Richard´s Plans

Richard, after coming home finds that some Lords, including Sir Hugh Jarse, have been causing a lot of trouble. raising taxes and generally abusing the population. Richard sets up camp near the coast, calls his war council together and makes his plans!

The bods, table and chair  were a suprise pressie from Valdemar :-)

Like in any film, lots of tapping of fingers on the map...winds me up something rotten seeing that in films!!!!!

Hello to Ania´s minis..no blogger link?

Waiting for Godot (medieval setting)

Ok..the play Waiting for Godot was written in 1948 and features two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon. The pair are wearing bowler hats, there´s a tree in the background, Estragon sits on a mound or rock and they wait.
But the names, Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo,  and the name of the writer Samuel Becket, all have (IMHO) a Medieval ring to them and make me imagine a medieval setting..so.................

The Vladimir character is supposed to be used to protray a pilgrim drinking using his cupped hand, but it could also seem as if he is looking at his fingers in an absentminded way as he talks.

 In my Version, Estragon is sitting on a Basket, not a rock.

Whatever Vladimir is saying, it´s either very stupid and it´s annoying Estragon or it´s very interesting and Estragon is concentrating. 

Great news..My Medieval Egg house won  Dalauppror´s  Paint your egg challenge.  Next year..be there or be...er??.....not egg shaped

Medieval Egg House

Rarely written about, these egg houses, built using eggs from the giant Gon-Gon-awey bird of the Blackforest, were a cheap and practical way of getting a roof over your head without having to shell out a large amount of money, in fact..they were very cheep.  Apparently the fashion went as they weren´t all they were cracked up to be.
Here, a lokal Yolkel can be seen re-positioning his Egg house after moving a heavy cupboard away from the center of gravity. 

After seeing Dalauppror´s Paint your egg challenge..I just had to have a go. Still one day to go Y(F)olks and if you miss the deadline, there´s always next year :-D

HAPPY EASTER !! :-D

Zulus (HaT)

"The sentries report Zulus to the south west. ...eight of them".
Well, There´s only the 8 poses in the set as seen here 
Not historically accurate..but then again they are meant to come from a Jungle type area in Khandibar and aren´t really Zulu´s at all  and I liked the idea of a B/W colour scheme on the shields. Zebra skins...with wide stripes..that´s it!!..widestriped Jungle Zebras. Common in Khandibar.

Part of a swop with Peter from Peter´s cave Blog..............he´s been lazy and not yet painted his part of the swop :-D

Swiss Halbardiers (Lucerne)

Part two of the New swiss army..the halbardiers. Also created By Frank Ziegler and available Here.
Great news is, there are more sets on the way, (each a set of 6 bods)
1, Front rank, armoured with lance at chest height
2. Front rank, armoured with lance held at an angle
3. Front rank, armoured with  lances at the ready ready
Further rows of unarmoured Halbardiers and also Musicians advancing !!!! :-D
All excellent news but the most impressive is the musicians, an often forgotten subject in 1/72nd medievals

 Now all 4 sets, hallbardiers and Pikes together..right..where are those burgundians!!?

Hello to Monty (Stefan)  from Monty´s Caravan Blog Mostly 1/72nd but also 28mm. He´s just posted a cracking set of 28mm Napoleonic 28mm´s...

Ripped off again!!!!!!

It seems I´ll never learn!!! I saw this lot on evil-bay and thinking it was a brand new product I had to be one of the 1st to have it, so without much aforethought (or checking) I bought it just like I did the Ghosts, Imaginary friends and the WWII deserter sets.

Described as Superheroes in 1/72nd scale you are supposed to get Spiderman, ironman, catwoman, Batman etc but what I didn´t realise..or I just didn´t understand is that they are Superhero Pseudonyms...in other words, thier secret identities!!! 

So what do you get....Billy Batson, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Isaiah Bradley, Tony Stark, Clark Kent, Bruce Banner, Selina Kyle and Princess Diana (not a very good looking princess at that!!) Not only are these super heroes in civilian mode but they are all old airfix copies!!!!!

Not only should the word "pseudonym" have given the game away but the company being called Takeyormoneyanrun should have set alarm bells ringing. 

HAPPY EASTER  :-D

Carrots and spuds....

...fish, pots, baskets, wine and spices. The Market has got it´s supplies and the good folk of Styrow on the Foam can go shopping!!

Three boxes of market goods from Nikolai. They are white resin and took less than an hour to paint.

The potter sisters (no broomsticks here though) and the wine seller.

Veg stall and fish a nuts stall

 Enough of the stalls..off to market!!

Couillard (scratch built)

Bit of an odd one this device, not commonly seen and  I only came across it whilst researching about trebuchets.
Put it into a web search...there´s a couple of bits about it,  mostly in French and virtually no pics.
This one is a big version..they appear to have been about twice the height of a man  but I prefer big stone throwers. The range was apparently 180 meters with a 50kg shot and needed a crew of 8 to fire at a rate of 10 shots an hour.

Here´s a video of one firing. Thiers has a "running board" for the sling but some were just launched from the ground. The firing action looks pretty "violent", the counterweights wobbling all over the place.

Trebuchet (Fredericus-rex)

This is a monster!!!!  No castle walls are safe, MUH HA HA, MUH HA HA!!!!
Another lasercut model from the house of Fredericus - rex.
As with the houses this kit  can be painted with Acrylics and this time I´ve got over my initial fear of damaging the material by using the paint too watery ( swelling or warping) and I just sloshed it on. This kit got 4 seperate layers of paint added and absolutely no ill affects. The walls of the bucket warped with the first layer of paint but went back to their original flat condition after a minute or so.

 Vital stats : H: 11cm´s W: 12cms L: 18cm´s..

 Notice...the winding gear and the rope on the throwing arm are not connected....it´s in the moment of "just about to launch"

 Crew from Fredericus-rex plus a couple of bods from orion and Zvezda.

Both my Trebuchets together. The one in the background is a resin kit from MiniHistory. All that´s missing now is the Zvezda one and I´ll have the three sisters, "Faith, Hope and Charity"

The kit fits together really easily, all that´s needed are scalpel, tweezers and woodglue.
I recommend painting up ALL the parts before fitting, as when it´s put together it would be IMHO pretty fiddly to get into all the corners. The ladder. In the instructions it shows fitting the rungs in one go, they come on a sort of comb but it is impossible to get all the rungs lined up with the holes so I cut off every rung from the "sprue"  and fitted them individually, lining them up by laying the ladder on it´s back and using two CD boxes pushed up from left and right. I dripped revell liquid contact glue onto the ladder to "plastify" it and make it stronger.
The thread provided is a bit white..so I put it in a cup of hot water, added two old teabags and a teaspoon of coffee powder and  left it for 1/2 an hour  ;-D

Medieval Town House (Fredericus-rex)

Mrs Miggins Pie shop. After years of hard work kneading and baking Mrs Miggins has finally scraped enough groats together to buy herself a House. And what better choice could she make than to get one from Fredericus-rex.
This house measures 19cm´s Tall, 7.5cms wide and 10cm´s long.
All the Fredericus-rex buildings (and the range is already enough to build a small town) are lasercut wood / card,  so all you need to build one is a scalpel and some woodglue. It is recommended to use oils to paint them but I´ve used Acrylics and had no problems, which was one reason I was mildly put off getting any of these houses. I´ve never used oils in  model painting but even when used quite "wet" the acrylics didn´t affect the materials.

Mrs Miggins enjoying the spring sunshine and deciding what type of base she will give her new house.

Above the shop window, next to the two small windows, the kit allows an extra glased window to be added.

Each floor is individual which means they can be swopped from back to front so from this one kit you could get 6 slightly different looking houses. Also, being individual you could take the floors apart and fit the interiors out.

The Detail is superb!!!. Windowframes, hinges etc are all included on laser cut card. The wood work (either on card or balsawood ) has the grain cut into it and the stonework (which also comes of card) has a realistic stone finish.Basically, everything has been thought of.
Tips. 
Some of the printed sheets, for example the wood for the upper storey in this building, are very thin. I recommend putting the sheets (which are A4 size) into a folder with each Sheet   numbered sheet in order. This not only  prevents any damge that may occur if they were just in a pile or spread about but it also speeds up the construction time.
Pre paint and prefit all pieces before final glueing and take your time...it´s worth going slow on these :-D

Anglo - Egyptian army (Waterloo 1815)

Anglo-egyptian army? Not in my world..I´m calling these are Tarbooshis from Tarhoosha, a land not far away from Khandibar  
I´ve named after thier hats and a good excuse for me to give them a unionjack flag as I couldn´t find out wether or what type of flag egyptian troops of the period carried) 

Part 9 of the Pirate Cutter scratchbuild....the Anchor and some Pulleys. The pulleys are the big ones for masts etc..smaller ones need creating for lines

Trojan command and Female hoplite (warning..nudity!)

Both available from Toys & More. The Trojans are from Newline designs, the Female hoplite by Alex

The set has a commander, a horn blower and two standard bearers, but i only used the one.

To give anyone the chance to stop and not go any further due to the unclothed condition of the Hoplite, Part 7 of the Pirate cutter scratch build.

Rudder added and a Spar  created using the handle from an old paint brush and an old clothesline peg.

She comes supplied with wings but as she might get a few girlfriends truning up soo I´v decided to leave them off