Smygpainter (Pelle)
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I finished another mounted arquebusier. Sadly the horse looks a lot better than the rider... 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I finished another mounted arquebusier. Sadly the horse looks a lot better than the rider... 🙄
Since I'm contemplating some Great Northern War I just want to promote this old site with a tremendous amount of details about uniforms etc. www.tacitus.nu/english.html
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Since I'm contemplating some Great Northern War I just want to promote this old site with a tremendous amount of details about uniforms etc. www.tacitus.nu/english.html
I took a wild swing at one of Charles XII's lads, and it's not too bad. I feel I lack some colours, like a proper buff and possibly a slightly more muted yellow, but then again I might try @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social's Marine juice for these so an initial bright yellow might be good. 🤔
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I took a wild swing at one of Charles XII's lads, and it's not too bad. I feel I lack some colours, like a proper buff and possibly a slightly more muted yellow, but then again I might try @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social's Marine juice for these so an initial bright yellow might be good. 🤔
Having ever longer bouts of no mojo at all I might give GNW a wild swing in the dark. I have two KS from Battlecat Miniatures (Swedish and Russian) and the effing Danes can be simulated. Tbh the Battlecat quality has become very unsatisfying with many mistakes but I have fixed most by 3D assembling.
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Having ever longer bouts of no mojo at all I might give GNW a wild swing in the dark. I have two KS from Battlecat Miniatures (Swedish and Russian) and the effing Danes can be simulated. Tbh the Battlecat quality has become very unsatisfying with many mistakes but I have fixed most by 3D assembling.
Hm...I have lost track of the number of gendarmes I have painted. 🤔 Between no mojo, choosing rule sets and therefore basing I have actually not based any, but just occasionally painted a few more. 28 seems to be the number now, and I'll need to add more, these are sadly just 3.5 Furioso units... 🙄
October 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hm...I have lost track of the number of gendarmes I have painted. 🤔 Between no mojo, choosing rule sets and therefore basing I have actually not based any, but just occasionally painted a few more. 28 seems to be the number now, and I'll need to add more, these are sadly just 3.5 Furioso units... 🙄
The first online game after a summer break saw the notorious spy and womanizer Red Robford sneak away into a newly painted castle with Ms. Bottom to exchange... information... Unbeknownst to them a small French patrol has also occupied the castle, blocking their escape. Help is however on the way!
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The first online game after a summer break saw the notorious spy and womanizer Red Robford sneak away into a newly painted castle with Ms. Bottom to exchange... information... Unbeknownst to them a small French patrol has also occupied the castle, blocking their escape. Help is however on the way!
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UPPDATERAS: Raffinaderi i ryska Saratov, raff samt oljepipelinestation i Samara bombade – minst tre mördade och 27 skadade i massiv terrorbombning mot Ukraina med 619 robotar – Estland åberopar Nato artikel 4 efter kränkning
UPPDATERAS: Raffinaderi i ryska Saratov, raff samt oljepipelinestation i Samara bombade – minst tre mördade och 27 skadade i massiv terrorbombning mot Ukraina med 619 robotar – Estland åberopar Nato artikel 4 efter kränkning
Ett raffinaderi i ryska Saratov Oblast bombades i natt tillsammans med ett raffinaderi i Samara Oblast, samt en oljepipelinestation också i Samara. Ryssland genomförde en massiv terrorbombning mot Ukraina i natt med 619 robotar och mördade två civila samt skadade 27 när bostadshus bombades i bland annat Tjernihiv, Dnipro och Mykolajiv. Efter tolv minuters kränkning av tre ryska Mig-31 spetsflyg åberopar nu Estland Natos artikel 4 för konsultationer mellan Natoländerna om situationen.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
UPPDATERAS: Raffinaderi i ryska Saratov, raff samt oljepipelinestation i Samara bombade – minst tre mördade och 27 skadade i massiv terrorbombning mot Ukraina med 619 robotar – Estland åberopar Nato artikel 4 efter kränkning
My Spanish finally added to and re-based for Furioso; as two colunelas (pre-tercio formation), or as one small pike block and two formed shot, or alternatively (if I add fighting bases as these from the Swiss block) two small, one normal (three columns wide) or one large pike block (four wide).
September 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
My Spanish finally added to and re-based for Furioso; as two colunelas (pre-tercio formation), or as one small pike block and two formed shot, or alternatively (if I add fighting bases as these from the Swiss block) two small, one normal (three columns wide) or one large pike block (four wide).
Being a good boy and getting on with the Furioso re-basing and flocking; Landsknecht skirmishers for the pike blocks and the formed Spanish shot for the colunelas or separate shot units.
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Being a good boy and getting on with the Furioso re-basing and flocking; Landsknecht skirmishers for the pike blocks and the formed Spanish shot for the colunelas or separate shot units.
16 additional Spanish shot to rebuild my two made-up TtS "pike and shot" units to two proper Furioso colunela units, alternative one small pike block and two formed shot. These I now tarted up in all kinds of colours to mix up my parody-painted Spanish in red-yellow-black (right). 16 pike to go.
August 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
16 additional Spanish shot to rebuild my two made-up TtS "pike and shot" units to two proper Furioso colunela units, alternative one small pike block and two formed shot. These I now tarted up in all kinds of colours to mix up my parody-painted Spanish in red-yellow-black (right). 16 pike to go.
The 2nd unit of Italian targonieri, intended as generic Italian infantry before 1510, with exchangeable flags. Shield transfers are my own designs loosely based on historical examples and random drug dreams; they would really be more uniform in a mercenary or state unit.
August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The 2nd unit of Italian targonieri, intended as generic Italian infantry before 1510, with exchangeable flags. Shield transfers are my own designs loosely based on historical examples and random drug dreams; they would really be more uniform in a mercenary or state unit.
As the Italian shield muppets are ready for basing I have prepared the 32 Spanish pike and shot needed to fill out my two TtS pike blocks into two Furioso colunelas, or alternatively one 8-base pike block and two 4-base formed shot. I'll try hard to paint these really badly to get them done...
August 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
As the Italian shield muppets are ready for basing I have prepared the 32 Spanish pike and shot needed to fill out my two TtS pike blocks into two Furioso colunelas, or alternatively one 8-base pike block and two 4-base formed shot. I'll try hard to paint these really badly to get them done...
The second great shielding is done...
August 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The second great shielding is done...
"The re-basing of the Landsknechts", oil on canvas, 1513. Furioso on 60 mm wide bases, or Midgard in a pinch, is the chosen poison so my Landsknechts must go from 40 to 60 mm. The needed table size for Furioso remains a problem for online games though.
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"The re-basing of the Landsknechts", oil on canvas, 1513. Furioso on 60 mm wide bases, or Midgard in a pinch, is the chosen poison so my Landsknechts must go from 40 to 60 mm. The needed table size for Furioso remains a problem for online games though.
I'm picking up speed: I have after more than two years of careful planning flocked my Imperial/Spanish artillery by dousing it in PVA and burying it under a homemade flock mix. It's this kind of precision work that brings the hobby forward... 🙄
August 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I'm picking up speed: I have after more than two years of careful planning flocked my Imperial/Spanish artillery by dousing it in PVA and burying it under a homemade flock mix. It's this kind of precision work that brings the hobby forward... 🙄
I have also finished the first two Midgard units of Italian targonieri mercenaries, with my own shield transfers. Note my patented replaceable flag system, with a tube 3D-added to the figure to hold a bristle flag pole, this so they can be anyone's mercenaries.
August 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I have also finished the first two Midgard units of Italian targonieri mercenaries, with my own shield transfers. Note my patented replaceable flag system, with a tube 3D-added to the figure to hold a bristle flag pole, this so they can be anyone's mercenaries.
I have finally finished the Swiss pike block which has been sitting around for close to a year due to a crashed mojo. I'm quite happy with this, but I need another 3 "canton columns" to give me 2 Furioso or 3 Midgard units, which is something for my upcoming vacation maybe...
August 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I have finally finished the Swiss pike block which has been sitting around for close to a year due to a crashed mojo. I'm quite happy with this, but I need another 3 "canton columns" to give me 2 Furioso or 3 Midgard units, which is something for my upcoming vacation maybe...
The Great Shielding continues... 😅 Still blown away by how good these transfers turned out. 🥳
August 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Great Shielding continues... 😅 Still blown away by how good these transfers turned out. 🥳
What? Me assembling 15th century Italian pikemen!? Don't be ridiculous...
August 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What? Me assembling 15th century Italian pikemen!? Don't be ridiculous...
Smugness intensifies... 😇
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Smugness intensifies... 😇
If Smugness was one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse I would for sure be his stableboy! 😇 They are flimsy as duck and I have messed up a few, but the result is fantastic! 🥳🥳🥳 When printing and handling afterwards I did have problems with smudging, but with 3 layers of gloss varnish they are solid.
July 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If Smugness was one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse I would for sure be his stableboy! 😇 They are flimsy as duck and I have messed up a few, but the result is fantastic! 🥳🥳🥳 When printing and handling afterwards I did have problems with smudging, but with 3 layers of gloss varnish they are solid.
Finished another gendarme standard bearer. These I will add to annoy people; generic nonsense flags to liven things up, and then have yet-to-do ones with hollow hands for replaceable national flags for proper identification.
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Finished another gendarme standard bearer. These I will add to annoy people; generic nonsense flags to liven things up, and then have yet-to-do ones with hollow hands for replaceable national flags for proper identification.
I have painted my first "targonieri", the heavy shield muppet infantry of 15th century Italy. Very easy to paint; apart from the humongous shield these gits didn't even carry their own swords, they had a page/servant hovering close by if so. If my transfers work these should look rather splendid! 🥳
July 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I have painted my first "targonieri", the heavy shield muppet infantry of 15th century Italy. Very easy to paint; apart from the humongous shield these gits didn't even carry their own swords, they had a page/servant hovering close by if so. If my transfers work these should look rather splendid! 🥳
Using Armoira to make "proper" Italian Renaissance "tabulaccio" shield designs after pictures on the interwebs. The tool is sadly not finetuned for Italian Renaissance needs so I'm using a pretty large mallet to produce pretty decent approximations, methinks. Google "tabulaccio" if you are bored. 😅
July 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Using Armoira to make "proper" Italian Renaissance "tabulaccio" shield designs after pictures on the interwebs. The tool is sadly not finetuned for Italian Renaissance needs so I'm using a pretty large mallet to produce pretty decent approximations, methinks. Google "tabulaccio" if you are bored. 😅
I think I'm happy with this lot; a Midgard unit on two 60x60m bases, also ok for Furioso. Not super-happy with the available poses I have committed the crime of "ball-jointing" some arms to get more "forward" in the fighting poses; this will not be visible after (my) painting. Heads to be added...
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think I'm happy with this lot; a Midgard unit on two 60x60m bases, also ok for Furioso. Not super-happy with the available poses I have committed the crime of "ball-jointing" some arms to get more "forward" in the fighting poses; this will not be visible after (my) painting. Heads to be added...