Vikings!

Finally I have made a start at painting Matt's Footsore Vikings to add to my 1066 & All That collection. As you might recall I have already painted a few for the Saga of Bicca Biccasson project, mostly from the 'Heroes of Valhalla' pack. Indeed you might even have seen them featured in this month's Wargames Illustrated. I have cleaned up all the remaining figures, spray undercoated them and provisionally allocated them to their gaming bases. I even have the LBMS/Victrix shield transfers applied to all the figures which have shields, though the hour I spent punching out the holes to accommodate the shield bosses is an hour of my life I'll never get back!

I started with three of the four figures in the Berserker pack included in my Kickstarter choices. Berserkers, who may or may not have existed outside the Sagas, seems to have faded from the scene in the post pagan Christian period. It seems then that for 1066 they should be likely absent from the battlefield. The poses of the three figures though made it very difficult to accommodate them amongst the other figures given my basing schemes for the collection so, as you can see, I have opted for a narrow base for them matching the 120mm base width of the main bodies of warriors ~

These closer photos I hope will show the fine detail of the sculpting, which will enable better painters than me to render quite spectacular figures for their collections. My more modest efforts will I trust look fine at gaming distance on the tabletop battlefield here in GHQ ~

Having completed these three I have moved on to six of the spear armed Bondi, those in the more active and aggressive poses. Those six will give me two bases of skirmishing figures, which can also be fitted alongside either flank of the main base to make a larger unit. The first base of three figures is completed and the second base of three are varnished and fixed to their base ready for texturing later today. More on those in a later blog post, probably some time next week I'd hope.