Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Many, many years ago, on a stormy (or maybe frosty, probabaly just rainy) while playing WhAB up at Milton Keynes, a man walked into the club, plonking two or three old fashioned LARGE toolboxes on a table and declaring "I dodn't need these any more!" and walking out. One of our clubmates followed him out, and asked whether he wanted anything for them, he firmly declared no, and left. Never to be seen again! We divied out the boxes, and as we were building armies for the 'El Cid' suppliment, a quick roll-off on a d6 each, I got the last choice of an Arabic type army, which on further investigtion, turned out to be Ghaznavid. So, a quick order to Gripping Beast bought some Black Guard, generals/characters and standard bearers andmusicians. Then I rebased them for WhAB and used them for Almoravid/Almohads. Many moons later, I rebased them again for MeG is 28mm as we are practising the Magna varient (and if you read my last battle report, without much suc...

In return for replumbing my house, I was asked to paint a Hafsid army for Adrian. Hafsids? Who are Hafsids ? They are an African Califate in modern Lybia and Tunisia. Adrian has picked a doozy here! Figures from Old Glory/Timecast , transfers from Little Big Man Studios.   After nearly two weeks of self-isolation I am back at work, after having only the radio and my paints for company, thought I had better show what I was up to all those days.. Adrian kept borrowing his brother's and mine heay cavalry, so we decided that he needed some of his own! Twelve bases of (mixed) Old Glory Arabic cavalry from seeral ranges. Flags were just to boost the looks. Top view Charge! Side view Back view   These are done and the army is finished (well, done apart from the optional 9 stands of javelinmen skirmishers that I could do, but he's already got 36 javelinmen and now 6 archers). Archers, Adrian has these in two sixes, but I had enough for an 8 and a 6, so why not? Side view Skirmis...