Well, well, well, wot 'ave we 'ere?

Sometimes to get back into the game you have to accomplish something small and manageable.That said, this took me the greater part of an afternoon. Pretty sure these are two generations of Hovels 15mm wells. They'll make lovely battlefield objectives or serve as just scenery. Intended for ECW though they obviously have wide applicability.

Used my new state of the art phone camera - the top shot with the flash on, this lower one naked with no flash or adjustment of any kind though on the processing end I upped the fill light a bit..

15mm Hovels' Procession of Monks

Remember these? I painted these over 10 years ago for my Vikings games. See here for that blog entry.

Last year though I received a half dozen more as a bonus for ordering a bunch of 15mm English/Rural buildings and accessories from Hovels. Pretty sure they always throw in some extras with each order. I think I also got a well in here too?

They are easy enough to paint, uncomplicated figures, lightly equipped, so I tackled them from start to finish this morning thinking they were identical to the ones I already had above. Not so - turns out these are noticeably bigger. Enough to make the others appear as child acolytes. 

Originals at left - newer ones at right.
Presumably, the newer ones are available here:

Again - originals at left - newer ones at right. The modern me wanted to highlight them one more time, but decided I'd rather they fit in with the originals so left it as pictured here.

The size difference is much more apparent in the side-by-side.

The newer ones, though bigger, are slightly worse than the originals - faces in particular are almost a blank canvas. Free is free however.

Can't get a non-blurry shot of these, but you get the idea.

 Thanks for looking! Now back to Napoleonics ...

15mm Dark Ages - Vikings vs. Peasants & More

I'm primarily a Horse & Musket guy but I've dabbled in Dark Ages a bit. Here's Essex's Medieval Serfs with Baggage. Essex sculpts the eyes so I paint them. These could also be useful as Halfling hirelings?

Google tells me these Monks are from Hovels!

I have exactly 60 Old Glory Vikings painted up - at center front here are the Huscarls. I didn't have a rule set in mind - I think Pig Wars was a possibility but these may all be repurposed for Saga. I'll have many more than I need it seems.

Old Glory Beserkers - the Ulfhednar are in another unit unpainted at present. This particular flesh experiment turned out too ashen for my current tastes. They would also benefit from another layer of highlights.

In back there are the Old Glory Viking Spearmen. I painted eyes here too being in no particular hurry.

These 60 peasants are a mix of Old Glory, a couple Museum Miniatures, and the rest are some I don't recall. They were in a set called Peasant's Revolt and came in a quantity of 100? I got them in the late 80's from Modeler's Mart in Florida via mail order. [10/21/2016 Edit - I've since learned the peasant mix are from Table Top Miniatures - now carried by http://www.15mm.co.uk/.]

The rear-left unit was the first one I did and was in no particular paint scheme - just "peasant" colors.

To avoid future confusion, I tried to theme them by color with that rear-right unit being in browns, grays, and tans, the archers in various greens. I see I did the eyes on most of these too - masochism.

All of these were finished by 2007? 08? And they are less than a 6th of all the pieces for this game - one I won't get to for some time I reckon.

Thanks for looking!