course be very well 'wrapped up' and I can get a quote on the postage as soon as I have a prospective buyer. As well as posting to the UK I'm happy to send the army overseas (Japan, USA, Europe etc) but as it's such a large consignement I would insist on the army being insured which the buyer would have to pay.

Cavalry mini's work out at £15 per figure and Infantry at £4. (Skirmishers are free)

If you're interested please PM me or send an e-mail to:
darrell.hindley@googlemail.com

Here's what you would be getting for  your money:

Late Roman Comitatus:

Late Roman Bucellarii Unit 1:

Late Roman Bucellarii Unit 2:

Hun Horse Archers Unit 1:

Hun Horse Archers Unit 2:

Late Roman Infantry and Archers:

Late Roman Skirmishers:

Thanks for taking a look chaps/chapesses :O)

Simple but Effective Longbowmen Conversions

Hi,

One of the advantages of putting on a game with others, be it demo or at the club is that you get to have a good look at all the new ideas that they have come up with regarding painting, modelling and conversion work. In the case of the two longbowmen below, now awaiting their opportunity to see some paint in the que that used to be my other painting table, both have been inspired by some of Simon's conversion work which can be seen on his blog.

The first chap has had his arrows removed from behind him and a plastic small 'sheaf' off arrows added to his belt. These were taken from the 'spares' box and are from the Wars of the Roses plastic box set from Perry Miniatures. The second chap if from the has had his front oringinally from their Handgunners pack has had his hand holding the match removed and this has been replaced with a plastic one holding a longbow from the plastics bits box. The first archers arrows have then been glued behind the second archer and thus we have a nice simple conversion that looks effective and will add that bit of variation to one of my Longbowman stands.

I think that the second conversion is great as it actually looks as though the archer is twisting around to reach his arrows.

More Salute Pics

Hi,

Credit for these pics and the former must go to Joe Dever, Phil Steele and Ray. without the generosity of these gents I wouldn't have anything to show for our efforts and this blog would be a less happy place. Lesson learnt- always check your camera for the battery before you leaqve for a show!

Thanks again guys,

Darrell.

Verneuil Vignettes

I threw together some vignettes from mostly already painted miniatures for the Verneuil demo. We use them in Impetus to mark units that are Disordered, essentially they act as a kind of casulaty marker, something absolutely crucial when putting on a demo game as the last thing you need is card markers cluttering up what would otherwise be an impressive view. Despite already having a number of these already made up, as it happenned on the day we didn't really have enough of these so there will be plenty more to come.