Northern Crusades: Some of what I did during the great 2020 plague

[Atheling]

Excellent work Maniac 

Great to see the project coming along nicely

[Maniac]

And they're done...





Fairly happy with how they turned out.  Just 8 spearmen left to do now.

[Atheling]

Lovely work 

I just popped over to Dakka to have a look at the full size pictures and they didn't disappoint 

[Batty Coalhouse]

These look amazing! 
The northern crusades, by Eric Christiansen is a great read.
Although, after reading, you'll most likely want the pagan Northerners to smite your crusaders! 

[Little Odo]

I agree - the Eric Christiansen book is a good read

[Maniac]

I wasn't sure I was going to add any more to this range, but I recently picked up Steed and Steel.  That led me to coming back to this project as I needed some mounted and unmounted knights for the various tourney games.

From left to right: Beauchamp, Codex Manesse Inspired, Marshall (fitting for Steed and Steel plus his desire to go crusading), Rust, and Witmar



For Rust I already had the foot knight done, and so added the mounted version.  He is a conversion of a 1st Corps fig with Fireforge helmet and Conquest arm with lance.  For Witmar, I already had the mounted version and so converted a Fireforge body with a 1st Corps head that I modified, plus some green stuff.



I have some tents I will get some photos of, plus some tilt barriers.  Then two more minis coming.  One of Berkely, and one of Mallin.

[Maniac]

That gave me four more mounted, four more foot, and soon I will have two more foot and one more mounted figure.  That will give folks a good cross sampling of schema they can choose from when rolling up a knight for Steed and Steel, plus meshes in nicely when playing Saga or FFoL.

[Hu Rhu]

Lovely painting. 

[Atheling]

Very nice work 

[Maniac]

The tents are almost done, and Berkely is done.  I will say that I dislike the 'white' sections are actually clear approach of some decals.  That ultimately led me to not use the decals for the caparison on the horse.  I had accidentally already painted it red when I saw it needed to be white.  Simple mistake on my part, but one I may have done anyways as I've not liked the clear approach with past decals.







Then two of the four Archery butts are done, one mostly done, and one on the way.



The tilt is four sections of 9 inches each, just shy of the 40" recommended in Steed and Steel.    Not sure it will make a huge difference in play, but we will see.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Beautiful painting.  It might just inspire me to paint something.
I particularly like the Yellow/green knight with the red helmet, it reminds me of a Timpo knight I had when I was young.

[Maniac]

Last of the knights, plus a bonus character.  My son and I are reading Prince Valiant, and are in book 7 of the collected editions.  So I couldn’t resist painting up Valiant using a bunch of spare parts.



The foot knight in yellow was previously done, and so I modified a 1st corps figure to match using a Conquest arm and some putty.  Valiant is a mix of Conquest, GW, Fireforge, and Footsore.

[NickNascati]

This is a great project.  If you don’t already have it, the WRG pamphlet on the Northern Wars s very good.  Several years ago, I did I think half a dozen DBA armies, Teutonic Knights, Poles, Lithuanians, etc. I used the long gone 15mm Feudal Castings.

[Maniac]

This is a great project.  If you don’t already have it, the WRG pamphlet on the Northern Wars s very good.  Several years ago, I did I think half a dozen DBA armies, Teutonic Knights, Poles, Lithuanians, etc. I used the long gone 15mm Feudal Castings.

Nice, I will have to look that up.  It is such a rich and untapped period/setting for wargaming. 

[Commander Carnage]

Great stuff, lovely painting and vision.