Strelets Roman Transport (review)

A little suprise for me when I got home today...The strelets Roman Transport set..hot of the mold !!!
The set is only available from Linear-b and is available as of now .

The complete set.

The females of the set. From left to right. 1.Pregnant woman..as far as I know the first depiction of a pregnant woman in a mass produced set!!! 2. Rather "relaxed" lady. Yes, that is a mamalian protuberance 3. Woman and young boy. 4. Woman giving a piggy back to a girl.

The men. 1.captive. His top is ripped and hangs around his waist, a rope is bound around his neck and to his wrists.. 2. Old boy carrying his posessions.3. Drover...no, he´s not giving the "comrade" salut, his rased hand is for holding onto one of the mules. 4. Drinking man. His headgear is a leather cap, it has stiching .

1. Another drover. 2. I think this one is a roman soldier...you can put him behind the captive so that his right hand looks like it is holding the rope bindings. 3. Spear carrier. He wears caligula and his hair cut suggests a roman soldier but he more likely to be a  be a servant, as he has no other weapons apart from the bundle of spears he is carrying

Mules. All come with a set of baggage which is attached by means of a peg on top of the mule. There were also pegs on either side which are meant for the attachment of the baggage which comes with set 2.

The cart. A very easy build..I had to open up the hole a bit on one of the wheels to attach it to the axle but apart from that it fits together well. A little on the small sid, especially when compared to the two beasts pulling it but a servicable bit of kit.

Benny and Buddy. These are big impressive looking oxen. They really are very nice models.

What do I think of the set?? All in all  very nice. The style is unmistakeably that of strelets, the  sculpting is the among the best to come out of the strelets stable.  Very little flash and the detail is very well done. For instance, the pregnant woman is carrying  a sack slung over her shoulder which has a patch sown onto it.
As always they have done some great poses and I for one love the females/children in the set..a rare enough subject as it is but 4 in one set is good to see.
When I first saw the masters of this set, I wanted it..I can see potential for usage as a set of medieval peasantry / camp followers etc. The mules and the Oxen can be used for a ton of things.
I might add larger wheels to the cart, the smaller ones are typically roman. For ancients fans an absolute must!! A great set of bods..:-D
Many thanks to Marc from linear-b for sending me the set...nice one mate...Gruß   Paul :-D


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Hello to Armoured Fighting vehicle. Some very nice AFV builds...the M998 Jeep!!!!!

Gold miners.

A couple of the bods from the Atlantic Gold Rush set. The rocks are a chunk of Fir tree bark,,,the tracks are from matchsticks as sleepers and flattened florists wire for the rails. Tent is made from....Toilet paper!! :-D

Tower how to.

Quick and easy, you can knock out a 15cm tall tower in a couple of hours.

Some 3cm insulating board and a drill with a hole cutting set. best a set with fine teeth or bend the teeth flat, ie; they don´t stick out either side of the stel ring.

As this will be another "rapunzel" tower I´ve used ever decreasing sizes of discs. Behind the tower is some 5cm Blue insulating foam. The tower is made using another type of foam, a pinky white stuuf which is a bit harder than the blue sort.

The discs are then glued together using woodglue and cocktailsticks between each layer. Shave of the edges to give a flat surface and then sand it all smooth with sand paper.

Using a biro, mark in the stonework. Here I´ve used the blunt end of a pencil to push the foam back to give an "aged look"

The Rapunzel tower in the film has got plaster covered sides. To do this I´ve covered the areas outside of the stonework with woodglue and rolled the tower in sand.

When everything is dried  (this you can speed up by using a hairdryer) Paint :-D

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Tompkins in Wonderland

"Tompkins!!!! What did the caterpillar say about NOT eating anything!!!!??"

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"Rapunzel" Tower 1/72nd

A medieval fantasy scratch build. Pretty quick and easy because I simplified the design a bit.from the Film version and I wanted to test out a couple of new ideas to do with tower building, especially the roof construction.
I´ll build a second one but this time it will be more in line with the design represented in the Film and then one  like this  :-D

Medieval drunks

Another brilliant  new set from Alex...the way the bods are standing...that "slightly out of balance" way that drunks stand..:-D 
There might be one or two poses added to the set but when it´s finished it will be available from Valdemar miniatures

A monk being tormented

One of the locals getting the boot.

What is he looking for ???

Hello Norman, from Junkyard Planet blog. I like the "technicals" for the Peoples republic of Mbotu ( formally known as Transequatoria ) and the seige wargame with the "moving"  trench system...excellent!!!

Town and Castle

The little folk of Styrow on the Fome woke one moring to find that not only had someone yet again re-arranged the layout of the village but a dirty great castle had appeared!!! This event will only fuel the fires of resentment after the terrible death of of the towns resident alchoholic, Alan Add-ale.
Someones going to  kick a Hugh Jarse for this!!

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BIG army day

I´m a bit late on this one (bloody work!!!!) but here´s my entry for the BIG army day over at Gloranthan Army Blog

Artillery

Camp...(so far)

Infantry, archers and skirmishers

Baggage

Cavalry

This is just over the half of my medievals...the rest are burgundians, civilians or Crusader types.

OH !!! S**T!!

A little dio about the dangers of naked flames and an untidy gunpowder store.

Lord Hugh Jarse´s Castle

Every thing, railings flooring, gates etc..made from Underlay 

From this;

to this;

The Big Bang 4

The final episode.
After another long stay in ye olde hospital T.Omkins is ready to take on another mission. This time Bodkin and Bodger have hired in, at no expense spared, (which means they spared by paying no expenses), His holyness,  Grimwit the III.

According to some theological texts, the smaller that something is then the bigger it´s actions. It goes roughly along the lines of the how many angels on a pin head and such like. This was first cited by William Dikpeece in 1299, just before he choaked to death on a grain of sand. Following scholars have taken this event to be proof that Dikpeece was right.
( Don´t ask me!! I´m only recording this loonacy. )

Anyway , Grimmwitt has convinced Messers Bodkin and Bodger that if a grain of gunpowder is very finely cut into very tiny pieces and then cut yet many more times until there´s practically nothing there, then there will be a thing called an "Ey Tom". If this "Ey Tom" of gunpowder is then struck, it will, following the Dikpeece theory, give out a large amount of energy causing a loud bang, disproportionate to it´s size.

His Holyness Grimmwitt is now on hand to observe this "miraculous"  event.
Just look at him, what an ugly twit!!!!

The "Ey Tom" is placed on an anvil, T.Omkins raises Ye Holy  sledge hammer

In order to maximise thier profits to pay for this....Messers Bodkin and Bodger have sold ticktes to the event. It appears as if half the county has turned up. Funny though..I can´t seem to to able to see  Messers Bodkin and Bodger anywhere.
So, silence is called for as the test is about to begin.

3....2....1....ye holy hammer falls and.........

Oh dear!!!!, that must of hurt a lot of people!!.
I wonder where T.Omkins went???
Looks like that´s the end of him...... 

 or is it??

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The poledancing vid could have been a lot longer IMHO ;-D

And don´t forget...On the 14th it´s BIG armies day over at Gloranthan Army blog  "rules" here