Sunday 14 September 2014

Gripping Beast Dark Age bowmen.

Having a lack of Levy type troops for our Saga games and our other Dark Age games I was keen to add to their number. I gained a box of Gripping Beast's Dark Age warriors a while ago and this box  set provided the figures I needed.

Left over from my slow moving Medieval project were a number of arms from the Perry's (Bows and Bills) box set. I have more than enough archers for my Medieval army .

With the help of a sharp knife and some glue I began adding the Perry Medieval archer arms to the Gripping Beast Dark Age warrior bodies.

The only real draw back is that my Dark Age archers are now armed with "long bows". Didn't even occur to me until I had finished the painting!

I have only made 12 figures as archers at this stage. I plan to do another 12 as slingers, straight from the box at some latter time. Can't rush these things!







Dark Age longbows!

22 comments:

  1. Dangerous looking fellows. Very well done.

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  2. Great archers and especially these, old buildings.
    Longbow maintained its leading position in the very very long time, until the 1800s

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  3. Superb :)
    I've just dumped left over bits of plastic sprues which I am now regretting...

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  4. Splendid! Love these guys, and the buildings and carts too...Great work Rodger!

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  5. excellent work Rodger, they look great

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  6. Fairly fantastic Rodger,

    Nice one.

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  7. They look great, Rodger. Nice sculpts/poses and painting.

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  8. Great conversion Rodger, looking good.

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  9. Excellent conversion work. They look really good.
    cheers

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  10. Great job Rodger! I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of these, they will be very versatile.

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  11. Looks great, I too will be buying some Slinger models

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  12. Very nice. Great conversions. And the pictures are really clear and sharp. (I'm envious)

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  13. That's a really nifty conversion, Rodger!

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  14. Great work Rodger, excellent conversions

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  15. Those are great, I wish GB had given us bows to do that with.

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  16. Great idea, conversion work and painting Roger. May have to copy, as could use these for Dark Ages and Medieval.

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  17. Who of them is Robin? He must be in there! Great painted figures!

    Greetings
    Peter

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