• Progress?

    I’ve decided not to sell my Early Crusaders; in fact, I’m trying to get them finished in time for Drums ’08.  I managed to scrounge two pictures for this quick post.  One is of my Crusaders, the other is an element of pikes.

     Four elements to go to complete the army.  I have to paint up one more spear element and three more knight elements.

     Not the best quality picture, but it’s better than nothing!  This is an element from my Mike’s Models Successor army.  These pics are a couple weeks old now and I’ve made much more progress.

    More updates coming soon!

  • Ebay? Maybe…

    Hello again! I’ve wanted to post sooner but it’s been a tad busy. I resurrected my desktop and I’m frustrated over the fact that Fujifilm does not offer a free download of their software (Finepix Viewer) that they shipped with my camera for transferring images to my hard drive. So I’ve got pics I want to post and I’m figuring what I’m going to do about software because I seem to have misplaced my installation disk.

    I completed a trade for some new Early Crusader spearmen that actually look appropriate. This leads me to thinking that I may finish my Essex version and sell it on Ebay.

    My lust for retro figs continues with enough Mike’s Models figs to morph my II/18e Macedonian Early Successor army into Alexandrian Mac./Imp. and the other Successor armies. I’m also getting my hands on a small amount of “strip” MiniFigs Hoplites. If you have any please let me know, as I am trying to complete an army of them. I’m also looking for cavalry and skirmishers. If you want to deal, you can contact me at this address: portertm at gmail dot com

    Hopefully I will have some more pics for you this week.

  • Frustrated

    I’m thinking of shelving my Early Crusaders again.  I just can’t get over the fact that they put 13th & 14th Century Knights and foot in the Army Pack I purchased.  Just too many kettle & great helms and heater shields. I spent an irritating amount of time mixing and matching horses last night (some have caparisons) and I’m just dissatisfied. I can easily morph the army into Later Crusaders, but I really like the Dark Age style of the Early Crusaders (conical helmets with nasals, and kite shields).  So I guess I will have to get aroung to ordering the correct packs and do an early/later morph.

    So I guess it’s back to my Mike’s Models Antigonos Successor army. 🙂