A few more Crusaders

My crusades stuff has not gotten much love lately, but I do have new models for it as well.

 They are Conquest Miniatures.  I did have a bit of a hard time remembering some of my Holy Land blue paint scheme, but I think I found it.

Back to the Holy Land - More Crusaders

Added a few more troops, mostly left over Conquest Games Normans, but also a couple of metal Gripping Beast figures in the command model and musician next to him.  

Need a few more models to fill out the ranks.  I started this unit something like 5-6 years ago.  Matching the paint scheme was not easy, but was not hard either.

The guy in the middle of these three on the end is a Perry miniature painted long ago, alongside of the new guys.

 Please ignore the Litko movement tray as that is just temporary at the moment.

As always more to follow......

More Archers firing at Poor Will Again

Here are the rest of my archers.  These are the Conquest Games plastic medieval archers with items and heads that I used to bring them back in time a bit more.  

Here is the where's Waldo question, can you locate the metal Gripping Beast Viking archer?

A bit closer up, please ignore the movement tray, its just a photo prop to help with quick picture taking. These in my opinion are definitely the best models from Conquest Games to date.  They paint up very easy, much better detail and undercuts than their previous lines of miniatures.  As you can also see, just a ton of head choices, some of which I will not use because they really did not fit the period that I wanted.

And below a pic of the back rank.  I'm happy with them.

The Cruasders get some attention

Its been awhile since this project has received any attention at all.  I had a bunch of Conquest Games Norman infantry that sat around for awhile.  I actually painted all of the metal areas on the models prior to having surgery, noted in the previous post, then finished off the color. 

So you're probably like, hey I've seen those before and they are all Perry metals.  Well the bulk of them are, but you need to look closer.

There are few plastic Normans in there, the sames models, most everyone say are junk.

Are they great models, no.  Do they work yes.

As always much more to follow.....

Archers! Fire at Will!

Poor Will always gets shot at. 

These are my archers.  I have quite a few more archers now with the addition of the Conquest Games plastic archers to the Gripping Beast Metal ones.

The movement tray is just a prop, that will be used for the rank and file Vikings coming soon.

I do like the Conquest plastics.  I think they look good and mix well with these.  And by looks of the new Gripping Beast Plastic dark age archers, I'm glad I did not wait for those to come out.

 I think they turned out well and fit with the rest of the vikings.

As always much more to follow.....

Conquest Games Archers as Vikings

 My archers are just about ready.  I needed a bigger unit or units of Viking Archers.  I picked up a box of Conquest Games medieval archers.  Very nice kit with a lot of variety.

So I chose heads that I thought would work well as Vikings.  Pictures of them with my Gripping Beast Metal archers are coming, but here are a few of the finished models.

On a few of them, I added little bits from the Gripping Beast plastics.

The one below actually has arrows from a Perry Bros. kit.

 Love the scar on this guys face.  The sword scabbard is from the Gripping Beast plastics.

As always more to follow....

Viking Archers in WIP

Really enjoyed building these Conquest Games Archers.  I built them in the thoughts of using them for my Vikings and medieval.  I also did a few very easy conversions to do that.

Below you can see two of them that I did with a Gripping Beast Head swap.  Not hard to do, but you do need to add a neck as the Conquest Games minis the neck is part of the head, whereas the Gripping Beast plastics heads do not have a neck.

Below you can see I used some knives and viking shields.

Below, I also strapped some axes to them and left over swords from the Gripping Beasts kits.

You can also see that I have added a green stuff collar to cover my neck piece, which was just a hole punched piece of plastic.

The one below is using the axe.  I added some hair and a stand of arrows from an old Bretonian kit.

 The pointing one you can see the neck piece.

These are a fun kit and should mix well with the archers that I have already, so now I'll have a second unit.

Conquest Games Medieval Archers Review

Finally picked up a box of the Conquest Games Medieval Archers.  I've been waiting for this box set, so beware I'm sporting archers now for my armies.  They are 28mm scale plastic models like their other kits.  This is definitely their best effort thus far with the models, don't let their horrible box art fool you.  I do think they like hurt their sales greatly by using such terrible box art.  They would in my opinion be much better of not using any art and just have really well painted miniatures pictured on the box.

Lots of nice stuff here, lets go over the contents of the box.

You get 28 miniatures, which includes the command sprue shown below which is the same sprue form their infantry box.  It has two of their Norman infantry men and the cool casualty mini you see on the right.

You get 2 accessory sprues that have one body as pictured below.  Note that they have put longbows and short bows both on the sprues.

Below is one of the main frames.  As you can see the accessory sprue shows up once more in the lower half of the sprue.  In the kit there are 6 different bodies, 16 different heads for a total of a whopping 60 heads overall.  There are 36 longbows arms, 30 short self bows, 48 right arms (I really love the open hands), 6 left arms with pointing hand.

 Below is close up of the one corner.  Good detail on these, like I said this is their best kit yet.

One of the few things I did not like were the quivers, but I think I have been able to fix that a bit.  The sprue below shows the bodies and heads.  Lots of good heads, covering different looks.  I think you have some very good selections here.  I'm mainly looking for mine to play with my Saxons and Vikings and Dark Ages.

So how do they compare to other manufacturers, well you can see I pulled out a bunch of models.

 From Left to Right:  Above one of my Conquest Games plastic infantry, Conquest Games Archer, Gripping Beast Plastic Viking, Conquest Archer, Foundry Viking.  Below:  Gripping Beast Plastic Saxon, Conquest Archer, Gripping Beast Metal, and Perry Crusader.  One of the things you will note on the Conquest Archers like their infantry men are the very thick stands.  I'm basing on 20mm squares and they barely fit.

 Below:  GBP Viking - Conquest Games Archer

Below:  Perry Crusader - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  Conquest Games Infantry - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  Foundry Viking - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  GBP Metal Viking - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  GBP Viking - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  GBP Saxon - Conquest Games Archer

 Below:  Various poses of the Conquest Games Archers

Overall and A for the kit, and F for the box art.  These are going to jump to the front of my paint que.