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I've really been enjoying reading Saxon and Viking history and historical fiction for the last few years, so I was really quite happy putting these together. There are many subtle conversions, especially of the plastics.

The hersir unit is set up for WAB with the beserker being the second guy from the left above. The Jarl being the third guy in. The berserker is a converted Warlord Games barbarian.

Another closer shot of the front rank. Another berserker alongside a dane axe wielder. The two models on the right are both conversions of Warlord Games barbarians with Gripping Beast plastic viking heads and shields. I think they make good vikings.

The other thing I tried to do with this army is make all of the movement trays sort of tell a story, instead of being an eyesore geometric shape or hunk of metal or plastic. Views from the rear, the rear most ranks are painted to same detail as the characters and front rank. On the shields I managed to combine Little Big Men Studios transfers with my own hand-painted shields as a time saver. The other thing the LBMS transfers did was inspire me to put in much more detail, such as weathering and battle damage.



Even more photos, including closeups of the units, can be seen at my blog or my Facebook Page. Below are links in my signature.


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More Vikings ready to pillage....Pics of Unit #2. Much like the first unit, this another big unit of Hersirs. Similar to the other unit, I made up a movement tray with a bunch of eye candy to show off the unit. This included various bits of armor, weapons, shields, bodies.

The second guy from the right with the dane axe is a converted War Factory Games model.


Cape on the one guy in the back rank is from the Fire Forge knight models.

With these Vikings, I wanted to step up my game a bit on the basing. Really liked using the various flowering weeds, grasses and tufts.



Yea that Gripping Beast berserker is really looking old, its a rough casting that will get replaced with a different model.


Poor Saxon:

Love it! Looks really good mate, loads of character in there.

Aye, always nice to see some historicals, and done this well to boot!

Those are awesome!! really well done great colours love the character and the little bits like the dead lol

Really nice.

I'm trying to get back into painting myself and only yesterday was working on 5 Gripping Beast anglo-saxons.

Thanks for the compliments, this was a really fun army to create.

Onward, the third unit of Hersirs and Jarl. Pretty much the same thing going on here as with the other units. Lots of eye-candy and gripping Beast goodness. The two berserkers are the old casts, and are showing their age, I did a bit of smoothing and updating on them. I will be replacing them. Despite those, there are quite a few of my favorite figures in this unit.

I really like the main character below, the hornblower next to him is a cool figure also. The standard bearer turned out pretty cool, one of the plastic models converted up with a banner left over from the Fire Forge knights.




More pics of the back ranks. These are painted to the same quality as the front.


I really dig the GB plastics. They are very nicely detailed models with a lot of variety.


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Unit #4 of the Hirdmen.

Quite a few subtle conversions in this one also. Both models on the ends are converted to be crouching. The one with the shield overhead converted from a War Factory Games model.


There are also a few converted heads on some of the models. And again I added some eyecandy to the movement tray.


The basing is much the same, and I'm really digging the flowers and tall grass mixed in. I will be definitely doing more elaborate basing for things in the future. And its also held up quite well. The dead Saxon is actually a Warlord Games barbarian casualty figure. Then I decided I needed a Viking downed in the ranks for more story.


More pics can be seen on my blog or Facebook page. I also recently picked up Saxon Miniatures' Viking warlords set, beautiful minis. I'll be adding them to the mix with some Foundry Vikings, and some Gripping Beast plastic dark ages figures for Bondi, and bunch of skirmishers and archers. As with most armies nothing ever seems to be finished. Then I simply have to build and paint some Saxons as well.

Like most hobby things, you never seem to be done.

A unit of slingers and some archers are coming and then more Vikings and Saxons and who knows what else.....
Ignore the movement tray as these are skirmishers and the tray will get used for more of the rankers.







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And then some more additions: