By Fire & Sword: Lithuanian field hetman Gosiewski (14/4/14)

[Anatoli]

The Wooden Church is the latest addition to the terrain offered by Wargamer.pl for their game By Fire & Sword. I have previously reviewed and painted up a couple of their excellent pieces, you can find the links for those at the end of my review.

As usual the model has excellent wooden textures, authentic design to make it fit in with 17th century Eastern Europe and radiates a lot of character. Cast in resin the building itself is as always hollow so that you can leave the roof to be removed during games if you like. The By Fire & Sword rules to include rules of occupying and firing out of buildings and all the buildings in the BFaS terrain range are actually sculpted so that you will be able to fix the correct amount of bases into the building instead of having to calculate how many you can put inside.

Check the full review and a bunch of pictures of the parts in this kit over at my blog:


http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/04/17th-century-wooden-church-review.html

[Anatoli]

And here is the Wooden Church painted up and ready to be plundered by Swedes and other invading nations. The building, like any other from the Wargamer.pl range, pretty much paints itself. It doesn't require any effort to look good as it is well textured and allows for a great result with just a mix of drybrushing and washes.

Wish the pictures were better though, but the lightning here at home sucks for taking pictures of large objects - I will take better pictures of this tomorrow down at the club when I demo By Fire & Sword.

More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/04/17th-century-wooden-church-painted-up.html

[Hussar072]

Those are beautiful! Thank you for posting the tutorial on painting horses. Two areas I can never seems to paint well -horses and faces, any information I can find I use.

[Anatoli]

Glad to be of help 

[Elbows]

While I don't have much of an interest in the era or conflict - beautiful work all around.  Really like the paintjobs and the terrain is top notch.

[Anatoli]

A Banner of Pancerni cavalry with spears for my Polish army in By Fire & Sword. Love these guys. More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/polish-pancerni-banner-with-spears.html

[batu]

Fantastic work, as always.

[Anatoli]

Andreas at my club got hold of some buildings suitable for By Fire & Sword and asked me if I would be interested in painting them up for him, the deal was I paint 5 houses and keep 2 of them.

I thought it was a good deal, and the buildings below are the ones I picked for myself. The decision to pick these two was rather easy, as I already have several large buildings from Wargamer I wanted some smaller houses for my own collection.

I kept the Wargamer manufactured peasant hut with pigsty and another medium sized (wealthy?) peasant building from an unknown manufacturer.

More pictures of both on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/more-17th-century-buildings-for-by-fire.html

[Jase]

They look great!  Which colours did you use?

I have the Big Peasant Hut with Pig Sty as well and I wondered whether they forgot to pack a chimney, but from your model it really is just a hole in the roof, right?

[Anatoli]

It's indeed a hole in the roof for the poor people's dwellings.

I use Scorched Brown, Steeel Legion Drab, Bestial Brown, Yellow, Bone White, Devlan Mud wash and Khaki highlight for the wood. The roof is Scorched brown, with added Steel legion drab and Dark Sand.

It's just a matter of adding more colors to the mix and mainly drybrushing and washes overlaping each other.

[Anatoli]

One of three buildings intended for use in By Fire & Sword that I painted up for my friend Andreas.
Much more happy with this paintjob than on the test paintjob I did on my own building from the same manufacturer.

More pictures on my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/peasant-house-with-fence-for-by-fire.html

[pocoloco]

Happy to found this thread! 

Now I need to remind myself that I really don't need any of those buildings...

[Anatoli]

A banner of elite cossack style cavalry, painted up for today's game where I'm going to use them in a Lithuanian list that can be found as a downloadable PDF from the Wargamer site (not translated yet though).

The whole list is made up of cossack style cavalry and dragoons alone. The drawback of being able to field a larger number of dragoons than usual is that they are quite reluctant to fight (and according to the historical description screwed over the cavalry by running away without a fight in a skirmish battle with the Muscovite troops).

The list includes 5 bases of elite cossack style cavalry, which should be interesting to try out. This is my first unit with shields, which serve to increase the armor save by +1 in close combat and against arrows/javelins.

More pictures on my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/elite-cossack-style-cavalry-banner.html

[Anatoli]

More buildings for By Fire & Sword, last two that I painted for Andreas at our club as payment for the buildings he  gave me. More pictures on my blog:


http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/stable-for-by-fire-sword.html



http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/guardhouse-for-by-fire-sword.html

[Anatoli]

Remembered that I had some pictures from a while ago when I delivered the commissioned buildings to Andreas at the club prior to one of our games of By Fire & Sword. I arranged them all to form a small village so we could see the amount of terrain we had and what it would look like if we played with everything. The buildings are a mix of Wargamer.pl and Total Battle Miniatures and are all in 15mm scale.

A couple more pictures of the village over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/05/17th-century-polish-lithuanian-village.html