24 hastati are now painted and are gluing to their bases. The shields for the Italian ones are done but not the Roman ones as I am waiting for some transfers. Must buy some superglue tomorrow for the swords. I have now retired to the pub to celebrate being ahead of schedule.
Zama update
February 23rd, 2010Another Partridge’s Law
February 20th, 2010Why is it that whenever I open a pack of tablets that has a piece of paper in it with the instructions, I always open it at the end where it is folded around, so you can’t get at the pills?
Zama Part 2 – the terrain
February 18th, 2010I’m not doing the terrain (hurrah) but I am providing the Roman army, so it would be good if my bases vaguely matched the terrain. In aid of that, here are 3 very large pictures of some sample hastati and principes. The colour is as balanced as I can make it – it was taken with a flash – and the cloth is a Games Workshop green cloth for reference.
The figures are all Gripping Beast, and very nice they are too. The painting is all mine, and it shows 
. Except that is for the shields; they are transfers from Little Big Men.
Click on the photos for a full size version.
The Calais Railway Gun
February 13th, 2010
The K5 railway Gun
A picture from the summer here, that I found when looking for something else in my photo archive. Its the WW2 German K5 railway gun at a museum on Cap Gris Nez near Calais. I dragged the family there when we were early for our ferry.
The K5 is seriously impressive just for its sheer scale – the guns at the entrance of the Imperial War Museum are on a similar scale but aren’t mounted, so lack the impact.
For those who want technical details, its a 283mm calibre gun (~11″) that fired shells weighting 255 kg up to 50 kilometres.