Friday 30 December 2011

Magyars, Wends and Alemanni

I had postponed selling these until after the Holiday Season as this time last year I experienced long delivery times. So here is the latest offering and more will be following next month.

Any queries please send to timurilank (at) aol (dot) com. With the decending value of the Euro, delivery from the Netherlands as expensive. All prices are expressed in US dollars.

Cheers,


III/1a Wends 580 - 1218 AD

These are all Essex 15mm figures and their painting was covered in a recent postings. If you scroll further down, you may find more photos.

1 x 3Cv(Gen), 2 x 3Cv, 7 x 3Ax, 2 x 2Ps $110
SOLD




III/30b Magyars 896 - 997 AD

These are all Essex 15mm figures and their painting was covered in a recent postings. If you scroll further down, you may find more photos.

1 x 3Cv(Gen), 1 x 3Cv, 5 x 2LH, 3 x 4Sp, 1 x 3Ax, 1 x 2Ps $110



II/72 Alemanni 250 - 506 AD

These are all Old Glory 15mm figures. The bases were redone to bring uniformity to the collection.
1 x 3Cv (Gen), 7 x 4Wb, 3 x 3Bw, 1 x 2Ps $100
SOLD





General information:
Bases are 1.2mm thick triplex board. Groundwork is a mix of glue and sand, painted, drybrushed and flocked to cover about 30% of the base. Standards are fixed to the base and not a figure.

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Magyars and Wends

These are the Wends or DBA list III-1a.
Some cavalry and plenty of auxilia supported by bow and psiloi. I painted tese with less bright colours and used natural colours as these would blend in better among the coastal marshlands of Pomerania or the forest areas about Northern Germany.

These are 15mm Essex and were a pleasure to paint, for highlighting, I used a wet brush technique which worked well with the Magyars. I no longer use Silver or Gold paint but prefer to grey and brown and highlight to achieve that effect. Varnishing the figures will further enhance the metallic items.

Next, I need to base these as I have done with the Magyars in the background. One more army pack to paint up, then back to rebasing 15mm Napoleonic French and Russian.

Cheers,


This past Sunday I started work on two DBA army packs which I purchased a few months ago. I was rather surprised how quickly the Magyars painted up. It must have been all the practice with the Carolingian Franks.

This two packs were purchased to provide opponents for the Eastern Franks. The plan was to use the Carolingian figures to represent the intial Eastern Franks of the split empire. As all four Carolingian armies have been sold, I may be offering these for sale shortly.

First, the basing must be done, the flocking and to finish the army, it will need a suitable standard. I have seen some depiction of Ravens on a rectangular standard, but I shall search further for other options. They did fight the Byzantines and Franks, so perhaps I can draw some similarity shape or pattern.

I should have photos of the Wends tomorrow.

Cheers,