Year of the the Rules

I'd have to say this year looks to be the year of buying rulebooks and supporting material to rival a third of my miniature expenditures. What's even more surprising is a great deal of it is core rules! It's bordering downright overwhelming!

So far I've already purchased just this year alone:
Lasalle
Regimental Fire and Fury
A House Divided
Guns at Gettysburg
SOTR
Numerous Source books and Osprey's 

Making it's way to me as I write this:
Heartland Scenario Book
British Grenadier Scenario book 3

On the to get list that's already been released:
Black Powder
Hail Caesar
General de Brigade deluxe edition
General de Brigade scenario books
Impetus series(I have the basic)

On the to get list when released:
British Grenadier deluxe editionClash of Empires
War and Conquest
Kampfgruppe Normandy(if the reviews are tops)
Blücher(if it's released this year)
Stonewall(if it's released this year)
GASLIGHT Compendium 

What's even more crazy is this list will grow as more things are added not yet published or announced yet, plus some I forgot to mention!!:-0

2nd Airborne squad Finished!

Just finished up my 2nd Airborne squad and this time added some US and Airborne decals from Company B and I like them. The helmet decals were to big and so I left those Off. Command and some support up next. Thank you for viewing. :-)

Rifle Section w/Sergeant with M1 Carbine, Bazooka Gunner and Assistant, Trooper with M1 Garand

Rifle section w/2 Troopers with M1  Garand's and 2 with BAR's(one will go to the other squad)

LMG section w/ Corporal with a Thomson, Trooper, LGM Gunner and Assistant

Close ups of LMG Gunner and Assistant

Miniature Company- Artizan Designs

Added a couple fun polls

Added a couple running polls to my blog on the side bar to see where wargamers collecting habits tended to be. I tend(not always) to fall between quite a few and recorded history for range of periods and embarrassingly completely buried and still ordering more for completions!  :-0
Thank you for joining in!:-)

Lasalle

Just played my first game of Lasalle(Napoleonic wargaming) Saturday night using our clubs old 1/72ndNap stuff. We played the Liberation period with me controlling the French and my friend the Prussians. I got my can kicked through a combination of bad rolls, bad tactics and a serious ineptitude in using my artillery advantage and so my verdict is..... I really, really enjoyed the rules! Easy movement, interesting change up in game sequence and combat resolutions generally being quick and decisive..........just how I like it!!
The result of all of this of course will be me placing a very large order to the Perry twins for my French army to support the Emperor.
Vive l'Empereur!
In the meantime back to my Airborne and F&F ACW.
Honour Rule Set

Marauder Minataur Lord

Putting up another mini I did before he disappears from my collection.

BTW if anyone looking to buy these Beastmen miniatures I've posted plus a few others then check out this link in the Lead Adventures Forum bazaar.

http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=27732.0

Even if your not interested in my offer, you should visit the site as it's very nice!!
Miniature Company-Marauder Miniatures

Some Beastmen I did in the past

Well, these guys have been some excellent dust collectors for some time and I thought it was time to put them up on the actioning block. However, I did put some work into them at one point and thought it would be a shame not to keep a memory of them and so I'm posting them here. I hope some of you like them.

                                                        Marauder Dragon Ogre

                                                                         Shaman

                                                                           Wargor

                                                                         Beastherd

Miniature Company-Marauder and Citadel GW Miniatures

US Airborne Squad 1

This is my first squad for my US Airborne Disposable Heroes project. They are Artizan miniatures and very fun to paint as is the case with all Artizan miniatures.
The goal was to get a platoon painted up and playing in a short time and so I used army painter. However, please remember I added a couple of highlights to these and so they are in effect fully painted miniatures.I skipped adding any identifying patches as that would add quite a bit of time to the painting process.
I went with the early paratroop uniform that was used right up to D-Day as I like the light shade and varying tones to include the patches at the joints. This was because the material was quite thin and so the para's added extra padding to the parts that wear and tear the quickest.
I'm pretty happy with the results and I hope you like them too.
Thank you as always for viewing.
Miniature Company- Artizan Designs


Sargeant with M1 Carbine and Troopers with M1 Garand's part of Rifle Section

  

Troopers with M1 Garand's(one will get replaced with a BAR in the future) part of Rifle Section

  

LGM section to include Corporal with Thomson, Trooper,LMG .30 cal gunner, Assistant Gunner