Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Finally got these done today, artillery, artillery officer and von Manstein for IX Corps 1870, which finally finishes IX Corps, might have to carry on with French I Corps next. I'm also trying out a new light box, so this is a bit of a trial photo dump, here goes! Been a short lay off on these (5 years). But 18th Division is done, completing IX Corps, apart from the Corps artillery reserve and Corps commander (interestingly, they don't appear to have had a horse artillery battery in the corps artillery reserve) The whole division advances (not technically accurate, as 11th Grenadiers were painted some years ago to complete Prussian forces at Mars-La-Tours and will be joining them in their box this afternoon, but there is an extra unit that was involved with them at Amanvillers, can you guess who they are)? And here they come out the afternoon sun. 6th Dragoons Divisional artillery The infantry (had not spotted the pva had not quite dried on the jager...

Again, it is strange times we live in, and these have been sitting in the painting pile for waaaay to long, so I could ignore them no longer, it has been years since I painted an ships of this scale, but it was a fun two day project. Auran Dominate by Studio Bergstrom , sculpted by Robert “Toaster” Provan. Drew at Studio Bergstrom is one of the nicest guys around, and his products are amazing!  As I was painting these, I wished I had some pearlescent paint, as the more I looked at them, the more I saw nautiloid influences, but hey ho, they're red on Drew's site, so red spaceships they shall be. My Auran fleet, now need to find a rules set to play them with. Top view. Destroyers Frigates Cruiser It's a tooled up beast! I was tempted to put the guns the wrong way round, but that was getting too Liberator . Auran battleship. Each red area is five different shades. She still has hardpoints free! That's a lot of firepower! A l...

"Op Ewig Ungedeilt"  A Schleswig-Holstein saying in Plattdeutsch,(we shall never be divided again).on many a stone in many Hamlets up north.(Thanks Juergen Olk for the quote) Last night we played through a Prussian assault with a play by email game, based on the redoubts at Dybbøl , using my Pendraken 10mm Winter Prussians and my 1864 Danes . Ralph: On the left, on loan from 2nd Corps, 13th and 7th Jagers. Brigadier Karl Von Marmolise (not to be confused with von Marmalade, serving with the artillery). Mark: 1st Brigade, 35th & 60th in the middle, with Brigadier Walter Modellbauer Clive: 2nd brigade of 24th and 65th regts. Refusing to speak to Karl von Marmalade with the artillery, as he believes he has a ridiculous name, is Friedrich von Tegetthoff on the right. This is a small slice of the action of a wider event. My table set up, those are Timecast roads and their vietnam range fortifications . Bit out of place, but in these strange days, you g...