1stCorps War Wagon

 

I recently painted one of the fantastic War Wagons from 1stCorps for my saga Rus Princes Warband. 

It has a resin main body & metal wheels etc. 

There was a couple of miscasts on the resin armour planking side, so I tried to make it look like battle damage. 

It doesn’t come with any crew & I had a couple of figures with open hands that a friend gave me (thanks Jim 😁) spare so I cut the swords down to resemble knives & put stones in their hand for the improvised weapons. I also added some chains to the ramp, a plastic helmet from the Fireforge Russian sprues, a spear & a hung pheasant from the old GW Bretonian Men at Arms sprues. 

Saga Age of Magic Undead Warband

 

I thought that I would take a look at my Undead Warband for Age of Magic, just to see what I've actually got done & what they look like altogether as all I've done so far is paint them & shove them in a case!! 

I have really enjoyed painting these, especially as Forlorn Hope Games/Moonraker Miniatures (or whatever they are called) has got a lot of the old Bob Naismith Grenadier UK figures recast, & back in the last century, I had a Warhammer Army mainly using these figures & of course I sold it a long time ago & have had to rebuy them! 

There are still a couple more units of warriors to paint up, 3 foot necromancers & , 1 mounted one (I think I may have too many!) 6 Cavalry & 2 units of Hearthguard! As well as the rest of The Gripping Beast Mindless!

                                        

MORE UNDEAD

 Finished up some more Undead miniatures for Saga & Rangers of Shadow Deep

First  up is the Undead Minotaur

And with the Undead Ogre

Next is a miscast of a Zombie alongside the proper cast f the same figure

A Group shot f the Bears Head Undead Humans

Finally is some old Grenadier Undead  now produced by Forlorn Hope Games. I used to have these miniatures for a Warhammer Army back in the Late 80's early 90's when they were originally released, but sadly I sold that Army off at Fiasco many many years ago.

Undead Sacred Ground for Saga Age of Magic

I’ve been working on a piece of special terrain for Saga Age of Magic. 

This is a free upgrade for your Warband that allows you to raise more troops whilst using the Necromancy spells. Every Warband has access to a peice of sacred ground terrain, each being catered to the Warband being used.

I picked up a selection of  gravestones through swaps on LAF & bought the crypt off eBay. 

For the base I used an off cut of plastic fascia, as it is thick enough to dig out in front of some of the graves to represent where the Undead have risen from their graves.

I cut up some flat plastic bases to make some extra flagstones & made a base texture paste from white glue, one strike wall filler & various grades of sand.
Then chucked some paint at it. 

Problem I’m now facing is I couldn’t be bothered to sort out the joins in the crypt! 😞

Now they’re bothering me 😂

Undead for Saga Age of Magic

I’ve been slowly working on a Undead Warband for Saga Age of Magic & have finally got somewhere like a reasonably painted force to think about playing with.

Here’s the pictures ( of course there’s all the Zombies, Vampire, giant bat & possibly the werewolves [they are more likely to end up with the Vikings along with the wolves though] that I’ve already shown)

Gripping Beast Revenants

Came across some pictures of a unit of Gripping Beast Revenants that I had painted back in April, whilst working away from home., that I’m sure I never posted.

I bought these in the Revenants Ltd Saga box set, & always really liked them, but never seemed to be able to motivate myself to paint them. So I thought with the imminent (at the time) release of age of magic I would take them away with me & start painting them.

The only problem being, was that the light was appalling in the room that I was staying in & I had only brought a small portable light with me!
So the skin tone ended up being very blue instead of grey! They were supposed to look like the Grenadier Undead Barbarian that I had previously painted!
But anyway they are done & have been killed many times in Rangers of Shadow Deep 😂

Saga Thorsday Painting Competition Eastern Princes Mounted Druzhina

Rog on the Saga Thorsday YouTube Channel recently ran a painting competition & I thought that it was as good  a reason as any to finally get on with some Rus Princes Druzhina, for a Eastern Princes Warband for Saga age of Crusades.

After a months frantic painting (& as luck had it I was working away on Guernsey for a week, so managed to paint every night for 5hrs or more) 

 

I had intended for them to have some of the fantastic shield transfers from Little Big Men Studios but they didn't arrive in time so I had to quickly paint a shield design on them before I could take the final pictures. I now have the transfers & will be adding them later (when I can be bothered!)

There were only (if I remember correctly) 6 entries in the end & I managed to win!!
The prize was some fabulous Warhansa resin 8 Rus Warriors/Militia Miniatures & a Rus Warlord.