Here is the first Westfalia Miniatures Goat rider painted up. I present to you Hugo von Ueckendorf on his war goat “Attila”. Ueckendorf is a part of modern Gelsenkirchen but it is one of the oldest parts of the city mentioned as far back as 1200. Hugo carries the arms of modern Ueckendorf on his shield. The shield is freehand.
Next up Hugos warriors!
The next project I started , apart from the halfmen army, is this medieval public house. It can certainly be used for fantasy games ,too. When finished it will have a stable and an outhouse added. I used styrodur , an extruded polystyrene, toothpicks and teddy bear fur for building. First I build all the walls of the first and second floor and inscribed the detail of the wood into the door and wooden beams as well as all the stonework in the window and door arches as well as in the chimney.
The next step was the assembly of the walls and the floors. The base is a piece of MDF.
In the pictures you can also see the beginning of the construction of the roof.
Next I mixed some filler with black gesso and painted all the walls , in between the beams and around the windows and door. When dry you get a nice rough surface like seen in lime washed buildings.
Next step is to glue on the teddy bear fur on the roof to simulate thatch. This is only glued on at the moment, it needs to be straitened out a bit and has to be painted with a PVA mix later .
Here are some close ups of the wood and stone structures:
More when I have done a bit more work on it!
Here is the last missing halfman. The Banner bearer . The banner will be added at a later time:
And here is the completed unit:
Next up will be Hugo von Ueckendorf and his mesnie.
And another halfman with a weapon swop . again a Perry plastic weapon head instead of the original weapon.
So now only the Banner bearer missing to complete the unit . The next unit will be the Mesnie of Hugo von Ueckendorf.
Here are the next two halfmen:
More in the next days.
Here is the next halfman. Sorry for the blurry picture somehow my camera failed on me 😦
I swoped the weaponhead of the original figure with a helebard head from a perry plastic set to get more diversity in the unit here is the original and the changed figure next to each other:
Halftime only 5 more to do!
I managed to finish 2 more halfmen for the militia unit at the weekend:
Hope you like what you see!
So after coming back from Crisis I managed to finish the next Westfalia halfman for my militia unit in Dietrich von Schalkes halfmen army. Here he is:
I hope you like him. Next one will be done after the coming weekend maybe I even manage to do more then one as these figures can be painted quite quickly.
Now that I am back from a very nice weekend in Antwerp I would like to show you some pictures of Crisis 2016. I took about 330 pictures therefore it took me a wile to sort them all out therefore the report is only up now. Feel free to leave comments .
So here are the pictures. To start with a few pictures of the venue:
And here the layout of the convention center:
And now the games that could be seen at Crisis:
First is an absolutely stunning game showing Romans against Barbarians . What I think is really outstanding is the boats on the river!
Next up is The battle of Saticula 343 BC . This was the second of three Battlestaking place in the first year of the first Samnite War (343-341 BC). This game was presented by the war games club Militia Brabantia.
This sharp practice game used a rather splendid ship model in 28mm scale:
The great northern war:
To Saga games :
Two games of Congo:
A very nice game of Dragon Rampant in 15mm by the Team for historical simulations:
A pegasus bridge game in 28mm:
Next is a Iwo Jima game by the Murphy’s heroes:
An absolutely stunning pice of terrain for Puppeteers:
The Alde Garde brought a Early 16th Century Game with them:
Spectre Operations:
An absolutely gorgeous Warhammer 40000 game by Kraken Wargames. Imperial Fists against Genestealers
Two Flames of War games:
The Street Arnhem 1944
A Frostgrave game:
A very unusual game of racing bikes:
That were the Games I captured with my camera. I know there was a lot more to be seen but I couldn’t just manage to take pictures of everything.
At last a few pictures of terrain pieces by moreterrain :
So this is it for Crisis 2016. It was a very good show again and it was even bigger then last year! Go on like this Tin soldiers of Antwerp ! I will be back next year!
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