Saturday 17 February 2018

From PeteF: Fyrd Is The Key (30 points)



A few more for Project 5 (SAGA) this week. Having more levy bowmen with bows will help pull the army together. The Anglo-Saxon warband is getting an overall greenish colour scheme - German Field Grey seems to work.


These are (I think) Warlord/Wargames Factory Saxon Fyrd - there might be some Gripping Beast and other bits and pieces - I got a sprue to see if anything could be used for Game of Thrones conversions (Project 4) as well as for SAGA. I like the figures but found it hard to choose the right colours this week, especially for leather/browns - even with help from Painting War Dark Ages.




I was a bit time crunched this week so I went for simple shield designs.  In future I'll stick the shields on after painting the figures and shields.


Windsock Man
Productivity a little low lately - partly due to the latest project (12 - Basing Minifigs). My nephew kindly transported a bunch of British, Nassau, & Dutch Belgian troops - 25mm from the 1980s from the UK which are gradually going onto new bases (Can't count bases as terrain - can I?).

Now for a Gripping Beast order with the new SAGA rules. 

6 x 28mm foot = 30 points

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Very nicely done Pete, the colour scheme really works to tie the unit together.  Cracking sculpts too, lots of dynamic poses and grim determination, splendid stuff all round.  


6 comments:

  1. Nice work Pete. I agree with Curt on the colours giving unit character.

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  2. Very cool Pete. Love the standard bearer. I've always thought that style of banner to be very evocative of the period.

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  3. Lovely looking dark age types!
    Best Iain

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  4. That green is a very nice colour.

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