On to the next project... To populate my completed Long Ship, my long awaited package from Wargames Factory finally arrived. (woohoo) Drawing upon the plethora of imagery available from the web is really inspirational.
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| Classic pose |
And aside from pictorial references from the web, my private library of acquired books such as the Osprey series illustrated by the great Angus and movies like 'The 13th Warrior' has given me ideas on what I'd like my raiding war band to look like. Since I'm painting figures for skirmishing, I'm more into individual, dynamic poses rather than a regimented, line unit look.
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| How I wish for the hodge podge but more realistic cobbled up armor from 'The 13th Warrior'. |
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These are a very cost effective approach however their look is still a bit regimented b/c of the mail hauberks.
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| Out of stock, DAMMIT! |
I thought that these figs were just fine for doing a WAB or FoG army. The number and variety of poses was more varied upon completion. Plus I've been really pleased with the results. Ideally and in retrospect it would've been nice to have both boxes so I could've mixed and matched parts and pieces for that look I was trying to achieve.
At first I was a bit hesistant and overwhelmed about putting 32 of these bad boys together. In fact, the first figure took me a couple of hours b/c I was researching poses on the net. But after the initial figure and getting over the learning curve it became a cinch.
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| Mad double-handed Axemen |
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| Sword wielding warriors |
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| More Mad Axemen |
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| Spear chuckers |
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| OK, what about these dual weapon wielders? |
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| More dual weapon wielders. |
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| And of course the Archers. |
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| Additional varietals. |
