The Christmas tree has been packed away, our guests have departed and the paint pots are finally open! It’s taken awhile, but I finally have something to share for the new year - my first entry in the years's Analogue Hobby Painting Challenge.
This is a small six man unit of Woodland Indians and with all that war paint they are clearly looking to blood their Tomahawks! (a sod to paint but it gives a great effect). They will join two Ranger units that I finished last year (see here: Colonial Rangers for FIW) to complete my initial British FIW force. These Mohawk Allies were a lot of fun to paint and I’ll be adding more to them in the future as Alan and I set off to progress a small campaign using Sharpe Practice 2 this year. I'll need some British Regular Line Infantry too I imagine...
Figs are from the Northstar "British Wilderness Force” boxed set and this entry at the AHPC VII blog can be found here:
This modest entry gets me off the mark at last - 33 points (with some kind bonus points for the warpaint) - but I need to get my skates on to meet my mark of 850 points (with 1000 points being a hopeful aspiration!). Next up is the Bonus Round: Armour, which I did something a bit different for :-)
Those Northstar models look great and you painted them very nicely. They have that characteristic chunkiness that Northstar stuff does (Salah/Copplestone style) that bleeds character and squeezes in extra detail other figures don't have. In the latter category I'd lump my unpainted woodland indians from WGF; Nice enough models but weedy and boring. If I ever got into the period I think I would have to get Bob Murch's sculpts; He does Huron and Iroquois warriors that are beautiful and have a similar weightiness to your Northstar figs. All this Northstar talk reminds me I have to get cracking on Frostgrave and Rogue Stars.
ReplyDeleteThanks mate! Yes, Bob's sculpts for the "Flint and Feather" range are indeed excellent. I wish he did a few blisters of later indians with firearms too though!
DeleteJust grabbed some Warlord Iroquois figs so will look forward to comparing them side by side in due course
Very very nice Paul!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rodger!
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