So, I just realized that five days ago marked the three year anniversary of the first post I made on this Website! The very first post was on May 3^rd, 2005, and just introduced the site. At the time there were no army galleries up! It's been a good three years for the site though. It went from basically nothing to a host for over 20 articles, over 10 battle reports, 40 army galleries, and 20 terrain galleries... But that's not nearly enough for three years of work! I promise to try to get my but in gear over the next three years!

Anyway, I finally finished my Andalusian DBA (III/34) army! Finally! I blame the patterned clothing for the month and a half long process. It was great though. I liked it so much that I am scheming on building a Feudal Spanish army (III/35) just so that I can paint some more Andalusians as allies! So, check out the finished army in the 15mm Andalusian gallery. Also, I wrapped the army up into a single page presentation for Fanaticus. Check that one out here. I also cleaned up the viking army single DBA army page and rolled it into the website. Previously it was just a random page... Nothing has really changed other than the added headers and links, but check out the old viking army wrap up page here. Until next time, enjoy! the next litt

A pretty big update today! First, I uploaded pictures of all of my DBA terrain to the DBA Terrain Gallery, check that out in the galleries section! Some good stuff in there! I also finished off an element of light horse for my Andalusians! Now I am ready to field that army! Check that unit out in the 15mm Andalusian gallery. I also put together a quick article on how to paint fabric patterns, check it out as well!

Last but not least I finally put up some more battle reports! After deciding to write them up I also decided to do another campaign report! This campaign report isn't exactly like the Lord of the Rings campaign that I ran, but more a following of all of the DBA battles I have had with my DBA viking army! I have named the army leader Steinthor, and so, the campaign follows him and his warriors! So, you guessed it, the two new battle reports are for my DBA viking army! So, check out the Raid! Pillage! loot! campaign in the Campaigns section of the site. It gives a general overview of all of the battles as well as links to the battle reports! The battles can be viewed in the Battles section of the site, the battles are: Steinthor vs. Fionnlagh and Steinthor goes to Wales. Until next time, enjoy!

No, not an Andalusian update yet! I put that project aside to finish off my DBA terrain. I still needed the linear terrain pieces! So, after doing a search of the Fanaticus forum I found Paul Hannah's brief description of how he put together his waterway and decided to morph that into a river, a waterway, and a road. So, I put together the terrain and some articles. Check out the Waterway and River building article, the Road building article, and the Viking Fort BUA articles!

I also threw together a DBA terrain gallery. Currently there is only the Viking camp and the recently completed BUA, but soon I will post my whole DBA terrain collections... I realized while doing this stuff that DBA is almost a board game... It certainly is on the cusp of board game and miniature game... Anyway, check out the terrain gallery here. Finally, I also updated the thatch roof article with the twine thatch method! Until next time, have fun!

More Andalusians for my 15mm DBA project! This time I polished off the foot required to field the 'B' version of the army. Now, to field the entire 'B' version of the army all I need to paint is a single element of light horse (two figs!). To finish both the 'A' and 'B' list I still have to paint the previously mentioned light horse as well as a unit of cavalry (3 figs) and another two units of psiloi (4 figs). So, since I have painted 8 cavalry figs and 20 foots figs, I am way, way over half way!

So, I broke out the old soviet chess clock that I have for this one so that I could actually see how long it took to paint the figs. It was quite an enlightening endeavor, here's what I found:

• 15 minutes: Prepping and gluing the figs down to the painting surface
• 3 hours, 5 minutes: Basic painting - painting and highlighting all colours
• 35 minutes: Painting four shields
• 2 hours, 30 minutes: Painting cloth patterns!

So, looking at those numbers, here are the interesting averages to come out of it all:

• 23 minutes, 7 seconds per basic fig
• 18 minutes, 45 seconds to put cloth details on each fig
• 8 minutes, 45 seconds per shield design

Pretty interesting for me :) Anyway, check out the three new elements: One unit of four spear and two units of two psiloi in the 15mm Andalusian gallery. Until next time!

Up until this morning I have been splitting my time between three different projects, and it has slowed productivity a bit... I started on some light horse figs for my Andalusians, as well as more foot troops for that army, and then I started on another fantasy adventurer type fig... This morning I finished off the light horse for my Andalusians, and so I finally have an update! I am liking the way these figs are turning out, but the mounted elements are starting to look pretty similar to each other. I will have to switch up the next one I think :) Anyway, check out the latest element in the 15mm Andalusian gallery. Until next time!

More elements for my 15mm Andalusian DBA army! This time bow-armed skirmishers! They are great to put together because each element is made up of only two figs! I really put some effort into details into their clothing this time. It seems the more ideas I try, the more ideas I come up with! Anway, check out the new elements in the 15mm Andalusian gallery. Until next time!