To Westeros with Captain Blood! 14 October, another hill tribesman (p66)

[Silent Invader]

It's all lovely   

Though am afraid to say that the size of the images in the WSS article didn't do them justice.

[OSHIROmodels]

Love the pose on Victarion 

cheers

James

[Bugsda]

Superb work Richard   As every celebrity knows a flash of pink in a  magazine will always give your fame a boost

[Captain Blood]

As every celebrity knows a flash of pink in a magazine will always give your fame a boost

Phnaaarrrr! 
Thanks Chris.

Though am afraid to say that the size of the images in the WSS article didn't do them justice.

Thanks Steve. Yes, I think 5 pages with decent sized pics would have made for a lot better article than 4 pages with weeny pics. Unfortunately, once I've handed the copy and images over to Guy and the team, I don't have any say in the matter. I can get edited and laid out however they like. Twas ever thus for the poor old jobbing writer... 

It's a tough job being an editor though. Can't please all the people all the time 

[Garanhir]

Ah, if only some Perry plastics came along to complement the First Crusade range, I'd be a happy fellow.

[Captain Blood]

Well, they've gone back to produce plastics for their metal Agincourt to Orleans and AWI ranges, so I certainly wouldn't rule it out. In fact, I reckon it would be a pretty safe bet they will produce a set sooner or later...

[doowopapocalypse]

And I think that just leaves my attempt at a Wildling to come... 

And maybe a crannogman....and Thoros of Myr...

[Timbor]

I think your talents would be best served recreating some of the more characterful of the Ghiscari legions. 

Great work, as usual, but didn't Victarion have a Kraken emblem on his helm in the book?

[Argonor]

Ah, if only some Perry plastics came along to complement the First Crusade range, I'd be a happy fellow.

Well, they've gone back to produce plastics for their metal Agincourt to Orleans and AWI ranges, so I certainly wouldn't rule it out. In fact, I reckon it would be a pretty safe bet they will produce a set sooner or later...

Now, that'll be a certain must-buy 

I agree on the mail sleves, they are a bit on the 'baggy' side,

[Vermis]

Now, that'll be a certain must-buy 

Aye, but I want it now!

I agree on the mail sleves, they are a bit on the 'baggy' side,

I get it now. 

[Captain Blood]

And finally (for now) beyond the Wall, we find the real barbarians. My Wildling is concocted from a Fireforge steppe warrior body with fur lined tunic, mounted on a set of bandy, trousered Warlord Celt legs. He bears a Gripping Beast Viking shield and axe, and a bald Warlord Celt head with luxuriant moustache. His shield arm is from a Perry longbowman. It provided just the pose I was after.

[Mason]

Lovely paintwork, Richard.
Particularly that shield, proper grimy.
 

Nice posing with the bitz, too.
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Works for me 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Works for me 

cheers

James

Me too.

[Argonor]

I get it now.  

Took you long enough    

I'm in love with that wildling (and, no, it's not because bald men with big moustaches turn me on  ). The basics of this conversion could also be used for an evil Magyar/Cossack/steppe thingy either dark age/medieval or later.

You're really showing how some imagination, and a diversity of plastic sets, can be used to create an infinity of possible permutations to populate almost any setting one should want to picture! Now, try saying that thrice after downing a pint of good ale 

But really, this thread is offering a plethora of digestive fodder for the imagination of anyone thinking of, how to depict this or that setting for which is no 'official' range of minis to be found.

I need to get my eldest daughter into this kind of kit-bashing; she is VERY fond of reading fantasy (mea culpa  ), and I could imagine her, with a little help, fleshing out some of the characters and creatures she reads about and sometimes draw (I sport some skill at drawing, but she, at 11, already draws way better than I did at 20), and then painting them up to populate our gaming tables.

I rant, I know, but it's your own fault, showing off those magnificent conversions