Varangian veterans and warlord Harald Hardrada for SAGA

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

These are mostly conversions using the brilliant GB plastics as a base, and using some hands and arms from the plastic Wargames Factory sets. There was a lot of cutting and gluing involved in getting these poses to work, and some of them I'm still not happy with (although you can't really see the flaws with the models held at arms length, so I guess it's not that bad).

I wanted to go with a drab, dark palette to match my existing Viking warband, but made use of a few 'brighter' colours like greens and blues, with a lot of red on the shields as a spot colour. The LBMS transfers are, as always, beautiful but so much work that I can only barely justify using them. That peel-away plastic sheet they use is SUCH A PAIN, and of course, some of the boss holes aren't the right size, which leads to much fiddling and trimming to get them to fit. But they DO look very nice, they certainly elevate my mediocre painting to a higher standard!




This is Harald and his signalman, sounding the charge. You can see his discarded helmet at his feet.




And a shot from behind to show off the shields:

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely work 

cheers

James

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Lovely work 

cheers

James

Thanks!

[von Lucky]

They are nice - will be nice to see them in the flesh next month.

[Jacksarge]

They look great! 

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

They are nice - will be nice to see them in the flesh next month.

, I hope to be taking an Anglo Saxon warband, but still waiting on the Northern Fury book to be reprinted! If it doesn't make it here in time you might see these gentlemen on the board

[FierceKitty]

Nifty, and no debate!

[mrtn]

Very nice!

[tyrionhalfman]

They look great. Thanks for sharing

[aircav]

Great job 

[gamer Mac]

Great work

[Jeff965]

Lovely stuff, the basing sets them off a treat 

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Thanks for the comments everyone, I am pretty happy with how they turned out over-all

[Dr DeAth]

Jolly nice, like the subdued palette that you've used.

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Thanks, I was trying to keep to a dark, subdued sort of palette, not much in the way of flashy or bright colours.