Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Double update 3D printed 14th century spanish 15/9

[Bloggard]

blimey, what fantastic figures and paint-jobs in posts 300-314 (the page above this one as I'm seeing it).

[Ogrob]

Been away for a few days, but came back yesterday and managed to finish a couple of sets of infantry.

For my 14th century force, I painted another 12 pavisiers to bring my total up to 20. I've entered some of them in a shields-themed paint contest, so decided to freehand a design. Ended up doing all 20, including the 8 I had painted several months ago:


And then also finished up the last (for now) Victrix Saxons for my early germanic force. Some bits from other Victrix kits in there just for some variety.


What do you think?

[Basementboy]

I think they look brilliant! Love the freehanded shields, how long did those take you?

[Ogrob]

I think they look brilliant! Love the freehanded shields, how long did those take you?

Thank you! I did the shields over two days, but mostly that is drying time. I did the quartering with base colours, wash and then some tidying up. Then the freehand took probably better part of an hour.

[Ogrob]

A little sneak preview of the next project that will appear. Couldn't resist some of the new Victrix knights.

[fred]

Ooh! Those are very tasty!

[Moonglum_]

Beautiful. I have some Victrix figures headed my way (vikings). Following this one.

[Ogrob]

Beautiful. I have some Victrix figures headed my way (vikings). Following this one.

Victrix are excellent, hope you enjoy! My two recommendations would be to carefully check what parts are meant to go together (I see a lot of people not understanding the two-part dane axes in the Viking kit, and even sometimes people building figures with double elbows as the kit has two different styles of bodies and arms) and to keep in mind that the spears are very thin. The viking kit has probably the most fragile spears of any Victrix kit, later releases are a little thicker and thus more durable.

[Ogrob]

Got another five built, so that is two out of three sprues done. Really love the dynamic poses you can get with these, and they sure do look like proper heavy cavalry.

I've decided to go with all hand weapons for ease of transport. It occurs to me that couched lances would be ok to transport in my foam as well, but hand weapons will just be a little more durable. I guess they are on a second charge and all the lances spent.

[Moonglum_]

Victrix are excellent, hope you enjoy! My two recommendations would be to carefully check what parts are meant to go together (I see a lot of people not understanding the two-part dane axes in the Viking kit, and even sometimes people building figures with double elbows as the kit has two different styles of bodies and arms) and to keep in mind that the spears are very thin. The viking kit has probably the most fragile spears of any Victrix kit, later releases are a little thicker and thus more durable.

Very good advice, thank you.

[Moonglum_]

I've decided to go with all hand weapons for ease of transport.

Do you have a game you'll be heading to with these soon?

[Ogrob]

Do you have a game you'll be heading to with these soon?

No, but I generally game at a club and have to transport my figures there.

[Manu Miniatures]

Not a bad work on the knights. Because of the fur, they remind me of CrossTeutons, or will they be something else?

[Ogrob]

The lost clan had not been seen for many years, not since the cursed forest swallowed up their ancestral keep. But as war threatens the land, they appear once again out of the forest. Drawn up, battle ready, on the frosty field, silver horns silently calling to war.

So, little bit of fluff reveal as I finish the first unit. I had in mind to build a polish army for SAGA and the theme for these was a bit of an iterative process. The horned head you see on the warlord figure caught my imagination a little bit, and I started conceptualising something of a Green Knight and polish mashup, a little bit more of a fairy tale take on knights as opposed to strictly historical. I was also a bit inspired by Naomi Novik's books Uprooted and Spinning Silver which are a sort of fantasy fairy tale with some inspiration from polish myth and legend. I also wanted to paint a mostly green army as everything else this year has been in red, yellow and blue.

I found a version of a clan coat of arms from Poland, the clan itself dates back to roughly the 12th century. The clan arms were two silver arrowheads on a red field, but there was also a variation used at some point in time with silver on green instead. I changed it a little bit to two crossed arrows as I found the arrow head design a bit too abstract.

So with that, here is the first finished set of figures for the Lost Clan from the Cursed Forest.

Not a bad work on the knights. Because of the fur, they remind me of CrossTeutons, or will they be something else?

Thank you! As you can see from the description above I've not gone very historical with these. The cloaks are from Victrix's upgrade sprue which also features very Teutonic style helmet decorations. I like how they look, and had in mind to base them with a bit of snow so the warm cloaks make sense. Using less ostentatious heads for my regular knights, including this one sort of fantasy-Russian greathelm that came on the sprue. I think it suits the vaguely polish vibes to have a little bit of eastern influence.

[anevilgiraffe]

lovely work