Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 What ho all! Roger asked me to finish off his Chinese Five Hegemon army for Warfare (Chariot period theme). Roger basically rebuilt the ground floor (and drains)our house in 2020, so this was a small part of my eternal repayment. Two units of heavy chariots - these are not 'regular' troops. Big models Charge! Can you spot where I might have got bored painting chariots? And another four Back view - one with Swiss diplomatic plates. Give me my burning spear... Then two units of regular 'Guard' chariots Horsepower! Trundle! Third unit of four, Uniform details Moving so fast they were blurred. Bird's eye view The rest of the army was a case of rebasing to match the new units, highlighting the flesh, and sorting out weapon and armour. His spears and halbardiers Top view Archers Top down Skirmishers (only swords and armour repainted here) Top view Roger's generals, liked these, just needed flesh and bronze. The Emperor looks serine Bottom layer of the box Top laye...

 After a two year lay off, here is this year's Warfare Wooden Spoon, the theme is chariot armies again, so I thought long and hard* and came up with this: (Drat, need to borrow a rubber and erase the pencil writing.) *About 18 seconds

 As soon as Mark started talking about sending me extras to paint , Clive also sent me a batch of Napoleonics, this time French which I could paint for effect. Found a deserter! Ligne forces Rear view Legere forces Back of them Budgies Sorry, eagles Selection of 3rd Cuirassiers Off they go!

 David and I met at Leighton Buzzard Wargames club this week for some Cruel Seas action. The last time I played was remotely vs the Timecast boys, so it was great to actually get the toys on table vs a real opponent. David chose British, leaving me with my Germans (I only have Brits and Germans, may have to remedy that). We looked through the scenarios and decided on Rescue Party. A clapped out stranded US PT boat needed rescuing, who would get there first? My S-100 boats arrive on opposite corners, gunning their engines. One of these had it's mid-mounted twin 20mm swapped out for the dreaded quad 20mm flak. David's plucky Brits came in at full speed, somewhat shortening my chances for hitting him to 1 on a d10! However, slowing to combat speed at pointblank range does not help you're survivability, no matter how small rolling a 1 will cause an awful lot of damage when a twenty mm cannon opens up. David ganged up on my right-hand S-100, however no matter how many times h...