Lord Moledurssan and retinue

During the Methorin wars in Jackewline, an equivalent of the medieval era, the four Jackewlinese clans were effectively ruled by the eight great houses. During the wars, two rival houses, the Moledurssan of the blue clans and Maered of the greens went extinct. But at the start of the war, House Moledurssan was going strong and they launched a large (in contemporary measure) offensive against the Green castle of Shailvascq.

I am currently gaming this small campaign using Inter Arma as the rules allow a super fast setup and play. I'm always playing out a story and allow the luck factor of combat direct it more or less. 

JWI Besberg Uhlans

18x Zvezda figs, originally to be Napoleonic Polish uhlans. The previous painting was with enamels and one of the first when I applied washes effectively (made some vain attempts before with oils). 

The figures are neat and paint up rather well. The same can be told about horses. I painted all a brown-ish color (still not entirely clear on the terminology of horse colours).

JWI Blue Clans line infantry (Revell Nap. Prussian infantry)

New things around, first of all a new, entirely black backdrop. Some movement trays too - more is to come. These trays are for my homebrew ruleset A Risk to Take and can hold a d6 and up to 8 troopers.

There are 40-some figures in the box, I did not paint the mounted commander. Instead of a quickshade I used the Vallejo Sepia wash. Quick and dirty but it seems to be working. The figures were really bad to work with (something PSR doesn't consider very often): the plastic did not take the undercoat well, bent and there were a lot of flash and mould lines. This is the situation with many old moulds. Still the pack of soldiers cost a half of a Zvezda box (because they are apparently worth as much as large their container is).

Finished units - Besberg chasseurs

Well the second batch is ready, making a full 4 battalions (60 figs, 33 painted this round).

Basing is the usual and I found out that the overdone dip isn't that bad at all.

Again, these are the HäT Austrian Landwehr figs, the plastic is soft and bends too easily (or I've just got used to the Zvezda hard plastic is it) and there's a lot of flash but at least it takes enamel paint good, not sure with anything else (I've just started switching to acrylics as the previous containers become empty, I'm pretty sure that I'll still basecoat with enamel, simply because there are less problems with it). Extending my blue clans' army will be a right pain because I'm planning to do the lest with similar hats so not many choices. 

I'd also like to welcome Sam from Sam's Minis World between the readers of the blog, thanks for joining.

Finished - Jackewlinese yellow/blue artillery crew

The only problem is... I ran out of coins for bases, so these are cardboard circles cut out with a knife. When mounted on the base of the gun it's not that horrible though.

Yellow first, three per gun, 15 in total.

Finished - Besberg Chasseur regiment

Along with some WIPs, I finished the first batch of the HäT Landwehr figs (27 to be correct) as the blue clans' Besberg chasseurs. I have actually overdone the dip (especially that the vests are white) and they look much ragged than usual.

Bases are dark gray drybrushed with a lighter gray tone. The static grass is also painted to look brighter.

Finished units - Besberg uhlan regiment

18 cavalrymen in a box, painted in... I can't tell, but it took the time. I think the quality is quite good again.