Incursio Barbarica 22: Little farm

I didn´t paint for ages, but this weekend I finally managed to get my farm done. Dwellings are Gripping Beast, the wattle fence is Renedra and the rest is built from scratch. I did this for my germans, but I will look the part from the bronze age until medieval times I guess. 

Arthur´s Return

My entry for Round 7. I painted some new miniatures, but there are also some older ones involved. I like the scene and the pic is OK.

Arthurian miniatures from different manufacturers comparism shot

There are plenty of opportunities if you want to play Arthurians. When I started my project I gave the 5 manufacturers a try listed in the pic above. Sizewise they work together very well, except the Foundry mini which is shorter and not so bulky.
A short overview:

Black Tree: The Late Romans are some of their nicest minis. They aren´t very detailed and not very well casted. But they paint up easy and look good then!

Musketeer: I loved Bill T´s sculpting style from the start. Here you can plunder the new Late Roman, the Saxons and Goth ranges. They fit my painting style, my favourites so far- the only reason I didn´t buy the Late Romans is that I ran out of money this month...

Gripping Beast: Again a vast number of useable miniatures in their programm. They´ve got all the characters from the novels, even Wolftail warriors. Their faces are great, but some poses are a bit weird.

Foundry: The smallest, most expensive in this line up - but also the most beautiful with all their crisp detail and very good poses. You can use the Late Roman range too.

Westwind: Some cool vignettes and character packs. Unfortunatly I don´t like their seperate head system, and the shields are too small for my taste. I use the musketeer ones with them.

There are other manufacturers like Artizan but I didn´t try them, I already got to much in my lead mountain. Hope that helps a bit if you´re interested in gaming this period.

Chieftain´s Hall

I finished my Chieftain´s Hall today. It isn´t that large, but big enough for a sub-chief with 20 Warriors or so under his command. For the bedroom I´ll have to check Hasselfree for a nice girl or two (undressed).

Romano-british Noble

Some news, I´m still painting some Dark Age Minis from time to time. Actually I´m infected with the Arthur-virus again (no EHEC) and building a chieftains hall with removable roof, post pics some pics of it when it´s finished. The Romano-British noble was painted this afternoon.

Arthur´s Banner

Painted this Foundry Miniature last night. My Arthurian Army is growing slowly...very slowly!

Raised store

The second buildig for my Arthus-project.

Dark Age wattle and daub dwelling

First scratchbuild house for my Arthur project (or any other dark Age/Medieval setting). I´ll do a small village, it was a lot of fun to built this one. I´m very happy with the roof, it´s a old towel cut to stripes and hardened with a lot of PVA Glue/water-mix (thanks to Rusus for sharing his wisdom with me).

Arthur´s death vignette

It´s done.

German Warlord on foot

Today I spent the whole afternoon with painting and photographing this miniature for a painting tutorial that I did for the Sweetwater-Forum. It´s in german, so all you german-speakers read it and all others may have a look.
Beside of all the work this miniature is so f****ing amazing! It´s a warrior from BillT´s Musketeer-Miniatures Goth range. Bill you´ve got magic hands. Start sculpting Arthurians now!!!

Romano-Brits

I think this two miniatures are some of the best I´ve ever seen. And painted. The sword armed could serve as a more romanised (and more christian) Arthur.
Happy new year to all of you, I´m a bit ill today because I drank a bottle of Red Label last night. Bad idea.

Wolftail Warriors

Some warriors for Derfel´s warband. And a groupshot of the Wolftails so far. On Derfel´s right side stands Issa, ready to protect his lord.

Agricola and Derfel´s new banner

Agricola from the Christian Kingdom of Gwent. He´s th most "romanised" Miniature that I have from B so fits perfectly!

After some critic that the banner was too "ordinary" I added a wooden wolf head (GW Space Wolves Bit) and fur to the banner. I think it looks much more barbarian now.

Mordred-and " Frohe Weihnachten"

Mordred, Arthurs Nephew. I painted him dark, he´s mostly clad in black. His shield bears Uthers Dragon. I changed the head cause I want him to wear a golden face mask.

Derfels battle-banner. Musketeer Goth with LMB flag.

Galahad

Galahad, Lancelots Brother and Derfels best friend
And the whole bunch so far. I wanted them to look "bright", cause they´re the good ones. Mordreds men will be much darker.

Derfel Cadarn

Young Derfel.I´ll do one with a facemask when my Westwind order arrives. This one is a slightly converted GB Athurian Charakte.r, I added the cloak, wolftail, beard and hair. Shield is handpainted.

Merlin

Gripping Beast´s Merlin

Arthur ap Uther

Gripping Beast´s Arthur.

Goth Bucellarii

Finally I manged to finish my first stand of Visigoths. At first I wanted to place 5 Riders on the base, but it looked too close. So only 4 Horse per base. For a Basic Impetus army I´ll have to paint 3 more bases Cavalry, 4 Bases Heavy Infantry and two Bases with Skirmishers. I don´t know if that is realisable for me. But I hope so.