Baueda 15mm Scale Italian Tower

Baueda's Excellent 15mm Scale Italian Tower

On 5th January 2017 Baueda finally announced that the pre-production one piece Italian Tower was available to pre-order. See http://www.baueda.com/15medieval.html#10TOW to order. Please note I am not connected to Baueda in any way. Since I have a few Italian Medieval army options I knew I had to have one, but I ordered two because I was unsure if I would want two and I can experiment in how I painted them. I already have two JR Mini's Italian towers which I have previously blogged so decided that I would paint one of the towers to match these. See here for that blog entry http://drewjarman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/jr-miniatures-italian-medieval-tower.html

Anyway back to the Baueda review. I ordered the towers and some other items and waited for them to arrive getting on with other painting items in the mean time. About a week later the towers etc turned up, their usual excellent service. 

As with all resincast items they needed some cleaning up but because I ordered some of the first out of the moulds they were very crisp with very little problem areas. A quick clean up of air bubbles and a good wash in washing up liquid and a toothbrush had them prepared for painting. I then put them aside whilst I cleared other items off the workbench. 

It wasnt until yesterday that I was finally able to make a start on the towers having black undercoated them last week during some down time when I was waiting for other painted items to dry.

The towers fit onto a 40mm x 40mm base with no problems and the flared top means that you can also easily fit in a 40mm c 40mm based element of artillery or anything else that takes your fancy. 

The tower dimensions are [excluding my own base addition] 49mm wide at the top and 76mm tall [approx]. The brickwork detail lines are quite fine and care must be taken not to lose them when painting the casting. I used a watered down black undercoat and coated it twice. On the Baueda website he used a stone tower finish and I did comment to him that I thought that red brick would be more historically accurate. Since the tower isn't based on any particular real life tower but a composition creation [AFAIK] for wargames use I Googled for images for ideas and drew inspiration from the towers in Lucca, Lazise, Piedmont, Brisighella, Florence and Torgiano. 

I painted the other tower a slightly different way to mirror other towers I have seen pictures of and to give them a larger proportion of visible corner stones in a limestone colour.

The tower took me about three hours to paint in all with drying times taking into account and another 15 minutes to hand varnish to protect it. I am very pleased with the final effect of the tower and recommend that no Italian army or combat in Italy from the 12th Century onwards would be complete without at least one tower!

Pictures of the second tower are now after the first tower.

ADLG 15mm Commission - Part 2

Another Commission From Australia

After sending off my previous commission to the guy in Australia. He tells me hes really pleased with the order and wants something else. Its yet more troops for his Condotta Army plus some Scythian Horse Archers to go with a Classical Era army he is building.

Project Lead Mountain has been producing lots of spare bits and pieces since 2012 but it has reached the stage that I have started to run out of sufficient left over castings to make up similar looking elements for some troop types. He wanted a camp for his Condotta, another Pike Block, base of Halberdiers and three elements of Mounted Crossbowmen. I already had a camp that I was about to list on EBay so this was a quick sale. I managed to source the Halberdiers and Mounted Crossbowmen but didn't have any pikemen. A quick look on EBay saw a lot for sale from Minifigs Renaissance Range. I submitted a bid for these as well as for some Muslim type Civilians and waited for the clock to tick down. I was not at home when the auction ended but was lucky enough to have won both lots. It was a mixed bag of Condotta period troops and included 12 identical pikemen.

I also had six left over Scythian Horse Archers that were perfect for his needs.

So now it's all painted I am just waiting for the varnish to cure properly before packing them for their flight to Australia. 

ADLG Commanders on 40mm Circular Bases

Minifigs Mounted Crossbowmen

Mixed makes Halberdiers

Alternative Armies Code MR5

 

Baeuda Kings Tent on 120mm x 80mm base 

Minifigs Scythian Horse Archers

Early and Later Polish - Part 12

Feudal & Medieval Polish - Part 12

I have not posted anything on the Polish since February because as you might have noticed I decided to take a break from them to work on other projects. Various commissions, the Scythians and lots of baggage elements have taken priority. As part of the latest baggage commission I decided that as the EBay price was too good to miss I would bulk buy yet more Baueda tents. I ended up with six of their 15MDV-b tents which I decided would be painted up for my Polish Army, the colour scheme also makes them suitable for use with my as yet unfinished Serbian army too.

I have already completed four empty wagons from QR Miniatures [Part 4 of the Polish sequence] for the Poles so have now altered two of them which now have Serbian banners on the side which will be posted when I am ready to work on the Serbs.

Here are the eight Polish baggage elements.

More Ancient Camptastic Elements

Yet More 15mm Scale Baggage Elements

I was asked by a clubmate if I could provide him with a pair of Medieval tents for his Condotta army. Whilst I don't tend to keep a supply of spare baggage elements for sale or to paint being the sort of person whose happy to help out a mate I went online and checked EBay for suitable tents. First stop was searching for Baueda. It instantly came up with some items and I placed a large order for two suitable tents for the Condotta, two more for my Attalid Pergamene, two more for my Abbasids and six more for my Polish/Serbian army.

I have not painted all of them apart from the batch of six for the Polish/Serbian army and also took the time to rebase some old Hovels Bell Tents as well as some old Medieval supply wagons.

First up are the Baueda items:

I removed the shields from the top of the canopy as requested so they can be completely generic.

They are sold as Medieval Tents.

Baueda 15MDV

Next are the last two missing elements to complete my Attalid Pergamene Baggage.

They are sold as Ottoman tents.

Baueda 15OTM

 

These are for use with my Abbasid Army and Arab Conquest.

They are sold as Persian Tents.

Baueda 15PRS

Having finished my missing Attalid Pergamene tents this has allowed me to dispose of my original tents for this army.

They are sold as Greek tents. They will go on EBay in due course.

Baueda 15GRK 

Now for the odds and sods.

I purchased some Hovels Bell Tents many years ago, they are now discontinued. I still have all eight but have been painting them up differently for use with odd armies. These were in poor condition basing wise so I repainted two of them in red and rebased all four of them to freshen them up.

Hovels 4AC5

 

These wagons came as part of a EBay purchase of Angry Peasants. They were on very old style flock basing and each base was a very odd size. I have no use for them at all but decided that they were worth the effort to rebase so I could then sell them on via EBay.

There were three small empty wagons and one large laden wagen. All of them are ox drawn and suitable for use in almost any European army from 500 AD onwards. I have no idea what make they are but after rebasing and a fresh coat of sprat Matt varnish they have come up much better than I had hope for. I based them following the usual DBx style as this seems to be almost universal nowadays

Ancient Camptastic Elements

15mm Ancient Baggage Elements Completed - Scythians

As with any wargamer I started to accumulate leftover bits and pieces as part of Project Lead Mountain. This included four large hide covered tent like structures similar to Yurts, lots of Baueda Ancient, Generic and Napoleonic supplies, Xyston civilians and camp accessories from Donningtons, Irregular and Museum Miniatures. They will be suitable for literally lots of nomadic and other warmer climate armies from the Chariot through to the Dark Ages.

The Yurt like tents were too large to fit on a single or even on a double size baggage element so I decided to make feature pieces out of them. I have no idea who made the tents but since I had four of them to use I decided to make up an eight element and two four element baggage features.

First up is a 160mm  x 80mm eight element Baggage Camp. This is ideal to use for larger games and as a base camp in lots of rules. This will end up on EBay in due course.

Next is 80mm x 80mm four element Baggage Camp No:1.
This is ideal to use for a feature camp or to bulk out your existing baggage for larger games and as a base camp in lots of rules. This will end up on EBay in due course.

Next is 80mm x 80mm four element Baggage Camp No:2.
This is ideal to use for a feature camp or to bulk out your existing baggage for larger games and as a base camp in lots of rules. This will end up on EBay in due course.

Finally I have finished off eleven single baggage elements all on 40mm x 40mm bases. I have used most of my left over castings. I will need to keep two elements back for use with my Scythians, but I also have three Made in Battle Scythian wagons to paint up as double sized baggage elements so I may just keep one of them instead.

I have presented the baggage in three groups. A group of three elements and two groups of four elements but this was for photographic convenience reasons.

Group Nr:1

Group Nr:2

Group Nr:3

If there's anything that takes your fancy contact me and we can discuss terms?