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Monday, 28 February 2022

From Mike W - 28mm Anglo-Danes (100 Points)

This is the second delayed post from last week, 20 Anglo-Danes to fight against previously painted Norman adversaries, of these 10 are the double handed axe armed Housecarls.

All 20 of the completed Anglo-Danes

To be added to these - hopefully later this week will be 20 more figures, mostly additional Housecarls to form the basis of the Anglo-Dane elites at Hastings for my 1066 Project.

10 Housecarls - plus one! All these figures are Victrix

These figures were based and then primed with silver paint, prior to a dark wash to help pick out the figures' details- ready for later painting.

Close up on 6 of the Housecarls, third from left is standing sharpening his axe

Most of these figures are high status individuals so I have tried to reflect this in their dress and the use of cloaks and furs to help them stand out. Many of the figures are Victrix and as such have a distinctive feel to them when compared to the Gripping beast figures I have for the rest of the Anglo-Dane Army.

Another for Victrix Housecarls. I broke the axe shaft for the guy on the right
so now he is relegated to using a hand axe and demoted from the Housecarl gang!

After the application of colours suitable for their varied clothing, a number of different coloured washes were applied to add shading and again pick out detail.

5 Wargames Factory (now Warlord Games) figures 'upgraded using spare Victrix parts
- heads, weapons etc

Matt Varnish was applied before basing in my usual manner.

Final four figures, a Victrix Earl on left, three more 'upgraded' Wargames Factory figures,
slinger on right and clubman second right

POINTS

20 x 28mm Foot Figures = 100 Points

You had me at Anglo-Danes Mike. Really like the Victrix Huscarls, they came out very nicely under your brushwork. Really like the kitbashing to upgrade the WF figure and the replacement hand ax. No need to demote that fellow IMHO, perhaps he broke his ax on a Norman skull or maybe he just prefers the hand weapon. I also appreciate the size compassion in the final couple photo of photos.