Macharius Vulcan, work in progress

Here are some work in progress on my Macharius Vulcan super heavy tank for my Death Korps of Krieg (warhammer 40k)

Please notice the Schmeiser taken from a model kit, always god to have one handy when studying a map or so.

The muds on the tracks and on the tank and mudstains need to be painted. I need to work more on the paint damage and chipping. The vision slits and commanders goggles need to be painted. The maps seems bland and lifeless. Numbers or squad markings or other signs of recognition could add much to the miniature. Maybe add a banner to one of the radio antennas. The list goes on.

 In short details details details. But its at least tabletop quality now so I would dare to use it in a game.

Norse Bondi

I managed to get lots and lots of painting time last weekend, it have unfortunately taken all of this week just to get the time to do the bases...

Here we have a unit of Norse Bondi troops with the addition of some bärsärka type miniatures thrown into the lot.

The miniatures are mostly from Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age Warrior kit but with the addition of some heads from their Hirdmen kit and some plastic Warlord Games Celts miniatures as well as some metal miniatures from different makers to add that extra level of variation that I like.

I tried to keep the clothes and colouration simple as these are on the poorer side of the army.

On this unit I tried a new technique of having different colours on the basing primer and use that base in lots of areas on the miniatures as seen in these work in progress pictures. You can see what primer colours I used by the tray (?) they are glued on.

Stenkastare

I thought I could need some stone throwers to my Norse collection. These are meant to represent Drengr or other types of poorer people. Im not totally sure.

I tried to keep the colours down and not adding to much detailing on these to speed up the process and that I wanted the proper troops look even better in comparison...

The miniatures are from Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age Warrior box. Almost worth buying for the heads alone.

It would be nice to find some staff slings instead of these small slings but these will do until then.

JIHAD

Jihad, and also some Varghednar and some Ruses for my Norsemen collection.

Just in case you started to get the feeling that my collection of Saracens where getting big enough...

Gripping Beast should love me.


Here is an excellent review of the plastic arab cavalry for those interested.
http://sixtwentyeight.blogspot.se/2015/05/28mm-gripping-beast-plastic-arab-heavy.html

And another review here:
http://www.sagatapestry.com/2015/05/review-gripping-beast-plastic-arab.html

Turkish Ghulams

And here we got a small unit of Turkish Ghulams. They are meant to be combined with another small unit of Ghulams that I have painted previously to make up a standard sizes unit in Hail Caesar. They can be used on their own as a unit in Lions Rampant.

The miniatures are Old Glory all but one that is a Perry miniature. The Perry one swapped horse with an Old Glory one to make him better fit in with the unit.

As with the previously painted other half of the unit I tried to incorporate loots of greens but I think I did a better job on that on the other half. Green being the country colour of the Turks in Medieval Total war II, a game I played a lot... I think it would be fun to try to capture that a little.

In one book I found the reference of how you should hold your spear/ lance under your leg as you shoot from your horse so I think this is only proper to simulate on your miniatures.

And combining these with the previously painted other half you get this full unit of Turkish Ghulams.

More picture of the previous half of that unit can be found at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/02/turcic-ghulams.html

Viking Bondi

I suddenly felt the urge to paint me some Norsemen.
And I opened up my closet of hobby related things and found a half painted unit of Norse Bondi troops. Perfect.

And here they are now all painted up and with some bases ready for the gaming table.

The miniatures are a mixture but the main mass of miniatures comes from Gripping Beast plastic Dark age warrior box. With some head swap from their Hirdmen box you get a nice Norse feeling to them and even better to throw in a metal miniature here and their for that added level of variation that make a unit look even more interesting.

 These were loots of fun to paint and Im afraid I just have to paint another soon...