Hinchliffe Egyptian Heavy Infantry

 Another refurbishment, this time some 25mm Ancient Egyptians.  I bought them secondhand and they had simply been sprayed white and were missing their weapons.  Once again I have used Warlord metal spears. cut down to size.  The figures represent heavy infantry with hardened leather helmets and body armour.  Shields are animal hide:

My next project, close to completion, is a unit of Hinchliffe 25mm Prussian Cuirassiers.

The Young Pretender

 I painted this figure some time ago but never got around to posting the picture.  The Young Pretender is encouraging the troops, originally from the Bob Black collection.  The 54mm Bonnie Prince Charlie figure is from Steve Weston Figures and is painted using Speed Paints.  

I got rid of the original horse and replaced it with a Britains Deetail show jumper mount:

The tartan trews and cloak looked a bit of a challenge, but I borrowed a technique seen on Youtube, that emplos crisscross lines and spots.  It worked quite well.

Hinchliffe 25mm Persian Infantry

 I acquired some rather sad looking Hinchliffe Persian infantry (AP6) that had been poorly painted and were missing their weapons:

I thought it would be fun to give them a new lease of life as there were enough to make up a unit:

Another fun project.  The spears came from Warlord and I cut them down to size.  A word of warning, they are sharp!

Hinchliffe 25mm Philistine Infantry

 I acquired these figures in a rather poor state, with no weapons.  I thought it would be fun to do them up, giving them some spears and a lick of paint.

They turned out quite well and are off to join my Egyptian army:

Red Army, Russian Civil War 1918

 I have just finished a lovely batch of 20mm figures, which I think are from Frontline Wargames, although I believe that the command figures could be by Tumbling Dice.  Painted in khaki and mounted on movement trays, they were a joy to paint:

I have a load of Siberian figures to do as well, thanks to a donation from Bob Black.

Afternote: I don't think they are by Frontline, I believe that they are later Jacklex figures

Memoir '44 - US Paratroops

 My final batch of soldiers consists of a load of US paratroopers.  The figures are by ESCI, which I think look OK when painted.  That's me done as far as painting figures for this little project is concerned.  I will now focus on some of the terrain pieces to see if they could be improved.

US Airborne:

Memoir '44 - British Infantry.

 To represent the British tommy in the game it is a difficult choice.  The game manufacturers do produce some British infantry, but they are dressed for the desert campaigns.  Fortunately I had a couple of boxes of the latest Airfix production, which was their rather odd WW2 British Infantry set.  I had no other use for these figures and so decided to paint some of them for use in some of the scenarios.  Strangely some of the figures are wearing their gas mask container on their chests, B.E.F. style, yet they have PIATs, which are late war items.

Anyway, splashed some paint on them, based them and here they are:

The last group to be painted will be some US airborne troops.  I have a number of choices but in the end settled on ESCI figures, largely because I have plenty in my spares box!

British infantry advancing in Normandy: