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Title: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 07 November 2015, 03:01:20 PM: Since February I've painted up a force of plastic Saxons using Gripping Beast miniatures (plastic Saxons Thegns and Dark Age Warriors).

I'm not going to bore you with shots of the individuals, but rather just a shot of the lot. I hate painting lots of minis in one go, but I like the look. Also I am no fan of putting together plastics (unless I'm trying to be creative about it... this is just droning assembly line work).

So here goes:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EN6JumyOpw0/Vj4RjPSfGHI/AAAAAAAAMOM/6vEOo2ey-7s/s912-Ic42/P1280502.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bckeX2Gb5r0/Vj4RknYVzcI/AAAAAAAAMOU/wCaEIsu7Ft8/s912-Ic42/P1280506.JPG)
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Post by: wulfgar22 on 07 November 2015, 03:03:24 PM: Looks great!
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Post by: Silent Invader on 07 November 2015, 03:06:00 PM: I think they look great 8)
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Post by: MaleGriffin on 07 November 2015, 03:20:31 PM: Beautiful army! :D
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Post by: Jeff965 on 07 November 2015, 03:27:17 PM: Lovely looking little army :-*
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Post by: Malamute on 07 November 2015, 03:43:26 PM: Impressive stuff Matey ;D
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Post by: Rhoderic on 07 November 2015, 03:47:12 PM: Very lovely!

Is the frontman Gripping Beast, too? He seems to have more Foundry-esque or Artizan-esque quality to my eye, but if I'm wrong, I'm wrong :)
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 07 November 2015, 03:52:22 PM: Quote from: Rhoderic on 07 November 2015, 03:47:12 PM
Very lovely!

Is the frontman Gripping Beast, too? He seems to have more Foundry-esque or Artizan-esque quality to my eye, but if I'm wrong, I'm wrong :)

Oh darn. You got me there. He's metal. No idea where from though. lol
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Rhoderic on 07 November 2015, 03:57:21 PM: Ah, he's an Artizan Viking. Only Mike Owen sculpts cloaks like that:

(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/img1547.jpg)

Anyway, they really are lovely paintjobs.
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Post by: tyrionhalfman on 07 November 2015, 04:03:57 PM: Nice collection and well painted. Thanks for sharing
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Post by: nikko on 07 November 2015, 05:03:22 PM: Hello,
Nice army !!
Nikko
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Post by: Argonor on 08 November 2015, 11:15:59 PM: Nice warband!

I hope to have some Viking raiders painted about this time next year, so maybe we can duke it out with whatever ruleset is the Dark Age fancy then... lol
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Post by: Andym on 09 November 2015, 07:21:03 AM: Very saxy! Major sax-appeal! Nice one buddy! :-*
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on 09 November 2015, 08:35:51 AM: Cracking work matey :D

cheers

James
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Post by: Dr. Zombie on 09 November 2015, 10:15:51 AM: They look great. Now paint lots more, so we can have a massive battle!
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Post by: Paint Pig on 09 November 2015, 11:56:12 AM: Whatever ;)

:-* :-* :-*
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Post by: Melnibonean on 12 November 2015, 10:19:12 AM: Nice looking figures.
I'll be painting up a bunch of Saxons for next year. We've had discussions at my club into doing the 950th anniversary of Hastings using Hail Caesar. So a nice big battle with nice big easy to paint units.
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: affun on 21 November 2015, 02:48:29 PM: I am inches away from jumping on to the dark ages wagon as well at the moment. Only I can't decide wether to go for Vikings (any scandinavian wargamer ought to have at the very least a viking warband, in my opinion), Saxons or Arthurian British (Which would of course be a very much earlier period. But theres some cool minis)

How did you find the Gripping Beast plastics? From the pictures, they look pretty great - You've got some really good results, as these pictures demonstrate! I am thinking of just getting one of the newly launched plastic starters from GB, but something somewhere in my mind is telling me to go for much less affordable metals. Castingroom miniatures (foundry) Saxons look particularly tempting, especially since they have free shipping for the rest of 2015.

Thats a rather longwinded way of asking for your opinion on those plastics :P

Anyways - Always great to see things you paint.
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Post by: Zaheer on 22 November 2015, 08:58:46 AM: I'm still not convinced about those plastics, but you've made them look very attracive! Great stuff.
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 22 November 2015, 12:24:05 PM: I would definitely choose metals over the plastics any day if I had the money or if the project was small like for SAGA.

The plastics are OK but they're still just that, substitutes.

I went for them to get some bulk quickly.
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Post by: archiduque on 22 November 2015, 12:42:07 PM: Great work!!! ;)
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: affun on 22 November 2015, 01:24:09 PM: Quote from: Dr. The Viking on 22 November 2015, 12:24:05 PM
I would definitely chose metals over the plastics any day if I had the money or if the project was small like for SAGA.

The plastics are OK but they're still just that, substitutes.

I went for them to get some bulk quickly.

What I was thinking as well.

Seeing as my project would be for saga, I'll go for metals, and just collect them a bit at a time (as if ::) )

You do make them look great though! It's an impressive host.
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 22 November 2015, 03:02:15 PM: Quote from: affun on 22 November 2015, 01:24:09 PM
What I was thinking as well.

Seeing as my project would be for saga, I'll go for metals, and just collect them a bit at a time (as if ::) )

You do make them look great though! It's an impressive host.

To be fair, anything looks impressive when you rank it up in a large group. lol
Title: Re: Saxon force for whatever
Post by: Dr DeAth on 22 November 2015, 03:09:59 PM: Looks like a very unruly rabble just ready for some raiding