Medieval Windmill XV -XIX Century

This looks just wonderfull. It´s made by Petra and Konrad Schulte  of  Fredericus-Rex and is made from Balsawood, Paper and Resin, using lasercutting .

It is listed as a Bockwindmuhle, in English a Post mill, which were first invented in the 11-12th centuries, an inovation which enabled "house" to be turned in order to point the sails into the wind.

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Hypaspists ( Hat )

Good word that, Hypaspist, as monty python would have said, "A tinny word, not a woody one" 
Try saying it when you are drunk! Mind you, I would never be able to say the greek word for them - Ὑπασπιστἠς wether I was drunk or sober :-D 
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Greek Phalanx (Hat )

The whole set with decals from Little Big man studios. I mean, who wants to paint 48 individual shield patterns!!?

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Frodo

Ok, it´s not a 100% likeness and I have made him look a bit tired, but it could be used alongside 54mm bods.
The bod came from The Kindersuprise LOTR series.

Before..................................................................

...............................................................and After

The base on the second version was created, made and supplied by Stephane of Dr Willets Workshop.
He´s made some very nice little scenic bases which I can highly recommend. I haven´t done it the justice it deserves. Anyway, you can see his full range of Medieval town Bases, HERE

Experiments with Gunpowder 1

Here we see the "helmet cannon" developed by,
Bodkin and Bodger
Blasta Way 13a
London.
It was designed so as to give every Knight artillerie capability on the battlefield whilst leaving his hands free to do the necessary hacking and slashing which was customary at the time.
It will now be test fired by T.Ompkins esq.

3..2..1...

Well.........at least we won´t have to bury him. :-/

Dobin and Daisy

These are the supply nags for the Medieval fantasy adventurers.

Dobin carrys the pots and pans, Daisy the arrows

Cloaks

This is how I make cloaks for my bods. Cheap and relatively easy.
Well, it has to be...this skinflint made it up :-D

The tools needed. Some toilet paper (a single layer of two ply ), pair of scissors, woodglue and liquid superglue, toothpick and the bod.

First cut a bit of toilet paper into this rough cloak shape. Lay the bod next to it for a pre-fit.  If it´s too long cut a bit off, too long...start again.

Sick a tiny blob of woodglue on the back and around the neck of the bod. Dip the tip of the toothpick into some wood glue and use it to gently pick up the loo paper cloak and lay it on the bod.

Clean the tip of the toothpick and using the tip, gently press the tiolet paper into the glue on the bods back and around it´s neck. Create folds in the cloack by adding glue either under or on top of the "cloak" .  When the desired shape is reached, slowly drip liquid super glue over the whole of the "cloak", trying not to get any onto the bod. . This turns the paper into  something like plastic. Let it all dry and paint. Told you it was easy :-D

Gracias Gandamar para ligar esto a La Armada ;-D

Airfix 1/76 WWI MKI Male Tank

This was one of the earliest kits that Airfix released in 1/76 way back in the  1960s and is still a good build even now. The kit for the male version is exactly the same kit for the Female, except the Female sponsons (the boxes on the sides) aren´t included. With the female kit you have the option of building both a male or a female.
Why a male and why a female???? Look at the armaments on each 

I´ve a plan to include it in a dio...so "he´ll" turn up again at some point covered in mud !!

Bear Fight

Another letter done...:-D

Teddy had  realised that there was a Claws in his rent contract, which he would have to grin and Bear

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And an updates on Thomas Webster-Deakin...he has a blog but the google friends function was not set  but now it´s all fine. His blog, Tom´s Toy Soldiers offers a full range of bods in all scales. Again, thanks for following Tom :-D

Anti - Matter Marine

This is my effort for the A-Z challenge this month run (with help from others) by Arlee Bird of the Tossing  it out blog.  Basically...each post all month (except sundays) should start with the consequetive letter of the alphabet.
This guy I did a while back...why??? I don´t know..messing about, trying something different  I suppose  :-D

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Hello to Will from WWI Aviation Illustration blog.  Very inspirational pics of WWI planes, made by Will himself. A new refrence source for me and All lovers of stringbags :-D

To all Bloggers...some of your Google friends links are just not working...I click on some peoples Avatars and all that comes up is that the person is following so and so, the actual Blog doesn´t show up!!  :-/
I advise checking this function.

A New set from E-Bay

Well...yet again I went in for what looked like a good deal and what did I get?????

Well, the accesories, as advertised on the box, don´t look too bad :-§

Unfortunately, as advertised,  there doesn´t seem to be any of the bods in the box!

I´ll have to think About this :-/

On Closer inspection, the Name says it all. I tried to make contact with the seller but guess what? They had ceased trading!

Zvezda Medieval Field Powder Artillery - Ribauldequin

Or better known as an Organ cannon due to it looking like the pipes on an organ. This one is from the excellent zvezda " Medieval Field Powder Artillery" set.

This is a drwing of a Ribauldequin designed by Leonardo da Vinci...Interesting looking "spread shot" barrel layout...I feel a scratch build coming on :-D

Hello  to Kingsley Parkof Kingsleyparks Wargaming...lots of varied periods of bods and Wargames
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