Saturday, February 25, 2012

17TH-early 18TH Century Sale

Hi all

I am continuing the rationalisation of my wargame miniatures collection.

Find below a sale of interest to people wargaming in the 17th and early 18th century as well 1/72 scale (20mm). Shipping is handled by the buyer.

1/72 Polish and Ottoman Miniatures Painted (most based some not based, rebasing easy)

18 Ottoman Cavalry (Zvezda) 40$
43 Jannisaries (Zvezda) 35 $
6 Polish Hussars (Zvezda) 20$
22 Cossacks (Strelets) 15$
1 Coassack Gun and Crew (Strelets) 5$
11 Russian Streltsy painted as Polish foot (Zvezda)15$

1/72 Polish and Ottoman Miniatures Unpainted

10 Polish Hussars (Zvezda) 5$ (or free with the painted Hussars)
35 Russian Streltsy (Zvezda) 5$ (or free with the painted Streltsy)
Mint box of Ottoman Cavalry 5$ (or free with the painted Ottomans)
Mint of Ottoman Jannisaries 5$ (or free with the painted Ottomans)

All miniature stuff 50$



Here are some pictures











Monday, February 13, 2012

They Have Arrived! WAS

They are here!

My order from Freikorp 15/QRF has arrived!

I do not have time to take a detailed look at them due to work, but I should be able to show some mock ups of units after the weekend. Here is a picture of the stuff out of the box!




I shall start the WAS project after I finish the DBA Polybian Roman I am currently painting.


Sunday, February 5, 2012

WAS Austrian Miglio Cuirassier

Here is one of my Eureka Smaples painted as a Miglio Cuirassier. It took me about 2 hours. Nice!


Thursday, February 2, 2012

DBA IV/61 Venetian Italian Condotta

A Happy new month to you all!

Since the holiday break I have not painted much. I am waiting for my 18th century order, and trying to learn Prussia's Glory II. I have also played a lot of Arkham Horror with friends.

That said I do have an army to show you! This is an Italian Condotta army representing Venetian forces in the First Ottoman-Venetian War.

The majority of units are Mirlton and they are a treat! The "Greek" stradiots are Essex.

The Flags of the army represent the Venetian Republic, the family of D'Este (one of who was a commander in the first campaigns, the Loredan family (a scion was the overall commadenr) and the Mocenigo family (A later overall commander and Doge).

The army is heavy in light cavalry and light troops to represent the more mobile warfare the Venetians waged against stronger Ottoman armies.


The Army Arrayed
From the back
Knights and Command Element

Another view
Other Knights
"Greek" Stradioti
Infatry
Light Infantry

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

New Project! War of Austrian Succession

Hi all

I have begun my WAS project. The pictures below are one each of a Eureka 18mm SYW range Austrian Infantry painted as a Deutchmeister soldier and the other is a Freikorp15 15mm SYW range Austrian Infantry painted as a Diesbach soldier.

Let me give a shout-out for the customer service of both companies. Eureka USA sent the two sample minis I bought in three days.

Freikorp15 did evan better! I emailed Geoff for two samples and he sent me 3 sets of two. For free! Great service and super professionalism!

For the minis

here are comparison shots





Both minis are very nice. Eureka is a tad taller (not really noticeable). Both miniatures have a good amount of detail for 15mm with Freikorp having better pockets and buttons and Eureka better hats (they have the oak leaves while you will have to add them for the Freikorp minis, not a big deal). I believe the Eureka mini has a nicer pose but the Freikorp is not bad at all!

I photographed the Eureka miniature in phases to talk a bit about my painting style



When paining 15mm my pattern is as follows.

1) I lightly clean any flash but not mould lines. These minis are too small to be worth going after mould lines in my opinion. I wash the minis in warm water and dish soap.

2) I then undercoat the miniature black. I always do black for minis smaller then 25mm because it makes it easier to do blacking (keeping small black lines that help details stand out). After the undercoat I apply one or two thin layers of black making sure that no metal areas show.

3) I block paint the base color. For white at this scale I block paint dark grey. When block painting I cover all the are leaving some black at the deeper folds. For red I block paint GW Foundation Paint Mechrite Red. I use a mix of GW and Vallejo colors. I either leave cross belts black or paint then brown.

4) I block paint the highlights. I block paint the white making sure to leave the black at the recesses. I pain the gaiters, shoes and tricorn with dark grey. When you are painting at smaller scales I prefer to keep dark colors a tone lighter then their normal. I paint bright red as the highlight for the mechrite red. Small details like the pom-poms I just directly apply the colors on the black. I paint packs brown and highlight the cartridge box with light gray. I paint the wooden parts of the musket in brown.

5) I paint the face, palms and hair brown. I highlight the packs with light brown. I paint the cross belts and other belts white making sure to leave a line of black on the two sides. I highlight the hair with a lighter shade of brown.

6) To end it I apply a straight flesh to palms and face, make sure the mustache stands out, pick out any black lining required to raise details and paint the oak leaves a straight goblin green. I paint the musket barrel a lighter brown, and the iron parts with silvers making sure to keep black lines to raise the detail. Finally I paint a white line for the tricorn. Once the paint is dry I apply a gloss varnish coat. The final unit will be given a spray of matt varnish.

I did the same for the Freikorp15 miniatures.


I think I will use Freikorp15 for the start of my armies and then expand slowly to Eureka!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Time for a Sale!

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In order to fund mein battalionen for the WAS and rationalize my collection, like a good enlightened despot, I am selling a whole bunch of stuff. Alternatevly I am willing to exchange stuff for 15mm SYW,WAS stuff suitable for Austrians, Spanish ,Neapolitans. Prices do not include postage.

Refer to pictures above by item number

1) A copy of the Warhammer Hisotrical Rules (old version) and Vlad the Impaler Supplement
10$ for both SOLD

2) My Impetus Ruleset and Extra Impetus 2 plus my 6mm Impetus Armies (see them here http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com/2010/10/basic-impetus-armies-in-6mm.html ) as well as 7 strips of Parthian Light Horse, 2 strips of cataphract command, and 12 strips of bowmen ( armies come in scale creep minis magnetized white box)

150$ (this is a good deal guys) SOLD

3) Nuts 1944 Rulebook and German Panzer Grenadier + UK Paratrooper squads (pics here http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com/2009/01/wwii-artisan-desings-on-workbench-and.html)

40$ (again a good deal considering the quality of the paint job)

4) 1/72 Eastern Renassaince Miniatures. These include a fully painted Ottoman Army based of Impetus (18 cavalry, 44 Janissary, the army is easy to rebase since I use white glue), and elements for Polish or Russian Armies ( 7 painted Polish Hussars, 19 Streletz, 22 Cossaks, one painted Cossack gun with crew). Also unpainted a second cossack gun and crew, about 20 streletz, 10 more Polish Hussars and a unopened box of Zvezda Ottoman Cavalry and one of jannisaries ). Based figues will come in a sabot container.

90$

5) Pendraken 10mm Western later medieval (unpainted)
2x guns and 6 crew
8 Crossbowmen
6 Longbowmen
6 Mounted Crossbowmen
4 Hobilars?
56 Haldebiers
11 Spearmen (look Later Roman)

10$ SOLD

6) 28mm Wargame Factory Ceasarian Romans
20x Assembled and Basecoated in Black
5x German auxiliaries, assembled and base-coated in black

10$ SOLD

7) Beneath the Lily Banners Rulebook together with uniformology CDs for Savoyard and Spanish Armies of the War of the League of Augusburg.

30$ (a bargain if you consider that each fo the CDs is 30$)



Exchange Policies

Items worth 10$ = 10 15mm SYW/WAS infantry or cavalry miniatures for Austrians, French, Spanish, or Neapolitans or 1 6pdr gun and 4 crew (unpainted or painted)

Items worth 40$ = 20 Infantry 15mm SYW/WAS infantry or cavalry miniatures (unpainted) 10painted, or 2 6pdr guns and 8 crew

Items worth 90-150$= 80 Infantry SYW/Was or 20 Cuirassiers+ 20 Hussars + 6 dragoons Cavalry (all unpainted), or 40 Infantry and 20 cavalry painted

You can buy the whole collection above (all items 1-6) for 250$

I will cover postage for the items worth 10-50$.

Please email me at ktravlos@yahoo.com if you are interested.









Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Price Comparisons for WAS M&R

Here is a price comparison across 28mm to 15mm scale for a sample WAS OOB for an Austro-Morean army . Infantry brigades ar 8 Minis and Cavalry 6 minis

Austro-Morean 1742
(742GAA)
traun great (150/60/50)
Right Wing
1 Hussar Brig Havor (8)
1 Cruisser Brig Miglio(10)

Center
1xAlt-Wallis Inf.Regiment Brig (8)
Roth Infantry Regiment Brig(8)
1xDeutschmeister Inft. Regi Brig(8)
1xTraun Inf. Regi Brig(8)

Cuirassier Regiment Brig(10)

Croatians Brig(7)
Grezners Brig (7)
Heavy Artillery (8)

1 Slavonier Hussar Regiment(8)
1 Croatina Hussar Regiment (8)
1xDeisbach Infantry Regiment Brig(8)
1xPiccolomini Infatry Regiment Brig(8)

(106/44/0)

Morean Army
Duca du Apulia+Latinikon Foreign Brigade (8)
La Rochelle and Keltikon Foreign Brigade (8)
Old Regiment and Vaggaron Territorial (7)
Maniaton and Arakdon Territorial (7)


Dragoon Brigade (6)

6x6=36 Horse Miniatures

10x8=80 Infantry Miniatures

1x2 guns=Artillery Miniatures
2x6 Light Infantry=12 Light Infatry Minis

Cost in 28mm
Crusader Miniatures
Directly Crusader

108$ for 80 Infantry
62$ for 16 Cruissers
16$ for 12 Light Infantry
15$ for a Gun
108$ for 18 Hussars
36$ for 6 Dragoons
18$ For command
363$

by warweb

126$ for 80 Inf.
75.6$ for 16 Cruissers
25.2 for 12 Light Infantry
12.60 for Gun
75.6 for 18 Hussars
25.2 for 6 Dragoons
12.60 for Command
352$

Old Glory 25mm
75$ for 75 Infantry
70$ for 20 Cruissers (use 4 for Command?)
16$ for 12 Light Infantry
12.60$ for 6 Guns
70$ for 20 Hussars
25.2$ for 6 Dragoons
270 $ (to comeplete 80 Inf)

RSM 95
58$ for 72 Infantry
25.80$ for 12 Cruissers
25.2 for 12 Light Infantry
14.60 for two guns
52 for 24 Hussars
25.80 for 12 Dragoons
12.60 for 6 command
214-230$

20MM Miniatures

6x6=36 Horse Miniatures

10x8=80 Infantry Miniatures

1x2 guns=Artillery Miniatures

2x6 Light Infantry=12 Light Infatry Minis

20mm Minaitures

Using Revell and Outpost

40$ for 80 Infantry Miniatures (Revell)
30$ for 15 Cruissers (Outland)
10$ for 12 Light Infantry (Outland)
15$ for 3 Guns (Revell)
40$ for 20 Hussars (Outland)
15$ for 15 Dragoon Miniatures (Revell)


around 150$

Way cheaper then 25/28mm but unfortunelty there seems to be no way to get the outland game miniatures. I can find the Revell packs in Greece in forgotten piles in model stores on Ippocratus. Two armies would probably cost around 300$-400$.

18mm

Eureka Miniatures USA

52$ for 80 Infantry Miniatures
20$ for 12 Cruissers
8$ for 12 Light Infantry
10$ for two guns and crew
24$ for 18 Hussars
8$ for 6 Dragoons
5.15$ for general staff

around 130$

Very good price compared to the previous stuff. Two armies would probably be around 260-300$

15MM

Minifigs from Minifigs UK (since the US site is down)
43-50$ for 80 Infantry Miniatures
13$ for 12 Cruissers
9$ for 14 Light Infantry
14$ for two guns and crew
22$ for 19 Hussars
9$ for 7 Dragoons
4.3$ for 3 generals
121 $

Old Glory 15s From War Web

25$ for 100 Infantry Miniatures
14.40$ for 16 Cruissers
14.40$ for 50 Light Infantry
14.40$ for 6 guns and 24 crews
14.40 for 16 Hussars
14.40 for 16 Dragoons
14.40 for Geneals and Personalities

90-112$ (if I use other scales for the smaller minaiture requirements)

Prices are a little higher from Old Glory 15s itself

Freicorps 15s from QRF

37.5 for 80 Infantry Miniatures
15$ for 16 Cruissers
7.5$ for 16 Light Infantry
7.5$ for 2 guns and 8 crew
18.75 for 20 Hussars
3.75 for 8 Dragoons
3.75 for 3 generals
94$ or 85$ with the 10% sale

This is a very good price range. Two armies would coast about 180$. Not bad not bad.

Essex Minaitures (from Direct)

42.3$ for 80 Infantry Mianitures
17$ for 15 Cruissers
8.5$ for 16 Light Infantry
15$ for two guns and 12 crew
21$ for 19 Hussars
4.22$ for 8 Dragoons
4.22$ for three generals
113$

This may be useful for other players so I am noting them