Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Another competition, another spoon!

It's a chariot theme, can you tell? Hope I don't win it, again! Hope to see some of you there. I'll be using 10mm Saitic Undead in the MeG chariot themed competition.

Ahh, the anatomy of a loss! Mark and I met up at Leighton Buzzard Wargames club for a friendly game of MeG, using the Magna (28mm) variant. I have been rebasing my inherited Ghaznavid/Andalusian/Arabs of late (there will be future post about these), so when Mark suggested Magna I agreed and tried to build a viable list with what I've got. Mark, fresh off getting a drubbing at Campaign with his army, was looking for blood! The terrain fell as featureless, a waterway held one side, which we both anchored our camps on, and Mark got a piece of rough going. That was it. My army was based around combined arms, Mark's around a great slab of powerbows! I out scouted him by 30%, but what came out was scary for my mainly cavalry army! On the right, two units of billmen support four units of retinue archer and artillery! The rough going is held by mercenary crossbows, on the left, two more archer units, a ubit of hand gunners, dismounted men-at-arms and a unit of heavy knights. Most of ...

 "Everyone should paint Samurai army once!" Well, this will be my third. Still paying off the debt of replumbing our house, these are for my friend Adrian bought a pile of Two Dragon and Dixon Miniatures Samurai second hand last year off a mutual friend.   The biggest batch is done, four units of Ashugaru spearmen, on threes and fours to a base to represent flaxibility between loose and close in each unit. Each unit is colourcoded by belt colour, and I also found enough Ashugaru with Tepo to do another four bases of those too. It's a LOT of figures! First two units. There is one Samurai figure in each command stand because it looks cool! Red and pale blue Advancing These actually look good! Other two units, Green and Yellow The two stripped banner is in case the owner needs to class one unit as allied Steady lads! Line or depth? Ashugaru with tepu and a log! There is also a samurai in this unit, just because... Top view Aim... Hold! And this wa...

 It's that time of year again! Three themes this year in the MeG team events are Britannia - 55BCE to 900CE, 'Don't Tell Them Your Name Pike' (any army with two or more TuGs/units of Pikes), and Open 28mm (which has turned into Italian Wars) Britannia Conculcabitor Don't Tell Them Your Name, Pike! Open 28mm 'Das Wud Teuer!'

Due to the organiser being ill, an emergancy soon was needed for this weekend. The 28mm MeG pool is open themed, but nearly all the armies were Roman or Italian Wars in our pool, the spoon idea popped into my headbased on a comment by a friend:- "I see three of us didn't get the Italian Wars memo!" It only took an hour and a half tonight, but I actually prefer this one!    And now a wooden spoon for Rollcall this weekend!  It's an Easter weekend competition, so here's Bugs... (With apologese to Tex Avery)