SAGA: My Fighting Irish starts to assemble - 2 Curaidh

A new force starts to grow - the Fighting Irish!

After my Gotlanders are complete and just need some reinforcements here or there, I start to paint a long planed Irish warband.

Miniatures will be mostly Footsore and Gripping Beast, with a few Victrix and Artizan thrown in for some variety.

And it starts with just this variety - some Victrix plastic Vikings built as Cura (old Irish for champion/warrior - the Curaidh in SAGA.

Both raided a long time with Vikings and can now afford this expensive equipment, not often seen in Ireland.

The first Cura.

The second one:

Collagen

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Peninsular War: In the footsteps of Richard Sharpe

As every wargamer knows, one can not have enough projects running in parallel and that's the way it is with me - so without further ado:
On to the Peninsular War.

At our regular SAGA games, a friend of me and I realized that we are both fans of the Napoleonic era and decided to start a project together.

The choice fell on the Peninsular War - on the one hand, the battles / fights there always had a much more manageable size than those of the other theaters of war, on the other hand we want to get into small skirmishes first and who does not think directly of Sharpe's Rifles, with many of the episodes just perfect for an implementation as a scenario.

Accordingly, we will start with the mini Skirmish "Shootout in Dingstown", going to "Sharp Practice" and to the final destination "Black Powder".
Advantage of this approach is simple, that you have something playable together in no time and even if SiD is actually a Western Skirmish, it can be easily adjusted, it is fast and you have a lot of fun.

My fiend takes over the part of the French and accordingly the other side fell to me and here I first painted a few guerrillas (miniatures are all Front Rank) - amazing figures, I think.
And with these 7 figures you are ready for SiD and yesterday my men already had their baptism of fire ;-)

Smaller versions for the german Sweetwater:

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Terrain: Battlemat and terrain pieces for SAGA

For our games of SAGA, I have once again expanded my terrain collection - on the one hand a new battlemat made of acrylic and on the other some (wheat) fields, woodland and rocky terrain.

For the rocky terrain pieces, I have kept one of it more traditional (just some rocks :-D ) and interpreted the other one more freely: a burial in ship form - as you can still find them today in some parts northern Germany and above all Scandinavia

The fields are made from teddy fur to get some practice for a large gamingmat made from this stuff - one of the advantages of this material is that it adapts well to contours, as one can see in the pictures.

Gaming mat as wip - just the acryl with mixed in sand and some first drybrushed highlights after it was dry:

The finished mat with the grass flocked on as last step:

And the smaller version for the Sweetwater-Forum:

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Terrain: Mediterranean buildings

Some more 3D printed buildings, again designed by Jens Najewitz of course.

This time they are from his mediterranean range and are suitable for a great range of times and settings - from Greece, over Italy to Spain.

I treated the walls with a thin layer of spatula and replaced the printed wooden beams of the veranda with home-made wooden beams before painting the houses.

Especially with the roofs, I tried to achieve the typical Mediterranean very colorful look and painted many tiles individually with different red and orange tones.

The roof of the windmill was designed in the print file as a thatched roof, but I did not like the appearance of it.
To adapt it to the appearance of the tiled roofs, I have rebuilt it from individual bricks made of cardboard.
Furthermore I made some sacks of flour from Greenstuff and a old millstone just for adding some details ;-)

I like the result, even if it was very time consuming.

And smaller versions for the Sweetwater:

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