Dark Ages Saxon Church

Here's the latest addition to my scenery collection for Saga, the Gripping Beast Saxon Church. A Father's Day present; it was recently painted for me by my wonderful wife! (Although I did do the base).


I wanted the corner stones painted in grey to make them more noticeable as they are properly 'dressed' stonework and so probably looted from a crumbling Roman building.


The thatch has been painted to look fairly new as this sort of building might have been given a little more attention than more ordinary dwellings.
 

I added some plasticard stone slabs outside the front and back doors. Somewhere for the Thegns and Ceorls to stamp off the mud and dung!?


I also added some 'mini-natur' grass and flower tufts to the base.

Next, I'll be working on some scratch-built hurdle enclosures, more fencing and a small Saxon turnip patch.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Telegraph Poles

Image
Telegraph poles are one of those items that really seem to make a wargames table look like a 20th century battlefield, so I really had to get some. I considered making them from wooden dowelling, etc but then I saw these from 4Ground. They're advertised as ready painted but I decided that they needed to look more "concrete-y" so I painted the main 'post' black then layered on the Foundry 'Slate Grey' triad. They also make good places to put signs advertising shows - as this keen eyed subaltern has noted. Here's a closer shot of the different styles of 'tops'. The kit includes enough parts to make 7 posts with up to 2 of them being like the post on the left. Oh - and one more thing - pay close attention to the construction diagrams when building them! They're fairly easy to build, as long as you read the notes first.
Read more

Palm Trees - More Charlie Foxtrot Tree Bases

Image
I've had these trees for a while now (Thank you, Colin!) but until recently I've not had much reason to do anything with them.  However, Orange Dave and I are looking to begin a series of games in North Africa... Monty versus Rommel of course!  This nicely aligns with the forthcoming Warlord/Osprey title The Western Desert .  Anyway, it gave me the spur to get them based up.  They range in height from 4cm to approx 22cm. To give the larger trees a firm fixing to the bases I found some 12mm flat headed nails.  These were glued to the round bases with Araldite.  The smaller palms were glued directly to the bases. These are not improvised caltrops! Work in progress.  I trimmed the bases of the larger palms so be flat then carefully drilled a hole up the stem.  The tree could then be glued on to the nail. Some blu-tak helps to keep them in just the right position whilst the glue dries. Here are the larger bases with trees in situ ....
Read more

The Saga Continues...

Now that I've a chance to have an initial read through of most of the rules I thought it about time to say a few words... I'm not going to give away any particular details of how the rules work as I think that might spoil the enjoyment of others (not to mention being an issue of copyright, etc). As I mentioned in an earlier post I was a little surprised at paying £50 for a softback rulebook, 4 game boards, 16 dice and a figure. However, I can assure readers that I think it will be money well spent. The rulebook is gorgeously produced, full colour throughout, with plenty of pics of Dark Age types going at it hammer and tongs. The rules are described in a clear, easy to read manner with many good examples of play illustrating the mechanisms. After one read through I think most people will have a good idea how to play. I've heard others say that the rules are easy to pick up but will prove challenging to master and I would agree. The dice are used to determine what your ...
Read more