Medbury Miniatures: Dezember Patreon

Diesen Monat gibt es unter anderem Fantasy Angelsachsen bei Medbury Miniatures .

December Historical Release!

hey guys, last release for the year is coming up! So here is the first preview for that, but first some housekeeping, we have been away for a little over a month! But got back just over a week ago, so this week we have been getting back to everyone’s emails, aswell as all the orders people had placed, they are all in the mail bar a couple we are reaching out to do with horses*

Before we get into the Historical Release, i want to quickly talk about the fantasy release for this month, i had elves planned for this month, but we decided it would be timely to do some more pseudo fantasy anglo saxon type figures because of a completely unrelated movie coming out in 2 weeks, that release is mostly finished, but the full preview will likely be a day later then usual, ive dropped a image in with this preview so you know what to expect, it is the Render that is in a different style to all the rest

So for the Historicals, this month we have 100yw Artillery! This is specifically modelled of the Guns edward III had at crecy, doing research on this was a bit tricky, so we have called the kit 100yw artillery because ive seen conflicting information about what he actually had, so at the battle of crecy and that campaign, edward is said to have had some of the first or the first gunpowder artillery in that part of europe, the 2 pieces people talk about are a early cannon of some form, and a “ribauldequin” which is essentially a early organ gun, said to have 12 barrels,

For both of these pieces of equipment, all the reference material we found was from almost 50years later, for the ribauldequin specifically the most famous design is a da vinci design, and there is a earlier one from 1405, but thats still 50 years to late, so with our versions we attempted to further simply the design to push it back to 1346, the bombard is a classic design and builds in 1 way, however the ribauldequin can be adjusted to angle up and down, if you build it and dont glue the frame to the gun platform, your able to slide a bit of wire into the piece of wood at the back to set the firing position,

This release is also accompanied by the 8 Crew, a lot of the crew are interchangeable, but naturally the one carrying the cannon ball is suited for the bombard and the model holding up the back of the ribauldequin is in the same boat. they are all dressed in unique kit with different gambesons and tunics, and even tho in my mind, these are english, there’s nothing to say they couldn’t be used in any western european army from 1350-1450, in addition theres a variety of loose scatter to dress the bases with

As per usual these figures will be available to download from the 5th of december, the physical release will be around mid December alongwith the november figures,, theres some good news on this front, to put it simply we have someone starting with us full time from the start of january, so ill no longer be playing double duty sculpting and casting! Will talk more about this down the line, additionally im expecting the big shipment of plastic horses to come inside of December, as soon as they are here we will do the Mounted men at arms, for Patreon/Tribes as well as Physical!

As i mentioned the fantasy preview will come in a couple of days, it will be centered around characters from a few different sagas, the release has a bunch of different heroes, some shield maidens, a variety of characters foot and mounted, they are all grounded in a loose historical setting so will match the existing vendel range, but some of the ones yet to show are dialed up in the fantasy department

December Fantasy Preview!

hey guys, here is the Fantasy Preview for the december release! as we mentioned a few days back this month is a short break from the elves, this month we are covering Personality figures designed to fit in with the old hengstland fantasy range aswell as Vendel Range as either characters or variety

the characters in this months and next months releases are a mix of archeotypes for you to use as RPG or Wargaming characters, aswell as characters loosely inspired by Beowulf and Finn/hengst Story, the latter is one which is a story brought up in Beowulf, and which Tolkein Wrote a book on, with War of the rohirrum out this month and the stories having somewhat of an overlap it seemed fitting to touch on it, this was something i never got around to covering back when i did the original vendel range, im covering the key characters next month so will talk about the story then,

so for this month! first up we have garulf, Garulf is a Jutish thane, who Left and settled in frisia when the danes stole there land, he has a feud with Hengst who sided with the danes who conqoured part of jutland, so when they meet by coincidence in frisia, he leads a attack on the danes/jutes but unfortunetly for him is the first to die, he is dipictedhere foot and mounted,

Next up is another beowulf figure, one thing with the existing beowulf, is he has a sword, however when beowulf fights grendel, he goes in with his weapons but ultimatly ends up fighting bare hand, so this new beowulf figure is bareing both fists, his cloths/cloak are quite damaged, and his mail shirt is missing a few links,

then we have the first unamed hero, this is a dark ages shieldmaiden, her pose is intended to be stoic, and reluctant, she wasnt out looking for a fight, but because one has found her, shes picked up a battered shield and sword, and is ready to defend herself,

after her are 2 leader figures, labelled as jutish thanes, these guys are great as unit leaders or characters, the angry looking figure standing still, is wearing splint body armour, this is contempory for the time and 1 does still exist, but not a peice of armour i got around to using in the vendel range before,

next we have a Young attendent, this model is ideal as some sort of messenger, hes got a helmet and sword on his hip but certainly not looking to fight, he is here foot and mounted,

then next we have frioiwulf, he is the foster son of the danish king Hnaef, he unfortunetly dies at finnsburg during the battle, my model of him is decked out in Lammeller armour and a decorated helmet, something befitting his status, but also is quite slender to represent he is still quite young,

and 2nd last we have another generic character, unlike the Shieldmaiden above, this women is quick to take action, this could be her desperatly defending her village from a raid, whatever it is, she hasnt had the time to don any armour, only quickly pick up a sword

and lastly is a older shieldmaiden, she is done up in armour matching some of the older shieldmaidens we did previously, the foot model of her would fit very neatly into a shield wall holding the line with 2 feet strongly planted on the ground,

Next month the plan is to continue with some more characters, covering Hnaef and finn, and then a couple of other kits , from january onwards, i have a new designer working with me full time in the office, and we will be returning to elves then! theres a bit more news to talk about, but that will come in a dedicated post, with a extra sculptor designer, theres plently of things on the to do list, like revamping the welcomepack, but also then expanding the content each month,

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