David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Sunday, 27 April 2025

Dafydd mab Buddugwr

As the Footsore Welsh have been making their way over the painting desk relatively briskly of late I thought that I would enjoy a bit of a breather from working on units by painting three figures for the Division's command stand. They comprise the Welsh Leader, Standard Bearer and a spare from the Warriors with Dane axes. The standard is a reduced photocopy of one of my LBMS standards I used for my Late Romans back in the day.

I had originally intended to fix the Warrior with Coracle on the command stand, but it looked too crowded to my eye so I swapped him out for the Dane axe armed figure. Don't worry though, he will be along in due course! I'm also working on a first base of partially armoured Welsh Warriors armed with a mixture of spears, swords and axes.

12 comments:

  1. A finely rendered command stand very nicely composed.

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    1. Thank you Phil! I hope it will do the business in our games.

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    1. Many thanks Christopher for your endorsement.

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  3. Nicely done David….

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Your support for my efforts is appreciated as always Aly.

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  4. A very nice looking command stand, nicely posed, painted and based.

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    1. Thanks Donnie, it's always nice to have encouragement.

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  5. Very nice work! Lovely eye-catching base, and the standard looks great!

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  6. That's great David and I do love the guy with the Dane axe, even if he is still in his 1970's sheep skin coat;)!

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    1. He's Welsh, what else would he do with a sheep?😉

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