As promised, here is the companion army to the Pre-Feudal Scottish ... The Vikings ...
Building this army was inspired by Peter Pig's new extensive range of Vikings and Saxons and the desire to assemble them and as many equivalents from other manufacturers for a review ...
... and, with a little care and attention, I get a couple more Dark Age armies out of the exercise, Canmore's Scots and these cultural raiders ...
The V3 DBA army follows the usual formula (post 850): a solid Blade general and 10 bases of Solid Blade hirdsmen ... (and just one element tp pick and choose over) ...
The landwaster standard was made in the usual way from tissue over a foil substrate, doped with PVA and painted ...
The 12th element can be archers (Bw or Ps), Beserks (fast Wb) or Irish (fast Ax)
V3 of DBA offers slightly more choice by allowing 3 bases of substitutes from an ally (in this case Irish, Scottish or Anglo-Danish) ... that might mean a bit more variety but this is tough good-looking army as it stands.
The figures are (just under) half Piggies, the rest Essex, Donnington, Khurasan, Black Hat, Museum, Outpost, and one each from Touller, Irregular and Chariot (just to show how nicely they all mix together) ...
The camp is meant to represent the prows of some longships pulled up on a marshy riverbank ...
(detail)
(Viking DBA estuary camp: details)
Peter Pig make loads of looting and ravaging figures, so, with an Essex ship there was a lot of kit to jumble together for this piece. It is made on clear plastic sheet rather than my usual MDF basing so any river it sits on should show through ... The guarding Camp Followers are detachable of course.
I pasted together some of the shield designs again (hand done as usual) - sorry if they come out a bit blurred by the editing ...
They are the usual mix of Celtic/Saxon/Norse designs that seem to pass for generic Dark Age these days (and honestly I know no better) ...
It pairs nicely with Pre-Feudal Scottish or, say, Anglo-Saxon
A very enjoyable project and a nice addition to any collection.
4 comments:
Awesome sight of vikings and shields...This army looks great!
A great looking army with an interesting use of figures.
Nice, I really like the camp
They look great, love these Vikings and their shields, excellent job!
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