Medieval "picnic"

"If you go down to the wood today you´re in for a big suprise!"..because..Sir Hugh Jarse´s boys have set up a drinking den. An earlier version of the medieval drunks from Valdemar but this lot are sitting around and planning which poor peasant they can beat up and rob next.

I´ll add some cups, plates etc when I find them

Trebuchet - Mini History

Made from resin, produced by Mini history and it came with the problems that large resin kits can bring..more later. 
The machine, when finally built is an impressive beast....large and being made from resin..heavy. 
I´m not too sure wether it would actually, if it were real, be able to fire. The winding gear appears to be in a bit of an odd position. It  looks as though it would be smashed by the stone being  launched.!!

I created the "firingpin" myself..wether it´s correct..??..  I´ve added a bit of mattgloss  to represent oil that was used to reduce friction as the sack with the stone slid along the running board

Now the Problems

The wheel for the winding gear had very thin pins one of which broke off straight away so i replaced the whole thing with a section of pen, which I filled with green stuff and then pushed a copper rod through the middle. One side of the device was quite  bent and when I used hot water to try and straighten it up, the support holding the winding gear axle..snapped!! 

The axle supplied was way too weak and I didn´t even attempt to use it..it went in the bin with the winding gear.


Hello to Fromhold from Jak to na wojence blog.   Jak to na wojence has no 100% translation into english but it basicall means "how nice it is in war"..(with a touch of cynicism). Fromhold does Turkish/russian wars in 1/72nd

Medieval drunks (painted)

This has to be one of my favourite sets....the poses, the faces..all excellent..so good the set virtually paints its self.
I´ve painted the most of them up in the colours of Sir Hugh Jarse 
Many thanks to Jens from Valdemar Miniatures for sending me this set :-D

The "I´ll tell ya..", "Olay Olay olay O-lay O-lay !!" and "you´re my best mate" bods

The party in full swing..but wait!!!! One is missing!!!

OH..there he is :-D

The whole Party !!!!!

Hello to Simon,,thanks for following :-D
Hello to Markus Schenk from The Dice warrior blog  He´s only just entered the world of blogging but his first post is a big one...The Pyhruss battle dio in 1/72nd from this years DuZi

Burgundian Army (foot)

The footsloggers are finished....:-D Army made, so far, from Zvezda, Redbox, Caeser, Miniart, Revell and Orion bods.

The bod at the back has pinched a mace from the Zvezda french infantry set.

and now the whole army sans cavalry 

Hello to JKM...thanks for following..(I can´t open a link through your avatar so if you are a blogger then please give a link)

Burgundian Command 20mm

I´ve finally got back to creating my Impetus Burgundian Army. This command unit is made using bods from the  Caesar European Knights, 15th Century, The standard bearer is  the bottom half of a crossbowman from Zvezdas French Infantry of the Hundred Years War and the top half from a Zvezda French knight
The guard (left of pic) has aquired a billhook from one of the Miniart sets. 

 Hello to septimus-signum and s.g.cleare. Thanks for following :-D

Strelets Normans

Basically these could be called Normans in battle but they are just listed as Normans  
 I´ve kept up the red and white shield pattern scheme. I like these much better than the Revell Normans, who seem a bit ..er?..skinny really.

I don´t usually like embossed shield patterns but these ones are quite nice.

There´s a lot of different styles of "protective" clothing in the set…

....including a rather snazzy studded leather coat…

Here´s a good one...for shield decals and Flags /banners in 1/72nd or 28mm look at Schildschmied 

And if you are hunting for minis on E-bay..look here 

Gloria!!

A new set from Alex, combining some single sculpts that never made it into other sets. As the titel suggests one, the younger kneling bod is getting a knighthood from the old veteran knight.

Hello to Jonathan leboeuf  (twitter? ) thanks for following :-D
Hello to Ironbovin from MUCH to little time blog.  He´s just started with blogging and is doing a great job with the 20mm bods :-D
Hello to Sada from Page of Sada´s Hobby blog.. I like the look of napoleonic warships..but never have been able to get my finger out to attempt one..sada on the other hand has a complete fleet!!!!
Hell to Justin. Justin has 3 blogs..one of which has adult content, what, I´m not sure..I didn´t look..honest! and the others for Marketing.

Strelets Mamelukes

Exactly which unit these are or which exact period I don´t really know ..which gave me a bit of free range on the colours..:-D Nice set...the horses have some  great detail and they all, bods and nags  look like they are involved in a charge..Very little flash to deal with and the detail is very good. I´ll have to get them based up..

The boss, who I have nicknamed  Sumbhajee Angria (and so, we shall go to war!! )

I gave them a general colour scheme..I suppose they are after all one unit. The bod in green, second from the left, his sabre broke off during the shoot.  :-(  Still..it´s repairable :-D

Close up of Sumbhajee, standard bearer and next to them, two chainmail wearing bods..the one with the lance carries a bow and quiver...

Strelets Norman Knights

Another addition to my red and white norman army...the knights set from strelets
Some of the horses look a bit sedate for a group of cavalry charging or in battle so they will get swopped for ones from the Norman cavalry on the march 

Lances swopped for florist wire

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