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 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.