Well this evening I decided to see what horses I had knocking about either online or on hard drives. This quick little job took longer than expected. I do think I will have something to make up another six heavy knights though.
On a totally different note, this is the view inside my new school…
I decided to pop in when it was empty.
Well OK… Twenty four shades of Horse.
So that is all of the Horse skin done, still the hooves and manes/tails to go. For some reason one of them has gone a bit blue. I will put a grey wash over it tomorrow and see if that helps.
The command section still needs to be undercoated.
I had a cunning plan yesterday, I still have enough knight parts for six more heavies. They just need horses. I can get six mounts as separate sprues from Perry Miniatures, but as I supported Wargames Atlantic think there are some suitable horses I could print….Time to head to the Computer!
This evening my son and I started off our film binge with ‘The Longest Day’. Whilst doing so I made a start on the French knights.
I did a clean up on the metal ones and as I suspected the centre one (La Hire) lost his sword. Well it was 90 degrees to the pommel, so no surprises there. Luckily I had an awful lot of spare arms knocking aound. He now has a plastic replacement.
I also got some paint slapped on some of the horses.
Not a lot, but it is a start.
Well as promised here is what I purchased whilst off gallivanting.
So left to right:
A couple of Victrix Roman Legionary sets (one advancing, the other attacking). These will be used against my celtic types. Yes I know, they should probably be late republican, but hey, this was my first reenactment period so I am biased.
Middle top four 1p movement trays that cost me 20p a shot. Some Game Forge spray paint to try out and some mdf casualty markers.
Top right- some Perry metals. The only mounted Hundred Years War command pack that was left (well that I could see anyway). This one has Jean D’Arc, La Hire and the B*stard of Orleans (Jean de Dunois). These really need a good clean up.
An ox cart suitable for the Romans and below that a 6-8mm ruined city block set. I have decided to get out my 6mm road wars stuff and try to get it all finished.
Part of me wishes I had picked up a set of Roman Auxiliaries, but these came in separate cavalry, spear armed and bow armed sets. It would have helped to have had smaller pack sizes. I could have got a Pack of light field artillery too. If I had have got the above then the Romans would have outnumbered the barbarians.
As I mentioned in Saturday’s post. I really could have spent a whole lot more money.
Tomorrow my Wife and two eldest head off on their trip. My son and I are going to binge watch as many war films as we can… starting with one of these: ‘The Guns of Navarrone’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘The Battle of Britain’ or ‘Zulu’. Starting with the classics.
Well that is it, we are on the boat heading out of sight of Aberdeen, in fact it is pretty much lost in the haze.
We should be getting into Lerwick around 07.00 tomorrow.
It’s expected a one metre swell up to Orkney and then a one to two metre swell through the Fair Isle channel.
Well we got to Claymore super early and managed to have a good mooch about while people were setting up.
I got some shots of some of the games before the doors opened, meant to take more and totally forgot… too busy spending money or pondering whether or I should get something, in some cases my choice wad helped by someone else choosing before me.
I did consider Warlord’s ‘Epic’ Punic wars army. At one end Of the hall Warlord had it for £240 and at the other end of the hall N independent had it for £180… but only one of them. Luckily someone else got there first. I can do the wars in 2 and 6mm so didn’t need another set.
We also had a little participation game run by Warbases. It was a fun little Dungeon crawl…
The mdf tiles are pre coloured and they were for sale… I managed to stop myself buying them. The Miniatures were from Bifrost Miniatures.
I came away with a nice little haul, or should that be a medium sized haul!
I could have easily come back with a massive haul.
Once I get back I will show you what I got.
My son was especially chuffed as I persuaded him to keep visiting the Bring and Buy tables (people had their own this time). He managed to blag himself a pair of big GW Kinights for £50… saving a whopping £160! Up to that point he had been flagging a bit, but was perked up by his purchase.
All in all we were there about five hours. Six if you include pre opening.
Now I wasn’t there last year, but it did seem quieter than last time. Some of the traders thought the same too. Maybe the crowds had spent up at Carronade which by all accounts of said traders was rammed.
So we left the boat at 07.30 this morning and headed down to Dundee for Breakfast. Then off to ‘World of Wings’
We ended up heading over to Glasgow to IKEA as sadly the hotel is a bit of a dive and we didn’t fancy spending too long in it. I have now booked somewhere else for tomorrow ecening
Yes we are on the boat, still an hour to go but I think it is going to be busy so we decided on food earlier rather than later.
So we will be piling off tomorrow morning at 07.30. We will head straight off from Aberdeen and have Breakfast in Dundee. About an hour and a half depending on traffic once we hit the rush hour at the Dundee end.
Well I decided against scabbards and visors. Scabbards because I really couldn’t be bothered to faff about with them. The visors were because I had actually chosen a lot of the models with them already there.
So I really doubt I will be touching these until I get back from the show on Monday. I will need to pack and get sorted during the day, not to mention try to work out what I need to pick up…(not want- as they are very different lists).
To be honest I actually don’t know what i need apart from some more bases! Bloody expensive bases if that is all I buy.
Well the final six were built about twenty minutes ago. The six remaining heavies were armed with hand weapons. Well five were, the sixth is a banner bearer.
Now to be honest I am in a bit of a quandary, do I bother with the sword scabbard and visors or not…
Something to ponder before undercoating them all.
All twenty four of them…
I have been doing bits and pieces on my druid bust too.
The leaves have taken on a more autumnal hue than the previous iteration.
Bogenwald 