Imperialist Heavy Reinforcements

This week I've been back working on the Imperialist Army for our 10mm Midgard games. More characters, a strong force of Gendarmes and a unit of crossbowmen muster in the army!

Four more command stands added, the first one is the leader of one of the infantry contingents accompanied by his banner man.

 

The next character is a devout warrior priest ensuring the force obeys the gods!

Another mounted commander with his bannerman, this pair are part of one of the spear command stands, but, clip off quite nicely to make a mounted commander and aide.

The final character is a champion to lead a unit of Gendarmes.

The army already has a mounted contingent of three units of Ritter armed with swords and pistols, but if the undead are to truly be banished then some Gendarmes are going to be key!

I've kept a common theme, but with slight differences to distinguish the military orders, the first unit has blue lances with gold pennants.

The second unit has gold lances with blue pennants.

While the final unit has black lances with gold pennants, the standard of this unit was also trimmed black.

The final unit in this batch is a unit of crossbowmen to add to the arquebusiers in the initial force.

Really enjoying painting these Forest Dragon miniatures.

A carriage for Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes

 

Next weekend at Partizan our crew of Morris and Chums will be recreating the Battle of Lewes 1264 and a key part of the battle was Simon de Montfort's carriage that Prince Edwards troops took time to loot after defeating the Londoners rather than returning to the fray. By the time Edwards contingent re-joined the battle the Rebel barons were victorious!

But, we don't have a carriage! So a quick order to Warbases  and I was quickly to work!

The horses are also from Warbases while the driver and dog are left over from the Reconquer tanners that I painted previously, this chap looks like he's getting a piece of South Downs flint from one of the horses hooves. The bottle is from Bad Squiddo, a really useful set of accoutrements to add a lived in look to your dioramas.

The carriage itself is done from a basecoat of VMC Flat Brown, but I wanted it to look quite dirty after travelling over the South Downs so dirtied it up a bit.

I've since brushed off the clinging static grass that's showing up in the images!

Although my Barons War collection will be at Partizan I'll not be, inattention to the calendar means I'll be in Italy vacationing with Victoria that week!

Farm buildings and walls

 

The final set of files I purchased from Cromarty Forge was the Walls and Farms set and Steve also printed me out a selection of these.

The first piece is to represent a small farm, I used the same red technique on the woodwork, so the farm could be extended to include the windmill in the earlier post.

The second building is a rather dilapidated cottage with a covered log stall. I added a small cottage garden.

The fourth and last cottage is a simple affair with a couple of small haystacks (they are 6mm scale) out back.

The files also include a load of wall sections that have a very clever system to join them up. They are not suitable for using on the terrain bases, but do look great as stand alone features.

The stonework on the walls and cottages was painted in the same way as the towers in my earlier post.

A Trio of Towers

Another post of some lovely Cromarty Forge terrain, this time a trio of towers, printed for me by chum Steve.

The first is a watchtower that can grace a hill in our Midgard battles, for an idea of size, the based is 50mm diameter.

All the towers are painted in a similar fashion. The stonework is painted VMC Flat Earth, then a few bricks picked out in Neutral Grey, US Tan Earth and Flat Brown. The roof slates are Luftwaffe Uniform with a few picked out in Neutral Grey. The rendering is US Tan Earth.

The whole lot is then washed with AP Strong Tone, then the stonework highlighted with a light drybrush of Iraqi Sand then Pale Sand while the roofs are given a light drybrush of Pale Grey. The moss patches are added using Dirty Down Moss.

Next up is the windmill, pretty much the same method, while the red painted wood is done with Flat Brown highlighted up adding a bit of Iraqi Sand, the canvas sails are US Tan Earth highlighted up adding more Pale Sand.

This is also on a 50mm diameter base.

Last up is the Wizards tower, again the same stonework methods, the deck and dome is VMC Black Grey, then Basalt Grey and a final high-light of Pale Grey. The telescope and lightning conductor is Brass highlighted with a touch of gold. The lenses on the telescope are done using a non-glassy glass cheat starting from Dark Prussian Blue.

The base on this is a little larger given it's footprint.

 These make some splendid objective markers and decoration for our games.