tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464118881253192692024-03-13T09:07:33.220-07:00Jon's wargames minisJon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-43669089311373864032013-07-24T22:37:00.001-07:002013-07-24T22:37:54.050-07:00Trying out a kickstarterIf you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily avoid them for various reasons. Two nights ago though I found a link to Ramshackle games newest kick-starter to produce 28mm sci-fi troops and an APC. The pledge levels and stretch goals seemed very reasonable and I'm a big fan of Ramshackle's products plus the potentail product interested me so I made a £32 pledge. Now I will wait to see how this kick-starter thing pans out.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-7625915059130168982013-07-16T23:06:00.000-07:002013-07-16T23:06:06.100-07:00The £40 Dark Angel armyPlaying 40K these days can be an expensive business so I was pretty happy when I scored a big lot of GW miniatures of ebay for £30. As well as all the plastics from the Dark vengeance box set I got a full set of marines from Assault on Black reach so basically the core of three new armies. I was slightly less happy when I received them and saw the painting and modelling skills the previous owner had inflicted on them. So I broke out the Dettol stripped the miniatures and then went to town with modelling snips, sharp blade and plastic glue to make them presentable.<br />
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My son snagged the vanilla Marines for himself (pictures soon hopefully) and I wanted the chaos stuff for me (not much done to them other than the Hellbrute). That left the Dark Angels which I thought I would knock up into a useful force that my daughter could use when she wanted, as she does from time to time, to join daddy and big brother playing soldiers.<br />
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A recent trip to a wargames show allowed me to pick up some extra second hand bits on the bring buy stall to bring the army up to a 1000pts. Total cost of the army was<br />
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Dark vengeance set £10.00<br />
Rhino £12.00<br />
Razorback and 5 man squad £18.00<br />
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Total £40.00<br />
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I didn't work to hard on the paint job base coat, army painter dip, a few rough and ready highlights, basing and army painter anti shine varnish. Any way here are a few pictures pretty happy with this little army especially the cost.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-16719887001862960342013-07-10T13:21:00.000-07:002013-07-10T13:21:20.015-07:00HellbruteOK I've become very bad at updating this blog still here are a few pictures of a Hell brute (painted in the Sons of Malice colour scheme) that I converted up and painted for a competition on the DakkaDakka forum. This was a cheap rescue job from eBay after a Dettol bath to remove the old paint job I replaced the multi melta with a las-cannon and changed the head for an old chaos warrior head. I think he turned out pretty well.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-84492365121120362032013-05-06T06:02:00.000-07:002013-05-06T06:02:19.547-07:00Chaos cultists - finishedHaven't posted for a while. Not that I've been idle a few weeks back I picked up a bargain load of GW stuff on ebay (all the miniatures from Dark Vegance box set plus all the marines from Assualt on Black Reach) for £25.00. I only wanted the Chaos stuff so my kids both got a small space marine army each and we've been busy sorting out and painting these miniatures (hopefully a post on that subject soon).<br />
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In the mean time I entered my cultists in to a DakkaDakka forum competition run by Comrade Panda the theme was a unit with a brotherhood style I figured my cultists fitted the theme well. I wanted the unit to number 11 (the sacred number of Malal/Malice) so I added a Chaos marine champion of Malal armed with a dreadaxe (as a nod to the infamous Kaleb Daark). I also added a scenic base to show them off nicely. I'm not expecting to win anything, DakkaDakka has a lot of seriously talented painters and modellers hanging out on there, but I think they look pretty good. Anyway here are a few pictures<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-49696751505326943702013-04-14T00:28:00.000-07:002013-04-14T00:28:29.106-07:00Chaos CultistsI have finished off my first unit of converted chaos cultists for 40K. The models are based on WFB Empire flagellants with alsorts of extras from my bits box and plenty of grenstuff for the hoods. Now this unit is finished I've order some arm sets from Victoria Miniatures <a href="http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/">http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/</a> so that I can convert up some cultists with long arms (see last picture for a WIP shot). I really like the Victoria miniatures bits, really well done, and free postage from AUS to boot. Anyway below are a few pictures of my finished cultists.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-21806523604643235212013-03-31T00:16:00.001-07:002013-04-14T00:28:52.156-07:00Chaos cultists and more sceneryStill plugging away at my 40K project the wastelands board is pretty much done though I have now added a ruined Imperial chapel. The chapel is another Amera piece though unlike the other pieces this one was a kit that needed to be built I decided not to cut all the windows out but paint them up to look like stained glass with imperial icons. I also added in a ruined staircase from pink foam off cuts to allow access to the ruined second floor.<br />
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I've also been working on some opposition for my IG droop troopers...... Chaos. I wanted some chaos cultists for my army now the new plastic cultists from GW are nice (in fact I plan to convert some into mutants) but I wanted something different for my chaos army. I managed to score a cheap box of WFB empire flagellants and used these as the basis for my cultists with various bits from bits box. Below are the first test pieces which I liked so much I'm building some more.<br />
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<br />Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-24526246107195674722013-03-19T14:45:00.001-07:002013-04-14T00:28:59.466-07:0040K tableI have now painted up most of my Amera terrain (just a couple of buildings and a large hill to go) and I have knocked up a couple of 2x4 ft boards to make a small gaming table for 40K games. The Amera terrain got it's first outing on Saturday when myself and eldest son had a couple of combat patrol games using assorted proxy miniatures as IG and Lost and the damned chaos forces. Below are a few pictures of the new board with Amera scenery (apart from the crashed truck which is a resin piece I got of ebay).<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-52835896950272178212013-03-11T11:15:00.001-07:002013-04-14T00:29:12.137-07:00Amera terrainI was looking around for some 40k scenery toi go with my new IG army. I had look at GWs offerings which are very nice but quite pricey (no surprise there). Looking around I came across a company called Amera <a href="http://www.amera.co.uk/">http://www.amera.co.uk/</a> that supply vac form scenery. Now being Vac form it's not super detailed but for less than £40 I managed to order enough terrain to cover a table (compared to a couple of pieces of GW terrain for the same cost.<br />
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Last Friday a big box of stuff turned up ,well packaged as well, from Amera.<br />
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Now you could just paint the Amera stuff but I thought I would add a bit of extra detail. First off I decided to use my home made textured paint (made from floor tile grout, grey emulsion and PVA glue) to make the scenery look less plastic like and then I went to the bits box and added a variety of junk and bitz to match the bases on my new IG models. I then painted they scenery (I use Wickes household paint tester pots as cheap paint for scenery) and added brown and gold grass tufts to finish off. Below are a few pictures of the first few pieces of terrain I've painted so far. I'm very impressed with the Amera products which I think is great budget terrain.</div>
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-4792635458428030992013-03-01T23:56:00.000-08:002013-04-14T00:29:26.428-07:00Imperial GuardHaven't got much achieved recently on the hobby front. I have managed to knock up a few more imperial guard using the Defiance games USMC plastics (I got cheap in Northstars Jan sale), my bits box and and some resin heads from Anvil Industries. I also brought some resin scenic bases off ebay to mount them on.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-38699900634306403922013-02-03T23:08:00.003-08:002013-02-03T23:08:40.865-08:00WIPsI have had a lot on at work recently which has reduced my painting time some what so I haven't got much to show but I thought I'd stick up a couple of WIPs of what I have managed to do.<br />
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Firstly I am now starting to build up my first unit of highlanders for my Somerled project<br />
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Also I took advantage of the Northstar Jan sale and picked up three boxes of Defiance games USMC plastic Sci-fi troopers at half price with the idea of building a cheap Imperial guard army for 40k. It's really a stock up for latter (after I've finished my current project) but I couldn't resist putting together (and converting) a couple to paint.</div>
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I found this book in my local Oxfam bookshop for the princely sum of £2.49. Published by the ordnance survey in 1973 it is a slim A4 hardback which contains 30 pages or so of brief descriptive text about the makeup of the British Isles pre-1066 (sadly not Ireland). There's information here on the Danelaw and Danish settlements, town organisation, church settlements and fortifications. </div>
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The real interest for me lies in the twin pair of huge Ordnance Survey maps in a pocket at the back. These divide Great Britain into north and south and contain a lot of period detail, with sites of historical finds and battles marked, along with towns, fortifications and mints of the era and both their modern and Anglo-Saxon era names. The maps would, I think, be really useful for someone running a dark ages or early feudal wargames campaign in Britain.<br />
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So I got this book for Christmas (Somerled Hammer of the Norse) and have now finished it. If your interested in this period this book gives a reasonable outline of the politics of the era and of Somerled's raise to Lord of the Isles. Sadly it gives no details on Somerled's main battles.<br />
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Generally this book is, in my opinion, more about championing the brave Gaels against the nasty and barbaric Norse than giving a detailed account of Somerled's life. The book comes down firmly in the camp of Somerled as a Gael despite modern DNA testing seeming to suggest Somerled was Norse (or at least partial Norse) and he most certainly had a Norse name.<br />
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Quite a lot of the book (about a third) is concerned with the Lordship of the isles after Somerled's death and subjects like Norse longships and the Gaelic language all interesting stuff if not directly useful to my hobby project.<br />
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All in all not a bad book (if you can take the authors Gael propaganda with a pinch of salt) and to be honest I haven't find much else out there dealing with Somerled.Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-50504709658898434932013-01-03T13:59:00.002-08:002013-01-03T13:59:59.089-08:00The Hobbit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally got to see the Hobbit tonight. I'm kind of in two minds about this movie really. I think if I'd never read the book I would have really enjoyed the movie (like my son did) but sadly having read the book several times all the little changes (and not so little changes) rather bugged me.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-75085397022785697292013-01-03T00:24:00.002-08:002013-01-03T00:24:47.967-08:00Happy new year everyoneSlightly belated happy new year to everyone.<br />
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So Christmas is over a whole week of over eating, increased alcohol consumption and visits to friends and family is done the Christmas decorations are now down and it's time to make all sorts of hobby resolutions that won't make it past the 1st of February.<br />
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I totally failed to get any painting done over the Christmas holidays I did however manage to spend some Christmas money on more white metal and read a book on Somerled I got as a Christmas present. I managed to play a few games of the Dungeon Command boardgame with my son after getting the Goblin and undead expansions for Christmas.<br />
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Looking forward to 2013 I plan to carry on with my Somerled project for Hail Caesar. I now have (I will once the arrive in the post) all the miniatures I need to build up Somerled's Gaels I just need to paint and base them all now. After that I hope to put together Godred's Norse Mann forces. Beyond that I have no plans for this year and knowing how easily I fall prey to the "oohhh shiny" syndrome just finishing the two above armies will be an achievement. <br />
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Cheers JonJon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-71416545518255870662012-12-22T11:00:00.001-08:002012-12-22T11:00:50.642-08:00The arrival of the dreaded lurgy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sadly no painting this week as a plague of biblical proportions descended on the family home knocking down myself, the wife and both kids. True to form myself and number one son took to our beds (and whinged like only a man can can according to the wife) while the wife and daughter bravely battled on at work and school (while throwing disapproving looks at the weakling men folk). Of course now the women folk are both laid up in bed suffering while number one son and myself are almost back to full health (and slightly smug).<br />
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Anyway in between running around after coughing, sneezing and fever ridden women I hope to get back to a bit of painting action before Christmas proper starts and a week of family visits and over eating again puts paid to the hobby time.<br />
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<span dir="auto">Thorfin is a Gripping Beast Irish warlord from the Saga range, the horn blower is another Gripping Beast Scot/Pict the standard bearer is a Crusader miniatures Irish miniature with his axe replaced with a flag pole. The Flag is again from the "Don't throw a 1" Blog with a re-paint and highlights.</span><br />
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<span dir="auto">Next up is to keep plugging away at the various Norse-Gael miniatures I have to build a unit as Somerled's household troops.</span><br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-55718759917658553662012-12-16T11:49:00.001-08:002012-12-16T11:49:15.975-08:00Somerled king of KintyreSlowly painting up my Islesmen and have finished up one of my command bases. This base is going to represent the Norse-Gael Warlord and king of Kintyre Somerled.<br />
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Somerled is a Gripping Beast Norse-Gael warlord from the Saga range, his standard bearer is from the Gripping Beast Scots/Pict range and the horn blowing bodyguard is a Crusader miniatures Scots thane with a plastic Wargames Factory horn. The flag is from the excellent Don't throw a 1 Blog which has lots of nice (and free flags for gamers). <a href="http://onelover-ray.blogspot.co.uk/">http://onelover-ray.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
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Sadly my printer ink ran out when I printed the flag so I had to re-paint it and add some highlights. I have no evidence that Somerled was a short arse but the newer Gripping Beast Saga miniatures seem much shorter than the older Gripping Beast miniatures. Plenty more Gaels to paint up yet.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-20712841130085527952012-12-13T12:18:00.001-08:002012-12-13T12:18:48.741-08:00Heros of the Dark AgesI came across this company recently <a href="http://www.heroesofthedarkage.com/ranges/">http://www.heroesofthedarkage.com/ranges/</a> and thought they looked interesting (and not to expensive) so I ordered a few miniatures from them. I was looking for a few different miniatures to add some interest to command bases and such like and among the ranges there were several miniatures that looked like they would fit the bill.<br />
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The order arrived today and sadly I'm a bit disappointed. Now I should say I wasn't expecting Perry brothers level of sculpting, having looked at the pictures on their website, and the miniatures are slightly crude though IMO serviceable enough with a lick of paint. No what left me disapppointed was the massive variation in size between models from the same manufacturer. Some of the miniatures are closer to 20mm in size while others look like they are pushing 40mm and almost all of them look either to big or small to fit with my other miniatures. Below are a few pictures that might illustrate what I mean<br />
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In the interest of fairness other companies also seem to be a bit variable in their figure sizes. First picture below is Crusader second in gripping beast.<br />
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Right moaning about size aside here is a closer look at the heros of the Dark Ages miniatures. First a viking holding a loft a severed head which I thought might mark out a Norse command stand quite nicely he is one of the larger figures</div>
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Next a monk. As I was thinking of putting together a force to represent Wimund Bishop of Mann I thought a few monks might be nice to dot around the units this guy is a big brute but not a bad miniature.<br />
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I thought this guy would make a good Godred of Mann he is another big boy but has the right look for the Isles with bare legs, mail and simple nasal helm.<br />
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Another monk this guy is a "normal" 28 and will be hanging out on Wimund's command base<br />
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A mounted Abbot don't really now why I got this figure just thought he looked good. Probably the nicest figure of the ones I ordered though he is going to need some work to make him fit on his horse properly.<br />
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The three dwarves these three are more like 20mm than 28mm they are also rather "flat" miniatures they might find their way onto a baggage element or something.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-77495836438128939632012-12-12T11:27:00.001-08:002012-12-12T11:29:34.405-08:00Christmas trees....OK a quick heads up for UK gamers about Christmas trees. Over on TMP every festive season there is always a thread about cheap snow covered model Christmas trees for model Christmas villages. Well I've never seen them here in the UK until I was in Homebase today looking for something total unrelated. Homebase have a model Christmas village this year and among the accessories were snow covered fur trees perfect for 28mm I bought both packs on the spot and £7.00 netted me 10 nice snowy fur trees ready to put straight down on the table here a couple of pictures if anyone else is interested.<br />
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-73655637956412471582012-12-10T23:10:00.002-08:002012-12-10T23:10:55.955-08:00 Gripping Beast Islemen - WIP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've made a start on the Gripping Beast figures that came in the post though I'd show a couple of pictures of the progress. These guys are going to to be Somerleds household troops (hence the armour) so I've tried to make them more Gael (hence the proto tartan) than Norse to make them different to the Mann forces (in reality I suspect there wouldn't have been much difference in appearance between Godred's and Somerled's soldiers).</div>
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Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-19832983036860484592012-12-06T10:21:00.003-08:002012-12-07T08:02:15.094-08:00Arrival of the islemen....in the post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My order from Gripping Beast arrived to day on the plus side they are very nice minatures on the down side I plundered figures from different ranges mostly the Dark age Scots and the Saga Norse-Gael ranges and the two ranges are quite noticably different in size. I have two very nice Islemen generals but the standard bearer and musican I have tower over them (instead of Somerled the slayer I seem to have Somerled the short). The other down side is that the axes are all seperate and I have to drill the hands out to get them to fit....I don't like drilling hands.<br />
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I also ordered a few character type miniatures from a company called Heros of the Dark Ages yesterday among some pretty odd miniatures there are some quite nice minis hidden among their ranges.Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-57185351309340098332012-12-05T08:08:00.000-08:002012-12-05T08:08:00.805-08:00Mann Norse command bases WIPHaving now finished the Hird for my Mann Norse I've ordered some suitable miniatures for Somerled's Gaels from Crusader miniatures and Gripping Beast. While I'm waiting for them to turn up I decided to keep my new found enthusiasm ticking over by making some command bases for my Mann Norse out of left over Wargames factory plastic vikings and bits from my bits box.<br />
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<span dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Below are some pictures of my command base WIPs two standard bearers, a horn blower and a conversion to represent Wimund.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="auto"><span dir="auto"> </span></span>Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-92098698443997029592012-12-03T09:00:00.000-08:002012-12-03T09:00:00.991-08:00MIAWell it's been rather a long time since I posted...mainly because it's been along time since I did anything hobby worthy to post about. Real life has a habit of getting in the way of my hobbies and real life for me culminated in being diagnosed with suffering from stress and depression by my GP a couple of weeks ago one of the things about depression is a total lack of get up and go or enthusiasm to do anything...sadly in recent months that has included my hobbies.<br />
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Anyway my GP encouraged me to "try and get back to do things you enjoy" so the last couple of weeks I've been plugging away at some miniatures with the vague idea of doing some battles around the Irish sea in the mid 12th century. I had some plastic vikings and left over Conquest Normans hanging around and while searching the net for ideas came across the Gael- Norse warlord Somerled (and the rather interesting bishop of Mann Wimud). I also came across a few examples of multiple basing of miniatures (Impetvs style) which I thought might be fun to try.<br />
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It took quite a bit of effort to get started and my painting skills have gone a bit ropey from lack of use over the last few months but I knocked up this first unit the Hird of the king of Mann <span dir="auto">Godred Crovan II ready for a dust up with Somerled and his boys. Information for the look of Mann Vikings around 1150 is a bit sketchy (the isle of Lewis chess pieces seem to be the main source) but using my trust Ospreys on early medieval Scandinavia and Vikings I went with a mix of Normans and Vikings I'm taking a punt that Mann (like Ireland, Norway and the Isles) might have been a bit behind the times with regards to military equipment....even if it's not quite right (longer mail coats might have been more appropriate) I like they way they've turned out.</span><br />
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<span dir="auto">I've tried to give the impression of a shield wall with some berserkers breaking out from the lines. I know berserkers are most likely a bit archaic for the 12th century but I'm using a comment in the WAB shieldwall supplement that the vikings of the Isles where a rum lot known for witch craft and other foul practises to keep this old tradition going (even if it is a bit of fantasy).</span><br />
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<span dir="auto">anyway here are some photos of the finished unit.....though it seems the camera/lights have combined to make the colours seem a bit more yellow than they are in real life.</span><br />
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<br />Cheers JonJon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446411888125319269.post-76254795050076161312012-09-02T04:02:00.003-07:002012-09-02T04:17:19.915-07:00Cheap Black Hawk Helicopter<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-08ZzcHY-Nok/UD9gh2tV6fI/AAAAAAAADOQ/7bA7Rj2B3mY/s640/Black+Hawk.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-08ZzcHY-Nok/UD9gh2tV6fI/AAAAAAAADOQ/7bA7Rj2B3mY/s640/Black+Hawk.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>Picked up a new <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">collectible</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">magazine</span> at the news agents today<br /><br /><a href="http://helicopter-magazine.com/the-collection/">http://helicopter-magazine.com/the-collection/</a><br /><br />Came with a very nice US B<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">lack Hawk</span> helicopter in 1/72 scale for a bargain price of £2.99. As usual with this things the next issue is cheap (a Sea King heli) before they get expensive from issue 3.<br /><br />The wife bought me a copy of Force on Force for my Birthday so a cheap Black Hawk might be just the thing to kick off a little Modern skirmish in 20mm......... </div><br />Jon Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08243736736389249361noreply@blogger.com3