update

Well work continues on the vikings, though slowly. managed to finish 3 more figures and complete building the longship, this just needs undercoating and a friend will paint it up for me allowing me to concentrate on the game boards and the rest of the figures.

Been a little distracted on this project first with the World up (though how much longer after Englands performance last night). Also dug out my old 2nd edition Blood bowl and played a couple of games with my nephews who promptly made off with the game for further practice. Forgot how much I used to enjoy playing this. Got inspired and quickly painted up a 2nd Human team with a couple of converted blitzers, just need to finish basing the Ogre. Also purchased another plastic Human team for my nephews off Ebay for them to paint up and share. They went for a simple Silver and Black colour scheme ala Oakland Raiders.

New links

Added a few links to some of the blogs that I regularly browse. One of the best things with this is you can often pick up some excellent ideas from other wargamers out there.

On the Viking front, managed to build 7 more of the plastic vikings and finished putting the longship together (a friend of mine has agreed to paint it due to tight timescales)

Vikings!! pt2

The start of my viking force for Border Reiver, They aren't based yet as I will transfer them to Renedra bases and do all the basing when all the figures are finished.
First a mix of GB plastics, 1 artizan and 1 Foundry figure. The flag is taken off the Foundry site.

These 4 are mainly foundry figs with 1 Artizan, they all seem to mix well. The flag again is from the Foundry site, but this time I have painted over the colours (looks better.

These 5 are a mix of GB plastic, Foundry and Artizan, they all size up well together.

That makes 14 painted so far out ofthe 60, not bad going for a weeks work. I have 6 more metal figures undercoated and the remaining 40 GB plastics still to build.

For the initial defenders of the village I have a Saxon lord with his 5 sons in armour, supported by about 10 warriors and another half dozen armed peasants. Jon will be putting together the relief force which should give the Saxons another 40 or so warriors.
My order from Gripping beast which brings the livestock up to 4 cattle and 10 pigs as well as 8 peasants.

Vikings!!

Started on the construction of my Long ship, had to trim the underside meant for a stand as I want to represent it as beached for the game. The revell is a nice model and well worth the money.




Also started on a possible layout of the game, no doubt the finished boards will bear no resemblence.



A couple of test build of the Gripping beast plastics, nice little models and easy enough to put together, though need to ensure the arms match up or the shoulders don't always look right.

Viking Shore raid

As part of a club demo game for the Border Reiver show at Newcastle in September, myself and jon are planning on a viking Shore raid. So far we have 3 longships (all 1/50 scale revell, very nice kits). I have already received a box of the plastic GB vikings, a superb kit. I have also purchased some of their villagers and livestock to add to the mix. Next need to start planning the layout of the board and make some purchases of MDF and polystyrene.

senwag

The club has a new website 'currently a work in progress', set up by one of the members, see link below

http://senwag.yolasite.com/

New Project

Well got started thinking for a display gamre for the Border Reiver show in Newcastle this September. Up to now Aa viking shore raid is looking the most likely, quite handy when Gripping Beast have just released their range of Plastices (purchase already made). UI'll be able to add these to the handful of metal Vikings i already have, should make about 60 warriors, enough to crew 2 longships. I know GB produce a longship but it always seems to be out of stock, need to browse the internet to see if anyone else manufactures one. don't particularily want to scratch build one.