Author Archives: mellis1644

About mellis1644

A painter and gamer who has no illusions about being the best painter but likes to play with decently painted toys and have fun gaming

Gauls – Command

Posted on May 13, 2022 by mellis1644

So my last post for the base Gaul/Celtic force for a little while I think as I have shown most of the figs done so far. But, any army needs commanders and I have done 4 bases of them for … Continue reading →

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Gauls – Mostly sling armed skirmishers

Posted on May 6, 2022 by mellis1644

OK so following on from the Bow armed skirmishers, here we have another common weapon of the poorer Gauls/Celts – the sling. Although I see in the photo’s a couple of bowmen got put into this group instead of the … Continue reading →

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OPR Grimdark Gangfight – Cultists vs Aliens

Posted on May 2, 2022 by mellis1644

Ok as a break from posts on my painted mini’s, here is a quick post writeup of a game of OPR Grimdark Gangfight I played this last weekend. This was a chaos cultists gang (me) vs aliens (Jahan) as an … Continue reading →

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Gauls – Bow armed skirmishers

Posted on April 28, 2022 by mellis1644

Keeping on the Gaul/Celtic army theme for a while, here are some skirmishers for the army. These are all bow armed. There are more bases here than ever needed for ADLG or DBA etc. But when I use the figures … Continue reading →

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Gauls – Spear armed medium foot

Posted on April 22, 2022 by mellis1644

Time to finish showing the ‘medium foot’ bases that I have done for this army. This post shows another 7 ADLG bases of spear armed fighters for my Gaulish army – or for use as basically any barbarian foot. Most … Continue reading →

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Gauls – medium foot dbx bases

Posted on April 15, 2022 by mellis1644

After showing the double based medium swordsman a few weeks ago, this week I’ll show off the single DBx based figs. These are half of an ADLG base but are of the same troops (and figures). So, here are 14 … Continue reading →

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OPR – Grimdark Future Gangfight games

Posted on April 10, 2022 by mellis1644

A bit of background for this post. Although I like the 40k background and have a load of novels (and figs) for that as an example, I have not played 40K as a game since the first edition (Rogue Trader). … Continue reading →

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Gauls – medium foot double bases

Posted on April 7, 2022 by mellis1644

I have been writing up army reports and even a show report recently so time to change tack and show some heavy metal – of the painted type. That means that this time I’m showing more figs for my Gaul … Continue reading →

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Seleucid command

Posted on April 1, 2022 by mellis1644

After a few week of game reports and convention details, it is back to showing some figures. This time we have the Seleucid command bases that I have completed. These allow me to use that army for ADLG – without … Continue reading →

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Hotlead 2022 – ADLG games

Posted on March 25, 2022 by mellis1644

So in the previous post I put some info on the Hotlead convention and a load of photo’s of different tables etc. The reason I did not participate in too many games was that I played in the ADLG tournament. … Continue reading →

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