Medieval Bombard 2a

The Mainly Military Bombard  with crew added.

The Man voted "most likely to go deaf"

Medieval Bombard 2

Just when you think there aren´t any more to be had..another one pops up..This was sent to me by jmchasco..who runs a nice little blog and web shop called  1/72 Miniatures...I will be "hanging " around there as well in the future :-D 
This two piece Resin mini dio is made by Mainly Military. I´ve never heard of them before but they do quite a range of houses etc..

I´ve added a bit of static grass and some Noch flowers

The set up comes with sacks..

.....and cart with cannon balls already attached to the dio. At first I thought this would make it difficult to paint but it was quite easy..half an hour in total.

It has ice little details like the broken boards shown here. Wether this was deliberate from the sculptor or not, I don´t know but I do know that Ye olde health and safety wouldn´t be too happy about it!!

I could have drilled the barrel out..but why ruin such a nice little piece..

Here with an Orion Medieval siege troops bod.

And here, the gun taken off and used as a field  gun.

Strelets Sarmatian cavalry

This set is still in the master sprues stage and hasn´t been released yet but I have the fun and privilage of getting to have a bash at painting it now....Many thanks to STRELETS for allowing me the honour to do so. :-D

The whole colourfull gang

Boss and his mates

Missile bods. I managed to cut the front of the javelin off and had to replace the whole thing with a pin.

my two favourite bods from the set...:-D

Based for Impetus (sorry, pic a bit dark)

A nice set, which I guess could be used for Sythians and others. The riders need thier legs bending slightly outwards to fit them on the nags but it´s not a real problem. Very little flash and some nice details, especially on the horses. The Kontos could be a wee bit longer but it also would pose no problem if either in the set were to be replaced. The only real problem I had was finding any pics on the web as a reference to paint them..
A great partner set to these, would be some female warriors.
Both Herodotus and Hippocrates report on them being a large part of the Sarmatian army as is confirmed by sarmatian graves found with females in military clothing

Jars, vases, amphorae and more

From BAUEDA WARGAMES, who do some lovely stuff...their tents and buildings range is great..like this medieval tent

These lovely pots etc, are new and are for 28mm but some are definately usefull for 20mm...

...and these are for 15mm but certainly usefull for 20mm

Nag conversion

A bit of cross breeding using the front end of a nag from the Zvezda macedonian cavalry (top row the one on the right) and the back end of a Zvezda Republican Roman cavalry (bottom row the one on the left)

And to anonmymous´s comment from my last post, you are probably right about the basing, we can´t be good at everything, but at least I have the guts to put my name to it.

Strelets Norman Archers

Another little bit of my Norman army finished and still following the principle of no repeat bods in any armies.
I like the way the set is divided neatly (per sprue) into 4 armoured archers, 4 unarmoured firing and 4 reloading..makes for a good looking firing line. The set has a lot of potential for jumping the bods forward in time a few centuries and putting them in a 13th, 14th cent army..a head swop here and there ...:-D

Crusader cavalry

Wilfreds Huffing and Puffing has helped!!!!! :-D
Made using Italeri, Zvezda and Valdemar..I still need to add a few, Johaniters etc.

Hello To Lorenzo Calvi..thanks for following. :-D

Crusader Infantry

Looks like the poor sods have been adandoned by the cavalry and are making a last stand on a sand dune!!
Bods from Italeri, Zvezda, Revell,  Airfix, Valdemar and lots of conversions.
Nearly all the spears were replaced with florist´s wire.

Keep sounding the signal Wilfred...help will come!!

Strelets Normans on the march

As usual, a great set of original poses, and this time the spears were attached to the sprue at only two places, as can be seen here  They all carry different bits of kit, bags sacks etc and all seem pretty relaxed..as if they are on the march and not advancing into battle. Some of the standing armoured poses would make a good commanders unit

Medieval artillery

The artillery park.  .Finished apart from a Trebuchet and crew

Hello to INFO...thanks for following :-D

Squeak Little Piggy

Two of the grunters from the Airfix Farm Stock set painted up to look like Tamworths..a rare breed that is as close to medieval pigs as you can get..and the Bacon is bloody wonderfull!!

Here´s a pic of a real Modern Tamworth...BIG PIG Eh!!?

 Here´s a pic of a medieval one becoming a bacon sandwich. 

Strelets Roman Transport 2

The second set. This time the wagon didn´t need any alteration but I did a head swop on one of the bods, just for fun. Again I´ve painted the set up in a medieval mode..which is pretty easy to do., roman peasants are similar to medieval  peasants. The two Bulls and two donkey/mules that come with the set are to be used in a future project.

The guy in the middle seems to have had a pretty bad fall!!!

Finally, I have a Bob builder ! (from the TV series Pillars of Heaven)

There´s a choice of either a stretcher with a wounded bod or the treasure chest. The bod at the back has had a head swop with one of Zvezdas meideval peasants. It wasn´t really necessary, the original head is perfectly suitable.

The happy couple. The baggage is , as always, toiletpaper.

The whole group on the march.......

...and added to set one, marching off to seek new horizons.

Obviously they have forgotton wether they have  turned  the gas off and are going back..to make sure

I´d like to give a head up for a new Forium, the American Scale model Manufacturer´s forum. The guy who runs it, Chris, is a nice bloke and the Forum covers all scales and eras..so get over there and register :-D