Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

A couple of years ago Yann, also known as Barbarian on the Pendraken forum, sculpted and released a range of rather wonderful 10mm Evil men (available here:  http://laranminiatures.bigcartel.com/  ), after ages sitting, neglected, in my garage, we are now playing Warband with gusto at the Milton Keynes Wargames Society, and this has finally inspired me to get the army done.  Warband is a set of fast play, unit based fantasy rules, available from Pendraken Minatures  The rules . Cleverly, they use 'the Rule of 4' to achieve actions, and each stand has so many dice to complete, which can be boosted by command points from generals. The idea of the army that has been fermenting in my mind as I painted was this: Once a fair and prosperous nation, ruled over by a beneficent green queen Dragon, over the centuries, her influence has spread throughout every corner of her land. However, as she has aged and faded, her sight started to fail, and her kingdom degraded from a ...

Last nights game at York House, Stoney Stratford. Mark Spratt, Brian Shipp and I were Israeli, while Dave & Dave were Arabs (Egyptians (their commander-in-chief was bizarrely absent). The Egyptians had deployed in depth, a dug in battalion of infantry and a company of T-34s, somewhere in the Sinai Desert, defending a road junction at a settlement. There was a broad belt of mines, a road blocked road and a few rises between them and an Israeli armoured battalion of two Centurion companies and an infantry company, backed up by engineers and a Sherman flail tank! The Israeli forces sent one tank company straight down the road to engage the tanks and infantry, while the infantry, engineers and second tanks set off left. The Egyptian T-34s, dug in in a commanding rise, were eliminated by Israeli artillery and long range tank fire. The engineers took heavy losses from Eigyptian artillery crossing the minefield, but being valiant professionals only broke AFTER the job was done....

Long time painter, first time blogger... Hello and welcome. My name is Will 'Mad Lemmey' Denham, mad wargamer, father of two girls, devoted husband to Jo. Why now? Due to my old hosting site no longer allowing links out, here is the start of my painting blog. The purpose is to show off the figures I've been painting for myself and others. Have fun. :) Will Now, how do you post photos from an iPad!!!