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More pictures and historical meanderings on my Just Add Water blog here: http://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/07/first-goth-unit.html Finally the first unit of Goths is ready after their stint in the vanishing queue waiting and giving the glass a week to go off before matting down. It...

Wow! The posts are really pouring out again. This is actually not a result of my painting speeding up but rather because there was a back log of stuff that needed varnishing and I don't like to have too many pieces out after glossing as I leave a week between the gloss and the matt layers. It's...

At the risk of stretching myself a bit thin on the painting front, between Steppe nomads and Italian Wars Spanish, I pressed ahead with basing the first two ranks of Goths. There will be a further two ranks (three bases) of lesser armoured miniatures to back them up and another six units of foot...

Yesterday morning I was up at, 5:30am and taking pictures(!) of a few units of my Norman army, painted 20 odd years ago. The vignettes are more recent, 2019 to be more or less precise. :) Today at 5:30 am I am starting to post up the pictures and the links. Why? This particular Norman is now...

First Stradiot/Stradioti Unit fully tarted up and ready for action, sort of..... Pics galore of the units from various angles and all of the single bases as well as the usual questionable historical waffle on my blog here...

There is a whole gamut of pictures featuring the unit from various angles and single ranks on my blog here: https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/05/belisarus-boukellaroi.html I present to you Belisarius' Boukellaroi/Bucellarii. I have enjoyed painting up this unit more then any of...

New pics of older conversions of the Mounted Infantry, part of the Cavalry Brigade under Brigadier General H Stuart at the Second Battle of El Teb. More pictures of the whole unit and the single bases from various angles can be seen on my blog here...

There are more images of the unit from various angles on my just Add Water Blog here: https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/04/second-unarmoured-early-byzantine.html Happily I now have the second unit of Unarmoured Early Byzantine Skutatoi complete. I decided to stick with the test...

Here's the latest unit finally complete- or nearly complete as I forgot to to matt the banner down prior to taking the pictures but I positively refuse to go back and retake the pictures now lol. I'll probably post some 360 degree images of the individual bases in a few days so the banner will...

Just a quick post to keep things up to speed. I have been experimenting with different colour schemes for the tunics for the different Unarmoured Skutatoi Units that will be standing as the main battle line in the army along with their Armoured Comrades (in Shieldwall). I have avoided the...

I have finished the brushwork and varnishing of the first eight miniatures, which amounts to one and a half ranks of four in the first Unarmoured Unit of Early Byzantine Skutatoi I have planned. Another unarmoured unit is slated in after this one. I started these quite a while back but was...

It has been slow progress of late on the painting table. I wont dwell on this. I just needed to say it "out loud" for the sake of my own sanity. Back to the toys. The fourth unit of Anglo Danes have now happily been completed. That is four out of the projected six and one unit of Norse as...

Another set of eight Anglo Danish Huscarls and Fyrd complete for the fourth unit. Three more units to and 12 bases of skirmishers to go but they will be on hold for a while as I am going to be digging back into my Early Byzantines. It has been roughly eight days since they received a coat of...

I just had to buy these Footsore Miniatures Matthew Bickley Anglo Danish sculpts just as soon as they were available. The sculpts are just so dynamic and full of life; they have the actual appearing as of in the maelstrom of melee. Matthew has the are ability of capturing movement/acts of...

The third unit on what will be a seven or eight unit army (with plenty of room for more as well as Norse Allies!) It's been great fun mixing and matching the miniatures in the units, most of which contain about four or five different manufacturers. There are a load of images and the usual...

The last week was a its and bobs sort of week on the painting table. I finished a few pieces that were destined to hover around in perpetuity if they didn't get any attention so I'm happy overall More scholarly prattle and pictures on my blog here...

It's been a week of putting together a lot of bits and bobs as well as waiting for some LBMS transfers to arrive, which they did, but are now sitting patiently in my "quarantine" pile :) I managed to get a couple of Disorder/Discouraged/Routing/Casualty Markers painted, glossed and matted down...

I've been messing around trying to create convincing markers for my Anglo Danes for when they go into Shieldwall........ I think I've finally nailed the correct size for the bases to number of mini's(?). I didn't want the markers to overwhelm the units. I hope I've hit the right spot? Many...

The second unit is now complete and apart from some rough work trying to prise the miniature from their previously superglued bases I did get to paint up four or five extra mini's so not all was so stressful! There are a load of other images from different angles etc of the unit on my blog as...

Over the past year, every now and again I've been rebasing my Anglo Danes. They have been in a seemingly perpetual state of having no bases, no filler, no texture, paint nor tufts. After a day of being knee deep in my studio on one of my famous tidying up jobs (yeah, it's worse then ever!) I had...