Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia... More Arthurians! (P.26)

[Dr. The Viking]

Not too bad mate!!! 

Good to see some proper blonde Saxons. 

[Hu Rhu]

Excellent figures.  Perhaps they were ABBAs ancestors. 

[Silent Invader]

Lovely! 

[Argonor]

Excellent figures.  Perhaps they were ABBAs ancestors. 

Or BeeGee's... The guy without beard actually LOOKS like Robin Gibb... 

[rumacara]

 

Abba´s or BeeGee´s it doesnt matter.

Lovelly figures, lovely painting.

Cheers

Rui

[moiterei_1984]

Outstanding painting once again 
Really good job on the conversions.

[Phil Robinson]

More great stuff there Richard, I can see them firing away to strains of "More Than A WRoman"

[Captain Blood]

More great stuff there Richard, I can see them firing away to strains of "More Than A WRoman"

 
Ah, you card, Phil... 

[Malamute]

More goodness.

Very, very nice, up to your usual Wicked Kewl standard

[Captain Blood]

Thanks 

Another addition to the ranks - a rash geoguth or young warrior.

I've been dabbling with LBMS shield transfers for the first time on this project. Mainly because I've bought the 'Arthurian Knights' set, which look spectacularly beautiful.
So I thought I might try out a few on the Saxons too.
Not sure I like them.
a/ They're not transfers in the old Airfix / Tamiya sense of the word... They're actually printed on sticky plastic film, which makes them quite hard to shape to the shield - especially around the edges. And b/ You then have to spend so much time blending in the edges and 'weathering in' the design, that you may as well just paint the blinking thing in the first place!
So although this figure has a transfer on his shield, it's covered with so much paint, I'm not sure you can really make out the transfer...

Anyway, I'm hoping they will come into their own with more complex shield designs... We shall see







And here amongst his bow-armed ceorls...



Next up, hopefully in a day or two, a unit of heavily armoured Gedriht (the 'Hearthguard' in Saga terms), plus the army standard bearer... 

[warburton]

Nice. Never used the transfers myself but your thoughts echo the reasons I have not tried. The Celtic knot designs and so on might be a good reason to try though when I get around to doing Gauls....

[Hu Rhu]

Let me guess.  Little Jimmy Osmond?  Great paint job.

[Captain Blood]

Let me guess.  Little Jimmy Osmond?

- there is a passing resemblance, I must admit...


Here are the next figures: three more 'Gedriht' or sworn warriors.
In 'Saga' terms, they are 'Hearthguard'. Just the standard bearer to add and they will be my second unit of four well-armoured and dedicated professional warriors, sworn to defend their warlord, or die trying...

I'm employing figures from across the Musketeer Miniatures range to build my warband - these three are technically a Goth, a Romano-Brit hero, and a Saxon. Truthfully, they are all dressed and armed pretty much the same, so I'm just counting them as interchangeable. A spangelhelm is a spangelhelm, more or less... It's only the small early Saxon shields that were distinctive, but I'm mixing a few larger shields in as well anyway for a bit of visual variety...

I've tried again with the shield transfers on a couple of these, and managed slightly better results this time. I guess they're probably worth it for more complex motifs, which even I'd find way too fiddly to paint - and I'm pretty patient. For block colour shield patterns though, like on the third figure here, I think it's just as quick and easy to stick to freehand...

[Mason]

Looking good, Cap'n,
 

Some of those colour choices will have Chris calling them camp, though, I reckon.
 

[Phil Robinson]

Very nice and vying with the Sassanids in the colourful clothing stakes.