Sunday, June 23, 2013

Plastic Norman Infantry


Unit of Norman Infantry
Plastic Norman Infantry

These are some of the plastic Conquest miniatures. I picked 16 unarmoured figures to represent a lightly armoured unit. Not sure but I’ll probably ungrade the leader figure to an armoured Knight later on as I think that would fit my theme of a retinue raised by a poor Knight better.
Once again they are mounted on pennies and a Warbases base (with rare earth magnets holding them in place.

Republican Roman Velites

Velites

I've always wanted to collect a Punic Wars army but never had the courage to start one because of the cost (and the large number of figures involved). I love the idea of a Carthaginian horde with their mixed forces (including elephants!) facing up to the ranks of Romans.
Now along comes Agema miniatures with their plastic Velites (released at Salute 2013, although I missed them!). Sixteen plastic figures for around 9 pounds (I paid eight at Phalanx). I quickly assembled and painted them in a similar style to the box art but with them all in the same coloured tunic. Not sure about the shields yet, I might up grade them to Little big man ones later.
Sprues (8 per box)

Slingers

Dark Age Slingers










These are made from the Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors boxed set. You can make about half the figures with slings but I've just assembled six to see how they look.

Dark Age Warriors

Dark Age Warriors











Some of the Gripping Beasts Dark Age Warriors. These are ment to represent any poorly armed, quickly raised group of warriors in the Dark Ages and do a great job (IMHO). I bought a box of these at Salute 2013 and quickly painted some of them up. This is a unit of 20 spearmen with a a few extras for the next unit!
Fabulous figures, very easy to make up and paint. As always (well from now on) these are bases on UK 1p's then placed in a Warbases base. I added some 3mm Rare Earth magnets to the base to keep the figures in place.
I liked these so much I picked up two extra boxes at Phalanx so I can add more of these generic infantry to my Dark Age armies.
4 Dux Bellorum units worth of Warriors
And here are those warriors painted up and ready to go.