Saracen cavalry comparison pictures, Old Glory, Perry miniatures, Gripping Beast, Conquest games, Magister militum.

Saracen cavalry comparison pictures, Old Glory, Perry miniatures, Gripping Beast, Conquest games, Magister militum.

There are never enough of these kind of pictures on the net when you tries to build an army so I thought I should share these with you.

The miniatures are from left to right:
Perry miniatures, unpainted Old Glory Arab Armoured Cavalry, Musketeer miniature,Gripping beast (they use the same horses and are almost exactly sculpt-wise), converter plastic Conquest Games Normans, unpainted Old Glory Ghulams, Magister Militum.

Old Glory got so bad pictures on their website you cant really see what you get so ordering from them was a sort of gamble but I liked them. Its nice to have some more horse sculpts to play with in the units.  So I like the added variety to have something new to paint.

When building a horse heavy army having a bunch of horse sculpts that all look the same could really turn you down.


I like them all except the Magister Militum horses, thats to bad as I really liked their infantry. 

Review - Miniature Design Studio

I just got these miniatures from Miniature Design Studio and wanted to show them. I haven’t seen much about them before so I thought I could share these pictures with you.

The miniatures looked nice on their homepage and its always fun to add some new models or sculpts that you don’t see every day.

One small little thing that really was nice, a small thing that shows that they care that little extra was a handwritten Thank you on the order

I placed the order late a Friday night (yeah I know… party party, but as a father of a baby daughter I find it somewhat wrong to have hangover the day after…) and on Monday morning when I checked my mail I had received a mail about my ordered already been sent. So they are quick. 

The sculpts are clean and nice and not that much in the way of cleaning is required.

I thought these miniatures could be a nice addition to my slowly growing Viking collection.

These Pict javelinmen will be perfect for using as Viking thralls. I only need do skip some of the more special shields.

http://www.miniaturedesignstudio.co.uk/pict-javelinmen-330-c.asp

These Saxon Ceorls will be nice as Viking Bondi.

http://www.miniaturedesignstudio.co.uk/saxon-ceorls-325-c.asp

And here is a small size comparison with a plastic Viking from Gripping beast. And by this comparison I think they will be a nice addition to my collection.

Here are a painted example of the Saxons from the MDS homepage.

Oh yeah the price… with a price of £1.00 per model these are cheap.

I cannot recommend them enough.

This is how they look now all painted up.
Viking Bondi
Viking Thralls 

Lindorm, part 2

Big bad beast…

Last night I started to glue the Lindorm together. This is one big beasty.
Showed here with a plastic Gripping Beast Viking and seven dwarves from Red Box games for scale.

Now I just need to find a suitable Snow-white to accompany the seven dwarves…

For part 1 of the Lindorm go here
Part 3 here 

Panzerkampfwagen IV vs Panzerkampwagen IV

You can never have too many comparison pictures of different model makers so I thought I should show some pictures of some different Panzer IV models. I recently bought a box of 15mm Plastic Soldiers Panzer IV.

The “yellow” one is the plastic panzer. For comparison I have some different Panzer IV models from Battlefront.

So what do I think of the Plastic solders Panzer IV ?
I love them, they’re not perfect for me as I would have love to get some Panzer IV with zimmerit for my Normandie 12ss Panzer Division but maybe there is an easy way to make some and attach onto them. But that has more to do with me being picky then the actual models. 

http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_22_24_50&products_id=197