MITHRIL THEODEN

Here is Theoden King of Rohan from The Lord of the Rings, by Mithril. Mithril have been around for a long while and have always made very nice miniatures. They make a vast range of Lord of the Rings offerings and were the first company to do so in a serious way, predating by many years the later GW offerings.

28mm Napoleonic Austrian Artillery

Foundry Austrian Artillery battery for your viewing.
This was a fun project to paint and came out as well as I could have hoped.
The bases are custom made by Litko which have cut away sections so I could put individually based gunners into the slots. They are magnetised and quite stable for normal handling. Again, these worked out well and I think this is how I'll do the artillery from now on.
Anyhoo - hope you enjoy the photos.
Cheers,
Mick

Landsknecht

Here is a 54mm Landsknecht figure which was made by Hinchcliffe.  It came in 4 parts.  It was a fun figure to paint mainly because I could use colours that normally sit in the paint box and don't see the light of day too much!  It has been a enjoyable diversion form the horde of Normans that I have been painting up lately.

The Grey Rider

Here is a character that might be familiar to some.  I bought this figure because I really like the horse- plenty of character and I thought it could make a fantastic steed for a dark ages hero.  Unbeknown to me, the wizard on top of it was part of the two part casting and difficult to separate from the mount.  So I painted him up anyway.  I wasn't too happy with the staff and thought if I could swap it with a spear he might look a bit more intimidating and warlike. I toyed with painting in different colours, but I really wanted to see if I could pull off painting a figure in predominantly grey shades.

RED ARMY SOLDIER

Here is a 54mm Toy Soldiers of San Diego plastic figure I painted a couple of years ago. TSSD make some very nice figures and a good range of WW2 subjects which, as well as the Russians, include Germans, some of which I have posted here in the past, USMC and Japanese. These are excellent figures for skirmish gaming or just painting to admire.

Pappenheim Cavalry and command

It was fun painting the blue roans..

all Eureka 28mm Saxons, painted by me for Akula, flags by the ever talented David of NBA

Garde du Corp

Dragoons

Die Blauen Ritter, Dragoons 

commander in his Reich's Lt-generals uniform 

Cavalry commander

WSS 28 collection for sale

I know it is a bit grubby to mention shop keeper sort of stuff on a venerable blog such as this but in this case the spectacular nature of the  collection for sale  tends to transcend the grubbiness of it all ..
http://passageoflines.50.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2190&p=13324#p13324

The Army for sale and all it encompasses