Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

The Germans need opposition . Nik being too busy with real life asked me to paint his WW1 forces. The British, Old Contemptables, ready for action. Mostly painted while I was running a competition at Boards and Swords hobbies this weekend! First unit with machine gun The thin khaki line It really is impressive how well British uniform blends in Hopefully I've done them justice There is a lot less British infantry than German units But then the mad minute would even that out Plus they have friends, only two per battalion Still enough to make the enemy think Two cavalry units with Machine guns in support Player's view British gun line BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Something atmospheric about this one Commanders Top view Yes, there is a red cap in there The British batch

 Nik asked me to paint his WW1 Germans and British , so with a spare five minutes in my schedule, here they are. An infantry unit with machine gun stand Yes, I did do cuffs, collars, facings, tail piping, trouser seams and helmet numbers! Top view But where one goes, they do not go alone. All six units of infantry Not bad since I only started them last Monday Top view Because they would not fit in the light box with their infantry, all six machine gun attachements Do not want to be down range of that Uhlans with their attached machine guns Fun fact I did not know, German cavalry used tubular steel lances in WW1! The line Player's view German gun line Gunners being busy Top view Spot the deliberate mistake? Nik and I realised the gun shields are on backwards (Nik blamed a 'Red Wine incident'), I tried to take them apart but they were stuck fast! Commanders (I know it's terribly unhistoric, but the temptation to do a couple of uncovered Pucklehaubs was too much) Back of...

 Okay, slight historical mismatch, but it was an army I knew I could put out straight away against Neil's beautifully painted Seljuks. It's roughly the same patch of land, it will do, only 350 years out... Oh, and it's a chance to use this true Legend as my Legendary CinC! This is, along with my Tudors, is one of my least successful armies. I am useless with horse archers and mounted skirmishers. I am not a horse lord like Nik nor Paul, so this was going to be tight. My list, only 9 unit, squeak! Well, after a strategic intercept. this is also a good start. I was attacking, on the plains, in 'Nomral' terrain, and I'm not used to this many scouting cards. White/Black =0%, Green = 10%, Yellow is 20% and Red is 40%. So Neil scores 100, I score 140, so rather outscout him by 40%. Neil heads to the safety of a hill on the right, avoiding the terrain on the left, and basically we both ignored the left-hand side of the table! He deployed in two lines, lights to the fro...

Been sitting in the lead pile for a while... FV 105 Sultan from Timecast, no idea when I will use it, but such a cool model! (You know when you get something  that refuses to be photograhphed....) Four more Timecast FV438s - last of the support, and really crisp casting. Love them! Nine in the unit in total now, think that will REALLY annoy some Soviets Rear view A few extras in preparation for tomorrow night's game. Vehicles by Timecast , Infantry by Pendraken   FV438s FV432s for Company Command 2iC and HMG 2 additional Milan posts Spent some time over the festive season adding to my British Infantry, I finally finished second platoon (the first stands of the platoon are somewhere way down the blog). With Timecast Battle taxis (enough for the whole platon) Start of Company HQ and extra AA Start of the Milan section, with Light Mortar support A rare sight, British HQ with more tra...