Showing posts with label Saxons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saxons. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Back to the farm!

Hoi There,

As an encore to the Dark Age buildings from some posts ago here are some villagers to go along with those. I am not to sure what make they are. I know I have bought quite some Gripping Beast miniatures and some other brands as well but am not sure which ones and what figures are from what brand. Frankly: I do not really care.

Anyway, let's get on with the pictures right?







Oh and some little pigsy wigsy's got finished as well, I really like the look of these proto pigs, the sheep awaiting me are a bit more daunting though since they too are of a Dark Age breed I am unfamiliar with.







That's all for today folks!

Cheers Sander

Monday, 26 September 2016

Ascloha revisited...

Hoi,

Well Hugo is settling in fine and since he's rather quick falling asleep in the evening I get a little downtime then. So here's the promised post about the MDF buildings I am currently working on. I basically have two projects: one is a Dark Age project, which will feature in today's post, the other is a Victorian/ Modern Day project.

Since I started doing the Dark Age 28mm project I have been steadily beavering away on some buildings made by Timeline Miniatures. These are very good value for money and sturdy builds at that. At the moment I have 6 buildings from their DA line: 2 Viking houses (one of which you have already seen), 2 Saxon or regular DA houses, a (Saxon) longhouse/ drinking hall and an Anglo-Romanic church/ minster. This will suffice me for some terrain and more specifically the small hamlet of Ascloha, modern day Asselt in the region where I live, where a rather cool Norsemen drama evolved. This will form the basis for my Dux Brit. campaign.

Now for some pictures!
The last finished dwelling:





While the longhouse and Minster are only based and not yet finished I thought I might show you the progress anyway.

The Longhouse:




The Minster:






When these are done I still need to do some scatter terrain to spruce the board up but this will be fine since I already have some Renedra wattle fences and more DA animals lying here.

Next up will be some stuff for the Modern terrain project.

Cheers Sander

Monday, 16 May 2016

Some Dark Ages Scenery

Hoi,

From tomorrow on I will be taking a "Hobby-Leave" for some time. Why is that? Well tomorrow 77 of my graduate pupils will be taking their final test in History and I will have to correct all their work. It will take me quite a while to get finished so that's why I have taken all spare time I had recently to paint some stuff.

On show today are some NPC Dark Ages miniatures.

First up some cattle from the GB farmyard animals set



Next some GB children from their Dark Ages civilians set



To top it off for today is one of the two Norse dwellings I obtained from Timeline Miniatures. I swapped the teddy-bear fur roof for plasticcard shingles and am pretty happy with the result.





The roof is lift-off and there's an elevated sleeping place inside the building, stupidly I forgot to take pictures. Perhaps in a week or two I'll rectify that.


Cheers Sander

Thursday, 12 May 2016

More Saxons!

Hoi,

To continue my Dark Ages project, today's post brings you 4 more Saxons. Included in this bunch are two warriors with red accented shields made from Gripping Beast plastics. The hornblower and standard bearer are Foundry Saxons which I have picked up at the Crisis last year.





The basing of these miniatures includes more tufts than I usually use but I found this fitting in with the theme.

Next in the painting cue are some HäT testshots so keep an eye on this spot!

Cheers Sander

Saturday, 19 March 2016

The first of the Saxons...

Hoi,

Yep it happened to me again...as I told a few posts back, at the Poldercon I was converted to play Dux Britanniarum, a game by TooFatLardies. It's great fun and rather elegant in it's simplicity. At the Poldercon Peter, the gentleman doing the demo, kindly provided us with a free Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age warriors sprue and 4 of the miniatures from this have now been painted as my Saxon Missile troops (with slings).

As usually happens I have now ample figures in both plastic and metal, to start 3 armies for my new Dark Ages project. These are Northmen (Vikings), Saxons and Carolingians. More on my plans later, for now just take a look at these and let me know what you think.







Cheers Sander