Medieval Baggage (2)

Another bit of the baggage train fnished :-D Makes involved?? Bods, Zvezda, Minart, Redbox, Airfix, Orion and Strelets. Mules...Airfix, Atlantic (Nexus) Artminiaturen. Oxen, Finescale facotry. Dog...Airfix.

Cart with tents (?)

Mule train

The whole lot so far :-D

A couple more wagons... ( a medicus one etc ), an oxen team for pulling heavy equipment and some civilian carts and it will be finished

Medieval Levy 2 ( Strelets )

This and Medieval Levy ( 1 ) from Strelets are nice little sets. The spears are not joined to the sprue 3 - 4 times, an error which has put me off buying strelets sets. IMHO, they would mix well with the Scottish Schiltron from Strelets...all three sets being good examples of generic lower orders of hired rank and file.

They have that classic "stumpy" strelets look, which for a bunch medieval thugish commoners is great :-D

Hello to Jay from Jay´s Miniature Enterprises.....Jay´s just started out in the blogging world, but he already has a follower ;-D
Hello to Prufrock. He lives and teaches english in japan and has got a great blog, Here´s no great matter,  dealing with ancient wargames and minis...and some of the armies are HUGE! He´s at the moment rebasing 380 marian romans!!

Stonecircle

Another type of religious structure instead of the church...

The stone in the middle can be removed and replaced with a fire......

.....which lights up !! :-D

Smurf Warrior (Strelets Dacian heavy Infantry)

By any standard this is...or rather was, a pretty dreadfull set. The PSR review rated them quite badly.
To be fair...Strelets took notice of the outcry (rumour is that the sculptor is now seeking new emploment) and they retooled the set and it  here is what it looks like now.A massive improvement!!
I bought this and the Dacian light infantry (also now retooled as can be seen here) before the PSR review and when I opened the boxes I didn´t know wether to laugh or cry. It will probably  end up as a collectors item.

"Now where´s that Gargamel !??"

Hello to Mark. Mark´s a busy bloke...5 blogs!! One of his blogs that i follow, Winter of ´79 is a great site dealing with 20mm wargaming in an alternative Thatchers britian..loads of period info, with tongue in cheek historical references  and his latest post, TAOR: Borsetshire in review (R4, the Archers) is typical, giving a real flavour of the 70´s. Who remembers those dried out Garibaldi biccies or that evil Chicken supreme in the ration packs ? :-D

Medieval Family (Valdemar)

By the looks of things a well off family.Bods from various Valdemar sets. "Chappie"  from Pegasus

The faithfull family dog "Chappie"

This one I´ve nicknamed "Button"  The way she´s holding her dads finger!!!!!!!

Hello to Spencer from Flip of the coyne  Interesting blog with some polotics and Urban farming . The front page has a great pic ...some of the dark stuff...cheers!  :-D

Roman Legion on the march (Strelets)

What the roman grunt spent a lot of his time doing :-D
Not a bad set..it includes The heavy infantry and auxillaries. PSR review Here

Column made up from two sets from strelets, Hat standard bearer and Zvezda musician and Imaginifier

Legionaries. I know...the tunics are  red..highly unlikely but it looks good

Auxillaries

Legionaries from behind. Note the bod at the rear right corner...those bendy strelets spears!!!!! They should really get to grips on this point...having the spears cast along the shaft onto the sprue makes one hell of a job to cut them free.

Auxillaries from behind . Cavalry coming soon :-D

Hello to Waz...thanks for following
Hello to Andy from Creepy Corridoor blog. great 40K wargaming and his last post questioning wether wargaming is going digital is well worth a read.
PS..Andy..your google friends connect isn´t on :-D

Medieval baggage

First part of a medieval baggage train. Donkeys and carts later.

Haycart. The cart and oxen are from the Pegasus "California mission indians"  A good little set..lots of very usefull monk bods. The bod from Zvezda´s Medieval peasant army.

Zvezda gun "carriage" and orion bods from the Medieval siege troops set.

The zvezda gun "carriage" with the team guide from the set.

With gun added

The baggage so far.

Robin and son

Two more Valdemar bods. Who they are saying hello / goodbye to...but whoever it is...son of Robin has seen something much more interesting. 

Medieval Hut ( How to )

Quick and easy...and cheap as mud :-)

Medieval hut or stoneage or fantasy or whatever

The Materials.....Green insulating foam, sharp blade, scissors, stapler, pins, woodglue and some paint and some thin card (the sort from a cereal packet is good. You also need a handbrush or a softbroom (not shown in picture)

Cut a strip of insulating foam across the lines. if the strip is cut along the lines it doesn´t bend easily..in fact it snaps. Using a biro score the brickwork pattern. Do not cut out the door at this point. Glue the whole thing to a base and hold in place with some pins. The join at the back will need pinning as well.

Here I have smeared some sand mixed with woodglue on the basing. Leave the whole thing to dry.

The roof. Mark a circle on some card, cut out and cut a line to the center. lap one side over the other to form a flat cone and fix in place with a staple.

Put the cone over the house and cut back (remove the bottom) as necessary so you end up with about 1cm of overhang all the way around. At this point you can cut the door out. If you do this earlier, it creates a weak point in the wall which almost immediately will break when you start to bend the wall into shape.

Then I paint everything in dark brown. if a door is going to be added you don´t have to paint the floor inside. If the doorway is left open and you don´t paint the floor it looks a bit odd, as if  the owners are burning logs that produce a fluorescent green glow. Either that or witches have set up house.

Shade, highlight or whatever. It´s a good idea to paint the roof as in the pic. If left just dark brown it can show up through the thatch ...Oh yeh...glue the roof on!! :-D

Cut bundles of bristles off the handbrush / broom. These should be about 3-4 cms long. Smear some wood glue on the roof and then dip one end of the bristle bundle into the glue.

Attach  the bundle to the roof, spreeading it  flat. Keep going around until one layer is complete, then add another overlapping layer and so on.

Let the whole thing dry..trim the thatch to tidy it up a bit..add flock or whatever....finished.

Wargaming bases

I have based all my bods on single bases made using discs cut out of Ikea place matts. This was mainly because I wanted to be able to mix and match them  as I wanted and I didn´t intend to have so many for wargaming, just a few for skirmish type fights.
The numbers have grown though and as I´ve recently started making a Burgundian army for Impetus rules I thought I should base all the others for the same rules..but this would have meant rebasing a couple of hundred bods and nags so I came up with this;

The materials, sand, thin wooden sheet,  underfloor insulation sheeting and wood glue

Cut holes in the insulationfoam, glue to the woodenbase, this one will be for a cavalry base.

Smear woodglue over the top surface of the foam, turn upsidedown and push into the sand.

After drying, paint and decorate

Airfix Sherrif of Nottinghams cavalry

Infantry bases with Zvezda, Italeri, Revell and  Airfix bods

To create a defensive position , square or whatever, the position of the bods can be altered :-D