Wednesday 31 December 2014

From JohnM: 28mm Dark Age Old North Teuli (44 Points)


As promised to follow up on my MOUNTED entry of Old North Briton calvary, here are some elite troops for my North British force. In our Chronica Iohannes campaign, we have had 5 games now and are reaching the stage where we can add troops to our war bands. This is done by progression of leadership, money and/or degree of victory.


These are Gripping Beast figures from their Dark Ages Germanic line, but I believe they do well for North British. I have stuck with my red/white scheme as these are the elite Teuli and should be dressed as such. I have all my elite and warriors uniformed as such with just my levy dressed in dark rags as fits their station in life. I like how they came out.



I am hoping that both these Teuli and the Gwÿr y Goglegg Cavalry cause Adam some disquiet the next time his Saxons attack!



From Curt:Very nice work John. I like how the shields (hand-painted no less) and red helmet tassels bring a visual cohesion to this force - excellent. A little off topic, I really like the grass/loam surface that they are on, what is that John? It really looks great and conveys that wild rustic landscape that we (probably romantically) picture when we think of the English north.

19 comments:

  1. Nice work John I am sure I shall see them at the table soon

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  2. Lovely work on those Teuli, John.

    Just don't let them spend too much time feasting and drinking; that leads to boasting and rash oaths, and before you know it, your entire warband is riding south to take Catraeth. This never ends well!

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  3. Thank you.

    Hi Curt, I believe it is a Woodland Scenic product. It is a 2' square piece of material which is sponge backed. I bought it a couple of years ago, and have never figured out how to use it. It really does look great, but as you can see it does not support figures well.

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    1. Or maybe it was Grand Central Gems product. I can not seem to find it now.

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  4. Really nice Dark Age dudes. Cheers

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  5. Being from the north of England these guys make me proud. The red and white colour scheme is great,

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  6. A very nice group of troops. I like each and every one of them.

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  7. Nice work! I like the color use in tying them together for an elite unit! I do the same to designate platoons!

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  8. Very nice painting! I'm sure they'll cause these bloody Saxons some headaches.

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  9. Very nice, they look suitably mean

    ian

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  10. Really nice work - the red and white scheme ties them together well and is quite striking.

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  11. Those are great looking models with a fantastic paint job.

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  12. You must be building up quite a collection of these sir. I really like the colour scheme and the scene you've set up for the photos is a corker.

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  13. Very colourful and suitably heroic. Nicely done.

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  14. Great looking figures; the painting work is very nice.

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  15. Nice work. The colours work really well.
    I've just gone through the link to the campaign and noticed that the map shows where I live. Catterick (there has been an army camp here for 2000 years, the Romans being the first). Nice one.

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