Old Glory Janissary Musketeers With Command

 Finished up these figures - added a few highlights since there are large areas of clothing.

Very nice, robust figures, which will work well for skirmish games. In fact, I just ordered a copy of One-Hour Skirmish Wargame rules, which I plan to use for the Napoleon in Egypt project.

One of the references used.

They match up pretty well with TAG Janissaries (middle figure pictured below).

Thanks for checking out the blog as always, and hope you all are doing well.

Fort Steilacoom Fix Bayonets Game Day

Well, just the morning period - I left after catching up with the crew and picking up the game and rule set I bought from the estate of our late gaming buddy, Dave S. (Naval Gazing blog). Here are a few pictures from the morning games.

A Moro Rebellion game run by Kevin Smyth (A Gamer's Tale blog), using One Hour Skirmish rules.

A Ravenfeast game run by our buddy who actually is the member of the Fort Steilacoom Historical Society which lets us game in the old Quarters #2.

An ACW game using Sharp Practice rules.

A Wings of War WW1 game.

The board game and AK47 Republic rules I picked up, both at a fraction of the going rate. I'm not board gamer, but it is in pristine condition (never used with all the counters unpunched), I had to get it. Hope to get into AK47 since a few of the local gamers are into it. It'll be interesting getting 15mm figures and vehicles.

A shot of the building we use, and also my buddy and his Newfoundland manning the sign in table.

All in all, a good way to spend the morning with friends - and only a five minute drive from my place.

Hope you all are having a good start to the weekend too (although being retired, weekends aren't really that different from other days for me).

Old Glory Janissary Musketeers - WIP

 Just a quick post - Minwax stain over a basic block paint job. Still need to paint the command figures.

Before the stain - with the command figures in the background.

These were on sale at a local (well about 2 hours away) store that sells a lot of "prior owned" figures. These were actually part of an estate sale from an out of state store. Anyway, figured I could use more of these if I ever revisit the Napoleon in Egypt project.

Tomorrow, I plan to stop by a game day event at Fort Steilacoom - about a mile and a half from my place. Not sure how long I'll stay, but intend to take a few pictures of the games going on - at least in the morning session. 

Ming Chinese Command Stand (North Star And TAG Figures)

Needing a command stand for the Ming contingent for the Imjin War project, ordered a pack of North Star Ming "Buntai". The mounted guy and the two halberdiers are from this pack, which also includes another halberdier and two bowmen. The guy with the animal skin cap and large axe is a TAG figure - listed as a Sui Dynasty figure. The Sui were several hundredyears earlier than the Ming, but he looked too cool not to add to the stand.

They were blocked painted, followed by Minwax staining, and then a few highlights added afterwards.

The Sui axeman has more traditional lamellar armor. The North Star guys seem to be in mail, which wasn't very common. I was thinking of grinding the mail down and using Green Stuff for lamellar or scale, but decided it wasn't worth the effort - as well as chance of making it even worse.

The helmets are pretty accurate for what Ming supposedly wore at the time; however, I wish the mounted guy had a helmet a bit more fancy.

So much for now - have some Old Glory Janissaries with muskets in the painting queue, but not in any rush to paint them at the moment. Until next time, thanks for stopping by and for your earlier well-wishes. Hope you all are doing great!

I'm Back - Sort Of

Just making a quick post to let you know where I've been the last few weeks. I know my last post said I was about to host an Imjin War game, but was side-tracked soon after the post. The week after that last post I went into the ER with severe stomach pain. After an agonizing wait in the ER for several hours, it was determined my gallbladder needed to be removed. The surgery was not until the next afternoon. Soon after they started what they had hoped to be a normal 1 hour procedure turned into a 3 hour-plus surgery. Seems my gallbladder had hardened to the point they needed to do a 6" lateral incision on my stomach to properly get the offending organ out. It had also attached to my liver so they had to leave part of it there so as not to damage the liver. Good news is my liver is in great condition! Well, here I am going on 3 weeks after the surgery and feeling very good, but the healing will take a few more weeks - a few months for full recovery. I do plan to stop by our annual game day at Fort Steilacoom next Saturday. In the meantime, picked up a North Star Ming Buntai pack, as I wanted to do a commad stand for the Ming contingent.

Until next time, wishing you all the best - and apologies for not checking out your blogs these past few weeks.