Irish SAGA

Irish Druid. ?

Was going to make a Christian priest, but realised that I had an animal skull on the sprue and none of the shield designs I had in mind were going to have Christian iconography.

It is a really simple paint job, with some rips added to the shirt but I am happy with it. I might add a severed head to the left hand if I think he is too simple later in the project. Maybe a bloody animal head, just adding some flesh and eyes with green stuff back to the skull on the sprue to show off a recent sacrifice?

My general feeling was that I needed to make this guy more sinister. I thought gore was the way to go.
I picked a head from a Warlord Games Project Z zombie sprue. This head was already set in a hand grasping the hair. The head seems a little more true scale, but the abundance of hair etc means that you barely notice.
I used a scrap of flock on the top of the fist to represent the hair the druid is grasping to carry the head.
Bit of blood on the grass and I am calling this guy done.

Making minis straight from the Wargames Atlantic box this time.
Some more Irish warriors to make a full unit.

Using thinly cut sprue bits to make the edge of the basing tab less defined when I add my basing mix. Then priming Army Painter Leather Brown and making my way through my minis.

More plaid fun.
Mechanicus Standard Grey with Wraithbone lines and Blue Contrast alternating lines, all hit with a Camoshade green wash.
This box is fun to assemble and paint. ?

“Eamon smarten yourself up, straighten your helmet… The enemy warlord is looking at us.” ?
Irish warrior again and by happy accident it looks like he is straightening a slightly ill fitting helmet.
Not sure this particular axe hand sits well on the minis I have tried to use it on thus far.
When I dry fitted it with the arm down it looked wrong, when over head it seems to want to hit the face (on the bodies I have tried so far at least.) Might need to take the arm way back behind the head and see if that is where its meant to rest?

Painting between nightshift rarely produces my best work, but this guy turned out better than I expected.

The gore on the sword was just a piece of the brown spongy leaf litter on the base stuck with PVA and painted with Blood for the Blood God paint.

I enjoyed the freehand on the shield and the plaid looks OK. Tried to make the plaid look more faded with different washes. I painted the orange vertical lines (Jokaero orange) over a Army Painter Leather Brown primer as the base and then used Reikland Fleshshade which dropped the intensity. Then when i completed the Wraithbone vertical and Death Guard Green horizontal lines I used a Citadel Camoshade and then added my Flesh Eater Red Contrast horizontal lines.

Thanks Gerry for the help with this project.

With not a spear in sight, sadly these chaps are not meeting the Saga gaming expectation that they be javelin armed men.

I decided to find ways to put the javelin element into my first point of Irish warriors. I think there’s enough pointy sticks and nods at recent javelin use here now to make it more acceptably wysiwyg. ?

These warriors are clearly keen to drop their javelins and get stuck in, the other unit of warriors I planned to make with spear and shield anyway, but I will try to make the posing look less like a shieldwall and more ready to launch their spears at the enemy.

The levy I have already built and primed were always meant to be javelin levy, with a couple of slingers just for variety so they should be fine.

Levy. 10 with javelins and 2 singers, just for fun and variety.

Here are my first two. These are very plain and most of these guys will be slightly more plain than the warriors to show their lowly levy status.

Disclaimer…. Colour schemes, basing, miniatures posing, etc. are either the products of the painter’s imagination or based loosely on dark age history. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.