New Model Army Pt 17 - Mounted Sergeants

 Just two,  one for Sir Bodfrey and one for Sir Bodard

And a bit more for the Camp...hay time. The nag is from the Imex Eastern Friendly Indians, the Bod is from the LW Medieval Mortar set...and had a fork added from the Zvezda medieval peasants set. Straw is the stuff plumbers use..Hemp? 

Oh yeh...I forgot. I´m planning on setting some bod scale scenery on fire....again :-) 

Orctober 2026

Finally I have something for Orctober. The last time I took part was in 2019!!!! 

The Orc on the left is from the Dark Alliance Orcs set 3. The woman leaning over the bod  ( ) is from the Orion Vikings set, the dead bod is from the Emhar Saxon warriors.

The Orc and the poor Guard are from the Strelets  The Scottish Army of Wallace set, both got headswops. The Orc got given a new knife from the venerable Gladiators and Christians from Atlantic

 

The bad Orcs!!!! Even the livestock gets a hard time. Nag from Airfix´s US cavalry set..saddle etc removed, a couple of arrows from various Medieval archers 

 

Dark & Light Alliance Southern Kingdom Warriors 1

 Definately inspired, as the review over at PSR says, from the LotR films.

First up the swordsmen. Three grunts and the boss. 

The archers. The two on the right of the top pic are females. All the bods in the set are pretty heavily armed, most have at least a dagger and a sword, even the archers and most carry bags, sacks and two thier cloaks rolled up on thier backs. 

Some of  them wear a layer of gambeson, leather jerkin and chainmail and presumably a cloth shirt underneath as well!! 

TBH, a nice set and it even allows for conversion possibilities. 

Heads swopped, shields removed and replaced with card ones. Not exactly 100% medieval, they are dressed more like the types who inhabit medieval fairs, but could be used in a loose medieval setting or as members of the  Esgarothym common soldiery. 

Now there´s an idea for those at Dark Alliance... Esgarothym guard and a town militia. Call them Water folk or something similar. Another one would be for them to create a set (or maybe two) of halflings. One set of Halfling travellers / adventurers and  another of town guard.....maybe two sets of town guard..one with lots of archers and slingers, another with pitchforks, flails, a couple with swords (large knives) and clubs. 

............and a set of halfling civvies...which would give me an excuse to create a couple of hobbit holes. 

 

New Model Army Pt 16

 

Another adition to the Camp set up, again conversions from the Imex American Pioneers

And a small diversion from the NMA. The crusader is a resin bod....Valdemar(?), the Nag is from the Zvezda French Knights set.
 

New Model army - Pt 15

The first pic isn´t really part of the NMA, more part of the medieval marching column.

Mule with luggage..the plastic is semi translucent which is the type of plastic used by LW and other "copy-cat" makers but I can´t find it in thier listings at PSR. The dog is from the Imex Eastern Friendly Indians, the female from a Strelets set..I´ve forgotten which and the bod leading the Mule is from Valdemars medieval builders set 1

Unloaded donkey.....or, just about to get loaded dokey.  The bod is from the strelets English Longbowmen set. The donkey from the Strelets Roman Transport (2) set 

The main body is from Valdemars Medievals on the march set. The head with arms and barrel from Strelets Medieval Britain set. 

From left to right. 

Viking from Emhars Viking Oarsmen set..head from The airfix Robinhood set.

Orion Medieval Siege Troops with a head swop. 

Unknown metal bod.  

New Model Army Pt14

 Female camp followers. 

From left to right: 1. Lady of the camp. Caeser Elves, head from Italeri´s Medieval challenge.

2. Imex Eastern friendly Indians. 

3. "High class" maid. Italeri Medieval challenge

4. Linear-B´s Roman market

From left to right: 1 and 2 - Imex Pilgrims. 

3 - Another "high class" maid. Caeser - Elves

One on my "wish list" - that Strelets makes a Medieval camp set..no Carts,  tents or whatever..just civies and foot soldiers. A sort of lower orders set to accompany the excellent (and now rare) Medieval Britain set.  

Another on my "wish" list, Strelets make a medieval army on the march sets...foot and infantry sets 

 

New Model Army Pt 13

Another small addition to Sir Bodards Camp. The femal came from the Imex Pilgrims set..and got a head swop. The cooking set up from the Imex Lewis and Clark set. The wee dog looking for scraps is from..???..

 

 

 

New Model Army Pt12 - Guns!

The artillery..or better said, the ranged weapons, artillery and archers, have been supplied by sir Bodfrey. Sir Bodard supplied all the Men-at-Arms so it seems only fair.

The bod on the left is from the Redbox Hussite artillery set, his head from the Italeri French Knights and Foot Soldiers set. The gunner is from Zvezda as is the box. The gun is resin and from Miniart. 

The torsos for the crew are all from the Airfix Robinhood set. The Bombard...no idea what make. Its made from a "hard cheese" type of brown plastic. The cannon balls are from a water filter which I broke apart to see what was inside 😊

New-Model-Army Pt11 - Dismounted Men-at-Arms Pt3

 Last batch of sir Bodard´s dismounted Men-at-Arms. 

Apart from the bod on the left, who is from the Strelets Shaab with Crusader Crew set, torsos are from Caeser.

The whole mob. 

Now to get onto giving the force some Firepower.

New-Model-Army Pt10 - Dismounted Men-at-Arms Pt2

 Another, this time slightly larger, batch of Men-at-Arms. 

All torsos except the middle bod, who is from Zvezda,  are from Caeser. The heads are sourced (mainly, the Zvezda bod already had a kettle helmet) from the sets mentioned in Dismounted Men-at-Arms Pt1

Again, all torsos from Caeser except the middle bod who is from the Zvezda Livonian Knights set and the Bod second from the left already had a kettle helmet. 

New-Model-Army Pt9 - Dismounted Men-at-Arms Pt1

Apart from the kniggit with the great helm (who is from the Zvezda English Knights set and he´s the boss, so gets a Great helm ) and the bod to his right who is from Valdemar, the rest are converted  with heads from bods from other sets wearing kettle helmets. 

From left to right: Torso: Caeser, Zveda, Valdemar, Zvezda 

From left to right, Torso: Caeser, Zvezda, Caeser, Zvezda

The best sets for a supply of bods with kettle helmets are;

Accurate -  Hundred Years War English Men-At-Arms

Zvezda - French Infantry of the Hundred Years War

Italeri - Teutonic Knights

The best sets for head swops, virtually every bod in each set can be used for a head swop with a kettle helmet, are:

Caesar - Medieval European Knights 13th Century

Caesar - Dismounted Crusaders

 

Three men and a Ca(r)t

Quick break from the New Model Army project

Again, three bods, Gerome, Kay and Jerome,  from the Zvezda Medieval Peasant Army set. The arms used to convert each bod have been kindly donated from other bods within the set.  

The Handcart was, apart from the wheels, scratchbuilt. The "stowage" is from various sets of stowage but I´ve forgotten which makers. 

Willi lending a hand. No wonder the baggage train takes so long to get from A to B.