I mentioned in my last Blog entry that I had finished painting these Hearthguard figures from Gripping Beast last week, I was just waiting on the shield transfers from LBMS/Victrix. They arrived at the end of the week so I had the opportunity to finish off each figure by applying the transfers and then organising them on their base. As with the Post-Romans' Hearthguard they are all mounted on one 80 x 50mm base. Despite that discrepancy in sizes between these on their solitary base and the Warbands of two or three bases I shall count both as Regular units in Hail Caesar Mk2 games, reasoning that their quality makes up for quantity in battle!
I'm fairly confident that these figures predate the modern and much resented blistering of figures with the available poses including charging at the run, advancing, standing and even recoiling back! It makes arranging figures on bases a bit hit and miss to my eye but others may disagree or not even see that as an issue.
I hope to order some more figures to bulk out the Post-Romans after Partizan is done and dusted as I already received the necessary shield transfers from LBMS/Victrix in my last order. I expect these to be a mixture of Crusader Miniatures and Artizan Designs figures via North Star, so I can make use of the Wargames Illustrated discount code to mitigate the postage and package charges. Cheap; me? Well, I am a wargamer!!
Splendidly done and the basing sets them off in fine manner they look very mean and purpose full.
ReplyDeletePlenty to ‘stare into’ in that unit and I like the figure density on the base.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking figures. I like the aggressive charge you created. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteLovely work there David, and much more dynamic chaps, nicely placed, than the youngsters of the earlier post. Hope to see you at Partizan. I'll be wearing a bright orange hoodie, which should make me stand out from the crowd;)!
ReplyDeleteHearthguard figures painted look great!
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