News from somewhere

 The 1470s 28mm German project moves forward. I now have almost all the figures, many are assembled and some are finished. I am looking forward to seeing these on the table after many years of planning and false starts. I decided to go down the route of an army based on a temporary alliance of some towns, the main being imaginary others real. I have commissioned banners from David ( https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/ ) has produced the stunning 1780s Tradgardland ones. 

Now for some gratuitous 15th century art-

The banners will be based on the foundation story of the , as yet unnamed town. They are currently being designed by David and I have seen some “ in progress “ artwork which look great. I will add some extra banners from allies based on period originals . Hopefully it will all move forward nicely with a little and often painting regime.

The project has already produced a spin off. ..

I had the first and second editions of Warhammer but really didn’t play them much nor collect lots of the figures. I was later interested in Mordheim but wasn’t collecting fantasy at that time. I subscribed to White Dwarf from the first issue for a couple of years when it was a rpg journal as l played quite a bit of DnD at the time. I never bought into Warhammer in the 90s apart from a copy of The Empire army book. I have always enjoyed aspects of The Empire and enjoyed the illustrations.  So on a whim l recently bought from eBay  some  Warhammer Empire plastic figures, really liked the sculpts and painting them. I have had an aversion to painting landsknechts as they never turn out right for me. These WH plastics are working out and are fun to do , so much so that l continued to paint them during the Vitual Wargames Club last night. 

I want to collect enough to do some skirmishes and One Hour Wargaming taking my unnamed city into the sixteenth century.

Knowing the weather to come yesterday l went to the shops in the rain at 80:10 in the pouring rain and was back home by 09:30 thru slush which turned to snow.

A good day of wrapping, painting and tv watching ensued, just the thing on a bitter day.