Teutonics - restart

After a gap, the next couple of  Bods for the Teutonic 1329 dio.
The rider in blue normally has a Lady riding sidesaddle in front of him but She didn´t fit along with the smiling kniggit. As with my Version HERE, they don´t  fit 100% comfortably anyway.
The other two are from..er??..I´ve forgotten which set

and for a bit of a Change.....
The "heroes",  Lord Brashford and Lt. Tompkins, Achmed  and thier Faithfull mule Dobin went on a jaunt to Xanten..and amazingly, unlike previous trips out, like the one where Tompkins caught crabs!!!! or their picnick in South africa!!!(how they got out of that no-one knows!) this time they had no terrible mishaps.

A visit to the Roman town .View from the Ampitheatre towards the workers houses.

The Hafentempel (Harbor temple)

Looking at the amazing high altar of the Xanten Cathedral (St. Victor's Cathedral)

and the pics taken by "others"

 Kriemhild windmill. Built onto the town wall around the end of the 14th Cent as a Bärwindmühle (a fortified  Tower   with a windmill added)   rebuilt over the centuries and re-used for different things, like a gardenhouse or quarters for the Nightwatch  , it still is in use today.

 Klever Tor (Cleves Gate) First built in 1393- re-built in 1843

Orc conversions

This lot are made up using the tops halves from the Dark Alliance Heavy warg Orcs (set two)
and the bottom halves from The Dark Alliance Orcs set one (top pic) and the bottom halves from Caesers Orc Warriors set.

Pre-paint

Post paint

The whole mob (less the "green Orc" )

Question is...base them as individuals like the Orc Warband, or on a single base as with the Elf Archers ?.
Anyway...single or Group basing, I´ll have to pull my finger out and get those Teutonics finished for the 1329 dio.....and the two "secret sets" are still waiting thier turn as well.......

Dark Alliance Orcs - Set two

The second mob from Dark Alliance. This lot only needed a bit of arm twisting in comparison to set one, there was a bit more Flash but easily removed.
10 bods x 5 sprues

A couple of Close ups

Set one and set two together

Next up..conversions

Dark Alliance Orcs - set one

Nine poses..times 5 sprues..45 bods in all..but what can you do with 5 Drummers?
Still, only a Little Flash to deal with and they make a nice Little Family Group.

OOB, some of the poses are a bit flat,like the one 4th from the left on this link  HERE..his sword (Axe thingy) is actually cast stuck on top of his head, but with a bit of twisting (no hot water Treatment required) they end up looking more natural (if such a Thing can be said about Orcs)

A couple of Close ups

Camping accessories

Bits and Pieces to add to the tents.  Cooking stuff, a campfire and a Cooking / Stable tent.
I´ve made it so that the bits and pieces can be removed, swopped about and the Tent can be used for different periods.

 When the cooking is done, the Tent can be used for Keeping the nags dry when it rains.

A bit of a mix of makes to create this lot.

 

The cooking pot from Strelets The French Army's Camp, the base from the Renedra Mixed tent set

Table from Linear-B Roman Tavern set, mess tins and Coffeepot, Atlantic´s US Camp set,

Pig on a spit..Imex Battlefield Accessories

 



Henry has found something interesting on the table

Dog from Valdemar Miniatures - VA186 "Drunken Knights"

Nags from the Atlantic US camp set

A-Frame or Ridge Tents - Scratchbuilt

Bodstonia needs some tents for an upcoming adventure . There´s loads of tents  in plastic on the market but they all seem to lack something...difference. ...that and they cost Money :-D

Mass produced plastic tents, , by nature of the production,  are uniform, ie; each tent of the same style looks exactly like the next one, same folds, same creases etc.  With most everthing else, Bods, nags, tanks, carts, etc, it´s easy enough to give Variation between each individual Piece, converting, adding bits (Guyropes) or recreating damage/wear and tear..but tents?

I was going to use some Renedra tents, nice in thier own way but as I´ve mentioned, too uniform. Put in "Rows of tents" as a Picture search and you´ll see what I mean...same make and style of tents (in a lot of the pics) but they each have a character of thier own.
With this in mind I decided to make some of my own "mass produced" tents.
How it´s done I´ve already shown HERE

Close up of one of them

Now onto the "camp scenery"  and a Mess tent....then the adventure can begin.

But, before that..a 1:1 mini adventure.
After several days going out at dusk in search of a couple of Baby Tawny  owls, only getting some  dark blurred Pictures, Today, at around 14.00 hours local time, the squawking of blackbirds gave thier approximate locality away and after a painstakingly slow creep into the Woods (Lasting 1/2 an hour for a few meters there and the same back)  I finally got some half decent photos.
They´ve been named...from left to right..Pudding and Pie

A couple of blurry Close ups

New Bodstonians

A handfull of new bods for Bodstonia

A "whose who" HERE

Wagons for Bodstonia

A delivery of 5 new Wagons and 6 ponies from the mainland..the two mules and the two nags were already in Bodstonia.
Two Ambulance wagons and one Munitions wagon  - Imex
one Chuck Wagon and one Prairie Schooner - Imex

People Transporters? The two mules (rear wagon) are from Strelets

Bog Standard "things" Transporter

Covered wagon. The nags are from the MiniArt Hussites set.

My favourite of the Group. This one will end up (in the Bodstonia world ) as a combined Doctors/vivandière wagon

 In Situ HERE

Totem Pole

A Nexus Apache Camp Totem pole, found in the bits box at the BB Toys

This will end up as an abandoned totem pole  in the Bodstonian landscape, where, if anyones taking note, there´s no  religious aspect to the lifes and loves of the inhabitants, Bodstonian or native and it can be used in one of the six ways they were originally intended for;
House frontal poles,
Interior house posts,
Mortuary poles,
Memorial poles,
Welcome poles,
Ridicule or shame poles.

Luckily for my Bodstonian adventures, Totem poles have no religious meaning,and where not worshipped;

Totem poles are not religious objects, but they do communicate important aspects of native culture. Carvings of animals and other characters typically represent characters or events in a story. The carvings may symbolize or commemorate cultural beliefs that recount familiar legends, clan lineages, or notable events. The poles may also serve as functional architectural features, welcome signs for village visitors, mortuary vessels for the remains of deceased ancestors, or as a means to publicly ridicule someone.

Anyway, two of Bodstonias personalities, James Forrester and Adahy come across the abandoned Totempole in THIS Episode from the Federation of Bodstonia

What are these?

A bit of a mixed bag of bods and nags. All metal and all of them have either no markings or just numbers on thier bases.
1.

Thunderbolt Mountain

2. These are a bit bigger than 1/72nd

Nag on the left, Mirliton, nag in the middle Minifigs

3.

4. The nellie is roughly 1/72nd, the kniggits a bit bigger.

two bods, Minifigs

5.

6.

7. Gnomes ?

8.

9.

 

Tumbling Dice WOR

Any help much appreciated :-D