Minifigs Scots Greys

Taking a break from renovating ancients, I decided to finish off these Napoleonic British cavalry figures. They were started over a year ago and kept getting pushed to the end of the queue. They are lovely figures and were a joy to paint.  They are 25mm Minifigs Scots Greys painted using gloss paints, toy soldier style:

Renovating Ancients 3rd Batch

Continuing to work through these figures, some more Persians, North Africans and Romans.

First off are these repaired Persian medium infantry by Garrison Mniatures:

Next, some Minifigs Persian allies - Egyptian Marines:

The third batch are Minifigs S Range Egytian light infantry, two units:

Minifigs S Range Libyan spearmen (medium infantry):

Finally, some more Minifigs S range Romans, consisting of two medium infantry units and a General, who I think is by Warrior Miniatures?

Still plenty more to do!

Renovating Ancients - 2nd Batch

A few more Persians and some Romans received a scrub up.

Persian ally medium infantry by Minifigs:

These Hinchliffe Persian archers were in a right state. Most of the paint had worn away and all the bows were broken off. These were replaced with wire and they were given a new paint job:

Finally, three Minifigs S Range Roman heavy infantry take to the field:

Renovating Ancients - First Batch

This took a bit longer than I thought it would; however I have managed to renovate and rebase several Persian units and a Greek one. Here are my efforts so far:

Garrison camel troops:

Minifigs Horse Archers:

Minifigs Archers:

Minifigs Slingers:

Minifigs Medium Infantry:

Garrison Greek Infantry:

Renovating Ancients

For some time now I have been toying with the idea of renovating my collection of ancient figures. This coincided with a few acquistions to build up sufficient figures to have a go at Command and Colors Ancients.  Most of the figures are basically painted, although a number have broken parts that need to be repaired.  They are a mix of Minifigs, Garrison and a few Hinchliffe and are Greeks and Persians.  Here is part of the collection:

Those in the glass bowls are being soaked to remove old bases and flock.

The Garrison figures are the most challenging, having suffered lots of breakages:

I have made a start on some figures and will publish some pictures of the results.

Warrior - Prussian Dragoons

I bought these figures on Ebay and I have repainted them. I now have two dragoon regiments, a Cuirassier and a hussar regiment. I have also painted some test infantry figures, which look quite good:

Austrian Cuirassiers - 25mm Minifigs S range

I have been working on these figures for several weeks and over the weekend I finally finished them.  These are Austrian Napoleonic Cuirassiers, with some clever conversions to create command figures, kindly carried out by a friend.

I enjoyed painting these, although I am not sure that I have done them justice and I might go back and tidy up one or two aspects: