Taken Prisoner!!

What did William de Huntingfield have at the end of his lance? Two of Saladin´s warriors.
Ok..I haven´t found any evidence that a Huntingfield took part in a crusade but the two bods came with the Valdemar set so they have to make an appearance.

I´m not the worlds best dio creator so I´ve used these two to make up a casualty marker (for whenever I get around to making a Medieval Arabic army)

Medieval Business men (2)

The second set of medieval business men from the hands of Erik Trauner. The 1st one can be seen HERE
Not yet based, a suitable situation has to be found.

A lowly priest.

Two middleclass types..traders?

Two upperclass types...landowners?

Lovely sculpted  bods..and their faces are really excellent too.

Hello to number 500 follower, David Dale :-D

Medieval English Standard Bearers..Crecy

Two not so commonly used standards (I haven´t seen them among many wargames armies)from the battle of Crecy 1346, taken from the excellent site Dansk Figursspilsforening .
The flags are of Sir John de Botetourt and Thomas de Hatfield, Bishop of Durham
Both bods are from the Zvezda English knights of the 100 yrs war set, the one with the Thomas Hatfield standard is a conversion using one of the foot, his nag is from the Zvezda French Knights set.

The Zvezda horses are among the best horse sculpts in 1/72nd..real fun to paint.

To those who still have the captcha thingy on...please get rid of it and put either the moderation mode on or just allow the post to be posted without a captcha.
Reasons;
1. About 60% of the captchas are  impossible to read and it takes at least a couple of re-loads  or 2-3 failed attempts to post a message. It never did and never will stop the determined human spammers getting thier adverts or dumb comments posted.
2. Even with captchas, tossers going under the name of Anonymous can post thier trashy cowardly little messages or adverts on long "forgotton" posts and the job of removing them (as your blog gets bigger) becomes virtually impossible. With the moderation mode on, you get to see where and what these filth are posting and remove it :-D

Mixed conversions

I thought I´d done everything possible with the Caeser orcs set but no!!!
I got a tip at the  Bennos Forum about a possible conversion...an orc drummer. Then I thought, they need a medic, but one with a red cross bag would look stupid so I converted one into a Shaman.

The drum is made from an old felt tip pen top with a bit of material added and held on with a bit of copperwire. The drum sticks are pin heads.
The Shaman´s cloak..toilet paper (what else?), his bull head from the Orion Gladiators set, the bulls head staff from HaT´s Carthaginian command set and the head from er?..a strelets set...(forgotten :-D)

Now two of the Linear-b bods converted into dice players. The bottom halves are from the Roman Tavern set as is the one leaning on the table.
The other top half, the bod with his arms held out is one of the "3" hidden figs from the Roman Port set

The   little Roman island "Scalpere Aedificare" has had an underground tavern added

 

WotR´s Continental Mercenaries (RedBox)

A nice addition to the 1/72nd medieval world, especially the later part. This lot will make good recruits for my Burgundians, help fill the ranks of the Spearblock and add to the collection being prepared for a WotR´s army.

The two spearmen in the set, The spears they come with (attached) bear an uncanny resemblence to telegraph poles (the "as they come" pics at PSR) and they´ve been replaced with florists wire

Halbardiers (Billmen)

Three of the Halbardiers re-equipped with spears.

The long range weaponary section

All the (now 13) poses together in a battleline.

Roman Tavern (Linear-b)

Another set of Romans exclusive to Linear-b, this time, unlike the Roman Port set,  none of the bods need "hiding" :-D
12 bod poses in the set along with 2 tables, a bar and a pot

All 12 bods

With tables, pot and Bar added.

Seated customers

Standing customers. The pose to the right. Pecunia non olet,"money does not stink" The lower classes peed in pots which was either thrown into the sewers or sold for Tanning,  dyeing wool etc.

The bar staff

The entertainment. The strings on the Lyre are made from the thinest paintbrush bristles I could find

Interestingly....I´ve found out why Linear-b are called Linear-b....look Here

Roman Port (linear-b)

Exclusive to Linear-b, this set is only available to 18 + customers
12 poses in the set but 3 aren´t shown on thier site  and the reason why will become clear.

Anyway, the 9 bods that can be shown "front of house" as it were.

A sad fact of history, slavery. The original  ropes  I´ve removed and replaced with chains

A "madam" and customer? I assume he´s a customer by the way his tongue is sticking out in a lecherous way and holding a bag of money

Rich woman with slave and a begger.

Now to the last three bods. As with the hanged man I´ve "hidden" them elsewhere. Linear-b don´t show them unpainted on thier site so I´m not showing them without a WARNING.  There is a reason it´s for sale to over 18´s only!!!
I´ve not positioned the three as I assume they are meant to be put to avoid any unecessary "glorification" but I can´t see any other way they could be used, so, If you wish, they are HERE.

WotR´s Levy Archers

No specific Livery patterns to start with, I´ve got to get my eye in with this scale, so first off a group of levy archers. Later I plan to make up some household types in the livery of John de Vere 13th earl of oxford.  and then I´ll see what else takes my fancy.
They´re not based yet as I want to get some decent bases for them and not my usual homemade ones

Marshall Law

Marshall law (spot the pun?) and his crew of deputies, the Grave diggers.  These guys have to be tough to  carry out thier role of keeping law and order in Toi Town.

These are 1/72nd Hong Kong versions of the 1/32nd Scale Airfix Cowboys. A bit of fun, so they´ve been given a bit of a Hollywood style paintjob.
Why Airfix has never released them in 1/72nd scale I don´t know. "Downsizing" or "Upsizing" bods isn´t a difficult thing and they could release all thier old  sets in both 1/32nd and 1/72nd, like the
Medieval Knights , the American Indians, and the excellent Infantry support group to name a few.

The whole crew in front of the sheriff´s Office.



"When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man. That's an old Mexican Proverb...and it's true"

When the man with a 45 meets the man with a rifle, you said the man with a pistol is a dead man...Let's see if it's true".

Marshall law. Always dressed in black as he has a lot of funerals to attend

Woodland Indians

A lovely set of Native american indians or as Italeri calls them, "Indian warriors"
Ok, the titel is basically fine but, not really wanting to be picky, there is another country on another continent called India.
The range of poses (16) gives this set a lot of "movement" but still any collector wants more, so these will have to be supplemented  with the Nikolai set and hopefully Imex will release thier long promised Mohawk Indians at some point.  

I didn´t go wild on decorating them up with bright colours...the bod with the light blue shirt was bad enough as far as hiding in the woods is concerned, and I didn´t want a hollywood style ...more the IMHO, the more  realistic appearance of the indians in The Last of the Mohicans film. If anyone hasn´t seen it..the ambush scene has to be one of the best battle scenes ever made.

The set divides roughly into two types of haircuts...the longer haired bods.(Onedaga?).....

...........and those with Shaved sides..... (Hurons?, Mohicans?, Irokesen?...Ok..... Iroquois)

The only conversion possibilty  I´ve so far found

Anyway, this lot will take up life in the woods and hills of Bodstonia.
Kick me for forgetting. These were kindly sent to me by Michael from Dalauppor blog ann they, along with the Italeri AWI bods were the Kickstart to the Bodstonia Imag-Nation. Again, many thanks Micheal :-D
    
And a long term project, the little Roman  island   "Scalpere Aedificare"
So far, only the dock and a couple of warehouses have got beyond the planning stage.
It will be populated entirely with  roman bods from Strelets / Linear-b,
The latest two sets contain adult scenes, especially the Roman Port set, which is exclusive to Linear-b and is only for sale to over 18 year olds.
It will, when it´s finished, have a scratchbuilt cargo ship in the port, a shopping street, tavern (in a cellar?) some living houses, and maybe a market, wine garden and other bits and pieces.

 

 

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