Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Since the days of Lasalle 1st edition, I have been meaning to bulk out my ever-victorious 1806 Prussians* from Principles of War. *Seriously, they have never lost a game! It's like Bloodbowl Halflings - you never expect them to do well, so anything positive is a miracle. Two more sets of 1806 Prussians - two more sets of blurry pictures Jagers Top view Firing line Back view Take aim Grenadiers Hold on, Grenadiers don't skirmish? Back view Embedded in their units      After years of sitting on the painting desk, I did these from scratch - Fusilliers    A more mixed variety of poses, including extra musicians, as they will be in looser formation and skirmishing in front of my main Prussian columns. Marching to certain... something? Line will fire... Top view Present1 Hussars! Embedded in their home units Got to love Hussars! Charge! (What else will hussars do?) Run away!   Yellows...

 Following on from seeing the successful Spartan commission , Roger, whom I did the Cathars for , asked me to do a Helleistic Spartan force in 15mm Xyston (that will also double as Ptolemaic and Asiatic or other Alexandrian successor state), and spears from Museum Miniatures Range 'Z'. Pike unit 1 (the guard) and three units of spear armed hoplites plus generals to finish of this commission. The no 1 pikes Simple, but heavy Perfect ranks, unlike 8 & 9! Onwards Players eye view Generals Top view Side on Back view to show the generals Spears 1 It's a big mass I do like the way they rank up Spears 2 - marines? Had to pick the sheilds nicely Off they go Charge! Spears 3 - Spartan spears I REALLY REALLY love this shot! Mean and moody More nudity than... Just so you can see the back and shields Big mass  There are at least 9 units of pikes to do, plus a lot of extras, so I started with the middle units of his army list, pike blocks 4, 5, 6, & 7, ...