Theoden's Host

I have started planning for my army for the Gathering in the Desert 2011 and I have decided to pull out my first LOTR army - Rohan. I painted this army several years ago and recently realized I have never photographed them. So here they are. This is about a 500 point force and my 600 point GitD army will be slightly different. I am not sure exactly how different yet.

I will be adding a few new models soon. One of the huge weaknesses I had playing this army was the lack of dismounts. This meant that once the horse was killed the whole model was gone. In a tournament this will not do so I need to paint a bunch of foot.

I always loved playing this army and I am getting excited about getting it back out. Some people will say that this is a bad choice for a tournament army. It is just not competitive. I have been running some tougher evil armies but I have not won with those either. Turns out I am not such a good player so I might as well play an army that is fun.

I will post some updates as this project progresses.

Sash and Saber Union Artillery

Progress on my Sash and Saber brigade is moving along nicely. Here we have the battery that will be supporting the 18th US Infantry regiment I finished last week.

I still have about three more Sash and Saber Union regiments, another gun battery and a brigadier to paint for this unit. This is going to be a big brigade.

More Cowboys

I am playing in a Legends of the Old West campaign day this weekend and I decided that was a good excuse to paint up some more of the huge pile of cowboy minis I have collected. These are all from Blue Moon and to me they have an early old west feel. Sort of late 1860s to early 1870s. Many of these figures are more like townsfolk or lawmen rather than cowboys.

These were speed painted in about a day and then dipped. As usual they look better in person. I am not real happy with how the pictures turned out but oh well.

18th US Infantry

I have finished the first regiment of my second Union brigade. This is a 40 figure unit from Sash and Saber. This is one of their regiment packs. I will likely never field this unit as a full 40 figures. It will likely be broken down into a couple of units. This brigade will be much bigger than the the Foundry brigade. When completed this brigade will have about 160 figures and 2 guns. I have a long way to go on this phase of the project.

The Foundry Brigade

I have finished the first Union brigade for my planned Black Powder game. The last step in this phase of the project was to paint the second great coat regiment and the Brigadier. Below you can see the completed brigade.


The figures for this project were acquired as part of a paint for trade deal I made nearly 10 years ago. I did a quick price check with Foundry and this brigade would cost about $225 now. Ouch, I am sure I will not be doing any more Foundry units for this project, that is a ton of cash.

Below are a few pictures of the final elements of the brigade.

Next up on this project I am working on a large Union brigade composed of Sash and Saber figures. This next brigade will be nearly twice the size as the Foundry brigade.

ACW Union Great Coat Regiment

Another Union Regiment is done. These are Foundry Great Coats and I have a bunch of these figures. This is a 24 man unit and I have another one on the paint table just like it. I still have dozens of extras. This is painted up as a generic Union regiment. Just something to get on the table. These are speed painted and dipped.

This makes two regiments complete for my first brigade. The third regiment will be done soon.

Black Powder ACW

After reading through the Black Powder rules I have been inspired to work on my ACW collection. I am planning to run a large ACW game later in the Summer along with some other gamers. There is quite a large local collection of 28mm ACW and I would like to use some of my own stuff for the game.

The first phase of the project for me is to paint my Foundry brigade. This brigade is, oddly enough, comprised entirely of foundry figures. I have completed the artillery. This is a 12lb Napoleon with crew. This represents a single battery in game terms.

Next we have the first of the Infantry regiments. This is my 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers. I actually painted these figures a couple of years ago but I have finally decided on the basing and now the unit is ready for action.

The second infantry regiment is being based now and the third is being painted. Once complete this brigade will have a General, an Artillery battery and three Infantry regiments. I am pretty excited to get this project going.