The first of these, is an Anglo Saxon warband for SAGA. I bought this when I bought my Irish Warband, so roughly a year and a half ago. All that it was used for in that time was for spare pieces, being repeatedly raided for weapons, heads and anything else that I thought might be useful. With SAGA starting to become popular here, there are about 3-4 warbands which I know are on people's painting tables (right Tim?), I thought it was about time for me to get these guys out and painted. To help inspire me to paint them, I decided to use Little Big Men Studios shields, because from seeing Kent's gorgeous Carthaginians I knew that the transfers would really make my Saxons "pop".
So, here we are, all six points of the Warband.
Starting with the Warlord, he is a Gripping Beast metal miniature, looking rather dapper in his purple cloak.
The first point is a unit of four Hearthguard. Two are metals from Gripping Beast, the one with two swords is a Gripping Beast plastic, and the fourth is a Warlord Games Celt, with some GB plastic parts. I am particularly happy with the tattoos on the Celt, that success was what actually inspired me to paint up a whole army of Impetus Celts!
The rest of the Warband is made up of four units of 10 Warriors. These are all Gripping Beast plastics, with Little Big Men Studios shield decals.
The first (of many) old projects finished!
Back to the painting table, I will keep updating here with more of the painting.
CP
They look awesome. Best of luck using them in the game. I have used them a few times but struggle to get a win with them.
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I am totally fine with armies that suck, challenge accepted!
DeleteBeautiful painting and basing Chris. Really like the tattoos!
ReplyDeleteThose look great dude. Very nice tattoo impression, technique? You know I've struggled with that before.
ReplyDeleteThose shield decals are enticing...hmmn.
Don't worry Kiwi our man Poochie here can pull off the occasional miracle;-)
Tattoos are a fine brush, before I do the wash on the skin. Basically just doing less rather than more, going for a highly stylised look.
DeleteWhen I do the Celts I might think through and detail the process a bit more.
Great work Pooch- those tattoos are awesome. I've just finished my Celts for Impetvs, though I have another army's worth arriving soon (I hope) from Black Tree Design to fill out the ranks some more (couldn't resist their 50% off sale at Christmas).
ReplyDeleteLMB transfers are the way to go IMO and well worth the money.
Craig
You are a big fan of Black Tree aren't you? I need to have a look at them I think.
DeleteLBM transfers I am such a fan of. Expensive over a whole army, but are well worth it on armies which have predominant shields (Saxons, Greeks etc...)
I liked their Ancient Germans and am keen to see if the Celts match up- 50% off and free post as a bit hard to turn down.
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These look awesome mate! Painting the tattos before the wash is the way I did my germans too and I think its the best way to get that imprinted effect.
ReplyDelete2013 looks like a year of clean up of old projects for a few people :-)
Great looking warband, tattoos look great too.
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