Well that’s it…….Its Fran and my last shift at work tonight…….They’ve finally pulled the plug and closed us down for good…….. So, as of tomorrow we’re both unemployed…….Bollox!!!!So we’re both on the job hunt now, as well as the ot…
Zachariah Tiffin was commissioned by William III to raise the regiment on 20th June 1689 for the defence of the town of Enniskillen Co Fermanagh, from the Catholic army of James II. Recruiting was not difficult because independent companies already exi…
Today is the 50th birthday of the Rejects Head Supremo and Fuhrer, Postie. I thought he’d really appreciate me posting this info…he he he!Meanwhile Tamsin’s still at it, giving away so many great things in her Day 3, she’s giving away a box of Warlor…
If your a Walking Dead fan you should enjoy this!!! Its quite funny and extremely silly. Right up my street!I can’t remember where I found this? I’m sure it was linked from another blog??? Just remember”La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum”I’m sure mos…
Jens Maltesen Sehested was born in Stravanger in 1649. He was the Colonel of one of the three Danish Horse units present at the battle of the Boyne and led them later in Flanders. A report of the commanding General in Norway in approx 1…
The Rejects got together yesterday for what will be our one and only practice game of The Battle of the Boyne, for our demo game at Broadside on June 9th. I did want to try and run at least one more game but work, kids, work and general life have all g…
The last of my Viking stands for Saga or whatever you want. Once again they’re all Gripping Beast plastic figures with my banners attached, you can find all the banners and some others here.Get your butts over to Seb’s Back to the Minis, he got more&nb…
Bloody hell that’s some title!!!!!Anyway firstly, more of my plastic Gripping Beast command stands. I like the first one the best, I’ve always liked this flag, perhaps because it reminds me of bacon???Seb over at Back to the Minis is having a mass…
Now I can’t say I enjoyed sticking these Gripping Beast plastic Vikings together, because I didn’t. In fact I hated it. Now you may think hate is a strong word, but it isn’t I think I aged around 3 years trying to glue the buggers together. I’m surpris…
The first of my three regts of Danish Horse for the Battle of the Boyne. Von Donop’s Horse were formed from drafts taken from regular Danish regiments of horse. According to the army estimates for the year 1691, each of the three regiments was com…
More figures that I’ve had for far too long sitting in my unloved figure draw are this bunch of canoes and rafts for the French Indian Wars. They are mainly from Irregular Miniatures with a spattering of Matchlock Miniatures.For the British side there …
I’m in a bit of a painting fug at the moment, I seem to be making any kind of excuse not to pick the brush up, trouble is I’ve got so much stuff still to paint that I’ve just gotta keep plodding on.Anyhow whilst in the middle of this hazzy fug I’ve man…
I did take a lot of photos at the show but I had to bin at least half of them. I’m not sure who to blame maybe I need a new camera, or perhaps I should read the instruction booklet for my camera, maybe its me? But I’m going with the blame Francis, why?…
I’m still knackered even now, myself Fran and evil Gamesmaster Postie, all travelled up to London on Saturday morning for Salute 2013. Both me and Fran had been on nights the Friday night, so you can imagine how impressed I was when the alarm wen…
My pal Keir asked me to have a go and paint up these two massive Dr Who figures, his good lady wife glued the figures together, then I put them in my locker at work and completely forgot all about them. Move forward in time far longer than I …
These are some of the figures I bought many moons ago for my 1513 English Flodden army, BUT the figures are dressed a little late for 1513, so they’ll be used for Henry’s later adventures in Flanders and Boulogne.There are two units of English Demi-Lan…
Who’s going???Some of Posties Rejects will be at Salute on the 20th AprilYou may remember we had a Blogger meet up at last years show.So we’re going to do it again!So if your going and want to meet up with the Rejects and other bloggers we’ll be a…
Originally myself and Reject Richard agreed to paint up an army each to play the rules Beneath the Lily Banners. I was to paint up the Flanders army for King William III while Richard would paint up the army of Louis XIV of France. As I get quite a bit…
A this year is the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, in 1513 I thought I’d have a crack at getting some figures painted up for the Battle. my original plan was to refight the Battle at the Broadside Wargames show in June, but I won’t get all …
This is yet another regt that there’s hardly any information on, but I have found that they were originally raised in 1689 by Colonel Henry Baker the Governor of Londonderry. On 17th June, Baker died of a fever, then on the 4t…
We’re at it again, carrying on with the Reject profile shenanigans, and still stolen from Phil’s blog. Today as the title suggests I’m profiling Reject Smiffy, while Fran’s ripping the pish out of Reject Ian.The other members of the Gang…
Both me and Postie have been painting up some Napoleonic Generals to sell for Battleaxe Painting Service.The figure above is of Stapleton Cotton, I seem to remember he’s a Foundry model, but I could be wrong.The French General below is a Perry figure w…
Mitchelbourne’s foot was originally raised in approx 1688-89 as Viscount Massereene’s regt of foot as a regt of Ulster protestant volunteers, they were commanded by the Viscount’s son and heir the most excellently named Clotworthy S…
Well the Analogue painting Challenge is now over for another year. I wasn’t a winner this year but I’m very pleased with my 4th place. I made my quota of points which was 2500, but as the reigning champ Curt put me up to 3000, so technic…
Carrying on with the Reject shenanigans, and still stolen from Phil’s blog. Today bought on another toss of the coin this time between Rejects Richard and John.(Click for Fran’s post)The other members of the GangReject Ra…