New glass cabinets arranged

As announced in my last post, I assambled the two glass cabinets this week. With my father's help, the somehow cryptic written instructions and some beer I managed to build up two Bjurska glass cabinets from IKEA and made them the new home for my painted miniatures:

They are 1,90m tall and 0,80m wide. Mostly they're of press board with a nice but artifical wood veneer. Quality as usual of the great Swedish carpenter. Usually they are 260,- € a piece but since they're to dropped of the product range I got them for 99,- € each. A good deal I think. And additionally they're match with the two family heritage chairs we have in our entrance hall.

However I filled the one cabinet with all my Warhammer 40K and Fantasy miniatures while the other one is reserved for historical stuff. As you see there's plenty of room left, so I can proceed with expanding my collection.

However I'll have to look for some additional glass boards because the four which were delivered with each cabinet are just too few. To be honest I hope to have filled the Napoleonic board by the end of this year at latest...

Speaking of increasing my collection:
This week I finished my the 9pdr RFA guns. While the crew was painted since June, I managed to get the guns and the bases done this week. Some pictures will follow within the next days.

Additionally a small game of Blackpowder will take place at Monty's tomorrow evening. Just a 2,40m x 1,20m board with French and Allied troops facing each other. Two infantry brigades, some artillery and some cavalry on either side. I'll try to take some pictures and give you a kind of repaort next week.

So have a nice weekend and have luck with the dice!

42nd Rgt. of Foot "Black Watch" (2): Eight men finished !

Finally I was able to get something finished! After some kind of lean time I managed to spend some time with my highlanders this weekend. Two weeks after I posted a picture of the first brave Scotsman a third of the unit is finished:

The Officer, one of the Ensigns and six Privates finished.

Although each and every of the miniatures has its small faults, I think they turned out well. Therefore I'll proceed with the same technique for the other members of the unit.

Close-ups of three kilted soldiers.

The next eight are already on the workbench and I painted the basic tartan today. I hope to be able to advance steadily this week.

But tomorrow will be under the sign of D. I. Y. My wife and I bought two new glass cabinets for the wargaming stuff. Tomorrow we'll put them together and rearrange our flat a bit. I'll present some pictures when it's done...

Just a short update...

Last week was rather dull. Since some pain in the back and neck was punishing me, I wasn't able to do much painting sadly. However I managed to get some minor things finished. Nothing too special but better small steps than nothing...

1.) Prepared the next seven highlanders

2.) Made an compartment for storing scenary

3.) Scanned my terrain pieces and prepared a Powerpoint terrain kit

You see... Nothing worth a single post. However the next week seems to be promising. My wife and me found a nice pair of glass cabinets which shall become the new home of my miniature stuff. I hope to be ale to present them bought, built and arranged next week.

Monty grows old... The lead mountain grows larger.

Well... The last week was rather boring. Things with the highlander are proceeding well but very slow. Just now the boys are in a WIP-condition, with which I don't want to hurt your eyes.

However yesterday I ambivalent pleasure to finish another year of age. To make that a bit easier I spent the afternoon with my beloved family and my parents having a delicious dinner in a nice restaurant nearby. Stewed cheeks from ox in port sauce... And a nice glas of Cabernet-Sauvingnon... Hmmmmm...

But my wife managed to crown the day. She gave me some rereinforcements for my British:
- A set of 95th Rifles command
- A box of Victrix Waterloo Center Company
- A box of Perry British Hussar

Especially the last present was a great guess of hers since I had an eye on these brilliant miniatures for weeks...

So you see: A lot to do within the next year...

42nd Rgt. of Foot "Black Watch" (1): Test-Highlander painted

After the long posts of last week, there's only a short update today.

Lastly I prepared my next unit: The 42nd Rgt. of Foot "Black Watch".
Because of the good price I bought some Victrix plastic miniatures. To me they look really great. The details are nice and crisp and I like them better than the Royal Foot Artillery by Victrix I recently painted.

Although there are some promising decals by Warflags on the market but I decided to try my luck with painting them myself. On the World Wide Web I found a nice tutorial by John O'Brien (Link). He explains a kind of simplified tartan for toy soldiers and I used the following colours:

• Vallejo Model Colour 050 "Dark Prussian Blue" as base colour
• Citadel "Dark Angels Green" for the check
• Vallejo Model Colour 072 "Deep Green" for the brighter center checks
• Vallejo Black for the thin lines between green and blue

For the rest of the uniform I used the same colours as for the 44th. On the picture below you see one shot of a highlander with the painted kilt only and on the left a nearly finished model with Armypainter Quickshade applied already. Although there are some finishing touches (buttons, highlights) to do I'm really pleased with the result. The kilt turned out better than I expected and you can guess which tartan it shall represent. Nevertheless I'm afraid of the grenadiers and the drummer with an additional thin red check above the usual government tartan...

I hope to ale to proceed with the next highlanders quickly and maybe I'll be ale to post some new pics next weekend.