Wooden huts (Pegasus)

Two nice small buildings for a nice small price. Easy and quick to build, removable roofs, easy and quick  to paint, what more could I ask for?

With the bigger of the two houses I´ve added a fireplace and some printed wooden flooring.

The bigger house fits nicely alongside the houses made by Thorsten Burgdorf (which are available HERE )

The good thing about them is that they are usefull for a load of different scenarios and periods..like the new house that the DeWitt´s are moving into over at Bodstonia.

Austrian cuirassiers Regt. Nr 8 - Joined forces

At the FIGZ Meeting I picked up the Cuirassiers painted by Peter (Peter´s Cave) and now the Forces are joined (Setting them up helps mix the bods) There´s some really good close ups of the buglers/Standard bearers painted by Peter HERE

394 ....366 troopers, 15 officers, 10 buglers and 3 Standard bearers.

Are they ready to go and join thier comrades on the Croeburn dio? I think so :-D

Arial view

Bannockburn (Pt7) Maurice, Abbot of Inchaffray

Finally the next sheltron is completed.
Sets used;
Strelets Medieval crossbowmen
Strelets medieval Levy (1)
Strelets Medieval levy (2)
Medieval Britian
Crusader Transport (1)
Roman Port
As always with history, a problem has arisen. What coat of arms did Edward de Bruce wear on the day? Was it the one I´ve used, (in a lot of the Pictures protraying him at Bannockburn) or the Arms of the Earl of Carrick (Argent, Chevron Gules) ?

Éirinn go Brách!!

Cavalry view of the sheltron

Edward de Bruce



It bugged me so much that eventually I changed the Arms. I think, and it seems Logical, that only Robert de Bruce, being the C.i.C,  would have royal arms at the battle.........although I could be wrong.

Another of the Kneeling bods from the strelets Medieval crossbowmen set converted to a pikeman.

 

Maurice, Abbot of Inchaffray. He not only blessed the scottish troops at Bannockburn but apparently he had previously helped in the escape of  Robert de Bruce after the Battle of Methven in 1306.
The top half of Maurice Comes from the Crusader Transport (1) set and the bottom half from the Roman Port set.

Maurice Blessing the troops

And for a bit of fun. The Douglas/Stewart sheltron and De Bruces Sheltron accuse one another of drinking all the whisky...a fight ensues.
I´ve tried making the  basing so that the front rank is slightly back from the leading edge of the base and the tip of the spears a centimeter or two further from the leading edge so that it´s possible to have two base edges meet. Seems to work...so far.



Bannockburn (Pt6) Gilbert de Clare and Robert II Kieth

A start on the mounted elements for Bannockburn. The Knight bods have had head swops using helmets from the Zvezda English Knights of the 100 years war set.
The flags are handpainted (the designs are simple so it wasn´t worth photoshop etc to create some)
Sets used
Army of Joan d'Arc   (Horses with Caparisons and Gilbert de Clare)
Medieval Britian       (Standard bearers and Robert II Kieth)
Norman Knights       (English Standard bearer´s horse)
Army of Henry V      (Scottish Standard bearers horse)

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, killed at Bannockburn. As it would be an insane task to include Standard bearers for all the english Knights, the english cavalry stands will get the George cross.

 

Robert II Kieth, Marischal of Scotland, who commanded the cavalry at Bannockburn, who numbered about 500. As he´ll be based with a Group of cavalry and he commanded them,  I´ve added a standard bearer carrying his colours.



Bannockburn (pt5) Sheltron 3rd battle - Edward de Bruce.

The start of another Sheltron, this one will be under command of Edward de Bruce.
Finding bods to fill the ranks from my collection without buying the Strelets Scottish Schiltron (PSR use the other spelling, Schiltron, which is accurate and  better than what´s written on the box artwork where it´s spelt sciltron) so conversions are necessary.
So far it´s mainly head swops or replacing of weapons.
Sets used;
Strelets Medieval crossbowmen
Strelets medieval Levy (1)
Strelets Medieval levy (2)
Medieval Britian

Two bods from  strelets medieval Crossbowmen set.

This bod is now a trumpeter. His new arm Comes from Hat´s El Cid Spanish command set.

Edward de Bruce. His top and bottom halves come from the Strelets Medieval britian set and the mace from the new weapons range from Valdemar.  His head was turned during conversion to look in the direction he´s pointing.

Standard bearer.

Only a couple more to do and they can be based :-D

Bannockburn (pt 4) Sheltron 2nd battle

That was a fun Long Weekend. Went to the UK, attended a very big and excellent Greek  wedding and got a 30 quid fine for halting the car  in a gridded Zone....I thought they were there just as a warning unless signposted as no stopping....DOH!!! .:-D

Anyway....The  left wing Sheltron commanded by James Douglas, Lord of Douglas and Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland.
There´s some doubt that both were in Joint command of  the same sheltron, but I´m sticking with this Version supplied to me by Douglas at the Bennos Forum. He´s found loads of stuff about the battle which I couldn´t find so many thanks Douglas :-D
Bods used all strelets and are from;
Medieval Levy (1)
Medieval Levy (2)
Military Order Warriors
Foot Military Order Knights

Alba gu bràth!!!!!

The shields, which used to be the Royal Standard ones and have now been replaced, still need a bit of "dirtying up" and I´ll add bods to represent Douglas and Stewart at some point

Douglas´s Standard on the left, Stuarts on the right. I used downsized shield Emblems to get the basic pattern then repainted them.

And a couple of "full contact" pics.

Bannockburn (Pt3) Welsh Archers

Commanded by the 2nd Earl of Pembroke(Third creation) Aymer de Valence (c. 1275 – 23 June 1324) who not only led Edward II from the field of Bannockburn but managed to lead his Welsh archers and spearmen back to Wales.
The flag is basically made up, I took the top left quarter of the banner of the Earls of Pembroke (Hastings - Earls of Pembroke, fourth creation). The bod carrying it I painted up in welsh colours. He´s not Aymer but just a generic Knight.. Aymer will be represented with a mounted bod.

Bods from Strelets Army of Henry V set. Why EVERY archer in the set has the arrow laid on the wrong side of the bow stave is a mystery.

This lot are from the Strelets Norman archers set.......and have the arrows laid on the correct side of the bow stave.

The English army so far.

News.
A new site for Bloggers who paint, collect and wargame with 1/72nd scale bods.(the link´s on the right under 1/72 Miniatures)
Dan from Merseybooks blog is looking for painters of individual medieval bods,  ideally 28mm, 20mm, or 15mm for a book he´s writing. Link HERE

Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!!!!

It´s September in 09 AD and the German tribes, led by Arminius have started attacking the XVII, XVIII and XIX legions in the Teutoburger forest...the Varus Battle has begun!!!
This is an old dio I made 4 or 5 years ago and re-found during spring cleaning

A small group of legionaries, cut off from the main body of troops form a line...

..and meet the onrushing german tribesmen.....

They fight for thier lives but as they tire....

...more and more fall dead or injured....

...their officer falls....

...and as the line Begins to break....

...men cast down thier weapons and flee but safety is a long long way away and ...

...the dark forest is full of revengefull tribesmen..........

Here´s a Video of the 2009 anniversary. It was  really great day out. The re-enactment of the battle starts at about 1.45 and the german tribesmen release a secret weapon at 3.20 :-D

 

one of my pics from the day.