Showing posts with label Vikings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vikings. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

The very last of my vikings

Today I’ll be listing on eBay the personality figures for the Viking army I’ve recently posted.   All images can be clicked for greater detail.  They are all matt varnished and based to a high standard.  Links go to the relevant auctions, I've started them all at 99p.



28mm Foundry Viking Jarl with Standard.  The Jarl is armed with a 2 handed axe, and his standard-bearer a sword ; perfect as a CinC or army standard.  These Foundry miniatures have been painted to a very high standard and based on a 40mm diameter magnetised MDF base.



28mm Viking Looters.  Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat- oh no, the Vikings have got it!  Dixon Vikings, painted to a superb standard.



28mm Viking Drinker.  Every Viking camp needs one!   Another Dixon Viking, painted to a very high standard.



28mm Viking adventurer.  Rather reminds me of Viggo Mortensen, this chap...  swordsman with bow.  Painted to a high standard.



28mm Viking Berserk.  Enthusiastic Berserk!  Painted to a high standard.


And last but certainly not least... 28mm Viking Cart.  This is a lovely Gripping Beast handcart with two beautifully naturalistic Viking looters, again painted and based to a superb standard; my favourite of all the pieces.  Perfect in a camp, or as an objective marker.

And those are the very last miniatures in my viking army; unless you want my longhouse... which is for sale, but not going on eBay.

Update- all sold, thanks!

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Viking Rump Sale

Not an exercise in extreme butchery, but a link to the rump of miniatures from my 28mm Viking army and some Crusaders that I'm listing on eBay, today, at the low, low price of 99p per unit.  All the miniatures are mounted on magnabased card and can easily be removed, if required to be re-based for different systems (Saga, for example). 

All the images are clickable

8 Normans, or Crusaders.  Gripping Beast.  Very nicely painted and based.


Viking Jarl and Huscarls (16)- Essex with some Foundry.  Tabletop painting standard, but nice command.

Viking Huscarls (20)- mostly Essex.  Tabletop painting standard.

More Huscarls (8)- Gripping Beast.  Nicely painted and well based.

Archers (8) and Slingers (3)- Essex and Citadel.  Tabletop painting standard.

Viking Bondi (24) - Mostly Citadel, some Foundry.  Nicely painted and based (see below for closeup).


Update- all sold, thanks!

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Surplus Vikings

8 Gripping Beast Vikings, ready for war.  They are magnetically based on card on a 15mm frontage.  Pics are clickable.




I'm looking for £3.50 per mini which comes to £28 plus postage; am also open to swaps.  You can post here in comments, or email me at the address on the front page.

This link is to my other for sale items.

Cheers, Simon

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

BigRedBat's Loft Sale part 2

This is the Monolith Germanic/Viking Great Hall and a matching barn, assembled and ready for aspiring Saga heroes:- "Because of wine-feast and mead-feast they charged, Men famed in fighting, heedless of life."


I’ve decided to move out of Dark Ages to focus on the vast ambitions I have for my Romans, so am parting with these (and, shortly, my small but very nice Viking Army).  The two buildings are finished to an extremely high standard, mounted on stout card, magnabased for storage, with a selection of weeds and grasses around them.  The roofs can be removed to access to the interior.  I built plank floors for both buildings. I went for a very weathered wood-look, and I think I nailed it!  They are matt varnished.  They have never been used and are in absolutely tip-top condition.




I’m looking for £110 the pair, plus P&P at cost (the figures are shown for size comparison purposes only, and not included).  If you are interested, and are going to Partizan this Sunday, then I can deliver them to you there, or you can collect from me in North London, or I can post.

Cheers, Simon

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Mission Statement

I suffer from mission creep, more than most collectors.  I have decided that I had better focus, at least within broad limits.  For ancients, I'm therefore going to concentrate on:-
  • The time: Roughly 400BC to 400AD; Peloponnesian war to the fall of Rome
  • The place: The Mediterranean basin, France and Britain (and later Germany/Dacia)
  • The next army: Pyrrhics (and finishing off various part-painted units from the EIR and Polybian eras).
Once Zama is out of the way I'll therefore flog off some non-core bits, such as my Viking army, which is little used for lack of an opposing army.  Below is an old pic of some of the Vikings, next to their fjord:


I do also have a small Assyrian army, which I'll keep because I think it'll look great once completed, and because I recently bought some great Biblical-era terrain.