Five Leagues from the Barons War

Keeping on the medieval theme I managed to get a go at Lion Rampant at CrackCon. Really fun game even if I did get absolutely battered

I found another box of infantry, a mix of Fireforge, some frost grave humans and a few Victrix vikings. I know there’s another box somewhere full of Vikings and Nordic fantasy figures.

This box includes one of my favourite kitbashes , the overworked and under appreciated woman.

In 5 Leagues followers can be promoted to heroes, I would like to do a story arc where she graduated from helper to a total badass.

Oh I found a few blokes on horsies too ..

These are mostly Fireforge and Renedra with a few cultist heads from Northstar thrown in

So my little filler project is done for now. Tempted to add a little mud and dust though.

The decals arrived first thing on Monday, so I put the steampunk project on to one side again.

I separated out every mini with a shield.I was a little dismayed to see the decals are not pre cut, but given the amount of miniatures I have to do I see this as a good practice opportunity. I also have enough decals that if some go awry it’s not an issue.

Note how optimistic I sound before I actually start working with the decals…

Having selected the miniatures, next step was to paint all the shields with a white backing as per the instructions that came with the decals. Once this dries I will hit it with a gloss or satin varnish just to ease with sliding the decals, then I plan to hit it with some humbrol decal stay. If I can find it!

The instructions recommended leaving a border, I don’t know whether a decal softener helps, but I just have a decal fixer that doesn’t work to get to rid of the borders. I ended up trimming as close to the decal as possible and it wasn’t too tricky.

To finish I used some brush on AK matt varnish and I went around the edge of the shields with the chipping effect AK paint pen. It isn’t really an effect, it’s just brown.

This concludes the first portion of my building of medieval miniatures.

Having an unexpected day off from work I was able to progress the miniatures to near completion. I just need the decals to arrive.But that won’t be until next week (sigh)

Having had an intensive bout of army painting on my steampunk project I wanted a bit of a pallette cleanser. So I grabbed some pre assembled medieval miniatures.

These pre-date all the nice WA and Victrix medieval miniatures,  I have purchased a load of both, but I have yet to touch them at all.

My approach to this was absolutely chaotic, which made the project more ‘draining’ than it needed to be.

1. Too many miniatures at once

2.No organised colour scheme

3. No structured sequence of workflow

I should have picked up to a dozen miniatures at the most, worked with a limited colour palette. I’m not talking full Zorn method. This many miniatures allows a better workflow and it’s easier to remedy errors . I was finding mistakes that required mixing colours again because they had dried on the palette. I think I will use my colour cards on the next batch

I am now up to the point of painting leather on boots and belts and wherever else it is needed. Following on from that it’s pommels followed by speed paint on the faces. Then shield decals, this is definitely where historically accurate heads for the exit, then it’s a wash  varnish and making things a little muddy.

I found some decals on fleabay that should fit the shields which hopefully will elevate them above their current paint jobs.

Just the pommels left to do. I may slap some wash on before the decals arrive

Aside from a handful of Frostgrave humans I haven’t really painted much in the way of medieval tech level miniatures, however having been inspired by @panzerkaput I picked up a copy of Barons War. I had purchased a bunch of Firelock and other miniatures for making NPC’s for a loosely planned bandit centric 5 leagues campaign.

I had a load built and primed them already, and so, taking a breather from painting all goblins all the time I slapped some paint on a handful of figures

They came out ok, good enough for the table. Not sure I will be using the yellow again in a hurry though