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.

The Necropolis grows

During the past few weeks I've also added some more pieces of scatter terrain to the Necropolis, representing a couple of additional family plots.

I bought the STL files directly from Cromarty Forge and chum Steve printed them out for me.

The first plot is a couple of Mausoleums and row of gravestones, watched over by a sombre statue.

The second plot is very similar, just with a third Mausoleum added.

I also finished the last Forest Dragon Vampire that I had, this fellow will represent the Vampire Count mounted on his Nightmare, two lesser Thralls hold his sword and lance, while a swarm of bats rise into the air. A really characterful piece as we've come to expect!

With the final Mausoleum, I added another statue and more grave stones to make a killing zone template for our Midgard games.

How can the Danse be stopped?

It's been a while since I updated the blog, but in that time I've been busy painting up some Imperialists for our 10mm Midgard games to battle against all those Undead.

Victoria also has an Art Exhibition coming up soon so there has been an extended moratorium on using static grass in the house :D 

All these factors combine to one massive photo dump!

First up, six characters to lead the expedition against the restless dead!

Baron Von Stumple on his Owl-bear

Baron Von Stumple on his Owl-bear

Rittermeister Karl Haas

Rittermeister Karl Haas

Haupmann Schmidt the Barons' Bannerman with colour guard

Haupmann Schmidt the Barons' Bannerman with colour guard

Leonard the Artificer with "The Gonne"

Leonard the Artificer with "The Gonne"

Mightily Oats, Witch Hunter

Mightily Oats, Witch Hunter

Professor Flead, Master of the Forbidden Arts

Professor Flead, Master of the Forbidden Arts

Three units of sword and pistol armed Ritter currently make up the cavalry contingent, these will be bolstered by some heavier Gendarmes over the next few painting sessions!

Two units of Halberdiers form the core of the infantry line.

These are supported by two units of Spearmen.

Fire support comes from a couple of units of Arquebusiers.

The last of the infantry contingent is a Forlorn Hope of a unit of Swordsmen and a unit of Aquebusiers

I've got quite a bit more infantry to add, probably about as much again to get painted!

Finally, the big hitters, three batteries in the Artillery park!

I'll be adding a lot more to this force over the coming weeks, but there is enough for their first game tonight. As newly painted, I reckon they are going to be on the end of a sound thrashing!