Flint and Feather

I've had my eyes on Flint and Feather by Crucible Crush for quite a while, mostly due to the superb range of figures that accompany the game, which are simply stunning and a pleasure to paint. I finally took the plunge and ordered the rule book 2 starter warparties, the Huron/Wendot and the Iroquois/ Haudenosaune, along with the Iroquoian Spirit Creatures and some Iroquoian Companions, Great Warriors, Striplings and battle posts and fur trade markers. All are now painted up and ready to play, and since completing them I've added a set of 3 canoes. My favourite figure is the naked bear from the Spirit Creatures set.

As a bonus I've more than enough figures to field a Skraeling force for SAGA, a faction I've wanted to try out.

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SAGA Skraelings

The Fearsome Flying Head

The Great Horned Serpent

Stone Coat Giant Man

The Naked Bear Spirit Creature

Late Roman Church

28mm Late Roman Church for SAGA, Dux Brittaniarum and Dux Bellorum.

The model is from Warbases, and is a lovely little kit. I've used it as a base to build the Late Roman Church I had in mind that would fit into the world of post Roman Britain.

Pictures include the base model and work inprogress of the build as I've promised those on a Facebook page.

The Build

I really wanted to get the curved look to the chancel area of the church, and used several layers of Ranger Smooth texture paste to build up layers until I was happy with the look. I wasn't concerned about coming level with the existing roof as the thatch would overhang.

Then Ranger smooth texture paste was added to the walls of the church until I got the effect I was after. Once dried I used fine sand Marabu structure paste to add broken areas to the walls that were later picked out with Foundry Moss triad (29), I did use a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone Ink over the base coat of Foundry Moss, then highlighted up using the triad once dry.

I had to modify the supports to the flat roof sections to make it easier to remove and replace once the texture had been applied to the walls (picture attached).

The tiled roof sections were added, I used hot glue to attach (no room for error!). These come in vac formed A4 sheets from Empires at War and cut easily with scissors.

Bamboo BBQ skewers were used to create the ridge for the tiled sections, 2 at the bottom one piece on top. Some trimming was required of the side roof to allow the main roof section to sit properly (picture attached).

Smooth texture paste was used to fill in gaps of the tiled section, and the ridge pieces. These were later painted with Foundry Terracota (37B).

Pan scourers were cut and added (once again with hot glue) to the chancel and roof sections I wanted to cover with thatch. It best to fold and crease the ridge section of the thatch in half length ways as it makes adding easy. The roof was then given a heavy brushing with cheap artists acrylic Burnt Umber, I wasn't bothered about getting a uniform coverage as I was happy with some of the original green showing underneath. The thatch area was then brushed with Vallejo Green Brown (879) and Vallejo Green Ochre (914).

The walls were painted with Vallejo Beige (917), then over brushed with Vallejo Ivory (918) then Vallejo Off-white (820).

Wooden areas were painted with Citadel Colour Wyldwood. The door was then highlighted with Foundry Bay Brown (42)

Finally the Chi-Ro was added using Foundry Madder Red (60)

The texture pastes and pan scourers were found on Amazon. I also used a cheap set of artists spatulas for adding the texture pastes, also off Amazon.


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Mortal Gods

First proper (painted miniatures to show) post since the return of the blog.

I've finally managed to paint up the Mortal Gods starter set from Footsore Miniatures, the figures in the set are plastics from Victrix Limited. As can be seen this starter set is great value for money, you get everything needed to start playing; I especially like the measuring sticks (on other blogs I've seen these painted nicely something I might revisit).

The figures were painted using Foundry paints, and the shield transfers are from Victrix (ones I bought years ago in a sale).

The game system is similar to Test of Honour also by Footsore, and is a game that I've enjoyed playing so didn't see any risk in purchasing this set. I'll post some pictures of my Test of Honour figures as I'm aware that I have some painted figures that haven't yet made it onto the blog due to constraints on my time.

Caution: Now might not be the time to tell wives and partners that the lead and plastic mountain was justified preparation for a worldwide pandemic!

Stay Safe

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The Return of the blog

Like many across the globe I am practising self isolating in the face of the coronavirus assault. As a consequence I'm finding myself with more time to myself than usual and consider myself fortunate to have a wonderful hobby that I can throw myself into. So, the paints have re-emerged and I'm back painting.

First the boring bit....The reason why this blog went quiet over the lsat 2 years is that I returned to university to retrain as a Mental Health Nurse. I will be maintaining my Mental Health by studying and painting. At the moment I have no official knowledge of whether I will be required to join the workforce early, but like all student nurses our thoughts are with our amazing colleagues who are battling this virus.

My current plans for painting are:

DBA 3.0 armies, I recently purchased Mountain Indian and Ottoman Turks. I haven't played DBA for longer than I can remember, but it has seen a resurgence in my local club and is suitable for mini campaigns. So in preparation for the club reopening once this current situation is over I'm painting up these two armies. I'll also be digging through my lead pile and seeing if I can cobble together any other armies.

Gangs of Rome, figures and buildings to paint, presents to get ready for use once I have opponents that can visit.

Mortal Gods, finish the starter set.

I also recently purchased some of the wonderful Crucible Crush figures for Flint and Feather and these amazing sculpts are on the schedule.

I can't give an order for painting, things may change as I find something I fancy painting in a box....all I can say is stay tuned there may be some surprises.

To all who read this blog, take care and stay safe