Tuesday 18 November 2014

Småländska skyttar

I just finished a unit of Crossbowmen.

They are a combination of Fireforge and Gripping Beast miniatures and bits and I really like the result. By combining different kits you get so much more characters out of the miniatures.
And as a side result by combining Viking bits into medieval miniatures I get that feeling of medieval Scandinavia Im after.
And nothing screams medieval Sweden more then crossbows...






 I love this combination of Norse chainmail arms on the scale armour.


I wanted to have a rather generic unit. But have chosen to have much blue on the shields and some different designs of a Lindorm (almost the same as a English Wyvern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindworm). The Lindorm seems to have been the mark of the house of Sverkers and seems to have had a special popularity in Småland (a region in Sweden) and by this my unit could count as Sverkers or as crossbowmen from Småland with out any problem. I will go into more details about the Sverkers in a later post.

Sorry for the bad pictures, the "daylight" is terrible... Lousy weather.

5 comments:

  1. Another great job, nice minis!

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  2. Snygga figurer! Really nice painting.The weather is always lousy weather in the woods but the good thing is that then your hobbies can flourish. :) Keep up the good work.

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  3. Hi die gefallen mir richtig gut,
    sehr gute arbeit

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