(Lonely) Orc on Warg

Hi! Today began as a sad winter day. Grey sky, rain... no fun, hey, Iggy ?
But around 10 am, a strong wind started to blow, and the sun appeared to lighten the house. I immediately looked for my camera, so that I could take pictures of my last painted mini.

This guy is an orc mounted on a Warg. He looks fierce, but also a bit lonely: no friends, no opponent... which means that I'd rather go back to the brushes ASAP !

Dark Alliance mini, like it a lot.

My first 1/72 minis

Hi everyone!
To answer an interesting post on Wronghammer (Sprinks is asking what were the first minis you have ever owned), let me show you some of my first minis: greek hoplites by Atlantic.
I bought these guys in the late 70s when I was 10. I repainted them in 2015.

Even if they are not very accurate,  I still appreciate them. I hope you also do!

Clash in the Middle East

Palestine, at the end of the XIIth century AD. A clash between Templar knights and Ayyubid ghulams. Soon, the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem will be defeated at the battle of Hattin (1187).

Templars by Italeri.
Ghulams by Italeri, Caesar and Strelets.

Chasseurs de la garde

Hi everyone! I had no time to paint nor take pictures since last post (job, children, no need to explain...), so I looked into the archives... and I thought that it would be a good idea to show you a few Chasseurs à pied de la garde impériale, that I painted some years ago.

The Chasseurs are much less known than the famous grenadiers, but they were elite units as well.

Figures  by Hät.

The soldier, the camel and the goat

Hi everyone! Today I want to show you something unusual: a soldier (and his camel) from the "Régiment des dromadaires", created in 1799 during the French campaign in Egypt under general Bonaparte. This regiment was created because of the lack of horses (taken away by the Mamelukes). The soldiers acted as mounted infantry.

Some years ago, I was fascinated by Bonaparte's expedition in Egypt, because of the scientific part of this adventure - the beginning of Egyptology - and also by the extraordinary uniforms of this time.

The camel was painted after I read this excellent tutorial on Figuren und Geschichten, a great blog - I must admit that my camel is not as nice as the original, but I have a few more minis to improve my skill :-)

Here's a few pictures of a soldier with his camel somewhere in the Nile valley. He seems to be waiting for an invisible enemy, while a goat is looking for grass around. 1/72 Figures by GerMan, goat by Pegaso.

The GerMan figures are not made of plastic but of soft resin, which is a bit strange where you are not accustomed to this material, but the minis look great when painted.

The soldier...

... the camel...

... and the goat.

Musician of the month: Roman Cornicen

After the Napoleonic bassoon player, the musician of the month is a roman soldier from the Late Imperial Rome period. He is a Cornicen, named after his instrument, called a Cornu. His role on the battlefield was "to draw the troops attention to their standards before these were used to signal tactical movements" (Phil Barker, Armies and enemies of Imperial Rome, WRG publication).

He will be a welcomed recruit in my Late Roman Empire army.
Figure by Hät.

A Wizard, a True Star

I found a post describing simple but effective conversions on Cheap Fantasy Minis, and I immediately wanted to create a wizard that way. The explanation is given by 1Mac here: Cultists and other figures.

I must say that I am quite happy with the result, thank you 1Mac !

I need more adventurers for my dungeons... to be continued.