Wargames Factory 28mm Saxon's painted up as Norman warriors

I had the conquest games plastic cavalry that will show up in a later blog post, well I wanted to get some infantry painted up for my 4 pt Norman warband for SAGA.  I have not been overly fond of wargames factory miniatures as they are done with CAD and just don't have the detail you get from other plastic miniatures makers, they are also very frail! the spears break off just taking them out of my GW carrying case with the Red foam inserts.  This has been very disappointing at best!  The spear while looking to scale are just WAY to thin and snap right where the spear and hand come together.  Anyway here are 2 units of 8 warriors each, I hand painted the shields on all my figures as I can't afford transfers presently. The skin areas need to be lightened as the dip appears to have washed out the detail I had done on the faces and hands.  Also need to touch up the edge of the bases with black and sorry for the mish mash of bases with some being hex, I am scrounging through my bits to get these based.

Mini Review: Wargames Factory Celtic Chariots

I was just at my local FLGS yesterday and saw that they had a box of these guys, so I took the chance and picked up the box they had.  Well I am happy to report that I was very, very pleasantly surprised, to say the least!  Upon opning the box I was greeted with crisply done sprues of Chariots and figures.  The figure size is comparable with Warlord Games mini's as well as Black Tree Designs.  The chariots and figures are all multi-part and go together very well.  The casting of the mini's was done with a minimum of flash and very slight mold lines.  The best part of all of this was the price, $19.99 USD!!!!  Warlords Games Celtic Chariots go for over twice that, now granted they are metal which I prefer but still 3 chariots and crews for $19.99!!!! That is awesome!  I can not recommend this box set high enough.  So if you are looking for some Chariots for your wild Celts, have a look at these guys, I think you will be as surprised as I was for $19.99.  This company also appears to be releaseing in the very near future a bunch of different boxes of 16th Century Samurai, I hope they are as well done as these guys were as I am doing a Samarai army or 2 in 2012, I will be looking at those guys to fill out the metal ranks.

Cheers...