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The quick white toga wearing Velite has got the slow brown trouser wearing Celt.

Hello to Milos of Dreamspirit Wargaming Blog. He has 4 blogs in total...all of which are worth a look at (as are all blogs) Some very good tutorials..in both Pictures and Film form. And you can also look the videos up on Youtube.

ATTACK OF ARION HORTENSIS !!!!

The silent killer of the garden world!!!!

Don´t be so rediculous Tomkins....there´s no such thing!!!!

Tompkins!!! Stop that mumbling and Speak up man

Hello to djk from DJK´s Fantasy World.. A scratch built terrain builder who produces  buildings from re-cycled materials using standard paints, glues etc, to create  some great looking houses etc.

Hello to scotty from Scotty´s Wargaming. A wargamer who covers mostly these periods, 
WSS, ACW, AVCBW, Dark Ages and colonial, (and some sci fi and fantasy)

Hello to Kem....Kem your bloggers follower function is not on..

Hello to James from Rabbits in My Basement. Loads of BIG wargames to see on his blog...but the last post was about pies....don´t read his list, it will make your mouth water :-D

Bonjour à Maxon from Les figurines de Maxson. He has an amazing collection of 28mm Napoleonics.
His latest post , 1er et 2eme carabinier 1815 will show you what I mean.

Roman town (1/72nd scale)

A bit of stress this morning..I couldn´t log on here...I finally managed to, by using a "back door".
Made these a few years back, lots of sheets of polystyrene green floor insulating tiles, wood glue and Acrylic wall paint :-D

A shopping street with a balcony

The residential palace

View across town from the palace balcony

The Palace might get reconstructed into an Medieval Abbey and some of the houses will end up (after a face lift) in a medieval town.....maybe.

Fairy Horse

Another flying thing...this time a horse. I made an attempt at using a method of painting called Grisaille, it´s more complicated than I thought, and I will definately need a lot more practice :-D
I think the technique would be more usefull on larger scale sculpts.

Hello to Mario GarciaG...from Nucel Art, The end is near blog. very creative and  wonderfull sculpts, which would be way better for the Grisaille technique.

Avia B -21 (KP Model) 1/72nd

I bought this kit at a trade fair...it said there was three kits inside...which there was..but no instructions and no Decals. A bit outside of my usual WWI period but a fun little kit to build. The Czechoslovakian company that made it (KP Model) has ceased to trade but the models seem to be available all over the place.

Hello to Irqan...thanks for following :-D

I´d like to mention a fellow blogger here, Sergeant Lesch from I LIKE the things I LIKE! Blog. An ACW based blog with ...well, he puts it better than I could;
Occasional postings of things I like that folks may like as well. History,Toy Soldiers,some politics, beautiful ladies past and present.

Medieval Peasants (conversions)

From the Zvezda Medieval Peasant Army set. 

The "heavy" and "light" cavalry have already been posted here, but the silly sod whose "caught" an arrow is new.

Arm swops, body half swops and a "marker"

A lucky peasant who has got himself a crossbow!!

Mad axeman Magee, one whose had enough and is leaving and the standard bearer carrying the flag of the Bandshuh movement  (1493-1517)

One bod...6 Jobs

The Airfix Robin Hood set...I love it...there seems to be a mass of things to get out of it. A head swop here, a weapon swop there...and bingo..peasant becomes footsoldier.

The basic pose..

Stick swop, and now he´s the old boy of the villiage

Stick swop, twist of the neck and an arm added, now he´s capn Hornblower

Stick swop, head swop (Redbox Hussite artillery) and now he´s king of the slingers

Head swop (Revel english knights)bit of greenstuff and now he´s a guncrew member

The last reincarnation. Hand swop, head swop, sheath and shield added..

Hello to Matt from In The Grand Manner blog, in the main newline design napoleonics and a few little gems like this one Peter of Dreux.

Burgundian Command

I finally got back to doing a couple more Burgundians.

It looks like the face has silver on it...it hasn´t, it´s my bad photography to blame :-D

I´ve no evidence (pictorial) that they carried drums like this into battle, but drums are mentioned in medieval armies after the crusades.
There´s a story that the skin from  Jan Žižka was used to make  drums, so that he could forever lead his soldiers into battle.

Medieval Seige machines...1

The 1st half of the seige park finished!! :-D

The Ram

Roof added

I´ve made the roof removable so the crew can be seen

Being pushed into position

The Catapult

The seige park workers deployed to operate the catapult

A Testudo

I know this has another name but it escapes me at the moment. This was made from the second Ram in the Miniart Rams set.

Being pushed by the busy bods from the seige park

Mobile wheeled walls ( Mantlets)

From Zvezda.  The shield patterns I´ve added to give a bit of colour.

In Action with two bods from Orions Medieval seige troops set.

The Crew

A line up of the crew. Orion, Miniart and Zvezda.

Hello to Luca from Peana di piombo blog. He says he´s passionate about Ancient wargaming...and after looking at his blog, I´ll agree with him. :-D

Ancient Musicians

These have been created by Leonardo Torricini of Phersu Miniatures. A great looking set which would look great adorning ancient life scenes and I can see a use for some of them in a military role.
The set will be released soon in resin :-D

A good selection of interchangeable instruments allowing for more variety

The last two rows have, IMHO, an extra role in the ranks of quite a few early ancient military formations.

Hello to wardy-la from Gjallarhorn blog. Gjallarhorn ?? I´ll use wardy-la´s words to explain this great sounding word,
In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse "yelling horn" or "the loud sounding horn") is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. This blog is to record the progress of a Viking / Saxon campaign we are hoping to run in the near future.
There´s also another great word on this new blog,  Strandhögg...but you´ll have to look for yourself to read the explanation for that one ;-D

Medieval Staff slingers

This should have been posted yesterday but due to the "Friday the 13th" crash it wasn´t.
Anyway all seems ok now..:-D
Staff  or stave slings...fustibalus
There arent that many slingers as far as medieval models go, as far as I know there´s only one in 1/72nd scale, a bod from the Zvezda medieval peasant army  set and he´s a Hand slinger using a so called "shepards sling".
After a bit of research I know that there are NO medieval staff slingers represented in 1/72nd or any other scale come to that, although this seems to have been quite a common and effective weapon, with a massive range and deadly effect.

This shows english sailors using a staff sling to launch what appears to be a "bomb" device

Picture of a Trebuchet and a Staff sling. Apparently the staff slings were used a lot for defending castles. These were shorter, about 3 feet (1m) long and could hurl rocks as big as your head !!!

The bods are from the zvezda peasant set. I used them because  they were going spare and the poses offered the best opportunity without masses of conversion.
They are using the "field" staff sling, with 5 - 6 foot long poles. (1.7 - 2m)

Miniart French Knights with ladder

So...after the friday the 13th crash it appears as if the promised reinstatement of posts did not occur, so here it is again.
The ladder and the knights come from the Miniart set French foot soldiers with Rams which is odd, because they have a set called French  knights with Assault ladders but no bods to carry them.

And if this dissapears again...I´m changing from Google