Thursday 20 September 2012

Brian the Blessed

A couple more Zvezda Medieval Peasant army conversions.
The foot figs, Brian the Blessed and "Happy" Tim
Brian has got a  crossbow from the Italeri French Knights and foot soldiers set, his bolt quiver came from the Zvezda French Knights set (it is meant for the side of one of the horses)
"Happy" Tim has pinched a Voulge-guisarme from the Zvezda English Infantry of the 100yrw set.
Ok...maybe it wasn´t done that often, if at all, firing a bow from the saddle but Rhobyn de Hud is a strong guy..and a very skilled horseman :-D
The face painting technique seems to be working with "run of the mill" bods.
 
SHOUTING!!!!! I´ll have to re-create this face on a knight bod.
Hello to Maxamillian Walker from Scyld and seax blog. Dark age and Medievals are the mainstay, as he says "English lord exiled in France, I'm raising men to return home and take back my stolen lands! And inbetween all this, I like painting little soldiers."
I´ll bring my armies from the North  and we can divide the island between us :-D


21 comments:

  1. DID SOMEBODY ORDER A LARGE HAM!?
    Good ol' Brian Blessed.

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  2. GORDON'S ALIVE! That looks just like him, but just a bit quieter. Great paintjob.

    regards,
    Matt

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  3. Nice conversion and wonderful painting, specially the faces.
    Regards
    Bruno

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  4. Fun conversion :)
    I bet they all ran with scissors when kids too! hey! slow it down boys!

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  5. nice work!!!! those 3 are very life like and lovable characters

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  6. Fantastic face on Brian and the horse flesh looks superb.

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  7. That last portrait has the look of someone I used to know, just before he dealt out some punishment to my body. Ah, those were the days.

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  8. WOW that is him haha great job Paul, love the others too

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  9. Firing bows while riding a horse was common among eastern peoples. Far-eastern. That Rhobyn guy must be a travelled knight...

    Those faces...! I wouldn't want to cross these fellows' path!
    Great figs!
    Cheers

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  10. I'm eyeballing that horse Paul and I'm going to try to copy what you did on one of mine.

    The face on that last fellow is great. Nice job!

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    1. Thanks Anne,
      It´s not as good as I hoped. The way I did it was to get a small pice of sponge(packing foam) and tie it with thread to the end of a toothpick. Then I cut it down with nail scissors and with vey dry paint dabbed the pattern on.
      Next time it will get better :-D

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  11. That is tremendous Paul, love the names too.

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  12. Chissick! Fresh horses! That's Brian Blessed alright. Lovely work as always Paul.
    Cheers,
    Mike

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  13. Fantastic looking figures Paul! Your right it realy looks like Brian Blessed! Amazing.

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