Friday, 10 May 2013

German Invasion!


The most illustrious Ironmitten, has very kindly (and unexpectedly) sent me this wonderful cartoon this morning.  Many thanks, Simon!

I suspect that he picked a German, because he knows that I have been on the scrounge, recently, for Germans for my next project.  Post Partizan, I want to assemble a small German army of 250 or so  miniatures.   I've been able to pick up some painted minis from eBay, some from friends (watch this space) and hopefully some from painter mate Nick Speller, who painted my sole German infantry unit, so far (below).  


They will be a nice change, from pikes!

19 comments:

Phil said...

Very nice looking Germans!!
Phil.

Unknown said...

250, small?

Oh Simon, Simon...

BigRedBat said...

Yes it does sound a bit small, Sebastofig. Perhaps 300? ;-)

Painted those pikemen, yet?

TamsinP said...

Nice looking Teutonic reprobates! :)

Secundus said...

Thanks Simon it was a pleasure. I like the German who has been knocked down in the ranks. That's the beauty of bigger bases, lots more room for excellent extras.

el frances said...

Great job ! I like the "standard" bearer !

Ray Rousell said...

Great cartoon and figures!

Handgrenadealien said...

That German reminds me of Simons Cat!
Quite a sea change moving from the sunny Levant to the dark forests of central Europe.

Regards HGA.

Raglan said...

I bet it does not stop at 250?

Gareth

legatus hedlius said...

250 small? 0h dear!

BigRedBat said...

Anything less than 250 would be Skirmish... and I don't do Skirmish! ;-)

Cyrus said...

Lovely Germans Simon! You will need a lot of them to fight all your Romans...

Dalauppror said...

Nice chagne from the Pikes indeed.

Greate german drawing and exelent looking minis !

best regards Michael

Silver Whistle said...

The foundry figures are some of my favourites and he has done a wonderful paintjob on these.

EinarOlafson said...

Incoming!!!

Graham C said...

I may have some spare Getmans I can bring to Partizan if you wish to have a look?

BigRedBat said...

Yes please Graham- I'd be very happy to have a look. Would you like to swap for something?

Cheers, Simon

Graham C said...

I will do a count this weekend, any Greek, successor etc no problem

BigRedBat said...

Graham, that's great. I have bags of spare Foundry Greeks, hoplites, peltasts, cavalry; the works.

Cheers, Simon