Army Completion

Last weekend saw the completion of my FOG Carthaginian army when I finished off the last two cavalry battlegroups and the command bases. This brought the total of completed figures to 188 infantry and 46 cavalry.

The battlegroup shown above is a unit of Spanish cavalry. I painted two similar units to provide a strong cavalry force in my army.

The picture above shows the three command bases for the army. To make him stand out a little I painted him mounted on a palamino (although the picture doesn't give a good view of this).

Now the Carthaginians are done its on to the next set of unpainted figures. I,ve still got a lot of stuff still to do so there's plenty of choice.

Ship Ahoy

Something a little different this week as far as completed paint jobs go. In a complete change of period its back to the American Civil War for a little riverine action. I bought the ships three years ago at the World Wargames show at Derby. The models themselves are 1/600th scale Peter Pig models. They are beautiful little models and the range has a myriad assortment of weird looking vessels. It appears that the concept of the time was take anything that floated and strap on any wood, steel plate and bales of cotton you just happened to have lying around.  The ship shown at the top is the USS Monitor.

The picture above shows three examples of the kind of vessels the Union forces could use. They are from left to right the USS Cairo, USS Benton and the USS Essex.

The picture above shows the Confederate opposition. From left to right the CSS Arkansas, CSS Albemarle and CSS Tuscaloosa.

  Painting the ships was probably one of the quickest paint jobs I,ve done. The wooden parts of the ships were painted  with Khemri Brown washed over with Devlan Mud. The hulls and smokestacks were then painted black. I know the colour schemes aren't probably accurate but they suffice for my purposes. In a little over a day I managed to paint 13 ships more than enough to give both side a decent fleet. Anyway it,s back to Carthaginians next as I need to get my army finished before its first outing.   

More Completed Carthaginians

Another two units of Carthaginians have left the painting table. The first is a 4 base unit of heavy cavalry with the second being a 6 base unit of Spanish infantry. This brings the total of completed figures to 188 infantry and 24 cavalry. With their completion it only leaves a further 2 cavalry units and 3 General bases to paint to complete the army (only 22 figures).

Carthaginian Reinforcements

More figures have left the painting bench to reinforce my Carthaginian army. This time a further two infantry and one cavalry unit. The cavalry is another 4 base battlegroup of Numidian Light Cavalry. The infantry consists of 4 bases of Libyan skirmishers and an6 base battlegroup of Spanish Mercenary Scutarii. This brings the total of completed figures to 170 infantry and 16 cavalry.

With these figures completed the bulk of the Carthagiinian army is done. It only remains to paint up one unit of Spanish Scutarii (6 bases of 3 figures), three units of heavy cavalry (each 4 bases of 2 figures) and three command bases (each with 2 figures).

Celtiberians

Another battlegroup has left the painting table. This time it's a 6 base unit of Celtiberians for my Carthaginian army. Another 18 figures done (total now 146 infantry, 8 cavalry).