A hint to my next SAGA Warband

The SAGA Continues Chapter 3: Scots

Here are the first WIP pics from my 3:d SAGA project.

Warlord - Will be based with a small suprice.

  

One of the 8 Herth Guards 

More WIPS will follow stay tuned.

The SAGA Continues - Scots

This Friday a small pack of minies from Gripping Beast ended up in my mailbox.
Some Scots, 25 of them to be exact, they are now washed, mounted on bottlecaps and primed, well 17 of them anyhow. The last 8 will have to wait, all out of caps at the moment.

The minies are well casted, none or little work with the file, the only thing I reacted of was the large hands on the minies.
We are talking some serious sized hands here.

The plan is to have the painted buy the end of this week.

The shields will be the main focus of this one.

The 40k then?

Well I have been doing some reading and thinking, I'm still not sure about that. Its fun to paint but I don't know if the playing is for me. Have 6 more minies to complete of the first 10 and then we will see what happens.

   

Some new orders... Gripping Beasts and Claymore Castings gets a chance.

Just did some new orders from Gripping Beasts and from Claymore Castings.
Was planing to go Bretton in the next saga project but they was a bit to much like the Normans I painted earlier so I decided to go all foot, just to get a completely different warband all together.
http://grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=268441506

I also wanted to try out the Claymore Castings minies just because I lite them, I have no project for them but I'm a sucker for bowmen and, longbows, so Ill just paint them and see where to go with them.
Claymore is fairly new on the market so it will be fun to see what they can do, hoping for the best.
Their website is neat and far of better then many other and they take PayPal, that is a big plus for me.

http://claymorecastings.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=20&product_id=76
http://claymorecastings.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=75

The SAGA Continues, Bretons in the making

Bretons in the making, decided to go at bit more in to detail on this project, so each minie will be individually painted and a bit more time and effort will be put into the project.
Also I decided to go Black Tree Design in this project and not Gripping Beast. The GB minies have been great and is super fine, but the BTD , they have some other poses and the detailing is a bit different. And further more they don't mix in projects.

Missing on the 2 first minies is the shields on both, first model has i swung upon to the back and the second i holding it by hand in front of him. I only have kite shields but I'm planing to go round shields on these.

The SAGA ends: For now

This is the end of part 1.

All Gripping Beast, all shields are painted Freehand, banner as well.

Project started on 22 of Feb 2012
Project ended on 21 of Mars 2012

Norman Warband
1 - Warlord
1 - Unit of Spears 8 minies
1 - Unit of Crossbows 8 minies
1 - Unit of Bows 12 minies
2 - Units of Knights 2x4 minies
1 - Unit of Sargent's 8 minies

Total  7 pts in the SAGA rule system.

The SAGA Continues. The end is nigh

The end is near:
to do:
4 shields
mount 4 riders
12 of 16 cavalry bases needs to be fitted with Gravel and turf.
1 banner 


Then a photo shoot, pics will come

The SAGA Continues: WIP, Cavalry and commander

Here are some WIP pictures of the Warlord and the1:st Cavlary unit of 4.

WIP Warlord, rider missing..

 

The SAGA Continues: Got some help...

This morning I discovered this...

We had lost a bow, och the crossbow...
Magic you say?
I say Leon, 10years with itchy fingers...

- Dad just wanted to see if I could draw the bow.
Nope the bow is nowhere to be found, and he had hoped that I would not notice. Once again I had to have the yours and mine discussion.
Now its time for some severe punishment...

Well it took me a minute to fix, but Ill let the kid sweat a bit before I tell him.

Just need some GS to fix the end, and some nice deatails.
Oh yes some paint as well.

The SAGA continues: All your bases are belong to me

Started to do some bases today after Priming the riders, they will get the first layers tonight if I stay sober enough.

The bases will get a bit darker after putting varnish on them, don't ask me why, I don't know why!
All the Crossbows and Bowmen are done, 17 horses, 8 spear men and one warlord to be done.

Bases from Warbases
Turf from Games Workshop

Painting Calvary

I generally paint Horse and Rider separately First horse and the the rider.
I often Mount the base coated  rider on the already painted Horse, this leading to some small problems, but this time I decided to do different.
I built my self a riders mount :)

Of the wooden horse, this to avoid the small problems with painting the rider on the horse already painted.

This being the first time doing this I will be giving you a review of how it works.

The SAGA Continues, Banners a tutorial.

Stick to what you know, right! That often gives the best results.
So to day I did:
If you follow my blog you know that I took some heat for my poor performance on the Kite Shields on my Norman Spearmen LINK, so I repainted the shields and this was the result, LINK. Quite an improvement.

I was relay satisfied  with the weaved shield design, it had it all, depth, good matching colors, I was proud of it, can I be?
So to day the turn has come to banners. I use linen sheets that I have acquired from the Swedish military, the sheet I use is probably  made some where in between 1915 and 1920, this I can tell because of the stamps made on them. Cant find the pics of the stamps at the moment but I will look later and post them for you if you are interested. Well these sheets have been i the service for almost a decade and where now being thrown away so I saved a few of them. Now how can we better honor these sheets that have been bedding and nursing Swedish military service men and women, then make them in to banners of war, leading brave men on to the battlefield.

WIP:
How its done:

This show all the steps taken in the making.
Yes the picture sucks.

First I glued the Linen piece on to a wires spear from Perry I think, it's actually a "Yari" but hey, I don tell If you don't. This was a bit tricky I have previously used SuperGlue but the result has been some what bad. So this time I tried PVA, it works. but not to my full satisfaction- Got a hint on Contact glue, this will be tested.
Enough of the glue stuff.

Painting:
I started out with just painting the whole banner with a base of Flat Brown from Vallejo, mixed in much water in the paint and painted the both sides at once.
Then I let the paint dry fully.

I took a pencil and just made a square pattern with 5 mm with in between, diagonally on both sides, thes lines I used as a guideline when painting the basic design in black.
Lessons learned here: If you don't have base coated the banner properly you will get bleeding of color to the other side of the banner and the capillary force will kick in and the design intended will be a Mandelbrot,  Not what I had in mind Go back to step one redo the base coat.

Redone the design, onward...
I then used Vallejos Cavalry Brown to paint each square, letting some of the base coat shining through in corners and on the edges, time consuming.
Next step:
Vallejo Beige Brown, here I started to pain the weaved bands, to make the illusion of the bands being weaved on to the fabric. Leaving a small amount of black on edges and ends.  When this was done I started all over again with the bands but this time with Vallejos Yellow Ochre, once agin leaving some of the darker colors from the previous layer in the ends and edges.

Finally some touch ups where I missed and goofed, nothing heavy.

Colors used for this particular banner.
(All Vallejo)
Base coat - 70984 - Flat Brown
Basic design - 70950 - Black
Squares - 70982 - Cavlary Brown
Bands - 70875 - Beige Brown
Bands highlight - 70913 - Yellow Ochre


The result.

The SAGA continues...

The last tow night shifts have been spent, to some extension, painting the Crossbowmen unit for my SAGA Norman Warband. Next up 17 Knights and Sargent's, some banners and basing.

So enjoy

Some progress in the SAGA projekt

8 crossbowmen painted pictures will come later tomorrow (or today actually)

Norman banners

Some shield patterns

Surfed the web trying to find some different patterns to use on the remaining Norman Knights and Sargent's, and found some suggestions to use. Found some kite shields on a site for Lego nerds, think the site was Classic Castle, not sure. And the I got some suggestions and guides from Dalauppror. So now I have plenty. 

On the table for to night, 8 crossbowmen. I now have 12 bowmen and 8 spears finalized, and hopefully the crossbowmen will be done tonight as well. Already planing the next SAGA Warband, Brettons, all mounted with exception for some poor levy troops. 

Lego Shields