These figures are from the new Gripping Beast Dark Age plastic boxed set, that I acquired over the Xmas Holiday as a present. The aim is to paint these up to join my existing Irish collection, that I use for both Dark Ages / Medieval Saga type games and also allow these to be used in Elizabethan period games as well.
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| All 20 of the Irish Warriors |
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| The Gripping Beast figures come 5 to a frame, with a selection of heads, weapons and shields. |
Those in the know will spot that I have only built 20 of the 25 figures in the boxed set, there are two reasons for this...
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| The first five Irish Warriors, I've gone with the smaller shield option as this allows me to use them in later periods, and I have stuck to a muted colour scheme. The guy with the raised axe is the only one I have equipped with a large shield. |
First I only started on Monday with a frame of these as a tester, whilst in between other figures that I have on the workbench but I enjoyed making up these figures and painting them so much that on Tuesday I made-up and painted another five.
Wednesday evening upped the ante and made 10 more figures before painting these and completing their washes and varnishing on Thursday. Almost a definition of a true squirrel project.
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| Cloaks are optional on figures, there are three per frame supplied with the set |
Oh and for the second reason - I held back five figures as I want to model these with muskets and or cross-bows to give them a more specific Elizabethan usage.
The figures are virtually flash free and to add variety I used some other Gripping Beast heads and arms from the spares box.
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| I swapped around heads from the spares box, there is a Victrix Anglo-Dane head and a Gripping Beast Dark Ages Warrior head here. I also gave the guy wit the raised sword an arm from the Conquest Games Norman set - to give a better quality Sword for him to be waving around |
All figures were undercoated white, I used a predominantly yellow ochre type colour scheme for these men - to fit in with others in my collection but added more colours in their additional layers of clothing and cloaks.
All got a watered down black ink wash and a varnish before being based.
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| The last set of five figures in this batch. |
A Squirrel Point is claimed for Irishness of the group in Dark Ages / Elizabethan times
I'll also claim a Bonus for visiting Caprica, the Irish were doomed as a fighting force against the overwhelming power of the invading Normans and English throughout this period.
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