Donnybrook - Col Bill's Pack Horses

While painting up the French Dragoons in my last post I also painted these Pack Horses from Col Bill's Depot Battalion range. They're £6 for 2 horses and are a handy addition to my growing Donnybrook collection.

Skirmish Wargames Show Sept 17

Posties not been a well chap recently, so I didn't know if we were gonna make Skirmish last Sunday.

But obviously we did, Postie put on a brave face and drove us up the A2 to Sidcup.

Col Bill was very glad to see us!

Not sure if they were, but numbers did seem down from the April show?

I guess being so close in date to Colours affected business?

Great grass tufts from Debris Of War

Medway Wargames - Wrath of Kings

The Old Guard - Imagi-nation

Maidstone Wargames Society  

Painterman

Not Sure who - Vikings

Herne Bay & Whitstable -  20mm Napoleonic's

North London Wargames Group - 6mm Borodino 1812

Rainham Wargames Club - Napoleonics

Clint and Co

See Clint's post on Skirmish here

Skirmish Wargames - Sharpe's Village

The Privateers of London - The Battle of Grand Port

Milton Hundred - Strike on Karalis

? - 40k

Gravesend Gamers Guild - Battletech

The Bring & Buy

Games Hall

The floor tiles actually hurt my eyes.......

And who's that taking a pic of the 6mm Nappies

Yes its BigLee!! 

See his report on Skirmish here.

Finally the goodies!

Not a lot really, I needed a few extra cavalry bases for Donnybrook, from Col Bill's

A pack of mounted civvies from Col Bill's, once again for Donnybrook

a Foundry peasant cart for errrr....... Donnybrook?

And finally 3 packs of excellent grass tufts from Debris of War Scenics!

Next stop

SELWG!

Donnybrook - French Colonel General Dragoons

Its been a while since I painted anything, in fact it was back in April during the last Analogue Painting Challenge! Not for the want of trying I might add. Work and kids seem to take up a hell of a lot more time nowadays.
Its a shame its taken me so long to get the brush out, but I have to thank being ill for the opportunity!
Nearly 2 weeks off work and I'm back at work part time after spending 3 days in hospital having my appendix removed. I've never felt pain like it!
So while sitting feeling very sorry for myself home alone the brush made an appearance.

And its more of the same I'm afraid, although we're back in European Donnybrook territory not North America.
The figures are from the excellent Warfare miniatures range. They're painted up as the Colonel-General Dragoons who fought in the the Battles of Steenkirke1692, Neerwinden 1693 and the Sieges of Namur 2nd 1695 and d'Ath in 1697.
Of course these will also be filling in as a Jacobite Dragoon unit for the Campaigns in Ireland.

Officer/Hero

And the unit dismounted

Along with the Officer I painted up a Sergeant.....just incase?

Rhodes 2017

My first non gaming post in quite some time may bore some of you to tears!

Yes its some holiday snaps. and no there are none of me in my budgy smugglers!

The family and I went to Rhodes in Greece. I've never been so hot in my life!

The first few pics are of the acropolis in Lindos

A relief of a Rhodian trireme cut into the rock at the foot of the steps leading to the acropolis. On the bow stood a statue of General Hagesander, the work of the sculptor Pythokritos. The relief dates from about 180 BC.

It was a long bloody long walk up

I did quite fancy the donkey ride up, but when the guide saw the size of me in broken English he told me I'd be better off carrying the donkey up!

Cheeky Git!

Th Acrpolis at Rhodes

The Palace of the Grandmaster of the Knights of Rhodes

Palace entrance

 Lacoon and his sons, being strangled by snakes,

Medusa

Along the harbour we found an Arabian Tower

Medieval walls lining the harbour

Fort St Nicholas and lighthouse

Apparently where the Colossus of Rhodes stood at the mouth of the harbor

Ancient Kameros

The Castle at Kritinia

Hope I didn't bore you all too much!