Barons' War additions (16)

Before our family vacation next week, I've been working my way through the last few Barons' War figures that I had in the pile of potential/mountain of shame.

A left-over Footsore knight was paired with a Crusader Miniatures mounted serjeant/squire to make a character stand featuring Sir Robert de Dunstanville and Adam de Norton for our Barons' War games set up until the Battle of Evesham.

Fretty is not the easiest to paint, but I think it came out ok. 

This pair represent Robert and Adam up until the end of Battle Song where Adam earned his spurs.

For our Siege of Rochester game that we are presenting at Crackcon next month we needed a character to represent Alderman Thomas of Rochester, so we sought the services of the famous actor Alain of Rickmansworth to fill the role.

Lovely Sheriff of Nottingham figure from Footsore.

After using two of the Crusader Miniatures mounted serjeants to complete some command stands, the last one was painted in the service of Peter de Montfort and will  join the array.

I love this "Ambush" model from Footsore, will not really fit into the battle line, but will make a great vignette.

I used a few of these Crusader Miniatures serjeants as bannermen on command stands, the final five will join the rank and file. 

There always seems to be another angry monk!

Using left over shields from various manufacturers, I've done a load more stamina markers to record casualties on the units, these larger ones with three shields will work to mark triple hits.

The Siege of Rochester game will need a palisaded barbican to cover the Royalist end of the bridge over the Medway, so I knocked this modular fort up from dowel, satay sticks and coffee stirrers. It will easily hold four units.

Alderman Thomas of Rochester prepares to scoot out of the back gate.

One of the gate guards is ambushed

I ran out of dowel, so improvised the gap with a burnt section of palisade 

Defending the main gate on the Medway bridge

That's the last of the Barons' War figures for now, I still have a few terrain pieces I'm working on for an upcoming post.

For Sale: Terrain and books and all kinds of stuff!

 The clear-out continues, I still need the room :D

All prices include UK Postage.

Five painted 28mm Medieval buildings - £75.00

Church and four hovels. SOLD

Loads of sabots for 20mm round bases, all magnetic receptive with magnets on the bottom - £60.00

47 x 8-figure

8 x 6-fgure

18 x 4-figure

7 x 2-figure

3 x 6-figure skirmish bases

Two scenario books for Laserburn - £10.00

Wargames Atlantic British Riflemen - still on sprues - £15.00

Wargames Atlantic bases - £25.00

72 round bases

48 pill bases

There is still a bunch of stuff left over from the last sale too.

I've still got two packs of 28mm Victrix Household Cavalry, £15.00 each or £25.00 for the pair

Warhammer Ancients: Fall of the West - £15.00

Warhammer Ancients: Chariot Wars - £15.00

Warhammer Ancients: Fall of the West (strangely I have two) - £15.00

General de Brigade - £15.00

Barons' War additions(10)

Catching up with the blog posts, what with being on vacation and having some work done on the house I've fell behind a bit!

A whole box of Victrix Medieval Foot Sergeants joins the growing Barons’ War forces, enough for four more units for our Midgard games.

They are nice enough figures, but suffer from the usual Victrix problem of being too fiddly with easily broken parts. The dynamic poses on these make it impossible to base most of them on 20mm bases like the rest of the foot in the collection, so instead I opted for doing three foot on a 40mm base for those too big to fit individually on a 20mm.

Those easily broken spears I mention, of the seven here three did not survive building and painting, that one closest in this shot has been glued three times already. 

If I did any of these in the future I'd stick to only making them with hand weapons.

Gambesons a plenty in this set, I think they come out nicely, but oh-my they do get repetitive after a while!

Some close ups of a few of the individual stands.

The standard is hand painted on cartridge paper and then plasticised with Mod Podge to give it both durability and flow. Like the spears, the standard pole broke and had to be fixed, hence the pronounced bend.

Nice enough figures, would I do more of them? No, I have enough already and these are not the best to build or paint.

Barons' War additions(8)

A mixed bag of Medieval goodies for you this time. 

Firstly, the last of the Wargames Atlantic figures I have painted, only 11 remained and have made their way to the end of the production line this week.

The last Knight and a pair of Serjeants.

A trio of peasants with pointy sticks for the militia and levies.

The last three crossbowmen.

A couple of missile-armed peasants, one with sling and one with bow. I'm quite surprised the arrow survived this far, this one has usually broken off by this stage!

It's the last of the Wargames Atlantic for now and I don't see me buying any more until the new sets come out, then I'll be picking up again. But it's not the end of the Medievals, only yesterday postie bought some Medbury Miniatures 3D prints for me.

Adding to the Medieval scene is this market stall. The stall itself is from Victrix, as are many of the accessories, although the crates on the right and the bucket are from Bad Squiddo, while the wattle fence is Renedra.

I got down low and shone in a light for this warts and all view of some of the detail!

Victoria picked up for me some of the Medieval Vignettes from Athena Miniatures while we were at Fiasco a few months ago, they are nice enough subjects, but some of the figures are a bit rudimentary.

The first is a set of stocks with an unfortunate being pelted with rancid cabbages.

The barrel of cabbages is from TT Combat.

Next is a baker from the artisan set, also comes with a rather nice oven. 

The sacks and basket are from the Victrix set, while the bucket is a Bad Squiddo.

The next pair are a black smith and a cooper, the blacksmith is probably the weakest figure painted so far.

He could really use a forge!

Finally four other figures from the vignettes, a lady with a broom, a cobbler - will see use in a future Battle of Northampton game - a laughing merchant and a chap with his child on his shoulders.