For Sale: Vikings and books and all kind of stuff!

 It's time for a clear out so I can make room for more stuff in the hobby room!

All prices include UK postage and are in GBP

I've got two packs of 28mm Victrix Household Cavalry, 20.00 each or 35.00 for the pair

Warhammer Ancients: Fall of the West - 20.00

Warhammer Ancients: Chariot Wars - 20.00

Warhammer Ancients: Armies if Chivalry - 20.00

Warhammer Ancients: Fall of the West (strangely I have two) - 20.00

Warhammer Ancients: Shieldwall - 20.00

Warhammer Ancients: Alexander the Great - 20.00

General de Brigade - 20.00

22 Empress Miniatures Insurgents, unpainted

Half a kilo of Baccus 6mm AWI - SOLD

28mm painted Viking force for Saga, Pillage, Midgard, etc. - 250.00 - SOLD

Vive la Muerte

Well that's it, I'm out of Spanish Civil War figures to paint. This last unpainted Empress Miniatures figure has been painted as a banner bearer for may Spanish Foreign Legion forces.

The banner is a rough copy of the standard of the First Tercio of the Legion.

Bridegrooms of Death - 31st July

This is probably the longest its taken me to paint a Spanish Civil War platoon for Chain of Command: Espana but I've finished the last 11 Foreign Legion 'Bridegrooms of Death' figures I need.

These are painted using the same scheme as previous batches that is detailed here. All the figures are from Empress Miniatures.

Here are a few close-ups.

I'm not sure if Empress are having some quality control issues, but if you look on this figure below there is a huge hole in the rifle just above the fingers of the left hand. I had two other figures with similar issues from this batch that I purchased in April just before leaving for Wisconsin.

This means that all my Spanish Civil War forces are painted so I'll have to think about what to add next. Here are all 54 models of my La Legion platoon including two 5cm mortars and two light-machine-guns.

Bridegrooms of Death - 24th July 2016

Following on from the Republicans I painted last week I have now returned to painting my Spanish Foreign Legion Seccion. This has been rather a long project as I painted the first figures for this unit back in March 2015.

Other factions seem to have come to the fore in the meantime but I only have these to paint then I am out of Spanish Civil War figures. This week I managed to paint these ten and there are another eleven on the painting table then I have all the Spanish Civil War figures I have painted, maybe time for another order on Empress or Northstar - or do I really have enough.

Not sure what it is about these La Legion but I'm not enjoy painting them as much as other troops. I also had a bit of a calamity when varnishing them this morning. I took them out onto the terrace of our apartment and gave them a spray of Testors Dull-cote only to go back 15 minutes later and it had frosted. Fortunately, I bought them inside and took them to the storage unit* and gave them another coat and it seems to have rectified.

*Not sure why Mrs Scrivs is not keen on me applying varnish inside the apartment :-)

Here are a few close-ups.

Spanish Foreign Legion reinforcements

Another bunch of figures that have been slowly having paint slapped on them amidst the chaos of the house move. Eleven La Legion for my Spanish Civil War collection from Empress Miniatures. As usual great Paul Hicks sculpts. About another 20 to go and I shall be able to field a full strength Seccion (Platoon) in our Chain of Command games.

Eagle eyed readers will note a glaring error on the second batch I painted, black shoes! WTF was I thinking, I shall have to do a forfeit!

These chaps shall soon join their colleagues and the rest of the SCW collection that is due to dock at New York tomorrow evening. Exciting times!

A few more close-ups.