Norwegians, Austrians, Normans and Persians !

 Well a quick update of painting and purchasing progress in the dungeon 😀

I have been focussed on Dark ages for a while in the painting queue so for a change of pace I cracked on with the Norwegians I had purchased from America. These were from Gorgon Studios a trifle expensive on the postage but as far as I am aware the only company that makes Norwegians ? I purchased a collection of all the figures they make. Above two bolt action squads, half of them have rusk sacks. Two command figures with pistols.

And the Madsen Machine gun set which will play either in or out of the squads above. When combined with my other Norwegians I think I have enough for a small independent force, but of course can be combined with British for a slightly larger engagement. From my Osprey book the uniforms are kind of their dress uniforms whilst the other units I have are more rough and ready I may combine them as required to create a homogenous force ?

Next up I whizzed through another battalion of Austrian Grenadiers, not much to say about these they are small pink and from Pendraken 

Purchases, in the end after some internal debate I decided the drive to Partizan was just too long, next year I will be more organised  ahead. But to make myself feel better (I know I really didn’t deserve it) I had a look through eBay and surprisingly found a couple of reasonable bargains which is a bit rare these days. Above having played Hastings and Stamford Bridge obviously I need more cavalry, so these Crusader Norman cavalry are perfect, these will find their way into the queue soon I hope.

Next up these came up as well, two boxes of these out of production Persian cavalry again at a very reasonable price, I already have two of these unit so this will make it up to a real Persian cavalry wing. The horses thankfully have different heads in the box. The cover art really doesn’t do them justice and they are really very nice, clean and easy to paint figures. Not too much detail.

Finally several trips out at the weekend one with my daughter to Brough Castle, including this rather nice Norman keep.

Finally a walk in the hills,  dark and moody.

I also managed a game of Saga at the weekend so will try and blog that up soon.

Hope you are all well KBO

Matt