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@Mark Dewis the clubs were primarily used against cataphracts. 

Reference posting multiple pictures: Try hitting the return button a couple times and then going back up to paste in the picture.  You need to "create room" below the new picture before you i...

Battle of the Sharpes: Left to Right = Sharpe, The Needle, Pat. Black = Black Pyramid Gaming. Metal = Brigade Games. Of course you can make a nice Sharpe and Pat from the WGA Riflemen kit.

This week I finished 2 more HWT squads from spare cadian HWT and grognard bits. I also finished building a sprue of Stargrave Troopers (5 soldiers).The troopers are really nice miniatures, som...

Nicely done on the Octopus Shield!

After the first two pictures I was going to ask you which decals you used.  The designs are great and the freehand is impressive!  Weathering looks really good as well. Great looking ske...

Finally, rear view. Shields are freehand and then weathered to look (I hope) old and just-unearthed.

Having trouble adding multiple images so sorry for serial posting.  

Finally got the next two photographed:

I did some more research and have a guess on this strange headgear... which is probably not a "béret" stricto sensu. I well know the "béret", because I am living in the area where thi...

@Brian Van De Walker I remembered that when I was writing my previous post. I would,  of course,  depend on the position of the arms. Of course,  I'm still buying both the goth and ...

@Mark Dewis yes,  Oathmark and Frostgrave kits are great,  they are the source of most of my spare bits. I know that there are a lot of dark age / fantasy kits in the market right now, t...

Aside from anything else, the Ottomans were the major opponents for the Allied forces (primarily British Empire) in the middle east. 

Managed to score a copy of the Into the Breach (Malifaux) plastic female multipart kit at lunch. It was even on special! At only AUD$50, not to be sneezed at. As mentioned above by William, the pr...

@Vitor Soares Come to think of it, wouldn't the Goth army bulider box WA was/is planing on doing cover that idea of yours nicely, particularly if its going to have accessories anyways?

@PEter GIlham Sorry but I have looked, Mantis actually walk on all six legs.🤣 If they didn't thier front limbs would not really be legs either since they would not fulfil the dictionary definition ...

I would also add that there are a LOT of Dark Age kits out there already. WGA, Victrix, Gripping Beast and more.

Oathmark Human Infantry have some potential that way:

@JTam Well, two months of that was the delay that everyone suffered when they relocated their operation from China to the US. But the US warehouse was stocked by June and the UK one by July. It's j...

Hi Mark yes it's been a bit frustrating as it's taken a while to get space to get them there. We were bumped a few times but the second flight is booked in for this weekend hence moving it back a b...

Yea dark age generic bodies similar to the wga goths would fit well with the contents of my bits box.Perhaps jazz them up abit with the odd vests/jackets/robes/tabards one might wear as an alternat...

Five months?  Frustration justified.

Shipment today from Black Pyramid Gaming! Black Pyramid Gaming is in the UK, and I am in 'Merica!  But the ordering was uneventful and the shipping speed good.  Moreover, the shipping ...

I've got some good shots of the Musée de l'Armée and the Imperial War Museum from 2019. Also from the battlefield tour in Flanders.  I'll try to upload trhem on the weekend.

Just got to get this off my chest. But the time for shipping from the Australian warehouse keeps being put back and back and back. I've had and paid for Boxers and Bulldogs on preorder since March,...

A beautifully restored Harley at the Route 66 Roadhouse Bar and Grill: Harley Davidson WLA

@Brian Van De Walker Ugh those starship troopers bugs :(Used to be a licenced game with those as a plastic sprue kit a long time ago. Hesitating until they blew out of my pricerange is probably my ...

This one supports the club idea as well:   This, and the earlier painting appear to be depictions of the Battle of Turin 312AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Turin_(312) Note t...

Brian,go look at a praying mantis. It walks on four legs and the other two legs are adapted to catch its prey. But still six legs making it an insect. And I will keep moaning if I choose to! 😡

@Brian Van De Walker first of all, I honestly really liked your answer. Thank you for such a complete answer. My ideia (proposal) is very simple. Some bodies with tunics, just like the ones in the...

@Mark Dewis Actually I think @Hudson Adams answer that the knoby thing was a club is right (in a massive part because he know the research put into this set, but it also sounds like a weapon adapti...

@Vitor Soares@William Redford  Actually, “historical proportion” female sets for things like "Dark Age working women" and/or fantasy kits might be the smarter route for female min...

@PEter GIlham 🙄those are arms or if you must be specific some sort of evolved mandibles, not legs and they never walk on them😒.  In the case of space bugs and arthropod multipart models in ...

Did it.

@Mark Dewis Most Gundam kits are 1/144 (at least that is how they are sold here in the States), still can work. Even seen some Ork Kitbashs. Edit: But I really would look at the MODEROID 1/35 OBSO...

@Vitor Soares Actually I would say it’s mostly just an Anglo Sphere people problem. Particularly Americans and British whose only real window into foreign cultures is Hollywood and whose mai...

I found an Australian stockist for Pocket Titans, who have them on discount: https://www.mrtoys.com.au/our-offers/hot-clearance-specials/pocket-titans-series-1-assorted-42647.html AUD$12 each and...

Checked the poll results today.  Was genuinely surprised by the strong showing of the Hungarian cavalry.  Interesting.

These came in today: Quite pleased with them.  Will use them for clue markers.   For scale: Also saw this "storage book" at Hobby Lobby the other day: Just about perfect ...

Fun!

Having pretty much EVERY component on a seperate sprue cannot have been very efficient in terms of mold layout. Unless maybe the initial production had particularly small equipment? In any case, ma...

Or, this: http://erminestreetguard.co.uk/optio.html Optio's staff with silver ball? 

The wikipedia does mention the version with a knob, and suggests that was the more common form.

Salut à tous, As I am (sometimes) French, I allow myself to react to the first photo. Objectively, it is difficult to identify exactly the rounded headgear worn by the two men. All black A...

Vine stick for centurion and a club used by legionaries against cataphracts among other things. 

Dust Tactics has some neat walkers you might like. The company went under, and you can usually find them pretty cheap.

My take on a couple of points here. #1: Courage for me is mostly knowing what you're facing, and doing it anyway.  I'm not really sure that applies to the average conquistador. Blundering int...

I agree with Mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_staff