Showing posts with label Medieval. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medieval. Show all posts

21 February 2020

Playing with fire




I've been meaning to do this for a while after seeing tons of great stuff by people online using flickering LED candles for a whole variety of stuff.



This is just a mock-up, to see how it looks and have to permanently base it.

A clumsy hamfisted "smoke" test below using some pillow stuffing to stick on the LED.


I'll have to hide the battery which will probably end up under a removable bush on one exteme of the stand.


The campfire itself is from the 1/72 scale Italeri Desert Well and Tents set and the Zvezda Vikings standing around in awe at the wonders of modern miniature firemaking technology are there to give an idea of the scale size.



15 June 2017

Dragon Rampant Game in 1/72 scale


Got together with some wargaming buddies a short time ago, Alex, Carlos and Rob, and we got in a game of Osprey's "Dragon Rampant".

It's the first time I've played these rules, but I had the guidance of the other guys who'd gamed the system before, so with their help it was fairly easy to get to grips with the core basics of the rules once we got going.

A game needs a certain amount of planning to get the balance of opposing units right and to prepare the army sheets. On this occasion the "baddies" got hammered fairly quickly so it looked like we needed to fine tune the lists and/or the scenario.

But it was a good first experience and it's always enjoyable getting together for a game and getting some minis on the table regardless.

Some pictures from the game below



Marauding bands of green/skinned orcs and goblins advance on the village



Light infantry move out to meet the enemy 



Meanwhile, trolls enter the village



Light cavalry, accompanied by a sorceress rush out to meet the invaders







And finally, our "Hero" on his shining white stallion rides into the fray



And proceeds to decimate the green-skinned devils



05 May 2011

1/72 Scale / 20mm Plastic LOTR Figures

This was quite a find, these are 1/72 scale / 20mm scale plastic LOTR figures



You have all the main characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It came in an dusty old Spanish boardgame that I found in a clearance offer in a big department store some months back.




The running figure with a club is a 1/72 scale Zvezda as a scale comparison.

14 April 2010

Viking Raid - Tenerife Brazo de Nelson Gamers



Ronda el año 815, en las tierras de Northumbria, un tranquilo poblado anglosajón se verá envuleto en una terrible matanza, pocos quedarán con vida después de hoy.


Algunos pescadores regresan al poblado para encontrarse con una desagradable sorpresa.


 

La alarma suena y una partida de huscarles salen al encuentro del enemigo comandados por un Earldorman, dejando las empalizadas sin protección.


 

Los vikingos también han aprendido a usar algunas máquinas de asedio, construidas rápidamente tras su llegada en los drakkars.


 

Como perros enloquecidos algunos vikingos entran en Berserker y se adelantan sin que nadie los pueda detener en una terrible carga sangrienta.




Los campos de cultivo se tiñen de rojo, las primeras escaramuzas comienzan, cada vez acercándose más al poblado.




El jefe vikingo con un grito salvaje suelta a sus perros de la guerra a darse un festín de sangre.




Los anglosajones intentan hacerse fuertes en el puente protegidos tras un muro sólido de escudos, pero pronto este primer punto de defensa caerá.


 

La muerte llega a las tranquilas tierras del norte anglosajón.


 

La carga anglosajona es brutal pero nada puede parar la terrible masacre que van dejando los vikingos a su paso.


 

El ensordecedor entrechocar del acero y el olor a sangre asfixia el aire.


 

El pagano sacerdote escandinavo espada en mano, deja un gran reguero de sangre a su paso.


 

Finalmente el pueblo es asaltado. Fue imposible parar el implacable empuje vikingo.


 

El pueblo pasto de las llamas y del saqueo, esto si que es un auténtico raid vikingo.


 

La última instantanea del monje...aunque se han oído rumores de que se le ha visto paseando por los bosques cercanos, quizás volvamos a tener noticias de él pronto.

03 May 2009

Vikings

Here come the Vikings !

Zvezda figures, (and a viking on horseback conversion), all superbly painted by fellow gamer (and one of my regular wargame "enemies") Juan Reyes for our wargame club's "Medieval Project" .