Marine commander

I painted this old Dark Angel mini for my son David as a Commander for his Marines a while back, but he didn´t thought he looked as a leader, so I decided to pimp him up a bit with a banner and some pets. I´m not sure where the dogs are from, as I have had them in my lead mountain for some time.

The King has arrived to Stockholm

The King have indeed arrived to Stockholm, The Swedish King Gustav Eriksson Vasa that Ebob miniatures has made for my matey Sören made it to Stockholm yesterday and its a lovely 28mm mini.

American Civil war minis for Rebels and Patriots

My 8mm playtest minis did work but sins I like 28mm I had to paint me some for the Playtesting of the Rebels and Patriots rules. My matey Jesper was working on some Union so I got me a box Perry Plastic Zouave minis and started on a Confederate force.

Ofcourse i painted them as Louisiana Tigers, it was harder than I thought to paint blue strips.... The box had 42 minis so I made me 3 units of 12 minis and a group of skirmishers of 6 minis (yes the drum count as a minis as I somehow was one minis short in the end...). The banner I used was the one included in the box.

These 42 minis will give me a small hard hitting 24 point Company for the Rebels and Patriots rules, at least if I give them some optional upgrdes...

WIP from the terrain build for our salute 2018 game.

Here are a few pictures Jan sent me of his stunning building efforts for our Salute 2018 game, The Battle at Stäket.

A few more pictures of my 8mm minis

I found a bunch of pictures from when I based and painted my Perry "TravelBattle" 8mm minis for my minimized playtest board of Rebels and Patriots.

The last 3 pictures are from the 1st game I and my son David played with the 8mm minis and board.

Made me a minimized playtest kit for Rebels and Patriots

When we started to playtest the rebels and patriots rules I really felt the need to be able to set up a quick game on the kitchentable so decided to get hold of some small minis like 6mm or 10mm, searched the web and in the end I decided to use the 8mm plastic minis from Perrys Travel Battle as they just had started to sell the sprues.

Said and done, ordered me 4 sprues of Minis as well as a sprue of Houses, quite cost effective as the red and blue forces and houses costed me £20 including P&P. I wanted to use my 1,2,3 basing but ended up to base them 3 minis to a base. It was a bit tricky to cut the minis apart as they are 5 on a strip, but nothing a steady hand and a sharp craftknife could not handle;)

I also made me a small gaming board using a 58x39 cork notiseboard "VÄGGIS" for £4.95 from IKEA. Even if I really prefere 28mm minis, it all work fine to run som test games using cm´s instead of the usual inch.

Might not be the best pictures but I hope you get the idee at least :)