Fall of the western Empire 11: Late Roman Warband ready for battle

These days I finished the last three mounted Palatinae/ Advocati and now I'am finally done with my Late Roman Warband. Unfortunately I've forgotten to take pictures of the last group of Comitatenses I completed last week.
I have to admit it was hard to stay focused especially in the last few weeks particularly as I normaly am some kind of project hopper.
I don't think this project is realy finished for long but it feels great to say so.
As I started the warband I never would have believed that I'll need four months to get 54 figures done but better late than never.

At first a groupshot of warband in all its pride:

 

If I'll have enough sparetime after our trip to Tactica this weekend I`ll try to get some better pictures done.

Fall of the western Empire 10: Comitatenses!

Yesterday I finished the first eight Comitatenses for my Warband. They were sitting on my shelf almost finished for some days now as I was to lazy to give them the final varnish and do the basing.
Anyway... 5pts. ready two more to go.

Fall of the western Empire 9: Last of the Limitanei

After two weeks of a hard time at work I was finally able to get the last four of my Limitanei/ Pseudocomitatenses ready for battle. This gives me a legal 4pts. Warband for SAGA. To finish (at least for a while) this project there are only two groups of Comitatenses comprising of eight figures each and three mounted Palatinae/ Advocati left to give me a reasonable sized 7pts. Warband. As 6pts. is the regular gaming size this allows me to customize the army to a certain degree. As I don't think I'll set this army on a backburner for long there will be lots more stuff to choose from. At the moment I'm thinking about some ballistas and scorpios as well as some cataphracts. Not sure how to play these in SAGA though.

Fall of the western Empire 8: Another Bunch of Limitanei

After painting up the first mounted Palatinae I switched back to the Limitanei or more like pseudocomitatenses leaving the pain of painting horses for the end of the project.

Fall of the western Empire 7: First painted miniature this year

First of all I would like to wish all the readers of my Blog a Happy New Year.

Ok now on to some serious stuff. I painted up my first miniature this year and some more are already on the workbench. You see the new year starts quite productive for me.

I painted up the first of four mounted palatinae. The miniature is from the Late Roman/ Early Byzantine Range from Musketeer-Miniatures as almost all of my Late Roman Warband.

Fall of the western Empire 6: Early Saxon Levies

I've been a bit lazy over the holidays so I didn't paint up that much but finally finished a group of saxon levies for SAGA/ Dux Britanniarum. Miniatures are all from Westwind Miniatures out of their great arthurian range and I've to say they were realy a joy to paint. The casting is crisp and the miniatures have a lot of details. Unfortunately Westwind doesn't seem too eager to promote them in a way that would do them justice. I also realy like the separate head system from westwind as it grants a lot of variations.

Fall of the western Empire 5: Second Group of Palatinae

Just finished another bunch of four guys from the scholae palatinae. Today I had a bit of a hard time as I decided to do the varnishing by airbrush. Unattentively I grabbed the varnish and started spraying. Much too late I recognised that I was just spraying Vallejo's 'Decal Fix' instead of the matt varnish I'm generally using. After some drying time I recognised some parts (propably I applied too much on these areas) of the miniatures started turning greyish. Fortunately I was able to cure it by painting over the affected areas with matt varnish by brush.
On the other hand the areas that didn't turn greyish became absolutely matt what I really like. But next time I have to think twice before almost ruining my miniatures.

How Fireforge Footsergeants match up with Gripping Beast Plastics

As by Dalauppror requested some pictures mixing up miniatures from Fireforge Games and plastic miniatures by Gripping Beast.

First I used head and arms from the "Mounted Sergeants" box and glued them to a saxon body from GB.

I think it makes up for a great standard bearer. The only thing I don't realy like are the mail gloves which look a bit odd to me.

DUST Tactics: New Walker & Squad

Recently I didn't come round to paint up as much as I wanted to. So I decided to finish some minis which were sitting on my shelf almost battle ready for too long. As it was one of my goals for 2012 to get my Axis Army for DUST Tactics done it was not a totaly futile task.

First of all a Kampfläufer 2-B "Ludwig"

A Review on Fireforge Games' new 'Foot Sergeants'

On Friday I recieved a package from Italy sent to me by Francesco from Fireforge Games in order to do a small review about their newest release. So who Iam to deny the request :-) ?
As always you can find the german version over on GW-Fanworld.net. As I already did a Review on their 'Mounted Sergeants' in German I think I'll soon translate that one and release it here too.

Releasing the 'Foot Sergeants' there are finally some footsloggers in plastics available from Fireforge Games.