The Barons’ War

It has been a while since the last update. I was traveling for quite some time and only took the painting basics with me. I managed to get some progress on the group but couldn’t finish things out until returning to my  home.

Now that I’m back I’m clearing out a decent amount of models and wrapping up my initial 500 point target. My next 500 points will have to come after I see the second edition book!

Starting with the unit of foot serjeants. I added some transfers to a few of these.

My current foot knights are all over the place when it comes to colors. That is probably correct but it looked odd to my eye. I’ve painted up two more foot knights in the blue and white scheme of my Baron.

Finally, I love angry peasants. I love the WGA kit. I started on some disgruntled guys just for fun.

Looks like I double posted the 31 Jan entry. If anyone knows how to delete an entry let me know and I’ll delete this one!

I’ve made decent progress this week and it might be the last for a while. I’m off on a long holiday/work from not-home situation. I’m going to take some hobby supplies but we’ll see how much I get done.

I pushed myself to complete the levy spear men before I left and was successful!

I’m not 100% sold on the work I did on their eyes but, in the end, they’re fodder. I was just messing around and working on my technique. In any event, that is another full unit done and off my plate.

My order of Serjeants are on the way and I hope to take them with me on my trip!

I also spent some time working on some terrain for these chaps to fight over. I completed my first house that should work for most settings I plan in.

Finally, here are some rock outcroppings or small hills. Either way, they block line of sight.

This week my focus was finishing up a Silver Bayonet warband so I have very little to show for my Barons’ War project. I am still waiting on my Serjeants to arrive.

I did finish these two fellows:

This means I’m halfway done with my levy spearmen. I’ve the other four on my desk now and expect to finish them this week. After that, assuming I’m still waiting on the serjeants, I’m going to start building peasants with hand weapons. Everyone enjoys that!

This week was very successful on painting on a whole. I didn’t make a ton of progress on this project but some of my others went very well.

The final mounted knight was completed. This one is once again built for my wife and her love of the color pink.

The knight features next to the small hill (or rock) that I completed to spruce up the battlefield.

I also completed the first two peasants. They’re guarding the hill.

In this coming week it will be a small goal of only two more peasant spear men. I’m waiting on the new Serjeants from Wargames Atlantic to finish out the next unit.

My building, cleaning, and priming process went really fast last weekend which allowed me to hit my goals fairly easily week. I also added some additional stretch goals to the project.

There is a bit of a slow down as I’ve also picked up both The Silver Bayonet and Blood and Plunder at the same time.

The biggest piece completed was the mounted knight with a banner. This is probably my favorite mounted figure yet. I kit bashed the Victrix knight and a Wargames Atlantic 3D printed banner arm.

The spear man unit is also complete after finishing up these two. That marks off two units now for an entry 500 point list. They’re not from the right period but for now they’ll work fine.

The peasants box from Wargames Atlantic just arrived so I’ll be building up 8 levys with spears that can either be levys or spear men.

The bonus figures I did were crossbowmen. I had not originally planned to do a unit but I had some and I figured ‘Why not?’ even if they are from the wrong period.

These two were a challenge to clean up. I’m not sure what was up with the cast because they came from the same box as a spearmen. Despite being a pain, I think they look all right!

That wraps up this week. Next week I’ll be doing the last mounted knight and two peasants with spears.

Happy New Year all! I’ve been productive this week and caught up on some of the miniatures I didn’t complete over Christmas. I’m quite pleased with how most of the came out. I have also hit a milestone of finishing the archer unit and the foot knights.

I’ve been employing the ‘slap chop’ method of painting for this project and I’m still thrilled with the results.

I am not good with a rattle can so I prime black with an inexpensive airbrush to start all of my projects now.

Pioneering new ground in miniature painting, I know! From there I just do a super heavy dry brush of warm neutral gray. The only tip I have on that is to get a dry brush palette. That truly was a game changer for me.

Here is the result off this week.

I’m proud of the mounted knight. The shield was a pain and I’m second guessing the purple on the horse but, all told, I’m pleased.

More fodder for the field of battle!

I’m very happy with how the foot knight came out. He can double as a foot baron if I need. That shield really was a pain. Glad I did it though.

I’ll end with a few shots of completed units. Good luck everyone out there with your projects!

Holidays are rarely ever a vacation. I’m off work, sure, but there are still a lot of family events to enjoy. That resulted in my project not getting as far as I’d have liked. I did have forward progress though.

This week I built a mounted knight, a foot knight with sword, three archers, and two spear men. That will finish off the archer and foot knight with sword units.

The mounted knight is going to be my Baron and I wanted to take his preparation further. The Victrix mounted knights have a large seam down the middle off them and that just didn’t seem appropriate for a leader.

In the past I’ve tried to fill this gap with green stuff and made a mess of it. This time I tried something different.

First, I laid down a heavy line of ultra thin liquid plastic cement and squeezed the two halves of the horse together tightly. After that had dried, I repeated the process twice more.

Second, I took my #240 sandpaper to the seam and really had at it. I’d let the plastic dust rest in it without brushing it off.

Third, I repeated my first step again and noticed the seam was disappearing.

Finally, I took the seam through more sanding #240, #400, #600, and finally #800. I think the results are there!