2nd Light battalion K.G.L 1815

Colour scheme taken from "La Haie - Sainte Waterloo 1815, les Carnets de la Campagne - N° 3"
B. coppens - P. Courchelle.
The bods are from Art Miniaturen,

30 bods...doesn´t look a lot eh?

Loading. They even usee little hammers used to drive the ball into the chamber nearly all the bods carry a hammer in thier belts.

Firing poses. The one on the right is either firing down from a wall or a roof, or onto a fallen opponent lying on the ground.

Hand to hand fighting poses.

 

Medieval artillery (New)

The master of artillery is looking pleased..and so he should be, he´s just recieved a delivery of 4 new weapons! Not yet based, I´ve still to find a create the  crews.

All these are made from Resin and lasercut parts and are from Fredericus-rex.

Pot-de-Fer, (Iron Pot)  First described in 1326. This was more a shock and awe weapon than anything really effective. A large iron or sometimes bronze pot used for firing large arrows (Garrets) to a range of 180 meters..

Veuglaire (Fowler) A generic name, these came in loads of different designs and were usually breech loaders. Unlike the Zvezda one, this is a stationary one, weighed down with stones to counteract the recoil. This version has a removable bar (at the back) which can be moved up or down the holes in he post to alter the angle of fire.

Bombards. Again these came in a wide range of designs and sizes. Mainly muzzle loaded, some of the larger ones had a removable rear chamber which in some cases was attached with a screw thread, like the Great Turkish or Dardanelles Bombard.

Here, the biggest bombard alongside a Perry 28mm..doesn´t look to out of place as a piece of field artillery.

Hello to Comrade commissar fromthe  Fear Bunker Blog.  Another new blogger and a great painter of 20 and 28mm bods. His WWI german inf are very good.

I´ve had to put the moderation function  on the Bodstonia Blog in order to filter out some vary odd spam comments. The blog seems to attract some very strange traffic...might have something to do with people googling for 18th century womens undergarments.

18th Century Female Infantry

The "Sister" set to the 18th Century female Gun Crew, in the Bodstonian world they are part of the "Purple Roses". More about thier role in Bodstonia here

6 in total, IMHO, it would be good to have a set of just marching bods so that a larger unit could be created.

Commander of the Purple Roses, Rose Tremain

Just a quick explanation.
The Federation of Bodstonia. Whilst it´s based in the 1700´s, this doesn´t actually mean it´s the 1700´s as we all know it. It´s an Imagi-Nation, a parallel universe whose time scale, it´s 1700´s, is  removed from our time scale.
Historical accuracy ? They won´t employ any technology that wasn´t around in the mid 1700´s, but as far as the clothing, housing, transport and customs, these will cover a larger range, drawing on influences from other closely related historical periods.
As far as it goes..it is, for me, an excercise in writing a story, putting ideas down in one place and  creating a world, which..if I get the time and inspiration, I will use to create a real book ;-D

18th Century Female gun crew

This lot are made by 3D Models and are available from CW Toys. They are labelled as Female napoleonics 1789, but I´m using them as Female Bodstonians..the "Purple Roses",which means they have the best deal..they get to go 50 years back in time :-D

The 4 lasses with thier 2pdr "Long Tom"

Mistress Gunner, Juliet pride

A bit of history about the unit over in Bodstonia.

Hello to Ni.Tchirititch from Nowhere to Lead Soldiers blog. Great Saga minis and warganing

Hello to  Adam from One Man´s Armies blog. He´s just started out in model blogging

Hello to Sean Stone , Thanks for following :-D

Zvezda Medieval Peasant Army (conversions)

A busy weekend over and done with..nearly. There´s loads of pics of the meeting in Heiden over at the Bennos Forum HERE. I´ll add mine to the thread later. It was great fun, loads of old friends and new..loads of brilliant work to look at and I´ve brought a lot home with me :-D


Anyway..back to the bods...
Some sets just lend themselves to conversions and this, along with the Airfix Robinhood set are one of them. So far, unless I´ve missed a few, I´ve managed to get 30 conversions from a set of 12 poses.
The Airfix Robinhood set, (Not all the conversions but a lot are HERE)  with 14 poses is a similar type of set, loads of scope for conversions..from that one I´ve created about 25 new bods.
There never seems to be an end to the new poses you can create from this set..and I only realised how many while recently looking at my collection, so I thought I would bring them all together in one post.

All the poses in the set, unconverted

Arm swops, and a body / leg swop.

All the same pose.

Pose on the right original. The one on the left has had his right arm replaced with one from the Zvezda English infantry of the 100yrs war set.

Body,  arm and weapon swops.

Also very usefull for non-combat roles, such as guides for carts...............

.....................and working.............

............. Or just at play.....

....and in death like the "hanged man" HERE. Again..I´m linking from here rather than put up the pics without giving anyone  a choice not to look.

Henry VII´s Cavalry -DDS

I´ve pulled my finger out and got the whole set finished ...one, to get them of the worktop and two a busy weekend is coming up. Firstly on Saturday Heiden and then Sunday, another new event,  the biggest indoor toys and games fleamarket in our state.

The bases still need a bit of attention, a couple of bunches of flowers from Noch and some  tufts of grass. 

The heavy cavalry section

The medium cavalry. The crossbows supplied were a wee bit small so I´ve used ones from the Zvezda French knights set.

The Royal Tudor flag .  All I did was to resize it ( 2.1cm tall) copy, hit the space bar twice and insert the image again. Wether the white along the flag pole is correct...but it looks fine to me :-D

Henry VII´s Standard. I´ll be getting the Set again..so I can make up a command group and include Henry and some personalities. Might even get around to painting up some landsknechts from DDS...and then of course they will need to have a Landsknecht pikeblock...and a cannon or two :-D

Order of Alcántara

A break from painting those pesky difficult Tudor cavalry
The Order of Alcántara (Orden de Alcántara) or the  Knights of St. Julian, was formed in 1166 and was formely the order of León . Another attempt at freehand Heraldry...I really must stop trying :-D

The Alcántara bods added to some conversions from the HaT El Cid Spanish Infantry set.


Just basic head swops.....

These two have got new heads from the Caeser  Medieval Knights (Crusaders) set....

..and the one on the left, from the Italeri Templar Knights and the one on the right, from the Zvezda Livonian Knights

16th century Knights (DDS)

I´ve had this lot, Dark Dream Studio´s European Knights,   for a while now...and I´ve never dared to get to grips with it but everytime I look at the pile of "to do" bods,  they look at me sadly and shout "come on..we dare ya!" and after seeing the absolutely stunning paintjobs of Early Tudors from Stuart over at his Army Royal blog, I had to at least try.
The PSR review does them justice, whilst not a lively set, and the nags leave a bit to be desired in the poses department, they are a lovely set and like Stuart I will make them into the  cavalry of Henry VII...........just not as lovely as Stuarts.

All the weapons come with the set, are easy to remove from the sprue, the detail is very well done and best of all, there´s loads of spares when every knight has been kitted out.

Getting the Patina effect was murder. I tried at first to create a consistant pattern but this proved impossible, so the nag had it´s paint removed and the task was re-started, this time I just painted a "sort of" effect.

All the bods and the nags have some lovely little details, the sculptor must have done a bit of study of 16th century armour whilst making this set.

Flagmen, Clubmen, Drummer

Some more recruits for the "revolting" Peasant / Workers army, again with 13th century Gent Guild banners from the Dansk Figursspilsforening site.

Two simple conversions, a body halves swop to the left and an arm swop to the right

The bod from the Strelets Medieval levy (1) set carrying the Barrel makers guild flag, the Plaster´s Guild flag is carried by a Redbox Hussite

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The drummer. There´s not a lot of drummers for medieval bods, as far as I know there are only 3 that have been commercially made, all by Valdemar. Large bodied Tabors may not have been used until the 13th century, and then not in battle, but it´s not hard to see why not.
The body is from Zvezda´s Medieval peasant army set, the head from Zvezda´s French knights, drum and drum sticks from Revell´s Imperial infantry set. The belt is made from Paper.

Portrait of the Minnesinger (medieval German courtly love poet) with his musicians. Illustration from the Codex Manesse, c.1300.
Showing  Drum, pipe, fiddle with curved bow (psaltery)

I´ve been asked a few times to put up pics of the whole collection...I will but it might be next year,,for the Big Army Day (Gloranthan Army blog) on the 14th of June next year. Until then...my medieval army collection so from nearly 2 years ago can be seen HERE
It´s expanded a bit since then, the baggage train is nearly double the size, the same for the Hussites. There´s the new burgundian army, the Normans and El Cid armies. The infantry and cavalry has nearly doubled, the seige park has been added to quite a lot as well,  the Crusaders weren´t even in the pictures and there´s a lot more civilians/ "revolting" peasants now.