Tiny germans

I just finished some 15mm german ww2 soldiers to use in Flying Lead from Ganesha Games.

I also added a flak gun to the warband, perhaps to use as an objective or something in a scenario.

Coming up is my brittish paras, to fight these germans!

Barbed Wire

It's been a while since my last post, but here I go again! My table is full of 99% finished things, and here is the first thing to enter the blog, some barbed wire for my Flames of War germans to hide behind:

The bases are 5x20 cm, and the wire is made from the tiny foil that is rolled around the thread on those silver threads you can find in textile shops.

Super Tiny Things

A little update of my Black powder stuff...

Not much of an update, but I have a thousand projects on the table at the moment and I'll get more pictures here when something is done. :)

Meanwhile check my newest addition of addiction out! How cool is'nt a tank smaller than a pencil? Well, maybe not so cool, but it's small, cheap and I sense a faw more of these may find their way here..

Prussian "army"

Here they are, my prussians in all their converted glory.
This is a 358p warband for Song of Drums and Shakos, with an officer, banner boy, six infantrymen and two jaeger sharpshooters:

One nice thing with this game is that the army is quite small, and takes no place to store. This is my tiny army transport:

Quick 4'x4' Gameboard

When playing a game of song of x, dba and other smaller games it is a bit big to use the 2'x4' gameboards I've done earlier, so I decided to give my small dba table a little makeover.

It's four really easy steps, but for those who want a little help to make their own, i took pictures of the process so you can follow and do it yourself:

This is where I began, a little paint, white glue and static grass (I mixed several different types to get my variant) as well as the four boring felt clad wooden boards:

 Step 1:
Paint all the boards!

 Step 2:
Add a little sand mixed with white glue if you want. Here it is winter and the sand outside is more or less like a pit of concrete, so I used vallejos grey pumice instead, my favourite texture material.

Step 3:
Paint the now dried texture, I drybrushed a few layers of brown, each lighter than the previous.

Step 4:
Mix some  white glue with water about 50/50, and paint one board, then pour a lot of static grass on it, allow to dry for a while then shake off everything that did not stuck. Make sure to shake it on a newspaper so you easily can use it again! Repeat three more times and youre done!

Karoliner on the march!

With a little help from bad tv and Palazzo Rosso my 1:72 scale Swedish army is now all done, I am really satisfied about how it turned out, even though I did'nt spend that very long on each individual soldier. I wanted the whole army to look nice and unified on the shelf/table, and so I am saving my painting stamina for the pending 28mm napoleonic project, the first box should be here this week!
Can you spot the unit from Wermlands regiment?

I have absoluteley no experience with the Black Powder system, but after flipping through the rulebook I'm really eager to get a game or two on the table! That's why the Danish army is growing quite fast. Note the band of "snapphanar"/pro Danish rebels in the foreground.

On a side note, I really enjoyed painting the red and white uniforms of the Danish soldiers, that is a very good thing because the 28mm napoleonic army I am going to paint is the Brittish, with some merry 95-th of course!

Prussian Line Infantry

So, here they are, the legendary Prussian Infantry, a quick conversion from the French infantry consisting of cutting down the hat a bit will make these as good as any real Prussians, from a distance... :)

I've decided to base my 1:72 armies with the Black Powder rules in mind, meaning the general getting a fancy round base.
My Swedish force so far: