Atheling's Anglo Danes- More Command Bases- UPDATED P.15- 28-02-2023

[bigredbat]

Super work, Darrell.

[Silent Invader]

Very dynamic. Well done Darrell.

[Atheling]

Thanks guys- appreciated. There's more on the painting desk just now

[bluewillow]

They look fabulous mate

cheers
Matt

[Black Burt]

I did Gate Fulford many years ago, as York used to be my home town, it tends to be one of the overlooked battles of 1066. Good look with your project.

[Atheling]

I did Gate Fulford many years ago, as York used to be my home town, it tends to be one of the overlooked battles of 1066. Good look with your project.

It's a great battle to do. We (SESWC) did a version of it many years ago with a mate and the help of Gripping Beast's massive collection at Claymore many moons ago......

A couple of pics.....

[Atheling]

I've been messing around trying to create convincing markers for my Anglo Danes for when they go into Shieldwall........

I think I've finally nailed the correct size for the bases to number of mini's(?). I didn't want the markers to overwhelm the units. I hope I've hit the right spot?

Many more pics and high brow reasoning on my blog:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/11/shieldwall-markers-experiment.html[/b]

Old Markers (Booo Hiss.....):


New Markers- Yay?:

[syrinx0]

The new marker certainly looks better.   

[Ragnar]

Nice work Atheling.

Holy c*** that Battle of Fulford looks impressive.

[Tonhel]

Beautiful and really like your new shieldwall marker! Looks fantastic!

[Warboss Nick]

The new marker looks excellent! The only concern I would have, wouldn’t it be in the way during close combat?

[Atheling]

Thanks for all the positive input guys- it helps, really does

Nice work Atheling.

Holy c*** that Battle of Fulford looks impressive.

Cheers Ragnar, we won best display game of the show which was great. The game was put on for The Lance and Longbow Society using mini's from the positively huge Gripping beast collection. My thanks, to this day go out to Gripping Beast for hauling all the extra miniatures up from Evesham to Edinburgh! 

I'm going to do a Fulford Redux using my own collection and terrain as soon as is possible. I'm considering doing Stamford Bridge and possibly Hastings too. Stamford might be a pain as it would involve painting a lot of Norse sans armours. Hastings is a little bit of a boring battle but you never know. I've already got enough Normans to do quite a large game.

The new marker looks excellent! The only concern I would have, wouldn’t it be in the way during close combat?

I can just move the marker to one side if that were to be the case. As long as it's near enough to the unit then it ought to be reasonably obvious. I hope 

[Warboss Nick]

Should be fine. I for sure wouldn’t mind.

[Atheling]

Should be fine. I for sure wouldn’t mind.

I'm hoping overall effect, with a marker to the fore of all the units, will be quite effective but I'm a while away from that at present

[Dr. Zombie]

That is a great idea.
I have begun to do something similar for commanders. In stead of having them on round bases I have begun to put them on half rounds to attach them to the rear of units. So they don't get in the way of combat.