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I have finished the brushwork and varnishing of the first eight miniatures, which amounts to one and a half ranks of four in the first Unarmoured Unit of Early Byzantine Skutatoi I have planned. Another unarmoured unit is slated in after this one. I started these quite a while back but was...

It has been slow progress of late on the painting table. I wont dwell on this. I just needed to say it "out loud" for the sake of my own sanity. Back to the toys. The fourth unit of Anglo Danes have now happily been completed. That is four out of the projected six and one unit of Norse as...

Another set of eight Anglo Danish Huscarls and Fyrd complete for the fourth unit. Three more units to and 12 bases of skirmishers to go but they will be on hold for a while as I am going to be digging back into my Early Byzantines. It has been roughly eight days since they received a coat of...

I just had to buy these Footsore Miniatures Matthew Bickley Anglo Danish sculpts just as soon as they were available. The sculpts are just so dynamic and full of life; they have the actual appearing as of in the maelstrom of melee. Matthew has the are ability of capturing movement/acts of...

The third unit on what will be a seven or eight unit army (with plenty of room for more as well as Norse Allies!) It's been great fun mixing and matching the miniatures in the units, most of which contain about four or five different manufacturers. There are a load of images and the usual...

The last week was a its and bobs sort of week on the painting table. I finished a few pieces that were destined to hover around in perpetuity if they didn't get any attention so I'm happy overall More scholarly prattle and pictures on my blog here...

It's been a week of putting together a lot of bits and bobs as well as waiting for some LBMS transfers to arrive, which they did, but are now sitting patiently in my "quarantine" pile :) I managed to get a couple of Disorder/Discouraged/Routing/Casualty Markers painted, glossed and matted down...

I've been messing around trying to create convincing markers for my Anglo Danes for when they go into Shieldwall........ I think I've finally nailed the correct size for the bases to number of mini's(?). I didn't want the markers to overwhelm the units. I hope I've hit the right spot? Many...

The second unit is now complete and apart from some rough work trying to prise the miniature from their previously superglued bases I did get to paint up four or five extra mini's so not all was so stressful! There are a load of other images from different angles etc of the unit on my blog as...

Over the past year, every now and again I've been rebasing my Anglo Danes. They have been in a seemingly perpetual state of having no bases, no filler, no texture, paint nor tufts. After a day of being knee deep in my studio on one of my famous tidying up jobs (yeah, it's worse then ever!) I had...

From messing around a bit yesterday morning. I took a few of shots of the Skutatoi Shieldwall with the Command Base and a couple of close ups of the Skutatoi on their own which will hopefully portray some of the dynamics of the unit as they work collectively in defence. More Pics of the Unit...

Early Byzantine Skutatoi Combined Unit Command Stand To go with the newly finished unit of Skutatoi in Shieldwall More pics and the usual conversation on mu blog here: https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/10/early-byzantine-skutatoi-combined-unit_16.html

I've had great fun painting up this unit of combined arms Byzantine Skutatoi. I was initially slightly worried about how they would base up but using the 40mm wide by 50mm depth has payed off I think. There's enough space on the bases for the miniatures to work together as a unit maintaining the...

These little fellows were meant to be based a few weeks ago but I managed to lose them! They were found again wrapped in bubble wrap right under my nose. Literally under my nose as they were wrapped in bubble wrap in a small box under my painting table! As usual more pics including single...

In between messing around with my early Byzantines and the Sudan projects I managed to squeeze in some time to get this vignette put together. I'm sure you all know that the Malalai miniature came as a freebie if you buy three boxes of the beautifully crafted Perry I've got several metal...

Skutatoi Shieldwall First Rank Added- Please Scroll Down: This 'little' command stand completed yesterday evening. Hand painted banner based on the famous Justinian mosaic from S. Vital. The Early Aventine Byzantine range proving to be a real pleasure to paint once more. Next up an unit...

Starting off with....... Yet more Beja for my Sudan project. Sorry about the quality of the pictures. They were taken very early this morning. Too early in fact. I'm not sure I quite had my wits about me as I forgot to set up the lighting and a couple are out of focus. I will do better...

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I've just today completed my first unit of Early Byzantine Psiloi. I took y time with them like I have done with the Dismounted Bucellarii and the torsion Engine but no doubt they they will be the one of the first units off the table top and be sitting back in the box! For many more...

A few months ago I was asked by Gripping Beast to take some larger file pictures of a vignette I put together of Harold Godwinson surveying the Norman army just prior to Hastings. It has taken me a little bit of time. Put it all down to being a scatterbrain. Finally today, I remembered and...