Just Champion!

Together with my most recent order to Gripping Beast - figures for the Early Saxon Hearthguard - I also ordered the final outstanding pack of Early Saxon Characters. While two figures from the pack have joined the finished unit of Hearthguard, which are still awaiting shield transfers from LBMS/Victrix, this third figure will function as a Champion or as a minor Warband command base. Again, like the recent 1st Corps Young Warriors, the pose is very static considering the context, though the actual sculpting is fine. It's obviously an aged figure, I can't help but think a contemporary version would have far more motion/life in its composition. I have tried to suggest a dragon/serpent tattoo on his face, not very successfully really. Here he is anyway, make of him what you will ~

For now at least the Age of Arthur project has reached a natural pause, in that I have no more figures in the Lead Pimple for further additions. In this instance going forward to  dice with the Brush of Doom will be some figures for my small Darkest Africa collection in the shape of five female archers {from Copplestone Castings via North Star} destined to join the Maiden Guard of King Bykalaizii m'Tuubi, erstwhile ruler of the P'Doki, an almost mythical fierce warrior tribe inhabiting the little known, and now forgotten even by stamp collectors, British Colony of South Central East Africa.