Jacobites on the block.

Just a quick note, the Jacobites are available again.

Well, I've made it through half of the course. If it wasn't for the Velvet Underground and pots of Oolong tea I'd have snapped.

I can't share tea with you...

So here's the Velvets.

I did add some Jacobites to the 'for sale' section. There's a conditional offer right now, but I 'll let everyone know if that changes.

Highland Clearance....I'm so witty. I also hear guttural muttering and skean dhu being sharpened in the distance. SO! time to move on.

Up soon, plans for FallCon and more damn Vikings.

-Sean

Dream Date '78

Debbie Harry, Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett.

Pretty busy 'round Villa Visigoth these days. I'm getting ready for a school in May. Going to be a pretty intensive 4 weeks, so don't expect too much on the bloggo.

So in the meantime please enjoy this picture of Debbie Harry, Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett.

If you'd rather look at pictures of little lead men, we seriously need to talk.

OK then...my friend and co-conspirator Pattus Magnus did a sweet little article on HoTT dwarfses.
Excellent pics and ideas for conversion. (I know it's heresy in some parts, but you don't need to use the all the same figures from the same manufacturer...)

yours in crimson and clover,

-TV

More loot for sale

Just added some Numidian Light Horse and a nifty Iberian starter army.  Please see the 'for sale' page.

For Sale Section added.

Villa de Visigoth is over run with warriors. The little metal sort. I'm clearing out the barracks and you can benefit. Click here and see what I have to offer.  Right now I have screaming deals on some Byzantines, Woodland Indians and Dark Age Horse warriors.

-TV

Never Mind the Mountain Indians

New additions to the Book II gallery.

Please have a look at my beloved Mountain Indians.

Music and painting tip for the day:

Never mind the Bhangra This collection totally got me through the work. Brilliant. Assuming the Sex Pistols and Bhangra are your cuppa Chai...

Once and Future Bling

It should come as no surprise to those who read this blog (a big thanks to both of you!) and those who game with me that I'm a big, card carrying, got the t-shirt, fairly tragic King Arthur nerd.

I love all iterations of the Matter of Britain (even the truly stinky) and will indulge myself to no end.

I've finally decided it's time to do the big Arthurian DBA game for FallCon I've planned for many years. So it's time to get painting. Here's my first-off interpetation of Splintered Light's superb Sub-Roman British Warriors.

'Let's fight for Roman Civilization, or ah, at least what's left of it.'

He's the first figure for the DBA Sub-Roman British I need to complete for the game.
I don't have a clever name yet for the FallCon game, but will need to keep up the tradition 'Samurai Night Fever' and (of course) 'I Was a Teenage Visigoth'. Maybe something like 'Three Cheers for Vortigern' or 'Coming of the Saxons'. But maybe not, nobody really likes ol' Vortigern and the latter sounds a little naughty...so I'll class it up with Latin. Adventus Saxonum. Yeah, that's closer...

But alas, I digress...

I've also got a Pictish army in the buff, truly, but unpainted as well. Early Saxons, check, Scots-Irish, check, but will need another of each for a good balance. Might even be able to write in Later Visigoths as well. There is precedent...

Here's more pix. The scenery in some wonderful ruins and villas built by my friend Pattus Magnus, Architect of Kings. Yes, I've altered the colours on iPhoto, but the rest is the result of a little handheld and a couple bright lights.

Get them Saxons!

Camelot was a lot nicer last time we visited.

Production Still from 'I Was A Teenage Visigoth'.

1955

 Ok, enough self indulgence. I really should cook. Tonight the Hippy-Goth and I finish watching the 'Mists of Avalon' mini-series. Which wasn't as bad as I remember it.  But in the meantime I'm making cauliflower and roast squash soup. Yeah.

On to Avalon, baby!

Hero Gun of the People

Keeping the green theme going, I've returned/sold-out/apostatized to World War 2. You sort of can't escape the damn thing. It's truly the 500lb gorilla of the historical miniatures cosmos.

And while I prefer my baddies wearing togas rather than jackboots, it's a break from the usual sandals and swords of my universe.

So I present to you:

HERO GUN OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE

76mm Regimental Gun 1927

So bragging time. I did this in less than 25 minutes after the primer dried. Dry brush for the gun, wet brush for crew.

I also did this model exclusively in Games Workshop Colours. That decision was to prove a simple point to a nice person. 'Exact Historical' colours produced by any manufacturer are really a luxury, not a requirement to get things on the table. OK, that stupid German Panzer Grey is hard to fake, but pretty much everything else is not. Paint your damn miniatures. No excuses*.

The model is a Soviet 1927 76mm Regimental Gun. Produced by Battlefront Miniatures for their overwhelmingly popular Flames of War game. It's a sweet little gun.

Why this model? Allow me short digression. It has to do with the classic computer game Steel Panthers. Now I consider computer gaming in my life the same as daily meth use. I stopped smoking, that was hard. Stopping playing Civilization and scrubbing it from my hard drive, that was VERY HARD. So needless to say, I don't really do too much these days.

But...Steel Panthers...I sneak that once in a while.
[Rimmer] I was playing Soviet defenders in a Barbarossa scenario. The Panzers had cut my valiant BT-7s and T-28's to bits and had overwhelmed my centre.  Two Panzer III's had over-ran my guns and the crews had fled or were dead. Except one. These heroic dudes rallied, spun their guns around and shot both tanks in the rear point blank. One brewed up and the other bailed. The Soviet centre was saved! I built this model in honour of the wee pixels and electrons that stopped the cyber-Fascists cold.
[/Rimmer]

Since I don't play FoW, I'll probably keep them kicking around for another occasion. Unless anyone wants to buy them...


*OK, time, family, food, earthquakes..these are important obstacles and acceptable excuses.