From PeteB - Reconquer Designs -St. Raimundo de Fitero - 15 Points

A small contribution wit some figures from Reconquer Designs, kindly given by my friend Michele Gentile. The figures are 3D printed with some very nice details. Some information about the monk St. Raimundo de Fitero can be found here! Cause of the bad weather I couldn't take pictures in daylight. I did the best I could taking photo's inside.

Thanks for watching!

Points:

- 1 x 28 mm mounted figure = 10 Points

- 1 x 28 mm foot figure        =   5 Points

- Total                                   =  15 Points

Great little vignette Peter! Love how you used the simple dynamics of the figures to let them tell a story. The natural olours worked out great as well and really enhance the sculpting of these figures. Great work all round Peter, hope you have more of this comming!

Cheers Sander 

 

From PaulSS: More Barons' War rolls off the production line - 115pts

This week Victoria and I have had a weeks vacation in Cornwall, but I took the paints with me so that I could continue adding to the collection.

All the entries this week are 3D prints from Medbury Miniatures and Reconquer Designs.

 

I picked up from Medbury a set of Knights at rest and Knights at prayer, this command stand features a mounted and foot knight at rest with a knight at prayer doing homage to his lord.

As usual for Medbury, beautiful figures with loads of character.

Of the remaining two figures from these sets, I used the Knight at rest on foot to make a lower level character and the other praying knight just on a standard base to fit in a unit where needed or use as 'dressing'

The crested helm and additional plate on the second knight puts him rather later than the 1264-1265 period of the rest of the collection and he may never get used, but still a nice piece.

From Reconquer Designs is this set of fleeing villagers, five figures, two carrying children, a pack horse and a hand cart.

These are very nice although I think that the detail is probably a bit to fine for gaming, I already broke one of the shafts on the hand cart.

The last couple of sets are the remaining 32mm prints that I spoke about in my earlier post when I painted the 28mm versions of them. I was not going to paint these, but as they represent the last unpainted Medievals that I have I thought it would be rude not to.

Another set of tanners, I did not do a big single vignette like last time, with some of them done on individual bases this time around.

Lastly a Spanish shepherd with three mastiffs to guard the sheep.

So, that's the Barons' War project done for now, every figure painted! I plan to not buy anything else until the new Wargames Atlantic releases come out in the form of those command stands.

It seems a stretch to claim the hand card as a 28mm vehicle, but if we roll into that 20pts the dogs, children, tanning equipment and such like then one 28mm vehicle, one 28mm mounted, 16 28mm foot and a pack horse will tally 115pts

From DaveD . Finished Paul , Finished well that’s wonderful and while on your holiday too. That’s dedication .I will  run with that points suggestion .

From PaulSS: Sir Henry de Hastings - 70pts

The yuk thug

This week I've not been so productive as we have been re-modelling the hobby room, but I have managed to scrape enough together for a post.

First up, Sir Henry de Hastings supporter of Simon de Montfort in the Second Barons' War. Sir Henry commanded the Londoners at The Battle of Lewes, so I have depicted him on foot with a bannerman.

The figures are from the Wargames Atlantic Foot Knights set, while the standard is from Footsore.

While I was splashing on the yellow and red, I added a few more Serjeants to the collection, again all from the Wargames Atlantic range.

This little vignette is of a Medieval equivalent of a food truck, the cook is a 3D print from Reconquer Designs, while the oven, cooking fire, stool and sack are from the Victrix Market set.

The cobblestones are from Wills Scenics and the base is a vehicle base from Warbases.

More 3D printing with a couple of boats from TCWminiatures3D.

A recent refight of the Battle of Rochester highlighted that we cannot have enough boats, so I added these to a recent order to check them out. Great pieces for the price!

The sacks are from the Victrix Market set while the chest is from TT Combat. 

The last few pieces are "shot" markets for our Midgard games, the Wargames Atlantic Peasant Levy frame contains these arrows that are useful for making the markers.

Six 28mm figures and a couple of 28mm vehicles will add 70pts to the total this week.

From DaveD .Paul , I do like the red/yellow colour combo - it works well .The vignette pieces add some real character and those boats do indeed look the business .70 pts it is .

From Kerry T - "Oh what a knight" - 120 points

Morning afternoon & evening all

I've had a busy week but thankfully my habit of painting horses in large numbers over the Christmas break has paid dividends. With the bulk of the horseflesh already completed it's been relatively easy to finish 12 riders this week.

For the second week in a row, these are from Reconquer Designs and depict another Spanish Military order, the Knights of Calatrava. This order was one of four in Spain that fought in the Reconquista.

Founded in Castille in the 12th Century by Raymond of Fitero and confirmed by a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander in 1164 the order still exists today. Wikipedia says "Today, the aim of the Spanish Orders is basically the same as they had when founded: the defense of the Catholic faith. The sword has been put aside, but their doctrine, example, self-sanctification, and divine worship remain active, aside from their cultural and social activities."

These are 3D printed figures, from the stable of Reconquer designs who produce 3 sets of military order knights giving quite a bit of variation in figures. What is also handy is that one is able to print from a selection of shield options thus making painting them easier as the relevant cross is printed on the shield. Options include shields for the orders of Calatrava, Santiago and Templar with plain shields also being an option.

No way are they getting through that gate like that

Painting white is always a struggle but this time I managed to stop myself giving them my usual black wash after blocking in the white tabards. I've undercoated black, dry brushed white then painted with Vallejo cream white and then a mix of off white and cream white for highlight.

They've ridden past that door so many times you'd have thought one would have found the way in by now

I think that I'm probably done with Spain and the Reconquista for the rest of the challenge and will move on to something else, probably 100 Years war. All a bit strange really as I regard myself as a dyed in the wool Napoleonic enthusiast!

Just to prove these are not last week's Knights in disguise

In summary

12 x 28mm military order knights @ 10 points = 120 points

Many thanks

Best wishes
Valleyboy

From Millsy:

What a great looking crop of soldiers of God mate! Nice to see some of the less well known orders like the Knights of Calatrava getting a look in. I think you've done a cracking job on the white and as always your steeds are wonderful.

120 points riding bravely onto your total sir!

Cheers,
Millsy

From PaulSS: Medieval Peasants and more drunkards - 100pts

The break for the Holidays really allowed me to crack on with the Barons' War collection, this past week or so I've built the box of Wargames Atlantic Peasants that were left under the tree in my first post of the challenge.

Our last game was a refight of the Battle of Lewes using Midgard and it enthused me to get painting more peasants to represent the London militias on Rebel left flank.

The first few are assembled as levy spearmen, painted using drab colours

Next up, 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. 

I had some spare Reconquer Designs drunkards left over after my last post  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.

Twenty 28mm figures will add another 100pts to my ongoing total.

To whet your appetite, some pictures from the aforementioned Battle of Lewes game, James has done most of the named characters, the vast majority of the rank and file are from my collection. 

The Royalist lines

The Rebel lines

Some more from a Battle of Northampton game.

Royalists storm the breach

Royalists follow up into the abbey gardens

From DaveD . Great to see more for this period from you Paul. You are certainly knocking them out .the volume is building up nicely . That’s a nice round 100 pts for you.