Boxed Sets of Grenadier Miniatures anyone?

                                           Im a wargamer and I hoard stuff. 

There Ive finally admitted Ive too much stuff, and like some poor addict I have finally faced my addiction. I cannot pass up a bargain or something I wanted as a child whilst using Airfix to fight my battles. If a show, no matter how small announces its going to hold a bring and buy, I want to go and scrat through the detritus of failed wargaming projects.

  I was lucky enough to find two colourful boxes at a stall in York. Like Lovejoy I felt a tingle when I picked one up and found inside a load of unpainted Grenadier knights, in the second box was more, plus the sword in the stone. I had to have them. I didnt need them but they were such lovely figures. 

I did some research when I got home and found that they were two complete Grenadier Miniatures sets from the late 1980's. There were a couple of sets advertised for sale on E Bay USA, for silly money.I then committed what was probably a cardinal sin, I painted them! A no no if one collects boxed miniatures.

Why one asks did I put paint on them? 

They were too beautiful not to paint and although they are no use to me, I thoroughly enjoyed the time I devoted to the figures. And now its time to move them on otherwise they will disappear into the pile of projects that were never going to be started and would eventually be found in a house clearence once Ive shifted this mortal coil.

The figures are true 25mm, and a bit small for my Lion Rampant units so this Sunday I will be putting them on  E Bay. Yes this is a shameful bit of advertising in some respects, but I really want them to go to someone who appreciates the figures of Grenadier Miniatures. 

 

A Vanilla Post.

I'm finding the need to post a little difficult at the moment due to life imposing itself on my leisure.I have been painting but not as regularly as I like and as a consequence I have a lot of stuff sat in boxes gathering dust.I was determined to complete an additional two Irish units for my Billhooks army. These are meant to represent Redshanks, that is Scots mercenaries, but the differences between them and other gallowglass appears very small, especially as they also lived in Ireland plying their trade. 

I used some lovely Antediluvian Miniatures for one unit and Redoubt figures for the second.They are very different but to be honest I like both ranges and Im happy with the results. As for the flags, well I will confess they are probably very wrong as they are Irish flags from early Tudor  times by Petes Flags.

I just like Pete's range and felt they added some colour to the units. Shoot me, if you must.

I used to be the proud owner of a very large Bretonnian army, I loved the range of figures produced by Games Workshop but only ever used it once before selling it for a song. One of the best figures of the range was the generic archer. I still have quite a few and sadly keep buying up others if they are cheap. These had been part painted ones which I created into a Burgundian unit, because I haven't enough. Yes they are fantasy figures, but for me they make a nice unit of cheap archers. 

I can only apologise that this post is a bit vanilla, but I do hope to put together something a bit meatier next time, that is if the weather remains the same wet self.

 Iain Macmillan very kindly sent me two lovely unpainted figures again, one a Marcus Hinton figures, the other a Les Higgins ECW chap. The standard of the sculpting is lovely, especially the woman showing off her leg. They were very enjoyable to paint. 

                              
                                Les Higgins and Hinton Hunt, 30mm lady of ill repute.