Painted Foundry Minotaur and Reaper Golems!

Some items recently submitted to the challenge, two Reaper Bones 2 Golems from Anne O'Leary and a Foundry Minotaur picked up at Blog-Con, nice big miniatures.............28mm Foundry Harpy to show some scale!

Currently 7th in the challenge.......

28mm ACW Foundry Confederate Cavalry and If Facebook existed during The American Civil War?

These 28mm Confederate boys are mine and are from Foundry Miniatures and were a joint venture between myself and Battleaxe Painting Service (Ray and Postie) back in the good old days, I'm working on some 2 page ACW skirmish rules adapted from some Postie used for an French-Indian wargame we had a while back!

I'm trying to remember what unit this is.........?  

 

......and if Facebook existed during the American Civil War?

........and don't forget Chris has a giveaway over at Wargamer's Odds and Ends which ends on October the 7th!

My 28mm Lieutenant Colonel Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards....

....who in 1863 toured the Confederate states for 3 months and is seen here in the movie Gettysburg and played by the actor James Lancaster, he viewed most of the battle from a tree, met Longstreet and Lee amongst other Confederacy officers and wrote a very interesting diary of his travels through the south which I have just read and liked, my copy was from 1956 sans dust jacket.

So anyway you're wondering why am I harping on about him, well I wanted to represent Fremantle with a figure for my ACW forces as a possible scenario involving him (his journey) was uneventful and relatively safe until he crossed over in to the Union lines (some townsfolk handed him over to union military forces with a note that said basically in nice words to hang him as a spy).....

....so after much searching through Victorian and Crimean miniature sites I either found nothing or nothing cheap (part of a larger set) but surprisingly Ray found and bought for a £1 a suitable figure at the Foundry stand at Salute in their singles pile (what a nice guy, it's hard to believe some people say such terrible things about him).

I present Lt Col Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1835-1901), he is described as wearing a grey hunting suit with a cowboy hat at one stage but I could only find this version which is more like the movie version below........

James Lancaster in a scene from the movie..........

....the man himself and you can read more here.

.....and the book is well worth a read!

....and that great girl Tamsin is giving away five lots of goodness and today is the last day so go visit here and the links for the other 4 are there also!

28mm Foundry Painted "Ladies of Negotiable Virtue"........

....or as they call them "Ladies of the Night" from their Victorian range. May contain nudity!

They can be used for the Wild West or maybe some Victorian sci-fi shenanigans, I can hear Curt sighing from here!

Gifts that can bite you in the ass....and some painted 28mm Foundry Orcs!

Late last year I sold some figures to fund the disease that is wargaming and did okay, felt the Irish guilt and asked the other half if she needed anything and lo and behold she said and egg incubator that she had seen on eBay!!!!!! (She does have some chickens........ducks......turkeys.....and geese, the geese are homicidal, aggressive, very intelligent and protective feckers).

Well anyway she used it once with unsatisfactory results, I sighed and life went on until Wednesday night when she ran into the front room with a small yellow thing attached to some shell, handed it to me and told me to keep it warm, more followed and eventually eight little bastards chicks are assaulting my fecking eardrums from an enclosure in the front room........

Lurker: Quiet!!!!!
Chick Horde: Cheeeeeeeppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: What now?
Chick Horde: Cheep!
Lurker: I've just done your hot water bottle!
Bastard Horde: Cheeeeep!!!!
Lurker: Mummy will be home soon, get back under the fleece and keep warm!
Fecking Horde: Cheepppppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: No, I'm not holding you and would you please shut up, you've driven the fecking dogs out of the bottom floor of the house. (The dogs have taken to eyeing me with contempt and with the notion it's my fault and if I don't do something soon there will be consequences...!)
Chick Horde: Cheeeppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: Your making Daddy cry........and twitch (I can still hear them now and I'm at work!).
 

BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!

.....and some Wargames Foundry Orcs!

28mm Foundry War Orc Queen...dedicated to Anne.

Anne (you know who I'm talking about) commented that she's interested in foundry's War Orc figures at the moment and I said that I thought I still had some from when Dave Thomas sold a load of at a SELWG many, many years ago and she said she wanted to see pictures so........This big bitch is listed as a mad Ogress Queen from Foundry and she is big, she was painted quite a long time ago and today maybe I would have painted her differently but that doesn't matter now.....you can name her Anne if you want and her followers will be posted as well.

I've always liked a little fantasy figure here and there...........especially a well sculpted or quirky piece, you should see all the Games Workshop plastic chaos warriors and skeletons I have.

I feel the call of some fantasy figures..........maybe!

One of her loyal warriors.......

28mm Foundry ACW Confederate Prisoners with Union Escorts and.......

..........a drunk on duty!

Lovely set of figures from Foundry, little use to the game other than eye candy but what does that matter, the less useful the set is to the actual game the more I seem to like it!

28mm Foundry Wild West Citizens arrive in Angry.

Most of these were picked up in a cheap bundle on eBay to start populating the town of Angry and for the painting challenge as well, I still have a soft spot for a good Foundry figure.........well I think they're all Foundry figures (I think Wild Bill is from Artizan)!

28mm Modern Civilians for Zombie Gaming......what are their chances?

28mm foundry civilians for zombie/modern gaming but what are their chances when then outbreak comes?

Still painting up the odd figure for zombie and modern gaming, as we all now in most games civilians are a bit of a burden to be protected and saved but what about the civilian being able to look after themselves from the get go?

Two likely lads here.

City road sweeper, fit from all the breast feeding of that brush and as a possible weapon maybe or likely to be as fit as a sloth but has life experience? 6 out of 10 survivability  

Student type, fashionable and functional clothing,but what's in the bag, books, weed and munchies or a Glock but possibly too sheltered and naive a character? 5 out of 10 survivability