"Why we fight" - 28mm objectives

Just finished up my baggage train for my Impetvs army of Bulgars as well as a cool wagon for use with SAGA.

Refugees or battlefield scavengers?

Should probably make some baggage eh?

My yurts that I started nearly a year ago!

Shields represent Tengri and the Pechenegs respectively.

Note cart of pillaged firewood and Bulgarian coin representing Asparakh.

"If it keeps on rainin..."

"the levee's gonna break."
So I finally got most of my Slavs finished. I plan on using them for both my SAGA warband as a levee unit, that won't break of course but will in fact die to a man on order.;-)
I will also use them as an infantry back up for my Bulgar army. They will be FL Warriors, again representing Slavs with javelins.

Somehow, I'm out of practice with the bloody 28mm figures, must be all the 6mm tanks I've been doing.
Also, these Gripping Beast sculpts aren't as good as some of the other 28's I've done in recent memory. Overall the poses are good though, so suitable for backup troops, hopefully everyone will just look at the shields.8P

Axe wielding lunatic Slavs, on old shield sketches

A couple 'javelins', next time I'm using different spears, these were fiddly as.

Some of my fave mini's from this set

One unit in their sabot

The two axe, three spear mix looks good.

Add a caller with an ox horn and you have a warband!

Kind of missing my FoW army and their collection of .50 cal MG's for some reason.

In other news, I got some time to bust out the Saharianas this weekend, hopefully I won't get distracted by too much 6mm Soviet stuff.
I'm working so I'm jsut going to have Saturday at Conquest. I think that Pooch and I are still going to do a LRDG vs Saharianas demonstration.
Other ideas are 15mm Force on Force Vietnam, or our 6mm EPIC Modern.

Getting back on the horse...

They look naked for now, but that's 35 dice of MG's in MW!

Had a great vacation, saw a lot of very interesting things and places and some of it will even drive me to model and wargame better and more. Since I've been back I've had a  few projects in the works. First off is the above. MW Armored Cavalry M3 armored cars. Now, in Flames of War V3 the cav is even better! Wheeled movement is further and the ability to remove gone to ground is an ability for individual teams when they pass a skill test! Cool stuff! (For me anyway, being a bit of a cav specialist/ addicted to pennants.)

This is in here though, because I successfully stripped a bunch of paint off of a couple of them. I used toilet cleaner and elbow grease. Is there Simple Green here? I have done a ton of custom fitting and plan on fully bristling them up with mg's and jerry cans etc for Tunisia, Sicily, Italy.

Follow me into the breech tovarich!

Also in the works are my Impetus reinforcements [FL with javelin], diguised as a SAGA Warband. My Gripping Beast Slavs are pretty close...

Our armor makes us look like vikings but...

...as are my Warriors [FP with spears]...

These Crusader minis are awesome. Kyivan Rus!

 ...but my coolest will be the Varangians [FP!]. Ahem, Kyivan Rus.

No longer as blank as this

They are all reliant on my next phase of shield manufacture and artistry. I've been finding some cool ideas though and actually got a good start tonight.

Here are some of the idea's that I've dug up and like. I'm a sucker for the ouroboros of course.
I have starts on most of these.

Lastly are my SAGA objective, fatigue markers, and my wizard. These are great looking minis from Crusader and easily fit into most warbands.
Yes, my fracking wizard;-)

Varangians of the Kyivan Rus' [is redundant]

We might go with Varangians of Novgorod, or Rurik and the Kyivan Rus'
Anyway a SAGA work in progress. On the Panzers!
So Rurik.. needs some work.

Up to twelve hearthguard we'll call skoldar maybe. For shield. [Crusader Varangians]

Up to 16 warriors of Swedish descent, living in the Kyivan Rus', the spjutet of Rurik. His spear. [Gripping Beast, plastics]

I plan on bringing along a dozen Slavic levees when I want to be 'realistic'. Rurik's better vassals provide some ranged combat ability with their spears and javelins. [Gripping Beast]
As you can see I'm in a bit of a quandary on the painting front, so I'm doing field research.

Rumours of War(s)

Work in progress number one(ish), some awesome sculpts by Warlord Games' in their Bolt Action range. These are from the USMC box set.

Work in progress number two(plus) are these guys. Up front are some Crusaders miniatures Varangians backed up by Gripping Beasts' Slavs. These are going to back up my Bulgar Cav as well as be my SAGA Warband. Double Duty! I'm getting some cool sabot bases from a Cavs member.