Friday, 10 May 2013

Novgorodians 3


These bow armed skirmishers is the first infantry unit for my Novgorod force for the Baltic Crusades project. I imagine they are wood cutters or farmers, at home in the rough terrain, who have been drafted in service for the mighty Republic of Novgorod. As such they were painted in muted tones to contrast them against the very colourful druzhina.

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The miniatures are all from Gripping Beast's Medieval Russians range and slightly stocky. Despite, or perhaps because of, this they're very easy to paint up. Of course, it helps that you only need 6 of them for a full unit ...

Finally, a warm welcome to the new followers ghalgor and Millsy. I hope you'll enjoy the blog and find something interesting here.

Have a great weekend everyone!
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19 comments:

  1. NW Crew10 May 2013 at 13:14

    Great job on these. I love the muted (but not dull) palette.

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  2. danmer10 May 2013 at 14:12

    Looking good! I hope you'll be submitting a few photos for the rulebook?

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    1. Jonas M10 May 2013 at 14:28

      Cheers Dan! Yeah, I'm planning to ... Just need to paint up the rest and then take some photos with nice terrain etc.

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  3. Jonas M10 May 2013 at 14:25

    Thank you Andrew!

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  4. Phil10 May 2013 at 15:06

    Fantastic, I can feel the cold wind looking these beautiful figures, great work!!
    Phil.

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  5. Sean10 May 2013 at 18:58

    Nice the colors look very good, muted but intriguing.

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  6. The Angry Lurker10 May 2013 at 21:16

    That's really good work.

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  7. Monty10 May 2013 at 23:48

    Great painting, Jonas, and an excellent idea to keep a tight palette. Can these fellows sneak into Saga?

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    1. Jonas M11 May 2013 at 12:20

      Thanks Monty! I haven't read the new Saga supplement, but I think they should work for the Era of the Princes' warband. Of course, I'd need another 6 of them ... :)

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  8. Anonymous11 May 2013 at 00:41

    Wonderful work Jonas. Really like the looks of these guys.

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  9. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)11 May 2013 at 02:20

    Very nice work and a great shade of green!

    Christopher

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    1. Jonas M11 May 2013 at 12:17

      Thanks Christopher! The green is various shades/mixes of Foundry's Forest Green.

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    2. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)16 May 2013 at 12:36

      Ah yes, the C pot is very strong in contrast to A,B and so offers a lot of possibilities in tone. I use it quite often myself and is probably why I liked yours so much!:-) Foundry is my personal favourite line of paints followed by Vallejo.

      Christopher

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  10. Dalauppror11 May 2013 at 09:33

    Exellent painting jonas

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