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Author Topic: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Levy 6/2  (Read 100314 times)

Offline rumacara

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Another round of kitbashes 6/1
« Reply #360 on: January 06, 2025, 05:54:53 PM »
Just lovely. :-* :-*
Very well done kitbashing.

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Another round of kitbashes 6/1
« Reply #361 on: January 06, 2025, 06:33:06 PM »
I think building them is addictive fun.

I think painting the huge army that results is hard work and takes a lot longer ;)

Good luck lol

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Another round of kitbashes 6/1
« Reply #362 on: January 06, 2025, 07:17:50 PM »
I think building them is addictive fun.

I think painting the huge army that results is hard work and takes a lot longer ;)

Good luck lol

We are similar in this way :D

Offline Basementboy

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Another round of kitbashes 6/1
« Reply #363 on: January 07, 2025, 07:45:32 AM »
Lovely work! Really nice greenstuff on the hearthguard, and hard agree, bashing things together is much quicker fun than the slog of painting.

Online Ogrob

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Another round of kitbashes 6/1
« Reply #364 on: January 09, 2025, 12:51:54 PM »
That said, I have soldiered on with my painting. I had to leave things in progress and await varnishing weather, but a few days ago things cleared up. Once that was done I had to do my basing, which I finished for all three of these units last knight.

So all of these are for my Age of Crusades polish. Victrix Knights, and then two sets of norman/rus kitbashes. When Victrix makes foot and mounted sergeants for their medieval range, I may go back and redo these units to have a more western style medieval army. For now though, the kitbashes will work just fine.






What do you think?
« Last Edit: January 09, 2025, 12:56:34 PM by Ogrob »

Offline Mikai

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Some polish painting progress 9/1
« Reply #365 on: January 09, 2025, 07:58:55 PM »
All in all a lovely group, nice work! There is something about the colour combination at the green with the padded cloth which makes it looking odd for me, can't really explain it. I am not good at colour combinations so I orientate on online tools. At the one I use most times it's a fine analogous colour to the green one, so it's fine, like I said, I can't explain it:
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Online Ogrob

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Some polish painting progress 9/1
« Reply #366 on: January 15, 2025, 09:08:16 PM »
Another entry mostly for the sake of completeness. A small delivery today, and I managed to find time in the evening for some assembly.

First, four Rus mounted warriors by V&V miniatures, to use with the Lithuanian hearthguard. Added some flags left over from the Lithuanian nobles. These will just add to the numbers, if I should ever want four points of Hearthguard for the Lithuanians. V&V are, as always, a little fiddly, but these sculpts were quite nice, not too many parts, and the resin spears even half straight. They also match my Black Knight lithuanian nobles very well in size, as you can see in the second picture.



Second, Stronghold Terrain's Crusaders with longswords and a crusader banner. I added these to my long ago purchase of Crusaders with heavy weapons pack, to make this unit. They might serve as Western Knight mercenaries. I found their scabbards to lack definition and detail, so replaced them with some plastic bits. I will likely give them plastic shields as well, as they are intended to carry a shield on their back.


And finally, I saw an interesting army composition for the Polish which needed a few more melee levy than I had already built. I only had six Oathmark bodies left, so I pressganged some Fireforge bodies into service. This lot has arms from the Oathmark light humans, but Victrix heads.


What do you think?
« Last Edit: January 15, 2025, 09:19:42 PM by Ogrob »

Online Ogrob

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #367 on: January 15, 2025, 09:25:18 PM »
Looking at the last picture now, I think I will go back and make something from WGA Goths instead of the Fireforge minis....

Offline Mikai

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #368 on: January 16, 2025, 06:48:34 PM »
Lovely folks you gathered here. The left Fireforge mini fits in well but the right one sticks out a bit.

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #369 on: January 16, 2025, 08:40:18 PM »
Thank you! I kitbashed up a pair of alternate reinforcements from Wargames Atlantic goths, with Oathmark arms and Victrix heads. The WGA cloaks are a little strange fit, but this way, all figures in the units will have cloaks.



What do you think?

Offline Mikai

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #370 on: January 16, 2025, 08:51:27 PM »
The bodies fit better. The head of the right guy might not fit in well in regard to his beard (although its a pretty beard, so a reason to keep it). Otherwise I would perhaps only suggest to do one or two weapon swaps so you don't have the same arm pose with the same weapon.

Online Ogrob

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #371 on: January 17, 2025, 07:31:41 AM »
Good point. That axe arm is annoyingly difficult to pose. Might play around with some hand swaps before priming.

Online Ogrob

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Assembling and kitbashing 15/1
« Reply #372 on: January 22, 2025, 08:08:13 PM »
All right, I actually finished a whole load of figures the other day.

Photography waited until today, because I was waiting on a package containing a pair of A3 books of backdrops by John Hodgson. His kickstarter last year got delayed a whole load, but they finally arrived and look very nice. I picked one out from the ruins book and had a quick shoot of some Poles.

Spear levy - I see these as a sort of City Militia rather than ragged peasant levy. A little cleaner and better dressed, just not that great at fighting.



Archery levy - same as above really.



Then a pair of mercenary heroes for the Old Feud scenario - an advisor and a soldier. I could easily use these for multiple factions.


Some objective markers - a set of 3D printed tanners:


And some baggage markers, more 3D prints plus some farm animals from Warlord:



I reckon I will experiment a bit more with composing backdrop and maybe some scenics for photos in the future.

What do you think?

Offline Little Odo

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. New backdrops, painted levy and objectives 22/1
« Reply #373 on: January 23, 2025, 11:32:26 AM »
The figures turned out very nicely indeed - I really like the colour scheme.

With regards the backdrops, and I am not a photographer by any stretch, so only saying what I am seeing in a constructive way - but they seem a little muted in comparison to the figures. Maybe other commenters can explain how to make changes to "blend" the figures and backdrop better?
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Offline Wilgut Spleens

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Re: Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. New backdrops, painted levy and objectives 22/1
« Reply #374 on: January 23, 2025, 11:43:16 AM »

With regards the backdrops, and I am not a photographer by any stretch, so only saying what I am seeing in a constructive way - but they seem a little muted in comparison to the figures.

It looks as though the light is shining on them and reflecting back into the camera.Tilting the back drop slightly should improve the look
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