Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Santa has come and gone and I am left with lead to paint...about 88 minis to be exact. I received several packs from the Sash & Saber line including Union and Confederate regiment packs. Each includes 3 blisters of ten troops each in right shoulder shift. In addition there is a blister of ten command figures (3 NCOs, 2 officers, 2 color bearers, 2 drummers, and 1 bugler). These packs go for $45 each and each pose is different. In addition to the advancing packs, skirmish, Iron Brigade, Zouaves, mounted and dismounted cav, and arty pieces and crew are some additional products offered. For me, S&S is right up there with Foundry in quality and appearance. S&S wins with more variety of poses of their rank and file troops and the price is just over half that of Foundry, however Foundry offers a better variety of packs. I don't know how reliable the source was, but I've been told Chris at S&S is working on some new stuff. Well, I'm not going to get much painted by blogging, so farewell for now.

Some WW2

Here are a few pics of some WW2 stuff I promised.  I think I may have mentioned in an earlier entry that most of my WW2 figs are Bolt Action.  these were painted using a single-color base coat (with the exception of some of the bags and ammo pouches), a drybrush, and a wash.  The Wehrmacht Pak 40 crews are Crusader pre-painted by a painting service; not happy with the quality. As with most of my  ACW, any WW2 I do in the future will be done using a 2-color method.  On to Berlin!