Finally Back to Posting

Right, that was a long time between posts. Whoops. Still, let's not worry about that now, I have at least been doing something, and now I painted almost all of the Saxons that I need to get done for the game at Triples.

They might be a bit blurred, but there's loads of them and they're painted!

I've still got to base these, and I need to do another lord and paint the ship, but other than that anything I do on these is basically window dressing. So, since I'm pleased with myself, and I've got a shiny new camera, it's time for a bit of gloating.

Might as well start with the warlord:

The first warlord

And from the back

This is from the West Wind "death of Arthur" pack. As with all of the models with shields, I stuck to a simple geometric design, and tried to get some contrasting colours on there to make it stand out. I've given him grey hair in the hope that he'll look experienced and battle-hardened that way, not just old!

For the huscarls, I've used some more West Wind models - armoured Saxon spearmen.

Huscarls

The West Wind models have a lot of good detail which is picked out well so they're easy to paint. I have noticed that the heads tend to be quite large in proportion to the rest of the model with these, but once they're painted up you don't really notice.

All aboard the SS Half Painted

The scenario we're using for Triples calls for a few unarmed Saxons to represent villagers caught off guard by the Viking attack. Since I won't have a lot of use for unarmed warriors after the event, I've tried to build these so that they can be armed later. This has had the minor side effect of making these models look a bit like they're carrying an invisible barrel under each arm, but we'll gloss over that.

Unarmed Saxons

Since these are unarmed you can see how the clothes are painted - I've tried to keep the colours pretty flat as I don't want the common Saxons to stand out too much. By keeping these pretty muted I'm hoping that the lords and huscarls will stand out more.

The archers also count as peasants in the Saga rules that we'll be using, so these are painted in a similar way to the unarmed models.

Archers on the ship

Archers showing the "leader" model

Warriors with shields

As I said earlier, the shields all have simple geometric designs on them, and in most cases I've picked out a line between the different colours to make them stand out.

The "Death of Arthur" pack that I got for the warlord also had (obviously) a casualty piece in it.

"He hasn't painted that bit over there yet, look!"

This is a nice little piece, and hopefully I'll have a use for it at Triples.

There was also a kneeling warrior, which I don't really know what to do with but I've painted it anyway.

Kneeling warrior

As is obvious from many of these photos, the ship needs to be finished. I'm slowly painting it brown, which is a fairly tedious process, and my plan is to drybrush some highlights on after that and add a mast from doweling. Hopefully I can do another post soon to show some more progress on that, and if I cross my fingers really hard, someone might even read it...