bench update 05 April 2025

I thought I'd get a couple of shots on this stage, the modular crews.

1. Operate on each mini to be mounted

2. Use grouting to bed them onto card sabots that will fit in the chariots. I had been hoping to jam 3-woman crews in but one archer and one driver was about the limit. The general has her personal javelin hurler as well.

The grouting is a very tough variety of Selleys colored calk. It used to called terracotta color but now it's called rich earth.

bench update 16 March 2025

The Amazon chariot crews are now at the "assembly" point where I have decisions to make about fixing them to their chariots. I'm hoping to use a modular approach.

bench update 02 February 2025

This is the "add chariots to Trojans" sub-project. Caesar Miniatures has not produced such a set, and in any case we are in fantasy army territory here. So these will have a basis on Mitanni and Hittite chariotry - both by Caesar Miniatures again - with Amazon crew. Or I may end up with swapout crew, the Mariannu types being an option for Urartu, or the Northern Canaan armies, for example.

IV/4b Springald... in a very crowded home

The French have far too many elements! I am modestly confident some of the "extras" - that in some cases were just me thinking they ought to be in the mix - will find a new home. Or I'll tranship the Scots to a different box. 

bench update 26 January 2025

I am looping back to add a couple of springald engineers, and I'm 3/4 through basing the springald. The minis are Strelets medieval levy.

bench update 19 January 2025

Recording a conversion of HaT Greek Catapult to late feudal French springald!

The general idea is to make it look as though it is built into a clumsy wheeled box frame. 

Speed running rebase IV/4b feudal French

I was pretty desperate to get this done by midnight, because that would be the first time for years that I had NOT got a project sitting half-done for New Year!

Strictly speaking this is a remake of Crusaders, plus other bits. I like the idea of IV/4b and it looks to me that it can easily morph to early hundred years war.

1. Odd slavs and Spanish and even a couple of Robin Hood, for skirmish or support elements, not actually mandatory.

2. The core of knights, and a variety of polearm types. 

3. The painted and based rando support, foreground, and more of the polearm elements to rear.

4. The main army getting its flock. I've been putting down beige clumps before flocking on these runs.

5. Entire collection ready for matt spray. Banner by Little Big Men Studios.