As with the unarmoured warriors, the main feature of the model is the shield. I have mostly stuck with crosses and simple variations, with a few squiggles to suggest more elaborate markings. I am quite pleased with the way they turned out, as freehand is not my strong suit, but it's getting better as I work through more and more shields. My next job for the warband is the warlord and I will be testing my shield-painting efforts to the limit.
Here is the warband as it will appear in game. Two units of six hearthguard and a unit of twelve warriors. That's four and a half points to date. Another unit of twelve warriors will make it up to the full six points. I would like to add some levie troops for flexibility in army choice, but I am trying to play without at the moment as I want to maximise the larger units and shield wall aspects of the Saxons in battle.
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These look great, I can't wait to get my Warband together.
These look great, I can't wait to get some progress made on my SAGA warband. Not sure which faction to go for first, maybe the Anglo Danes.
You suck ; ).
Wait, that came out wrong, I mean these are awesome and I love the freehand.
I reckon you good do some light scratches on the shields. There's an excellent tutorial for ideas on the Gorgon Studio site:
http://www.gorgon-studios.com/files/qgspartans.pdf
Cheers for the comments guys.
Anglo Danes and Anglo Saxons are very similar, I will almost certainly paint up a unit or two armed with Dane axes to be able to swap to them for variety in gaming.
On the shields, I might try some rips rather than scratches, the shields were leather stretched across wood, not something that would scratch like metal I reckon.
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