The Battle of the Trident - ASoIaF project

[Whyarecarrots]

Hi all

I've been lurking here for a while, and thought it was about time I posted something of my own! Like many I have been inspired by the many amazing Song of Ice and Fire projects on these boards, and so I bought a variety of Perry and Fireforge models to have a go at my own. Now, two years later I've actually painted one of them!

I've decided to set the forces I make during Robert's Rebellion, nominally around the Battle of the Trident. As such, I'll be trying to do rebel forces from the North, the Vale, the Riverlands and a small force from the Stormlands. While the loyalists will be mostly from the Reach, with some troops from the Crownlands and the Stormlands as well. I may even do some Dornish when I work out how to make them...

I have assembled a fair few of these models, and will hopefully have time to go into detail about the approach taken with some of those builds in the future, but for now, the first painted model, a Stark spearman done to a standard that I'd be happy painting dozens of models to (basing not done yet):





I will admit that the fur hasn't quite come out as I would have wanted.

Comments and criticism very much appreciated!

[OSHIROmodels]

Very promising and welcome 

[Coenus Scaldingus]

Welcome to the fold!

A solid start and an excellent theme you have there.

[Munindk]

A great start

Its always a pleasure to see another GoT project, especially is you can find time to share your thoughts on kitbashing.

Which boxes are you using, which parts are you using for each house/faction etc. Enquiring minds want to know!

[Caldor]

Nice!

[Bloodsbane]

Looks like a great start to the project, and a nice gritty look too! I'm looking forward to your continued efforts

[arget8]

A very good start! I look forward to seeing the rest of the forces.

[Whyarecarrots]

 Thanks for the warm welcome everyone

The models I've been using so far are as follows:
- Perry War of the Roses foot Knights
- Perry war of the Roses bows and bills
- Perry hundred years war English
- Perry hundred years war French
- Fireforge foot sergeants
- Fireforge Teutonic infantry

The Stark above is a straight build from the Perry French box with a green stuff fur cloak.

"Style guides" for the factions are a bit confused at the moment, because when I built these a couple of years ago I was only planning to do rebel forces (North, Vale and Stormlands) and my ideas about what they would look like were a bit different. So I have a hundred or so models built which have quite confused identities...

Ideas at the moment are:

- North: older armour, lots of padded armour for lesser troops, plenty of fur, long axes and spears. Mostly built from the Perry Hundred Years War range
- Reach: the wealthiest so most modern armour, lots of plate, painted plate as well. Mostly built from the Wars of the Roses range - quite a lot of straight builds.
- Vale: lots of mounted Knights, no foot Knights (models may be made in case I need dismounted models for gaming), most "feudal" in look. No models really assembled for this - plan to build using upcoming Hundred Years War cavalry, plus conquest Normans and some old warhammer Bretonnian archers. Lots of "white" plate, shields on most models.
- Stormlands: poorest of the regions, no real cavalry, mostly built from Fireforge sergeants.
- Crownlands: limited number of targaryens, not sure how to build them yet but will probably try to add a few more fantasy/flamboyant touches, lots of black painted amour. Other crownland nobles will probably be similar to the Reach, bit less wealthy.
- Dornish: no plans to add them yet, but if I do conceptually probably a mix between Arabs and Byzantines - unfortunately the Gripping Beast Arabs don't look very good :/
- Riverlands: not a clue!

Right, wall of text done. I have a Tyrell archer and a dismounted Arryn Knight on the painting table as test models at the moment so will put up some photos when they're done.

[Maddoc]

Mix in vikings and get yourself some Ironborn too.. (even though they're not there)

[Whyarecarrots]

Mix in vikings and get yourself some Ironborn too.. (even though they're not there)

Don't tempt me - I have over a hundred of these to paint already, and that's without adding cavalry :p

[Frostie]

I look forward to following this thread

[Whyarecarrots]

Thanks Frostie.

Not had the chance to do any painting recently, but here are a few photos of built models that will get the paintbrush treatment soon.

First a couple of Northmen infantry -





And a Stormlands men at arms, a mixture of Fireforge and Perry parts:



Thanks for looking!

[Maddoc]

Dammit! Seeing this kind of stuff makes me miss my workbench more..

Build some in my name!

[Wellington Bonaparte]

Some great looking kit bashing there and your painted Stark is superb. I really must finish of some of mine and base them.

[LordOdo]

Some great looking kit bashing there and your painted Stark is superb. I really must finish of some of mine and base them.

You're not alone haha, mine are somewhere collecting dust as well..
But as I ordered my Ned Stark to-be yesterday, I have to continue as soon as possible I guess..

@Whyarecarrots
I really like your shade of grey on the Stark guy!
Will there be a stag on the chest of the guy from the Stormlands? There's quite some space, so I figured...