Neves1789’s Wargaming Collection

The Soviets are quite the opposite of my Japs. Ultra speedypaint, I airbrushed on a basecoat, coloured in the main elements with inks and then hit them with AP dip. Later I picked up some cool character models such as Comrade Stalin. 😀

Although not my main game, I do dabble into Bolt Action every now and again.

My first army are the Japanese, themed as jungle fighters in Burma 1943.They are a bit special as they’re a gift from my girlfriend and were part of the Bolt Action Bootcamp in BoW towers years ago (2013 I think). The sniper was put together there by Alessio Cavatore, so I had to do some extra cleaning afterwards >.< All the plastic figures have jungle camo netting sculpted on to fit the theme. Overall, I had a great time there and so did my best to paint these guys up as best as I could at the time. The paintscheme was inspired by the late Andy Zeck, who had done amazing US. The purple ink wash for the fleshtone to complement the green and orangey bases is a tip that has stuck with me to this day.

Remember that Battlefront Halloween sale a couple of years ago? Well suddenly I had Great War Germans on my hands. Luckily a couple of mates also jumped in, so I didn’t have to collect a second force (although I did own a French army at some point…)

Painting wise, these were an aibrush experiment. The basecolour on the figures and the bases themselves are airbrushed, with only some of the detail painted in with a regular brush. I’ve tried to give them a ‘night raid’ feel, hence the blue. It’s not all that great, but good enough to game with once a year ^^

The tanks were a real joy to paint too!

This is a little sideproject that took some time to finish, but I’m really happy about it. 6mm is a great scale for this sort of warfare and looks amazing in action. The units are 48 dudesmen in 2 bases mostly because I liked that look on the table. Each units represents a regiment, so the figure to men scale is about 1:10. For now I’ve been playing Across a Deadly Field but I’ll look into other rules aswell.

As with all my projects, I’ve still got some leftovers waiting to get some colour, but I’ve got plenty to game with for now.

Here are my two SAGA Dark Age armies, Carolingian Franks and Vikings. No real fancy painting on these guys, I knocked them out in speed tempo to get playing. I have some spare units that could still use some paint but I’ve mostly been playing SAGA Age of Magic.

Figures are all Gripping Beast, either plastic or metal. The vikings have some conversions for beserkers and a hearthguard unit to represent the cast from the Vikings tv show (this was done before any of the cool metal ones were released).

These guys are the start of some Italian and Greek allies for my Carthaginian force. In time I’ll build them up to a full Phyrric army (I’ve got the models waiting 😀 )

Time to continue on with my ancients. Here’s my collection of Celts and Celtiberians. Again these are a mix of manufacturers and painting quality. I took my time with the metal Celtiberians, but the plastic Warlord and Wargames Factory dudes are painted super speedy (don’t look too close 😉 ).

In the future the Celtiberians will be fleshed out a bit more with the Victrix range to form their own division.

So with almost all my fantasy and scifi mini’s posted, I thought it time to move on to my historicals. I’ll kick it off with my ancients collection, which is coincidently also my oldest. 😀

More than 10 years ago now, I read a number of books on the Punic wars and fell in love with the idea of wargaming it. The system that my gaming group chose was Hail Caesar! which meant painting tons of mini’s (but also grand sweeping battles 😀 ) This was before the lovely Victrix plastics so I turned to mostly metal mini’s from Crusader, A&A, Foundry, Curteys, Warlord,… to build my Carthaginian force.

The idea is still to build a division worth of troops (4 or 5 infantry with 2 skirmishers and a cav unit) for every nationality. With five nationalities (Carthaginian, Numidian, Iberian, Celts and Italian Allies) this means plenty of work since every unit is at least 24 dudesmen.

This project has been on hold for a while since my group only gets to play a big HC battle once a year and my current collection is already outnumbering them 😀

Besides this Carthaginian core force, I’ve also got a full division of Celts and Italian Allies already painted (pics to follow). There’s also a load of unpainted figures waiting for some paint… (Elephants, Carth cav, Phyrric pikemen,…)