Iberian Holiday

I'm still on the warpath against the many small projects that have taken up space on my painting table for far too long. This time is was just a handful of 15mm ancient Iberian cavalry. I only have a small Iberian army, which was initially made as a ally (or enemy) for my Republican Romans. I'm pretty certain I have many more of them in a box somewhere. However, because I chose to hand paint all the shields, these guys are not an easy paintjob.

They do make up a respectable force but not nearly as large as I prefer. They're certainly large enough for a ally to sit on the Roman flank. Unfortunately they have only ever been used to fight along side my friend Peter's Carthaginians against my Romans!

These are the figures that have been taking up room on my painting table for the past 2 or 3 years. A unit of light horse and a cavalry commander. That's it. They were very dusty but it didn't take much to finish them.

Looking through this blog I found that I never did a post dedicated to these troops. All I ever did were piecemeal post of units as I painted them. So I decided put the whole little army on parade and take some photos. Here they are:

Scutari - Heavy Infantry

Caetrati - Light Infantry

Balaeric Slingers

Heavy Cavalry

Light Cavalry

Commanders/ Heroes

And that's them. They definately need more heavy cavalry. However, they also need more heavy infantry and every thing else too. Maybe I'll get onto it sometime in the future, but maybe I won't. 

By the way (I should have mentioned this earlier); all the figures are Xyston Miniatures.

Cheers and thanks for reading.

Venusians, Galaxians, and Dragoonians

I'm still getting small projects off my painting table. Most of these figures have been sitting there half finished and gathering dust for the past 18 months or more. Some of them I painted about 12 to 13 years ago and I was adding to their numbers when I stopped painting.

Venusians: First up are the beautiful Venusians and their ruler: Yllana ~ The Queen of Outer Space! These figures are Valkeeri from Hydra Miniatures. I bought them for a space-pulp demo game in 2013. I painted half a dozen of them and never managed to do the rest. Until Now!

They are great figures so it's good to finally get them finished and looking beautiful.

I now have two atomic-blaster squads of these beautiful space vixens as well as the Queen, a heavy atomic-blaster and a speciality figure with a Venusian neutron-whip.

I don't actually know what the speciality figure is supposed to be but she's obviously a mistress of the lash so I gave her some beasts to obey her every command. The critters are from Eureka Miniatures and I initially got these for a King Kong game I put on a long time ago (back when I first started the blog). I rebased them to match the ladies.

Galaxians: I also finished a squad of Galactic Patrol (again from Hydra Miniatures). These must have been sitting on the desk for longer then 18 months because they had a fairly heavy coating of dust. I painted the first lot a while back but I don't remember when.

I'm thinking that these guys and the Venusians might go well in a Bug Hunting game. I have a good collection of space-bugs and all I've needed are some brave troops to take them on. 

I like the thought of that.

Blues Squad

Orange Squad, with heavy weapon.

Leader and Hero.

Dragoonians... 

Who are the Dragoonians???

Well they're just a couple of French, Napoleonic dragoons on foot. I had these figures that I made from the Perry plastic French Dragoon boxed set. I thought they'd make interesting bases to add to my French skirmish line. Also a base of regular voltigeurs (also Perry plastic). I have one base representing the two dragoon regiments I currently have.

I really enjoyed painting these figures. I always love the finished result of doing Napoleonic regiments and battalions. I have four battalions of metal Young Guard that I'd like to paint. I hope I can get on to them soon.

And that's it. A few little projects off the painting table. I'm hoping to finish a 15mm ancient Spanish cavalry base and I might finish constructing some Perry Prussian Dragoons. I made the horses a year or two back but never made the riders. It's about time I got them done.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers.