Sunday, 19 February 2012

French Knights with assault ladders (Miniart)

All in all, not a bad set..it has it´s faults and they can be read about at PSR
I haven´t painted all the bods in the set, only the brave (or slightly insane) ones climbing the ladder.
A quick test run in ladder usage, here they are trying to climb up to the kingdom of heaven. If you attach the ladder to the base provided,  then using a heated screwdriver, weld the pegs from underneath, then base the whole thing again on a new base it remains freestanding.
Attacking Hugh Jarses´s castle.................or...............................
....................have they just forgotten the Keys???
I tried to attach them after cutting the pegs off the bottom of thier boots...but they just don´t stay put. I used glue but it failed. Who knows, maybe high heeled assault boots were all the rage...
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24 comments:

  1. Guynemer19 February 2012 at 06:35

    Fantastic painting Paul! I really like the shields :D
    Best regards, Bani

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    1. Paul´s Bods19 February 2012 at 07:16

      Thanks Bani :-D
      Some blogs, you write a reply..go to post it and it says, write the captcha..but the box is empty!!!! trying Reload does nothing...Porkys exspanse and dalauppror´s for example,
      Has anyone else had this problem?
      Cheers
      paul

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  2. Willie Anderson19 February 2012 at 07:15

    Looks great Paul like Guynemer love the shields!

    Best wishes
    Willie

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    1. Paul´s Bods19 February 2012 at 07:21

      Thanks Willie,
      your blog just crashes my PC everytime I look :-D
      I forgot to say, the bloody followers thingy has dissappeared AGAIN!!!!!
      At this rate a new word will enter the languages of the world...one to replace rubbish, c**p etc, blogger..as in, "that´s total blogger!!"
      Cheers
      paul

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    2. Red_Cardinal21 February 2012 at 14:40

      Paul,

      Ever considered using Wordpress rather than Blogger for your blog? Haven't used it myself but it might be better?

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  3. kingsleypark19 February 2012 at 07:19

    Great stuff Paul. Totally agree with the others, the heraldry on the shields is fab.

    And I do like the look of that castle wall!

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  4. Monty19 February 2012 at 07:27

    Great set Paul and beautiful stone building! I reluctantly climb a ladder to paint or change a light. I really don't know how you do it when the other side is throwing boiling oil, rocks, arrows and such down on you. Just crazy!

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  5. Broeders19 February 2012 at 07:41

    Love it! Great work on the ladder, the knights and the walls.

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  6. PsychosisPC19 February 2012 at 07:59

    Awesome paint work. Love the look and detail.

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  7. peter19 February 2012 at 08:57

    Hey Paul I have the same set and I managed to glue one on the ladder without the pegs :-D
    Maybe I show you one day.
    Excellent job done! Nice shields BTW!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.com/

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  8. Michael Awdry19 February 2012 at 09:49

    High heeled assault boots may be all well and good when climbing a ladder, but they're a devil to keep quiet when you're tottering over the cobbles! Looks great though Paul.

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  9. Daisy Gowan Ditchburn19 February 2012 at 10:35

    Hugh jarse is not going to be happy. even if they are not attacking and they have just lost the keys.

    Good work. love the shields and your commentry, very funny.

    Keep it up
    Gowan

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  10. Laughing Ferret19 February 2012 at 11:09

    That is very cool. They look great, until someone gets to the wall with some boiling oil.

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  11. Thomas19 February 2012 at 11:24

    Fantastic!

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  12. Ray Rousell19 February 2012 at 13:30

    They're a really nice looking set!! And you've done a great job on the painting!!!

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  13. Sam Wise19 February 2012 at 14:15

    Very good work!
    I've always thought that it was not a really easy set to paint...

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  14. David19 February 2012 at 15:20

    Very nice figures!
    I guess this was a situation where the expression "friendly fire" could have begin. The guys climbing had to have some protection from archers(?)... but, unless they were all like William Tell,...

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  15. Dan19 February 2012 at 20:27

    That is great work!

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  16. The Angry Lurker20 February 2012 at 02:49

    Back from a night on the town and don't want the sergeant on duty at the gate to find out....great work!

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  17. El Senyor Verd20 February 2012 at 03:37

    Great, great shields... the rest is good as well ;)

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  18. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com20 February 2012 at 03:39

    Beautifully painted figures but I REALLY like the stone work!

    My old Elastolin 40mm ladder climber hangs on without pegs or glue. Probably an advantage of the larger size, bigger fists?

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  19. Mike20 February 2012 at 06:38

    These are great. Can you imagine climbing one handed up a ladder against opposition?
    I've had very good luck gluing plastic by using white glue and then adding a tiny dot of super glue.

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  20. Sidney Roundwood22 February 2012 at 00:36

    Absolutely great stuff, with some very fine terrain work on the walls and battlements. It's really tricky making stuff like this look "right", but you really pulled it off. Great stuff.

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  21. Russell Deasley24 April 2012 at 07:23

    Fair play to you these are stunning. EPIC SKILLS.

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