The Tabletoppers

As I've been asked recently how I am painting my miniatures, I decided not to deny you the insight to my famous painting skills. Thus I'll provide some tutorials on different miniatures, showing some of the technique I am using as well as providing you with the intel which colours I am using. What is really important in painting miniatures: use the best materials avaliable - your work gets much easier with this method. Everybody who has ever tried drilling a hole into a wall using a cheap electrical drill might know what I am talking about ;) Buying cheap always means buying twice. So let's get started with some of Xystons Phalanglites: 1. After priming them white I start with a black wash for the leather armour, which is supposed to be white - using black wash gives me the opportunity only to highlight the armour white afterwards, saving a lot of time compared to a "classical" 3 steps highlight approach. For the wash I used the Vallejo wash "lavado ...

These are some Miniatures I already painted last year, and played them at the german new-year turnament in Field of Glory. Turned out that despite beeing ferocious warriors, these warbands weren't as usefull I hoped they'd be, leaving me finishing 12 out of 13 players.... I still like the miniatures, the fist unit is supplied by Corvus Belli, the other ones manufacturer is unknown to me - maybe one of you knows. Hope you'll like 'em.  

These are some Thureophoroi or Thorakitai I originally painted for my late republican roman army, but thanks to my basing I'll be able to use them for my upcomming Macedonian/Seleucid/Successor Armys as well. Decals are once again by Little Big Me´n Studios. I'll try to picturise all the miniatures I finished the last year but didn't put on the blog yet in the upcomming days.   PS: as I used them in various tournaments already, some of them lost their spear. Seems I'll have to start a repeairing action soon. :/

After finishing my medieaval army (or more correctly the units I still had), I decidet to start a new project, which is an Macedonian Army for Field of Glory. The miniatures are supplied by Xyston, and a friend of mine resculpted some heads, giving them more variety. Decals were supplied by Stephens Little Big Men, a supplier I can highly recommend. Untill today, I had to borrough my miniatures when it came to play an army with a descend number of pikes in it. After finishing this project, these days will belong to the past. I hope you like these. If you have any ideas for another project or recommendations concerning this one, leave me a comment in the section below. Enjoy!

Today I tried finishing the basing of a unit of Saracen Lancers as I recognized I am out of gras - got to go to a store tomorrow... That's the reason these are still rated work in progress. Hope you enjoy them though.

Today I managed to finish one unit of early medieval spearmans supplied by Legio Heroica. The terrain seen underneath was the price for finishing third in the last FoG tournament in Hamburg.

As the tournament in Hamburg is getting closer, I was still in need for some apropriate miniatures. Thats why I had to paint a unit of saracen archers, some light foot crossbowman and another unit of knights. Have a look yourselves:

Some miniatures in my showcase, yet unseen here, were still waiting to get proper basedesign. These are the results: 4 Bases Lancers/Knights If there is an option to dismount them from another angle Medium foot - I`m quite proud of the freehands

After longer absence on this Blog - after getting a new computer it took some time remembering my login data - ther is some new stuff finished. In The Worlds 2016 touirnament in Charleroi, Belgium, I finished 10th of 30 competitiors playing a Wars of the Roses Yorkist army. Not only the belgian beer prooved to be quite effective, so did ,y unit of Liht Hores with Lances. To bad they were borrwed at that time. Luckily there were a lot of suppliers arround and one of thme hat some Corvus Belli miniatures to offer, which are sadly not produced anymore. I decided buying a untit of these Light Horse, and here they are: But not only these few miniatures got finished last week. As there is a tournament in Hamburg coming closer, some more miniatures have to be painted. As I still had some basecoated, but not jet started crossbows waiting for colour, I decided starting with these. I don't think they'll prove as a good option to take in your Field of Glory army, but everyone sho...

 As there is the new camera-equipment now, I feelt kind of in duty to use it showing you more miniaturesy I recently finished. These are four 15mm medieaval command bases used for Field of Glory. The figures are supplied by Peter Pig, flags are LBM geenric Wars of the Roses, as far as I'm considered. Hope you like 'em!

After finishig my Sparta project I had to move up to my next  Field of Glory Army. About one year ago I bought a big bunch of Corvus Belli miniatures fitting the "Caesars Romans" theme which tuned out to be a good decision as Corvus Belli stopped producing their 15mm ranges some months ago. Luckily I had already bought enough Legionaries and stuff to build that army containing a lot of heavy infantry. Legionarys might be quite expansive but to my mind they are absolutley worth their points in Field of Glory as they are really tough bastards to fight against ;) As I'm not yet sure how many bases one battlegroup shall be formed of, I deided to build first two legions of 4 bases both containing 3 legionaries and 1 command base and lateron painting one more base in the same colour sheme so I'm able to put them together as one Legion of 8 without having trouble with two command bases. So have a look oo my first roman Legion and some light archers !