The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[mmcv]

Quite liking the look of the knights based on the 40x40. Have 5 figures to a base. One difficulty I've had on the table is differentiation between knights and men at arms/mounted sergeants, especially in the earlier periods of the crusades.

Have debased 24 figured previously in sixes on 50x50 with the plan of doing them 4 to a 40x40 as men at arms. Then use 5 figures to a 40x40 for heavy cavalry/knights. I've already been doing light cavalry as 3 figures to a 40x40. Will have to make some more knights units and decide if I want to give the same treatment to my existing holy order knights and my mamlukes... It is quite a faff digging them out of their milliput basing.

[fred.]

Sounds like a plan.

I've done something similar to help differentiate between mediums and heavies.

[mmcv]

Rebased and looking well.

Flags all done. Bases touched up. Just leaving to dry.

But going to get any varnishing done until the bad weather passed but may take done photos soon.

[mmcv]

Sounds like a plan.

I've done something similar to help differentiate between mediums and heavies.

Yeah works well. I'll probably do something similar with cavalry forces in future though maybe 4,3,2 on a 40x30 for heavy, medium, light.

On the plus side I got an extra unit out of them if I want it. I've still some of the TB line knights unpainted so can make some more knight units out of those then leave the holy orders knights on their 50x50 since they're usually special units anyway. I've a few bases of Templar and Hospitalier sergeants though who could do with a rebase.

[mmcv]

First batch of pictures.

Knights of Jerusalem (TB Line). So much lovely turquoise.







Yes I'm a mad fool who paints his flags. Easy enough when they're crosses though. Adds a certain homeliness to it.

And some rebased MM knights as Men-At-Arms. I painted these a year or two back, but part of my gradual rebasing of my old Crusader cavalry.





Will get the pictures of the infantry up later today hopefully. So many infantry...

[fsn]

There's a colour you don't see often on a tabletop!



Good stuff. Well done.

[Techno]

Lovely job ! 

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

There's a colour you don't see often on a tabletop!



Good stuff. Well done.

Thanks, yeah it's got to be one of my favourite paints. Nice pigment and paints on nicely, so enjoy an excuse to use it!

[fred.]

Liking those, the TB Line knights are very nice.

I've got lots of the Islamic ones, but not these chaps

[mmcv]

Liking those, the TB Line knights are very nice.

I've got lots of the Islamic ones, but not these chaps

I'm slightly dreading the Pendraken release of the TB Islamics as even though I've "enough" for most battles I'll likely want to dip into the range and add some bits from it.

[mmcv]

Here's the rest of them, all the infantry, all 200+ of them. Pendraken/TB and a few MM.















Some crossbowmen. These can be fielded as their own unit or attached to infantry. I probably need to do another couple of packs if these at some point.









Attached





In the rest of my crusades queue I've a pack of foot knights to paint up, some Eastern infantry as Armenians, tents and civilians, a bunch more mounted knights and a handful of marker pieces. For now.


Think I'm going to need some more storage boxes...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Excellent work old bean.

[fred.]

Nice work, that's quite the horde you have now!

Think I'm going to need some more storage boxes...

As so often is the case. I keep having to explain to my wife that once the figures are painted they take up so much more space then before hand, and this is why more drawers and space for boxes are always needed.

[mmcv]

Nice work, that's quite the horde you have now!


As so often is the case. I keep having to explain to my wife that once the figures are painted they take up so much more space then before hand, and this is why more drawers and space for boxes are always needed.

Thanks, enough to put on some good games for sure.

I'm currently building some storage boxes/shelves I had got recently, and reorganising my collection a bit. My desk has got exceptionally cluttered so much needed!

A4 plastic boxes with shelves that stack vertically for the figures. Pretty neat storage. Not quite taller than me yet but soon...

[mmcv]

With the desk reorganising paused until new storage solutions arrive I've been taking the opportunity of a reasonably clear desk to start filling the terrain gap in my collection that I'd not the space to make previously.

Currently on the table in various stages of progress are some hills, trees, rough ground and a nice little hilly thicket piece. First time doing anything terrain related though I've been gathering bits with the intention of doing so for a while.

Quite fun and should add a little more interest to my games. Hope to do a crusades game soon now I've the infantry based up (though not varnished yet).