Falklands Air War

A new little project for me - I picked up the Airwar C21 rules over the summer and treated myself to a few 1/300 jets to have a go with them. I've gone for the Falklands as there is a family connection but equally could've chosen theatres such as Iran/Iraq war, Arab/Israeli, India//Pakistan, Korea or any other latter 20th/early 21st century conflict, real or alternative. If we enjoy the rules the benefit is that the planes and models are very cheap and quick to paint.
British air support was limited in number while the Argentinians, although more numerous, were heavily limited in range and pursued a strategy of bombing runs over air superiority missions, which was only embedded following the successful Vulcan bombing run on Port Stanley airfield and resulted in most of the good Argentinian fighters (Mirage IIIs mainly) being held back to protect the mainland. Certainly British command were expecting to lose quite a number of Sea Harriers, although only a few were actually lost and none in air to air combat - in fact the Sea Harriers gained a fearsome reputation and the nickname 'muerte negra' or 'black death' from the Argentinians.
As such, I have 2 Sea Harriers:

4 Mirage III / IAI Daggers. These can be configured for air superiority or ground attack:

And 6 A4 Skyhawks which were solely used in ground attack modes:

Sunken ship markers

I've had a very busy summer with house renovations again, but have managed to complete another naval commission of 3 British ships of the line. I'm currently working on some terrain in a Normandy Church and some more Aztecs. I have managed to produce some sunken ship markers for my BBIB games:

Spanish Commissions

Here are a few photos of a recent Napoleonic 'Armada Espanõla' I was commissioned to produce.
100 gun from Skytrex, albeit Langton base and rat lines 
A selection of other Skytrex ships




And an 80 gun and two 74s from Langton

Moctezuma II

Moctezuma II and priest who has just sacrificed to Huitzilopochtli.



Moctezuma is a Gringos 40 model, and wears the traditional headdress associated with him.

The priest is a special edition model produced by The Assault Group.
The rest of the Aztec Impetus army is coming on well, tweaked a bit since the release of the new Basic Impetus army lists and rules. I'm hoping to attend the other Partisan this year so may well pick up some more figures then.

Spanish frigates

I'm afraid life has taken a turn for the busy over the past few months with our house being renovated; time for hobbies has been negligible. However, I was able last week to produce a couple of 36 gun Spanish frigates for a commission - a short post, more to let any readers know I'm still here!

Eagle Warriors

My first unit of Aztecs is now complete!

This is a unit of Eagle Warriors, one of the elite 'suited' warrior castes of the Aztec army.

I've based them for Basic Impetus, but can remove figures to put together a war and for 'En Garde' skirmish rules. I've used the Impetus 2p base from Warbases.

As for the figures, most are Foundry, with a single Gringos40 model. No because I necessarily prefer Foundry, but their figures come in packs of 6, whereas Gringos40 are individual models.

So, here is the unit, all armed with the Macehuitl obsidian swords.

Here are the figures individually. First the leader of the unit, with back banner. These were used as signals mainly.

Next the sole Gringos40 model. They match pretty well, although the Gringos40 is ever so slightly larger.

This figure is posed very nicely, with some additional feathers.

Chequerboard design on the shield.

Aztec face on the shield.

And the final two figures.

Aztecs in 28mm

I have added a few more figures to my fledgling Aztec forces. Here we have 4 Foundry slingers and a Foundry archer.