Work in progress: KPW militia

 

Slowly making progress painting the Puritan militia figures from Brigade games.  These are typical civilian dressed figures representing the field forces sent to combat the native warriors or defenders if the local town.  The figures are nice with good details and pretty easy to paint.  But being used to mass painting uninformed regulars its a bit different having to make up civilian colors and make sure each figure is different.

Once done I will be mounting the figures individually on round bases.  And since they will be handled a lot extra garnishing to protect the painting.

Next up will be the Wampanoag warriors of Philip himself.  In addition I have a number of wagons and more armed civilians on order from  Warfare miniatures USA.  These are I believe the League of Augsburg line ief figures.  The wagons can be used for all of my miniature collections and the figures are wearing the correct clothing for the period.  More on these once they arrive!

Painting will be on hold for a couple of days as we are off to visit Maine this weekend.

Wings of War game

 

In cleaning up the basement and garage I found my collection of Wings of War (now Wings of Glory) WW1 planes.  They were well protected but the cards were a jumble so it took a couple hours to sort them out and find all the playing aids.   I set up my game mats and a couple of the planes just to cheer myself up and get in the mood for a game.  There are a couple people on the internet who have made solo play rules which I am interested in try out soon.

German Planes:

Allied Planes:

One thing I have enjoyed is repainting some of the models.  I like the planes as they come but gave repainted a few.  These include a number of Triplanes as the Jasta 19 with their distinctive yellow and black tails:

And a number of Nieuport's for the Lafayette Escadrille:

Here is David Putnam's Spad I painted based on a picture of his plane.  Flying with him is fellow American ace Eddie Rickenbacker:

I am planning on repainting the two SE5a's I have for the 56th Squadron and the aircraft flown by Arthur Rhys-Davids and James McCudden.  I have always liked these planes and these two men were some of my favorite aces:

And George Guynemer's Spad which is right out of the box and great looking:

Another visit with Scott Leach and his miniatures.

 

As part of getting out and returning  to normal Janine and I went up to Gloucester Massachusetts to visit out friends Scott and Arlene.  Many of you may have visited Scott's old blog, "I like the Things I Like" (http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com).  Scott introduced me to painting military miniatures years ago and we were active in reenactment groups.  He is one of my oldest friends and a great painter of toy soldiers!

Here is a view of the last time I visited:

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Scott works mostly in 54mm figures or larger.  He buys a lot of plastic figures as well as old Britain's which are in broken and chipped states.  He repairs and reprints them.  All are done in a toy soldier look which is very appealing.  For paints he mostly uses craft paints from the local hobby store like Micheals.

Here are a number of Second Empire French, Prussian and Austrian regiments:

The French:

Austrians:

Prussian:

He recently started working on War of 1812 at New Orleans:

And some Seven Years War flats:

And a few October Fest figures and Mrs O'Leary and her famous cow!

In addition to having fun with miniatures we made sure to get outside and went for a walk on the beach and later in the woods.  We took our Yorkshire Terrier Fritz and he had the time of his life running and playing and being dog like.  He also needed to get out.

A most fun day was had by all.