Barons' War additions(6)

Another productive week on the Barons' War collection with 20 new foot soldiers painted.

Five more spearmen to add to existing units

I always seem to be needing more crossbowmen so another seven were added.

There is only one loose quiver per sprue so I did some creative solutions with the "hand on quiver" arms, trimming off the hand and arm and either leaving an empty quiver, or covering with a bedroll.

These two archers will also slot into existing units.

A Knight and a pair of Serjeants.

The Knight is an example of using a simple VVV shield decal as part of the basecoat and then adding a couple of highlights at a later stage.

Lastly trio of three more foot Serjeants.

It's a petty good shot of the arrow through the shield, these spare arrows from the Peasants set are really useful for this.

Barons' War additions(5)

A couple more units of 13th Century foot knights.

The figures are from the Wargames Atlantic box, but many heads and arms are swapped out from other sets like the Foot Serjeants and Mounted Knights.

Standards, shield and livery are all hand painted in this batch.

I do seem to have overdone it with ziggy-zaggy shield designs this time, but they will all blend in with the units when these are merged with the rest of the collection.

Several of the Knights have livery surcoats but quite a few are just done in plain surcoats with embroidered designs. 

I've really been enjoying painting the figures for this collection, but having blasted past the 500 figure mark I should probably not be painting any more, but I do have another forty or so ready and  have you seen the imminent new sets...

 

Barons' War additions (4)

I've built the box of Wargames Atlantic Peasants that were left under the tree last month and got a fair amount of them painted.

A bunch of archers, half of them are done as levy, but three were assembled from the Peasants set but with helmets from the Serjeants set to fill out a unit of Serjeants with bows in the collection.

That model on the right has lost his arrow tip, I think it's a moulding problem as most of this pose do not survive the first battle, this one broke while still on the painting table!

A trio of levy slingers, again to pad out existing units. 

These seven are assembled as levy spearmen, painted using drab colours

I had some spare Reconquer Designs drunkards left over, so I painted up. These can be used as table dressing in our games, or pad out units if I'm short a few figures.

Finally, I've added a leader for the Militia, in Midgard I base the level 1 champions on 30mm bases, this chap with his battered sword and helmet can be a minor leader of the levy.

 These militia and levy will pad out or Rebel left flank in an upcoming Battle of Lewes game.

Napoleonic French additions

 

Last year I started on some 6mm 1815 French to use against my Prussians - shamefully I've not painted another figure for this collection for nearly a whole year .

I needed a few more commanders for our General d'Armee 2 games so these represent a CinC plus three Brigadiers 

A battery of artillery comprised of three 6pdr guns and a howitzer.

A battalion of French light infantry to join the seven battalions done so far.

The movement trays are from Warbases and allow me to deploy them in either column or line.

The standard is a bit rough, the pre-printed Baccus ones are a bit too big for the figures, so this one was knocked up with paint markers.

The next unit added is a regiment of Chevaux Legere lancers, representing the 6th Lancers, although at this scale they really could be any of them.

The second unit of this light cavalry brigade is the 4th Hussars.

Barons' War additions(3)

 

I have more than enough painted for our Barons' War games so been adding a few scenic items and vignettes to the collection.

A browse of Etsy turned up several sellers doing Reconquer Designs and I settled on three sets printed by MiniatureForge3D.

The first set painted was Medieval Tanners, a great set with loads of extras to set the scene. As well as seven figures, there is a dog, drying racks, butts and stations to remove the hair.

Medieval tanning was a process that even the poor looked down on, the hides were soaked in urine or lime to soften the hairs and then they were scraped off. The skins were then soaked for up to six months in a mixture of dog faeces, fermented barley or rye and stale beer or urine.

I suspect these folks did not make many friends outside of work.

The second set is the Tavern Patrons, a trio of chaps in their cups, while the tavern keeper watches on and the bar maid talks with a less inebriated customer.

The cobblestones are from Wills Scenics while the basket and sacks are from the Victrix Market Stalls, hopefully more of those in a later post.

The last set completed was Shepherd and Spanish Mastiffs. 

The figures in this Reconquer Designs range is mainly aimed at the Spanish Reconquista but this collection should work ok on a Barons' War table.

There was a small problem with my initial order in that they were printed out at 32mm scale rather than 28mm so the above are all the replacements sent. So I have painted a trio of the larger figures to use in our games if we need a bit more table dressing. 

Every shepherds crook broke, this one pinged off into obscurity!