More Herald Trojan Warriors

 I had a few more Trojans hanging around and I thought it might be fun to paint them.  I have a plan for these figures, but will see how things go before i confirm what it is.

Britains Herald Trojan

 I have been looking for a suitable figure to pose as a general for my Carthaginian army.  I didn't want to spend too much money on this figure and metal models turned out to be very expensive.  However, I spotted a plastic figure online that might do the trick and he was very cheap.  He is a mounted 'Trojan' and he sits on a cheap white plastic horse.  In his free arm he carries are rather odd, Roman style, banner.:

I thought I would try and adapt him for my needs.  The first thinkg I did was to cut off the banner and replace it with a sword.  Having mounted the figure on a wooden base I painted it with my Speed paints.  here is the result:

Not perfect, but I think he will do the job until a more suitable figure comes along.

More Herald Refurbishments

 I have had these Britains Herald American Civil War figures lurking in my toy box for as long as I remember.  For no reason, other than I thought they might be fun to paint, I dug them out to see what I could do.  They were in a very shabby state and I wanted to paint them as closely to the originals as possible.  Although most of the paint had gone on the models there was enough left to give an idea of what they would have looked like when new.  I also looked at some pictures online.

This is what they looked like before I started.  Unfortunately this example has a damaged musket and did not get a new paint job:

Perhaps a little brighter than the original paint scheme, these business-like Confederates are now ready to take to the field once more:

Britains Herald Knight - Refurbished

 I have quite a few of the old !/32nd scale Herald figures sold by Britains.  Many are in poor condition with missing or broken weapons and poor paintwork.

When the mood takes me I get out the brushes and have a bit of fun.  One such figure was this  medieval pikeman:

His original paintwork has been applied roughly and is a bit battered.  Also, his pike is broken, so I wrote off to Ian Kay at Irregular Miniatures and he supplied me with some cast metal weapons.

After a quick paint job and a new weapon he is ready to go into battle once more:

Medieval - The last box

The final box contains more cavalry figures. There are two groups. The first is a unit of old Britains Herald mounted knights. I imagine the serious collectors would turn in their graves if they saw what I did to my veteran figures. Originally they looked like plastic toys, so I slapped on some paint and used some decals that came from Warhammer. Some of the paint is flaking and the transfers are a bit yellow now, but they remain my favourites:

The second group is a load of Britains Deetail silver knights, again tarted up with a bit of paint and transfers on the shields:

I had to put bases on my cavalry figures as they tumble like dominoes when lined up in close order.

These are the last of my painted and based figures, although there is another box that contains a castle and around 50 unpainted Deetail foot figures that I might get around to painting at some stage.