Trafalgar Ships

Well, the above picture features the first three ship i"ve painted for Trafalgar. They've been done for some time, I just haven't had a chance to sit down and upload the photo.

In other news I have another batch of 28mm Confederate soldiers on the painting table, as well as 3 Imperial Guard Heavy Weapons teams, and a squad of early WW1 Germans. This new batch Confederates are the Old Glory 2nd Edition figures. They fit pretty well with the Perry plastics I painted previously. I will upload some photos of them soon.

Updates and suchness

I've started painting some of my 1/2400 scale ships for Trafalgar. I began with 3 of the heavier Spanish ships, the Principe de Asturias [112 guns], the Santa Ana [112 guns], and the Rayo [100 guns]. Each ship will be based on a GW plastic cavalry. I decided to use the cavalry bases to maintain a uniform base size amongst the ships and to allow to the ships name and possibly a nation flag to be painted along one of the beveled edges of the base. I'll post some pictures once I finish them up.

I finally picked up the new imperial Guard Codex and the plastic Cadian Command set. I am looking forward to playing a game of 40k with the new codex. I'll post some pictures once I get them assembled.

I've also been thinking about picking up the Operation Damocles Initiation set for AT-43. I have been aware of the games existence for some time now, and had even thought about picking up some of the figs for 40k proxies, but i just recently stumbled across some photos of the Karman faction for the game. Apes in power armor.... need I say more.

June 8th where did you go?

Well June 8th has come and gone and I completely failed to post. So in the spirit of "too little, too late" I'm making this catchup post on the 11th and will, in the future, attempt to actually post something on the 2nd monday of every month.

That being said I have managed sadly little painting since my last post, I did assemble and base coat some more confederates, but that's pretty much all the work I've accomplished.

On the purchases front things look a little brighter (of course they do, spending money is easier than actually painting). I've added yet another project to the que. Old Glory 25's has been offering a very tempting deal on the Warhammer Historicals Trafalgar ruleset bundled with all the ships to recreate the battle of Trafalgar in 1/2400 scale. I've always had a soft spot for naval games, and I finally gave in. The Rulebook is very nicely done and I look forward to testing the rules out with a small game soon. The ships from Old Glory are nice enough I suppose, I don't really have any other 1/2400 scale age of sail ships to compare them with yet. I do intend to pickup some of the 1/2400 scale Hallmark ships eventually, possibly an American fleet for the war of 1812.