Medieval Market traders, A lady and a Prostitute

All 4 from valdemars civilian set number one.
I´ve decided to have some sundays off from posting...nothing to do with a lack of bods and stuff...just that I´m getting very badly behind in visiting other blogs...so I´ll devote some more time on sundays to that...:-D

Hell to Sean.....another whose Google friends connect isn´t set up to link back on.

Medieval Levy 1 (Strelets)

The first set of Medieval hired thugs, the second set here. This time they aren´t mainly armed with spears but with all sorts of nasty looking clubs and axes. PSR rates them as pretty average which is pretty accurate IMHO..though not a bad set. I´ve made a couple of alterations, the two with shields have had them replaced with printed ones, I used a homemade halberd instead of the one supplied and the guy swinging an axe has now got a flail from the Miniart hussites set.

All twelve poses with the minor alterations

One of my favourite bods from the set. You need to carfully cut the halberd away from his helmet and slightly bend his arms away from his line of sight, the pose is very unnatural otherwise.

My favourite from set 2....that padded coat!!

IMHO, the best bod in both sets....the face, the pose...great..and he must be a well hard guy.......

...............cos he dares to carry a shoulder bag :-

Both sets together.

Hello to Legatus Hedlius.He has 5 blogs..but I must admit that my favourite is Cavegirl Wargaming, simply becuase he is very inventive with creating the cavegirl world and it´s monsters etc, and nothing to do with the "undressed" condition of some of the cavegirls.......................honest :-D

Perry 28mm Medievals

Wonderfull bods these...I really like the look of  them...the fun bit being the multi-parts allowing seemingly endless combinatios of heads, arms and weapons. I haven´t decided yet how I´m going to base them yet.

They are all suitably dressed and equiped for the WotR period...but I won´t paint them up in any of the liveries used at the time for a couple of rasons. I like the look of "generic" medieval armies...the possible mix of colours and styles...this will also allow me to add bods from other manufacturers and I got away from painting ancients becuase of the "uniformity"...particually the romans...although I love the look of a full legion..

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Georgi and the dragon

Georgi??? Well they are Russian peasants....;-D  Figures by Alex

It was a sunny day...and Georgi got into the spirit of it all.....

....but when he got home.......

....he would have to explain it all to the  "dragon" :-D

"oh no....not again...what do I say?"

"NO excuses!!!! This time he´s going to get it!!"

Burgundian Heavy infantry

This lot are miniart Italian knights  and a couple of miniart German Knights.

The whole army so far

BUF Bandsmen

Or they could be marine bandsmen, Created from the Airfix Guards Band and WWI British Infantry 

Two Towers

Both these little 1/72nd scale master pieces are from Fredericus - rex who are now the main suppliers of Valdemar bods.

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The wall, stairs,  tower etc are all seperate pieces

OUCH!!!

Poor Percival has sprained his knee :-D Bods from Valdemar

Hello to Michael from Angel Barracks He sells 6mm bods, buildings, nags...everything.  I have a lot of respect for those in the hobby that paint 6mm and I can highly recommend going and having a look at this site. The houses!!!!! The "snake fence"!!!!! The chuckwagon..which comes in 3 parts!!!! Incredible!!

Carpentum (odemars)

Carpentum!? What the heck is that? A wagon basically,,The PSR review answers it better than I can, so I´ll stop the scribbling and put up the pics

The roof supplied was way to fiddly and small so I made my own from guess what?? Green floor insulation with some braided copper wire around the edge :-D

The very first and the very last time I "dipped" anything in any sort of clever and expensive shader. The nags look too glossy and no...I won´t use dullcoat. It´s a reminder for myself to either paint properly the first time or not at all.

OOPS!! Watch out...it looks as if mother in law´s come for the ride !!

Hello to Kevin Howroyd. Kevin  paints and games in a range of scales and periods. His Jacobites are lovely!!! He even has his own games room..the lucky ***** :-D
Oh...sorry,  his blog...Kevs Wargames Cabin

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