Blood Rage Shield-Maiden Viking

I have a couple of these from the CMON Blood Rage game.  They are in part based of off some Adrian Smith designs.

This is a pretty cool miniature.

The one disappointing thing on the model is shield though.

Not exactly sure what I will be doing with this model.
 

Episode #5 of my Vikings

 This also from my Youtube Channel, this time a whole lot of Foundry Vikings in video form:  

Have a good one.  More to Come.

Newer Bondi & Hirdsman Viking Units in Video Form

 Another link from my Youtube channel of the Viking Bondi and one of my newer Hirdsman units, episode 4.  I have a lot more of these guys painted up now, just need to get around to some photography.  Enjoy.  

As always much more to follow.  

Viking Video Compilation - Episode 3

 I uploaded another video compilation of my Vikings, this mostly of skirmishers, archers and some random individual miniatures.   Its on my Youtube Channel, check it out. 

Much more to follow....karting season is done for the most part, so I will be painting quite a bit this winter and also doing a bit of comicbook inking as well as I try to get back to the drawing board a little as well.

My Vikings on Youtube; Episode 2

Uploaded a video to my YouTube Channel of a compilation of still shots of one of my Viking units. Kart racing season has come to an end, so I'll be getting back to painting and hopefully get some good pics of the stuff I recently finished up. In the meantime, check out my video.... https://youtu.be/Fchy7eeMJcY

As always more to come.

Some more Banners for my Vikings.

So I have some new bannerman.  The first one is an old Saxon Miniatures now part of Warlord Games with a LBMS massive banner.  

I really enjoyed painting this figure.  Very awesome miniature to paint.

Wow this new update to Blogger royally sucks.  Not enjoying attempting to post things on it.  It is like a heaping pile of dung, to say it mildly.  Anyways back to the miniatures....

And then there is this guy.  This is a metal miniature, cannot remember from who, but its sporting a conversion with a plastic Gripping Beasts viking head.

Olaf and another Viking....

Some more vikings.  One more of them a Footsore miniature.  The one with the horn is a Gripping Beast metal miniature.  The one below is a converted Olaf Footsore Miniature using a Gripping Beast Plastic head.

The wolves on the shield are actually 40k transfers from an old space wolves kit.

I think the conversion turned out pretty cool.  Its what I was going for, especially since I already a Olaf miniature in my collection.

 That's it for now, more progress.....

Footsore - Erik Oaksplitter - Painted

One of my very few Footsore Miniatures.  This Viking is their Erik Oaksplitter miniature.

I really like this miniature.  It has a very cool flow to it.  

 

Unfurl the Banners - More Vikings

My new Viking bannermen.  These are all metal Gripping Beast models.

Banners are lightweight paper banners.  

If the banners look familiar, that is because they came from the paper insert that is sent with the Gripping Beast Plastics.  It was cheap, quick way to do some banners.  In the end I may at some point sit down and draw and paint some actual originals, but for now these are good enough.

 As always more to follow.....

A Viking Giant....?????

I know PPC you have lost your damned mind. Last post a Bretonnian and now a 54mm Viking.

 Yea I know.  I saw this miniature on Ebay and had to have him.  Not a bad pose, pretty decent metal casting, came from Russia.  This is the first time that I believe I've painted a 54mm miniature as well.

 It does present some issues with blending and highlighting.  Things you can get away with at 28mm look not really very good on 54mm.

 I had to blend more and highlight more.  The basing is the same as my 28mm models.  I do plan to use this miniature as a giant with my 28mm Vikings in Dragon Rampant.

 I think the cape turned out really well.  I may do some more of these big Vikings.

Berserker Conversions!!!

 Back when I played lots of WAB, I needed more of these guys.  I'm planning on playing more WAB, so now I have lots of these guys for WAB or whatever.

 They are pretty much all Warlord Games Barbarians converted with Gripping Beasts heads.

A sharp eye will recognize the large decapitated head is from one of my Saxon Miniatures' conversions that I showed a few posts ago.  Don't let bits like that go to waste.

Fleshtones are all Reaper Master Series paints.

2nd Foundry Viking Unit!!! Painted Glory for Odin....

 Yep this the second unit full of character.  Gotta love those Foundry minis.

 The guy in the center of this unit next to the fat shirtless guy is simply awesome.  I love his pose and that beard is incredible.

 The fat guy is not bad either.

 A bit of close up the eyecandy on the movement tray, and a view of the backside of the unit.  We are

nearing the end of this wave of Vikings, then I'm moving on to the rebuild of my Romans.

Viking Swordsman and Converted Dane Axes...

 This is one of the former Saxon Miniatures' Viking Warlords, now a Warlord Games model.

 I have two versions of this model.  I think its a semi-cool looking model, but its to linear.  The second model I'm likely going to at least bend the shield arm.

 I needed guys with Danes Axes, now I have a bunch.  A variety of pieces used in making these guys.  The one on the left has a Gripping Beast (GB) Plastics body with arms from Wargames Factory models that Warlord Games now owns and produces.

 The next one is a GB Viking with a Dark Ages head.  The next one in blue is a body from Wargames Factory with GB arms and a GW Empire Flaggelants head, and then the standard GB.

Once again....you know it....more to follow.

The first War Games Foundry Viking Unit....

Well more like a just an assembly of a lot of my painted Foundry Vikings.  They are fun models.

 I do have to say I really enjoyed the beards on these guys, I've always struggled sculpting beards on my guys and they definitely gave me ideas on what I was doing wrong in my attempts.

 I decided to give them pretty much all plastic shields from left over Gripping Beast models.

 I just think the plastic shields are much nicer.  I did see that Victrix is getting ready to release their kit with some even larger plastic shields and I'm going to assume that their scale may be slightly larger than the GB Plastics.

 They are old sculpts, but I think they do stand the test of time.

 I really like the guy with the white raven shield second from the corner.

They you are, more to follow.