24 January 2012
TYW Cavalry
Last week I received a large and heavy parcel with my precious cavalry. It took me quite a couple of days to pay some attention to them. Well, at last, I managed to black-wash the riders and to put them in my webshop to make them available to the general wargaming public.
It will take me really long time to paint them, as you could have noticed with the infantry, but believe me, the day will come. In the meantime, I will be continuing with the Thirty Years War and will be thinking about plunging into another period.
Here are some pics. The riders were designed to fit the Front Rank horses. After a serious consideration, I have decided not to resell the horses, so everyone interested in my cavalry will have to purchase the mounts from the producer directly.
The rest you can see in the gallery.
23 October 2011
TYW Heavy Cavalry
Just a hot piece of news. I have just received some pictures of the promised heavy cavalry greens. Paul is just about to finish the standard bearer and all the cavalry (light and heavy) will go to the Griffin Moulds.
6 October 2011
TYW Light Cavalry
Indiann Summer is evidently over here in Karvina (Czech Republic) and the cold, chilly, misty, rainy, etc. weather is to dull my days from now on till March. Fortunately there are things that can brighten even the darkest days. I am not going to list them all here, some of them are very personal, but the one that fits the site is "new additions to the TYW range". Paul sent me some pictures of the light cavalry he has finished recently. The figures will udergo the traditional process: sculptor - caster - me and soon you will be able to order them from my webshop.
As you can see, they came out extremely well. I would not expect anything else as they have been sculpted by a real master and, I can't resist to add, there are other ones in the pipeline (heavy cavalry).
2 July 2011
Here they come ...
So, I have received a large parcel from the Griffin Moulds and the new additions to my Thirty Years War range are here ... available for anyone in need of reinforcements. (See the e-shop.) I must say, the quality is outstanding ... the quality I mean both, the sculpting detail (thanks Paul) and the casting precision (thanks Stewart) ... actually, you can see yourselves.
14 May 2011
Some new greens by Paul Hicks
It's been really long time since I posted anything ... shame on me, but the days are so short. 
I will try to do my best to be more active, promise. Today only very briefly with something, I'd say, quite pleasing. Paul sent me some pics of the greens he is sculpting to enlarge my little tin army. They are to complement the infantry to give it more variety.
I have more pics, but I will reveal the rest only when they are fully completed. So, check here from time to time.
15 November 2010
Conversions
Looking at myTYW figures, I thought it would be possible to convert some. So, I prepared some metal shaping tools and some epoxy and started the "sculpting".
Changing the position of the musketeers' furkets comes immediately into consideration when you have a close look at the figures. I have actually done that when preparing the first musketeer you can find in the gallery and some others will follow. This should bring more variety into the units.
The next figures I have converted and prepared for painting are the standard bearer and the pikeman as you can see in the following pictures.
The pikeman got only a helbard, which promoted him to captain of the pikemen . The stadard bearer became a commanding officer (a nobleman) with a raised sword (note also the boots) .
11 November 2010
The officer finished
Today afternoon I glued some static grass onto the base and my next TYW figure is completed. Here is the result:
8 November 2010
Just a couple of words
Sometimes I recall the times when I was a student or when I served in the army. I often complained how little spare time I used to have - learning new things, going to lectures, or spending long hours in service. Now I see how wrong I was. That was actually a period of plentiful free time abundance. Since that distant past it has "worsened" markedly and the limited free time has shrunk to the minimum. That is probably the tax we all have to pay for the "wonderful, modern world" we are living in. 
However, I am not complaining. I only wanted to point out how one's perspective has changed over the years.
Despite having very little free time, I have managed to set up my long announced e-shop. And I have to say it works well as it has been proved by a couple of purchases of my new Thirty Years War figures.
Enough for now ... will be back soon.