Dark Age. Terrain 1

Clearing some space on my WIP shelf I have managed to complete the Dark Age Village I started in 2015,

I say 'finished' but what I mean is i have completed the first set of buildings. The buildings will also work well with Erin, Warhammer Fantasy and other medieval settings and 

My original inspiration was a set put together by Battle brush Studios 

battlebrushstudios.com

I ended up contacting Warbases who made the MDF buildings and sending them the link and asking if they could make me up  the same set, right down to the bases!

 warbases.co.uk

Warbases were extremely helpful and were able to make up the order and would recommend them for both quality of products and good value range  

MDF building with Coffee stirrers. The wood has been scored to add texture and take the paint better

Pigsty WIP

Bark Chippings wil form the basis of the small hill for the watch tower

Wattle fencing made for woven wire

The Competed set of buildings with flannel roofing for Thatching

First test building. I went with quite weathered and desaturated look to match up with the troops and also the green boards I have already made up

Small well I made a long time ago but will probably make a larger one to act as the village centre piece

Figures and terrain on green board

Pigsty

House

House with covered area with wattle fence

Watchtower on low hill

Between coats of paint I also made up three crop areas, sections of door mat cut and mounted on foamcard. Mud added to the edges and then grassed. 

Test set up with my green boards and trees. Using the lake I also made up a small dock out of coffee stirrers 

Small raiding party attack the settlement who can only muster a few defenders

Next on the build list for terrain will be a Barn, raised grain store, a stone bridge and a blacksmiths as well as some more green boards

Dark Age. Romano-British Warband 1

My current reading and viewing material is dominated by the Dark Ages and the work of Bernard Cornwell
Watching his Saxon series 'The Last Kingdom' and going through the books (just finished book two, The Pale Horseman) and book one of his Arthurian series 'The Winter King'

I have also started ' God of Vengeance' by Giles Kristian which is the start of a Viking series featuring the Viking Sigurd who he introduced in a previous series of which enjoyed immensely.

With all of that running through my head I dug out the Gripping Beast figures I still had and have started putting together a Romano-British Warband.

Ruleswise I have looked at several options, and Dux Britanniarum and Saga stand out for me so will build with both of them in mind.

The first unit using the Dux Britannarium starter force is the Archers. These have been put together from the Gripping Beast Late Roman Infantry boxed set. The Romano-British force starts off with 4 slingers or archers and I will add more later to build it up to a full 12 man unit for Saga.

I wanted quite a dirty Grimdark style for them and borrowed from the style (and mud) I was using for  my Turnip28 Project

The Bowstrings were added using thread

Figures were based on 2p

The first unit of Levy Spearmen build using Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors box and shields from the Late Roman Infantry box

The Shields are all handpainted and I wanted to keep them quite simple as befitting their station. The next six will give me the two starter units for Dux Britanniarum and one Levy unit for Saga

Warband so far...