Sans - Coulottes

I did these after seeing the great idea on Vitor´s Blog Batalhas Napoleonicas. The set used is the Orion English Pirates. Vitor´s made his up as a Militia group and added an Imex bod from the American Pioneers set. Mine are an early french revolutionary gun crew..the so called Sans - Coulottes

Marianne and a couple of citizens

Barrel from Zvezda...the two gabions scratch built like this

The cannon (a 20pdr) is from the Zvezda Russian Artillery of Peter the great

Hello to 1939 Blog ...(no user name!?) Loads of nice bods all scales, all periods

Tomorrow is Herne......Lots of Plastic bods to be bought !!!!!!! :-D

And a BIG thankyou to Andrew from Ferrous lands blog for reviewing my blog....great idea and very kind :-D

Medieval children

For me, this new set from Alex is an absolute must have!!! I´ve already got a lot of medieval civilians, towns folk etc but there are just too few children and this set will go a long way to solve the situation in the town of Styrow on the Foam.

This little bod was created a while back but wasn´t released..

She is tiny but Her doll!!!!!!

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Monks, Priests , a Bishop .....

...and a magician. It´s All saints day so they are getting an outing but wether these lot will ever rise to the ranks and get thier wings...??

Friar tuck..or magicians apprentice, the Airfix "holyman"

Valdemars "you must confess"

From a Zvezda "big set"...His Holyness Bunnyfartus. What an ugly §!*°!!

Some of the priests from the Pegasus California Mission Indians set.

A pious looking bunch if ever there was one. The one to the far left had a bell on the top of his (now) walking stick, but it snapped off  :-(

The pegasus set has some great detail like the rosary beads with crucifix..

And now for todays sermon...or is it a recipe for fish???

Norman Cavalry on the March (Strelets)

The last of the Strelets Normans range..except for this set. Not only is the set rare and costs a small fortune (about 3X´s the price of a "not rare" set) but the style and level of sculpting is way below the standard of the rest of the range.

Both sets grouped together

The non-action bods mounted on the calmer looking nags from both sets...this splits the sets into 10 actually marching and 14 charging (in Battle)

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Norman Army before battle

Another addition to the Norman army...the Strelets Norman army before battle,  but they could equally be "after batttle"...some of the shields have cut marks on them. A few of the bods from the Normans on the march set fit alongside this lot perfectly. As usual..I´ve stuck to the red/white colour scheme for the shield patterns .

Macedonian cavalry

From HaT and Zvezda,,both sets fit pretty well together. 

The "boy wonder"

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.


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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 !!!!!

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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 

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