Conquest Games 28mm Norman Cavalry

Here are 2 pts of Conquest games Norman Cav and Warlord that need to have base foliage added to them. I did not even notice it till I saw the photo's! dang age...lol  They are pretty nice figures and go together well.  I used kite shields on these as well as the infantry to give them a distinctly Norman appearance as opposed to having some round shields mixed in making them look somewhat Frankish. The shields are also hand painted...

Wargames Factory 28mm Saxon's painted up as Norman warriors

I had the conquest games plastic cavalry that will show up in a later blog post, well I wanted to get some infantry painted up for my 4 pt Norman warband for SAGA.  I have not been overly fond of wargames factory miniatures as they are done with CAD and just don't have the detail you get from other plastic miniatures makers, they are also very frail! the spears break off just taking them out of my GW carrying case with the Red foam inserts.  This has been very disappointing at best!  The spear while looking to scale are just WAY to thin and snap right where the spear and hand come together.  Anyway here are 2 units of 8 warriors each, I hand painted the shields on all my figures as I can't afford transfers presently. The skin areas need to be lightened as the dip appears to have washed out the detail I had done on the faces and hands.  Also need to touch up the edge of the bases with black and sorry for the mish mash of bases with some being hex, I am scrounging through my bits to get these based.

PC hardware issues preventing me from uploading new pictures of stuff I have been working on.

Since my last post, I have been working on several projects, two new(ish) and one trying to finish up.  The first being...

1. Bolt Action - British Para's
2. Bolt Action - Late War WWII Herr infantry
3. SAGA - Viking 6 pt warband


Now here's the rub, my card reader has decided to act like Napoleons Cuirasier at Waterloo = err (spent)!  So despite my best efforts I have not been able to get my images from camera to PC and the onto my blog.  I will be working on getting this up and fixed soon so that I can get this done.  So there will be content to look at shortly.

28mm Gripping Beast Anglo-Danish and Viking test pieces

Okay I have been working on these since Christmas and wanted to get the opinion on these 2 test pieces. They are all from the Gripping Beast Plastic Boxed sets.  I mounted them on GW 25mm Rounds to be used with either SAGA or Skjaldborg Rules sets.  I have not done the basing on them yet in case someone pointed out something that needed to be adjusted.  These figures in this post are from both command frames in each boxed set.  Anyway first up with be 8 pictures of the Viking Leader/Jorl and the banner bearer.  Also these are the flags that came with the boxed sets, I am NOT happy with them at all but I do not have any replacements at hand so those will be changed later.

Next are the Anglo-Danish or Saxons, however you want to use them I guess.  First up will be the Leader/Eorl and then the banner bearer.  Please let me know what you think and any adjustments that should be made.  Also I Hand Painted these Shields so if they like really aren't that great well you know why...I wanted to try my hand at Hand Painting these Shields as well as for my Normans when I post them.  But that will depend on how these shields are received.  So here are the next 8 pictures.

Okay well that's it for this post, again please let me know constructively what you think...  These also are for the table top not a contest or anything... :)