Eclectic? Moi?

So today I chopped down a few trees, I started with the chainsaw, but ending up using a pull-saw as the chainsaw was struggling with Acacias. Those things are real tough!

Afterwards I went to hide in the man-cave, and decided I had better start by tidying up a few things. I slapped some paint on seven elephants, a mix of Chariot 'Classical Indian' and Essex 'Ghaznavid' - which might end up being part of a Desert Rajput army. (In DBMM, 'Hindu Indian')

I discovered about 57 Museum Minis camels with lancers (AC71) in the lead pile the other day, and thought that Desert Rajputs would let me use a decent amount of them, (up to 12 elements in the DBMM list). The Museum camels are lovely, but much too big for the standard basing (30mm deep for 15mm figures

There were also a number of Mirliton 15mm Condotta, principally infantry, Hungarian horsemen, Stradiot, and mounted crossbowmen, that I undercoated and put flesh colours on over 10 years ago, that have never been finished. I originally purchased all the figures I would need to do a Venetian colonial army in Greece. Some of these then got 'semi-finished' to be a DBA army.

Now - I discovered a kilo of 'Eastern Medieval' lead recently in the great evacuation to the man cave, and these guys would fit right in. So the Mirliton got pulled off their painting sticks and stuck onto DBMM sized bases.

Mirliton on the left, Camels centre, elephants right with Houstons in the background

And finally, my Houston's ships - the acrylic gel had finally dried, so I applied a white drybrush to the gel wave-tops... 

Not a bad day's work, although I should probably try and focus on one thing at a time.

Markers

I generally dislike markers in a game. Apart from being a bear of very little brain, who prefers not to have to remember states, I generally dislike table clutter. If I have invested in aesthetically pleasing figures, terrain etc..  I don't want it cluttered up with chits, tokens, bits of paper, etc. But sometimes, you just have to have a marker. The ones in the pictures above are from Litko, who make a very nice range that I use especially with DBSA.

The game was DBSA vs Thomo, who took my German East Asian Fleet vs my French. Sadly for him, many of the explosions seem to be on the German ships, (in white).