Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Postie the Devil


Some of you may already know the name of Postie.
He is the Titular leader of The Rejects.
He is also a git! 

The Little Devil himself

Several years ago I painted up stacks of 25mm Dixon figures for the Battle of Sedgemoor, for the man himself. Postie sorted the regts out in a ratio, so every unit had a different number of figures, at the time he didn't know what set of rules he would use, here's a link to some of the figures I previously posted.
Now comes the Git part......the figures have actually never made it out for a game, so a couple of months ago Postie decided to sell them, I tried to talk him out of it, but as usually he wouldn't listen. He even tried to get me to buy them, now I would have loved them, but  I was already well into my 15mm armies for the NYW, and I didn't have the £1800 he wanted for them as well as the look the Mrs gave me when she overheard me and Postie chatting about it. I decided that I wanted my nuts to stay in the sack, I thought better of it!
Anyway I very stupidly said to Postie, "Why don't you re-base the figures for Beneath the lily Banners Rules?" This got Posties interest as he'd played a couple of games in 15mm and liked the rules. He ummed and arred for a few days and said, no because he'd have to paint more figures for each unit blah, blah, blah, then all of a sudden somehow I'd agreed to paint all the bloody figures up for him for nothing???? I'm still trying to work out how he did it? Did he put something in my cuppa tea, was it really cheese in the sandwich, or has he really got Supernatural powers? I still haven't worked it out?

Anyway I've painted up all the extra figures for the cavarly for both sides, which was around 20 odd figures and now its Infantry time. Here are a few pics of The Queen Dowagers regt, otherwise known as Kirke's Lambs.






69 comments:

  1. I suppouse it was TO easy to lure you in to that Ray... ;)

    Ver nicely painted minis, love to see some finished units to.

    Best regards Michael

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I'll take more pics when they're all done, he's got to re-base them all yet.

      Delete
  2. Postie is one of the nicest people I've ever met!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That's not what you were saying when I was typing this up! Postie would be shocked!!!

      Delete
  3. You got jedi mind-tricked!

    Nice figs, though.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Postie = the Devil? Hmmm, not quite with you on that one. Mind you he is definitely a fiendish umpire/gamesmaster.
    As for getting suckered into painting the extra figures for him, well, you only have yourself to blame for that one! (OK, maybe you can blame Postie a little bit too)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Oooh, I quite like that red. Colours please?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The red was a bugger, I had to try and match them in with how I painted the original lot, why didn't I write it down? It was 50/50 GW blood red/Vallejo 947 vermilion, over a brown undercoat.

      Delete
  6. And I've got you painting a mouse. You're just too nice Ray, but don't change because Fran may have some more figures for you to paint up for him.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You never know, it could be his blue lizardmen!!!!!!!

      Delete
  7. If you are this easy to convince perhaps we should all try and get you to paint stuff for us :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Ray you are obviously everyone's paint slave.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Very nice painting, Ray. And the sculpts are really sweet.

    ReplyDelete
  10. They are nice looking figures.
    My moneys on the Jedi mind trick angle.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I think I'll go with Lee's toad!!! or it could have been the tea??

      Delete
  11. So he made you paint them by just moaning a litte?
    Ray, you are too helpful.
    :-)

    ReplyDelete
  12. Heh.. nice post, but nice thing your doing to keep the older models in the family so to speak..

    ReplyDelete
  13. Ray, we could start a support-group; this kinda thing has been known to happen to me too, I can relate to you mate! Still, nice figures.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Cheers Sander!! But what would we call the group?

      Delete
    2. The"I'm-being-duped-into-painting-heaps-of-other-peoples-mini's-and-not- getting-my-own-lead-pile-smaller" group? Hell I don't know as long as we have beer and pretzels and time to paint...

      Delete
  14. Great looking figures.

    It must be a postie thing as I've also painted hundreds of ECW figures for my postie brother.

    I'm looking for someone to invest in my top secret West Midlands gold, oil and pot noodle mining venture. It only requires a £1000 investment - 200% profits guaranteed.

    Regards,
    Matt

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I'm just waiting for my checks from my fellow investors, the Right Honorable Nigerian Minister for Oil and the official Irish Lottery (I must lucky as I never even bought a ticket!) to arrive then its all systems go.

      Delete
    2. I can't wait!!! I've always been up for great ideas like this!!!

      Delete
  15. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Dastardly! But the figures look good. And anyway you know you love to paint.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Ray, you have been the victim of a very cunning plan...

    ReplyDelete
  18. Postie is not evil. He is our glorious chapter master ;)

    Remember that well, RAy, or Postie will you by painting more free minis hehe

    ReplyDelete
  19. Clever man Postie is! Nice work btw!

    Christopher

    ReplyDelete
  20. Sounds like Tom Sawyer whitewashing a fence... or the old story of "Stone Soup." [The Puppet Master strikes again!]
    Still the figures are nice.

    John G

    ReplyDelete
  21. Very nice minis, Ray, waiting for the base...

    ReplyDelete
  22. Nice work Ray and at least these are a little more familiar to you than naked Amazonian Indians or cute fluffy mice! ;)

    ReplyDelete
  23. Ha! Nice story... and fantastic painting!

    ReplyDelete
  24. Good stuff! Ray your gaming misadventures always leave me smiling. :-)

    ReplyDelete
  25. talked yourself into that one Ray

    ReplyDelete
  26. Were you aware there used to be a Kirkes lambs Re-enactment group? (Founded in Kent).

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. They never really took off. Was about 10 years ago. Don't think they are still going. There was only 4-5 of them, but did the Odyssy Show once! The brother of one of my friends was involved that's how I know of them.

      Delete
  27. HA!!! I've got a mate exactly like that and I learned a long time ago to keep my gob shut. I might get in touch and convince him to go for Last Argument of Kings . . .

    Nice figures though.

    ;O)

    ReplyDelete
  28. LOL now you better hope he does not release his legions of the undead on you!

    ReplyDelete
  29. They look very good...well done him for getting them painted...for free:-D
    Cheers
    Paul

    ReplyDelete
  30. If Postie is the devil, what does that make Fran?

    ReplyDelete
  31. Postie: 1

    Ray:0

    Epic Fail.

    What were you thinking?

    ReplyDelete
  32. As if you didn't want to paint them...I bet you made the offer in the first place and Postie simply agreed and accepted it. Come on, don't deny it!
    Nicely painted figures with all these greens and reds! Not my kinda thing, but when you see sth good you must value it! Great work Ray!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  33. LOL, you were scammed!!!

    Exactly the reason I avoid painting for pals. A wargame buddy I know was having bother painting and asked if I would help him paint some Perry Samurai, I painted a few and within a couple of weeks overheard him saying he was goind to be selling off his Samurai!!! Git!!!

    Your friend Postie does seem to have an unnatural power over your painting!!!

    ReplyDelete
  34. Its has to be super powers mate.

    Lovely painted figures btw.

    ReplyDelete
  35. Lovely figures Ray, but you should know better!

    ReplyDelete
  36. Ooooh he seems a right little devil, that Postie! ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  37. ... and now I know what to do to have some figs from you Ray!

    "I want to sell all my collection of unpainted figs... etc......"

    (Great work on the minis!)

    ReplyDelete
  38. Well... At least he did nit get you to paint them and sold them afterwards! ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  39. Lovely work on these chaps Ray. Try and not get into these traps too often Ray.

    ReplyDelete