Gripping Beast Anglo Dane Warlord

 

Figure comparison 28mm Dark Age Scots

left to right Old Glory x 3 and Crusader miniatures x 2 all are 28mm scots

Saxon Warlord

Crusader Miniatures King Harod Godwinson

SAGA Warlords

SAGA Welsh

Welsh Warlord (Gripping Beast Pict Actually)

I really like the pose on this GB figure.

Did about half these warriors as skirmisher/light infantry.

This is another Pict, excellent pose....

Another Warrior...

Another excellent miniature, the plaid is done with 3 colour foundry paints, the shadows with Devlan mud.

Here are some pics of my first 3 points of a Welsh SAGA warband, 2 x 4 hearthguard, 1 x 8 warriors and a warlord.

Foundry Vikings and Normans for SAGA Rules

Viking Warlord with two four man Hearthguard units, 2 points for SAGA I will add an 8 man unit od warriors with spears and a 12 man unit of levies with bows to make my 4 point warband.

This is a huge foundry figure, excellent casting, had to scratch build the shield for him as a normal shield looked tiny!

Here he is again, real monster, the Normans better get some iron into this bastard fast!

Foundry Normans on Conquest plastic horses, legs didnt fit so I used a pen wrapped in sandpaper in a drill to round them out, quick and easy, these make a great mounted knight, the guy on the right is Duke WIlliam, the one on the left is bishop Odo.

Odo on his grey.

William the Bastard, riding one of the four horses he lost at Hastings?

Half a 1 point warrior band, the Norman warband will be more of a combined arms deal, 2 units of 4 mounted knights (Hearthguard) Mounted Warlord, 1 unit of 8 warriors with spears and 12 levies with bows.

Close up of a spearman.

Another spearman, hand painted shields these, more time but nice effect.

Another close up. Took the photos with my iphone4 great tool that, easy digital zoom. I bought these at the Foundry factory shop in Nottingham just after the riots, they where not damaged but had cancelled an open day as they felt people where unlikely to travel, very friendly and gave me a generous discount worht about 25% so well worth the visit. SAGA now has a release date, check gripping beasts website, they also have some sample warbands to give you an idea for army preperation, not sure if the number of hearthguard units will be limited but suspect so as armour would have been quite expensive so Im going for majoity unarmoured in my warbands.

Foundry 28mm Vikings

Group shot, these are for SAGA when they are published! A Warlord and most of 2 four man Hearthguard units, lovely castings.

The Warlord, mounted on 40mm round base to make him stand out..

Banner bearer, Jomsviking banner from LBMS, shield transfers also LBMS but the shields are GB plastic ones.

Nice spectacle helm, very norse...

A close up of an amoured Viking, very nice figures from Foundry but very dear, so, buy them from Stuart Armstrong at www.colonelbills.com I found him through Ebay, fast and friendly service and mint figures cheaper than from Foundry. Thanks Stu.

Gripping Beast Vikings

Further shots of OG Casualties

Gripping Beast plastic Saxon standing over two Vikings, one holding his mates head together.

Close up of these Old Glory figures which come as a single miniature with two figures.

Aerial view showing the composition of the 40mm base, I think it worked well.

More SAGA miniatures

Not updated for a while so here is some of my recent work, primarily Im focusing on Gripping Beasts upcoming SAGA skirmish rules, from what I can glean the Warlord in each force is quite critical and Darre at the beast tells me they are mouting them on larger bases to make them stand out. Ive focussed on making a round 40mm base into a little diorama to depict the warlords, and maybe cos Im a bit bloodthirsty they feature casualties, the ones below are Old Glory 25mm "The slain" casualty pack miniatures which I think are excellent figures and good value.

Above is a Black Tree Design Viking, these are great figures but sadly this company's customer service is very poor, I ordered some Late Romans from them and waited so long I cancelled the order and got a refund, shame cos they have some nice miniatures.

This is a close up of one of the OG casualties, love his helmet which is knocked sideways.

Here he is again with a West Wind Productions Arthurian as my Saxon champion roaring "Whose next!"

Not the best shot but here is a Gripping Beast Saxon with a head tilt and arm coversion standing over an OG set of two Vikings, one kneeling holding his mates brains in! Will add another close up ate the end of post.

A GB Viking with a Little big man Banner, excellent products from LBMS.