My son mentioned his dinosaur themed Hordes of the Things army
recently, so, as I mentioned a couple of posts back, I decided it was time to recycle a project we called The Peasants are Revolting. PaR was built ten years ago for the early years of the HAWKs Kids' Table at Historicon. It was intended to be a simple game using inexpensive plastic miniatures and card buildings available from Usborne, as a bit of a demo of what one could do with some time and imagination and not much money. We recycled that idea a few years later as the Battles for Beginners Contest, but that's a story for another day...
In any case, PAR was built, for nostalgic reasons, from a few boxes each of recent production runs of Airfix Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood figures. When I was a 10-year-old getting started in this hobby, that was pretty much all there was for inexpensive medievals figures, and I had what I then considered to be quite a few of them. So, using them again as an adult was a deliberate nostalgia choice, made despite the fact that significant numbers of probably better sets were available in 2001 (let alone what you can get today...) After running the game for a couple of years, they have been shelved since 2003, so I didn't think I'd be missing out on anything by repurposing them. I originally mounted them as individuals on pennies or larger washers for the horsemen, and I had a few problems getting some of the foot back off. Nevertheless, I was able to assemble the group shown below, of six mounted stands (either riders or knights--I enjoy Hordes flexibility...), a stand of blades, a cleric, four shooters, and five hordes (or warbands, if one is inclined to be generous about their fighting ability.)
Nice one!!!! I´d have replaced the flag pole and used a paper flag but apart from that a cracking army!!!!! I really like the blue you´ve used for the general. Great mix of the two sets...
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Paul
I may go back and do that in the near term; they don't look too bad en masse, despite being an experiment with a speed painting style. They are also the first plastic figures, as I recall, that I did with a gesso undercoat and flexible acrylic varnish topcoat, and they appear to have held up over the past ten years fairly well.
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff - bags of character.
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