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Author Topic: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project *update*  (Read 3894 times)

Offline Pappa Midnight

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I recently picked up a copy of Clash of Spears and Rise of Eagles for some historical type gaming. Pure historical is pretty much unlike me but I fancied a decent Imperial Roman army clashing with some celts. Anyhow, as always I got sidetracked looking at the Dark Ages lists. Then I ended up buying the Arcane companion for Clash of Spears which has lists for Northern Barbarians, Draugr (Viking zombies!) and Trolls!
With that in mind I bought some Victrix Vikings and some Conquest Trolls to use as Frost Giants.
I'm planning on building a Norse army with fantasy elements to start and then a Draugr Army (suprise,suprise).

First up some Victrix Vikings to get me started:







I have also painted up a few Jotunn (Conquest Trolls):



I think the "Jotunn" scale up really well with the Victrix Vikings, being about twice as tall as a man.



I will post more as I go.

Regards
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« Last Edit: July 28, 2023, 08:14:14 PM by Pappa Midnight »
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Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2023, 01:23:22 AM »
Those look excellent, I like the jotun a lot! The colours you used work really well, especially the bronze with the blue skin tones.

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2023, 03:00:12 AM »
Oh damn, that is a great idea. They make excellent giants. I am guessing they are frost giants, will you be doing fire giants and trolls as well?
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Offline Ethelred the Almost Ready

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2023, 05:45:05 AM »
Fabulous looking Jotunn.  As with the other replies, the colours are spot on.

Offline Sunjester

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2023, 07:33:53 AM »
Absolutely superb! I eagerly await more! lol

Offline Michi

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2023, 08:02:10 AM »
Wonderful paintjobs on both the humans and jötunen!  :-*

Offline has.been

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2023, 10:47:29 AM »
+1 to all the above comments. :-*

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2023, 11:26:27 AM »
Oh they all look great! Good spot on the size of those conquest trolls.

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2023, 01:29:12 PM »
Jaw-droppingly good!

Offline Olsson

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2023, 11:25:09 AM »
I've come to love Victirx myself, and you have painted your vikings warriors very well. Bold colours that I am sure make them pop wonderfully even at table distance, and I in particular like the work you've managed with the decals, adding the extra mile to weave them into the miniature itself.

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2023, 12:50:16 PM »
Thank you all for the comments. I’ve really been enjoying painting these. I am currently working on some berserkers to fit in with these. I have a large collection of Viking minis (unpainted) but a lot of the older minis now look pretty poor when compared to the new plastics.
I will post some WIP pictures when I have assembled them.

Regards
PM



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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2023, 12:55:22 PM »
Lovely work  8)
cheers

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Offline BeneathALeadMountain

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2023, 02:49:05 PM »
Those are excellent (as everyone has said) and I agree with others that the blue skin tone is perfect. I had a goodly collection of vikings and got rid of them when my opponent got tired of saga, I wish I’d thought of doing something like this with them instead.

Keep up the good work,

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Offline Pappa Midnight

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2023, 03:38:00 PM »
I wish I’d thought of doing something like this with them instead

I've lost count the number of times I got rid of stuff and wish I hadn't! Luckily my "better-half" is understanding and has allowed me a room in the house to store half-finished projects in case i go back to them...

I have just base coated some more vikings, including two converted berserkers. I used Warlord Celts with some Victrix bits:





Here's comparison shot with a purely victrix mini. I think they blend in OK.



Back to work tomorrow so probably wont get any paint on them until next weekend.

Regards
PM

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Viking marauders and Jotunn - a small Clash of Spears Arcane project
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2023, 07:41:19 PM »
Always so nice to see a new Pappa Midnight post! Wonderful work as always!


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