Byzantine Officers

   A small batch of Byzantine leaders with a mix of Aventine and Gripping beast miniatures painted on behalf of another of individual. I settled for an  uniform appearance for these figures with a lighter red tunic and brownish ochre cloak. 

English archers in Burgundian service

    These figures have been painted for another who provide his own basing. 24 of them total of which I selected a few to post. They are English archers serving with the Burgundian army and hence they have the red ST. Andrews cross on them. I chose to give them an uniform look with green tunics (a noted color of that time) along with blue pants. For the padded type armor they wore I utilized some colors from Vallejo game color range centered on the color bone white. I used 72.061 khaki for the base and opted for the 72.098 elfic flesh to highlight the bone white. I was pleased on how it turned out with its contrast in regards to the green and blue colors to complete the unit.

Footsore Vikings

    These figures are all the newer release of their Viking range. These are just some individual shots for anyone interested. I have probably 80 of these miniatures and posted a small sampling. The dynamics of these figures are no two figures are the same nor a slight variation of each other but rather literally each figure is unique. Second is the detail. There is a lot of detail which is both a positive and a negative. If one prefers a smaller force and enjoys painting lots of details for individual mounted figures these are fantastic for that purpose. There is one downside....painting time increased to complete these figures. I collect armies and my own collection of Vikings is quite dynamic as it comprises nearly 350 miniatures so when seen in mass a lot of details will get loss and the extra paint time perhaps is not worth it. With that said they are great figures (I will let the viewer decide from pics) and adding these to my older footsore, crusader and foundry figures (size wise they all fit fine) I probably have at least 150 variant castings which  is a fine fit for Vikings. My plan is to post all of them some time this summer with some painting recipes of colors etc....so that will be forthcoming.