Bound for Sceapige ...

A small group of volunteers start their journey to the Isle of Sceapige to help the defenders against the vikings ...

[Boat constructed from Smer 1/60 kit as posted here]

Small Building - Plan Drawing

Plan layout of ends and sides of the above building with dimesions

Feel free to use copy amend as you like

Saxons - Thegns arrive to receive their weapons ...

Earldorman Rodor's loyal thegns: a mix of Gripping Beast packs and a couple of Dixon viking figures, are assembled and ready to paint.

Storage Crisis - resolved

Having accumulated my Dark Age collection and been adding new buildings, the space I had allocated in the cupboards under my wargame table had filled up. I was looking for a quick solution as I had no more room for any additional cupboards. Fortunately the trim under cupboard comes off and there is space underneath to put a reasonable sized box of figs or some houses - so I unscrewed the trim and added a door knob to it, found a suitable sized box and that has solved the space problem for now. All reorganised,

out of sight and safely stored ...

If I want to get to the buildings I can pull of the trim piece and get the tray out.

Trouble in Deorsingasham (part 2 or 2)

continued from trouble in Deorsingasham part 1

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While Aelfric and his men hold off the main body of the vikings, more appear to the north of the town. The monks, followers of St Wigbert (an offshoot sect of the fighting monks of Wuduceastre), prepare to defend the church ...

The fight goes on, by the minster church and the great hall ...

Aelfric and a couple of men are left, they have pushed the vikings back but cannot hold them any longer (they run for the woods dodging in between the houses ..)

A group of vikings move up the main town street, the saxons who are left don't tarry and make for the woods ..

Only the monks remain, they will defend the minster church and the shrine of St Wigbert

The monks make their last stand in front of the minster ...

The vikings set about pillaging the town ...

Their main prize the reliquary of St Wigbert (this has to be returned un-opened for Sven Erikson to examine it).

The villagers wait in the woods, while the armed men look for evidence that the vikings have gone ..

The vikings make their way back to their ship, with booty and livestock ..

The vikings load up the boat (and then head out back to the Isle of Sceapige ...)

As the townfolk return to Deorsingasham and start to tidy up the mess, Earldoerman Rodor arrives, they are too late the vikings have gone. A woman shouts 'the Abbot is still alive, praise the lord !'

A couple of new buildings..

When I set out for the Deorsingasham game, I realised I was short a couple of medium size houses. So I've been making a couple from scratch. Foamboard shells on 3mm MDF bases; woodwork made from cardboard. Here are the two houses before they receive their roofs.

Roofs added with cardboard then covered with fake fur to represent thatch. Then onto painting; after putting on the base colours I added a thin black wash. Here are the finished items, with a resin building from Gripping Beast in the background for comparison.

Part 2 of 'Trouble in Deorsingasham' in preparation; need to do some more work on the piccies before posting it on the blog.

Trouble in Deorsingasham (part 1 of 2)

A quite day in the town of Deorsingasham, the locals go about their business ...

Some men keep are keeping a watch  ...

The vikings approach ....

The men on watch spot the vikings and the horn is blown to raise the alarm ...

As the vikings approach the men on watch and the people of a local farmstead head to the town

In the town the men are arming themselves while the women, children and old men head towards the safety of the nearby forest ...

The men gather, Aelfric the local thegn decides to hold off the vikings while the women and children  get to safety ...

The vikings approach the town cautiously ...

The vikings make a ferocious charge, the saxons just manage to hold their ground ...

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to be continued ....