Yes I actually got around to putting a paintbrush to some miniatures this evening.
Sixteen Militia part done. These are very rough and ready but look okay at a distance of about three metres.
I will hopefully carry on tomorrow evening. That will leave another fourteen at the white stage. I actually can’t remember who the manufacture is. Part of me thinks Blue Moon as they come in packs of thirty.
I also got my Florentine troops undercoated. They will be next up I think.
Well this evening I eventually got around to sticking my Florentine Cannon onto a 40mm base. It turns out Wargames Atlantic do them so got this done.
I found a couple of random cannons in a bag, got all excited built them then realised they were at least 20mm ones. So back to printing a couple.
I also had another bash at my soft pastels…
Not happy with the black, but only third attempt at using them so getting there.
And Finally more stuff got shoved into the shed…
Come to think of it, there won’t be any printing happening in there any time soon! Bugger!
Okay I have decided that I have too much stuff. I have been having a sort out and have gradually started to move my gear from various locations into my little shed. I can just about get in there now and have still got shit loads to squeeze in.
Actually I have started being a bit brutal and certain 3D prints have gone the journey.
Sadly the miniatures are pretty much unusable as they are to brittle and the hex tiles have started to extrude what looks like salt. So in a bin bag they went.
It’s a pity but they would never be used.
I went into Aberdeen on the boat with my daughter for her hospital appointment. We had some shopping time so I bought some oil pastels as well as some soft (chalk) pastels. I got off this morning and had a play around with the soft ones.
Well I decided to get these finished.
As you can see they brought a couple of little friends with them. Not exactly a dread hunting pack. Where someone else might have bears or wolves they have a pair of foxes. Wolves I have plenty of. Foxes…two!
The one thing that kind of bugged me with these were the way the bits were fastened to the sprue.
Bugged is maybe too strong a word, luckily I have sharp cutters and files. Trying to get these off with a knife would have been an absolute sod. It literally is 25% of the base of the arm. There were others just as bad.
So maybe I will get to start painting stuff again sometime. I have forced myself off the console and onto the kitchen table to get back into things again. The backlog is starting to pile up. I was going to say ‘again’ there, but higher is probably a better description.
A mystery no more!
So as I had convinced myself that these were indeed Mantic miniatures I decided to search for Mantic troops using various ideas as to what they might be. Eventually Barbarians threw up an image I was looking for…
“The humans of the Northern Alliance come mostly from the northern clans who have sworn allegiance to Talannar, but they can come from many disparate lands. Of these, some are remnants of eastern tribes desolated by Varangur raids. Others are refugees of wars to the south or exiles from the numerous Kingdoms of Men. Whatever their heritage, each has found a home as part of the Alliance and will fight to their last breath to protect it.”
Evidently these are still available, so not sure why Google couldn’t work out what they were.
I had 10 in the sealed bag, the box for sale seems to have 20. So I am not sure whether they did smaller amounts or it was a standard system of packing.
Well my son decided that he wanted to build his Agincourt foot knights he got in August tonight.
I can’t say anything some of the stuff I decided to build was years old. As I was mooching around for something to build I came across a sealed bag, but actually couldn’t really tell what they were apart from they had fur.
Turns out they were chonky humans. I actually haven’t got a clue where they came from or when I got them.
I haven’t even got a clue of the manufacturer, I tried Google Lens and totally flummoxed it
IÂ thought maybe Early Mantic again, but these are big, way bigger than the Skeleton dudes and bigger than the Frostgrave Cultists.
So if anyone has any ideas of what they are then I would love to know.
Yep that is all of the Florentine forces glued onto their swanky new bases. Well apart from the Artillery and crews.
Leonardo has blagged himself a bit of an escort, well Florence doesn’t want those Venetian Dogs grabbing him.
I must admit a large part of me wants to go to town on some of his inventions. But what I want is a 15mm version of ‘The Birdmen of Catrazza!
I mean for no other reason than because…
I know he had no actual idea for them, but he might have had😜
Yes me and the little chaps are getting acquainted again this evening.
Pikes back centre, shot on the left, swordsmen and pole arms on the right. Leonardo in the centre and a spare command/pole arm unit front right.
Cavalry and Artillery still to do.
Look at this, up with the larks and motoring.
I started on the rest of the miniatures this morning and it did take a good while. Sadly it wasn’t just the bases
It was a bit time consuming, I don’t mind the odd bit of clean up, but it was almost as if it was every other miniatures. Maybe I am now a proper old Grognard.
Yes I eventually got enough energy to actually sit down and start working on the Florentine army.
I didn’t get them all done, just the Pikes and gun crews… Yes crews. I was convinced I only ordered one.
Well I checked. I actually ordered two, but got a whole gun crew instead of just the Gun captain.
So yey me! Do I make it into a three gun force….mmmmm interesting conundrum. They were super wealthy and do have a certain Leonardo Da Vinci in the box with them. I am sure he might have some cunning ideas.
Bogenwald 