As if Saga AoV, a bit of AoC and KoW isn't enough to keep me at least, going until oblivion I've got some 15mm DBA figures I've been 'dipping' into.
This is a little Pictish diorama for a friend. Never really done a diorama before so didn't know what to expect but I was quite pleased - won't be making a habit of it though. I'll look to post the actual Pictish warband soonish which is virtually finished (how often do those words come back to haunt me?)
Moving seamlessly from the Historical Realm into something I'm far less comfortable with and that is the whole world of Fantasy - I'm sure I said I'd never get seduced by the wiles of orcs, dwarfs, elves and anything else springing from the febrile imaginings of Games Workshop (back in the day) and Co.
Nevertheless I've clearly been tricked by some malevolent Mage spinning a Kings of War web about my overwrought senses so that I now find myself the owner of a KoW Abyssal Dwarf force/ Vanguard Company (how did that happen?)
Some early experiments in painting in this unfamiliar fantasy oeuvre - an Abyssal Dwarf Blacksoul; a couple of Slave Orcs - one 'converted' with a boar's head; and a Throwing Mastiff (all Mantic Games models)
A couple of Gripping Beast Dark Age infantry 'converted' with a bit of Greenstuff to make a couple of eager Pilgrims off to Saga AoC Universe. Probably need to do about three more so I've enough for a point. Did these a couple of years ago now but as I'm on a Blogging Roll thought I'd get them up as well
Not the long-running radio soap for you Ambridge-Avids out there I'm afraid but some more more (largely) Conquest Games Dark Age bowmen (with a few metal Blacktree Designs? thrown in for artistic merit). This is just one point of Levy Bowmen so I need to steel myself to complete another 12 figures at some point but as noted on an earlier blog those puttees are maddening!
At last, I've finished the Conquest Games Norman Cavalry. Those puttees were driving me to distraction....
Looking forward now to using them in some AoV Saga encounters. Still have some other cavalry left to paint but thankfully with different lower leg adornments....
One of the cavalry is actually an old Essex Miniatures Norman bought circa 1990 as I thought it'd make an interesting 'project'. It only took 30 years (It's the one with what looks like a Winged Mutley on the kite shield - photo 2)
