25mm Old Glory Medieval - Revolting Peasants - Part 8 - Spouses, Siblings and More

Here we move into using up the duplicates on multi-figure bases.

Many looked like husbands and wives or siblings, from the kids to a pair of bearded fellows. This makes not a whit of difference for any particular game but makes for some unique and interesting pairings, and could help with certain storytelling narratives. It's hard to imagine a game where I'll need all 160ish peasants at once, though now that I think about it ...

First is actually from Reaper Miniatures: Townsfolk XII Pillory & Kids. The kids were mixed in with the OG stone throwers where I had them stored out of the blister. When researching, I saw the man in the stocks went with it and that they were not throwing stones at all but tomatoes. I painted them red before recalling tomatoes didn't show up in Europe until the 1500s, so I threw some magenta contrast on there, making them plums. They were already tagged as revoting peasants in my storage system, so I'm folding them into this Old Glory project: 

The Vallejo Mud effect is till wet on all of these!

Another detour comes from Brite Minis and these 3D printed "Human Corpses." I picked them up at Historicon this year. The print layers are VERY apparent, marring any and all fine detail, and I won't get any more of them, but they were dirt cheap, and from a distance none will be the wiser: 

Finally - on to Old Glory: 

My goodness, how revolting these peasants are!!  Number three is stabbing at some horse droppings. I may need to highlight these a bit more as they blend in with the mud too well. 

These are the old Husbands and Wives

A pair of looters in the center - flanked by pairs of torch bearers. 

The lads on the right struck me as being brothers. 

Group shot!

Here's the whole update - 26 more figures. This brings the count up to a total of 115 rather appalling peasants completed. I'll do some master shots once the project is completed. I'm well past the midway point, but I'm adding bits and bobs here and there that I consider appropriate. 

Some of these would make good witch or monster hunters, and some could be witches themselves. In either case, I'm well set.

Two more updates to go - both comparable but with some peripheral figures from other brands mixed in, a pair of beggars, some revolting royalty, and some carrying holy banners. 

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Diabolical Terrain Dreadroad Ambush and Brite Minis Trees

 My arbitrary commitment to myself is to finish these revolting peasants, allowing only terrain items to interfere with this challenge. I picked all of this up at Historicon this year - the three standing trees, I think, at the Trainwreck 3D booth. 

First up are two scales of the same tree, simply labled "Tree" from Brite Minis. They come in a pale orange, but paint up nicely. 

They are probably supposed to be flocked, but I'm always looking for scary tree models

This mix below is from Diabolical Terrain and is from a nice box set called "Encounter Box 6: Dreadroad Ambush." It also comes with a (horseless) medieval wagon and a low flat bridge, which I will get to anon. 

The fallen trees are intended to block a road. They can be used anywhere, of course. I guess the rocks hide ambushers. And of course they can be used wherever.

This is by no means a layout - I just want to see it amongst other terrain items. Renedra outbuilding and a Perry Medieval Cottage in the background.

I sprinkled in some of the fallen/dead tree items from Monster Fight Club for comparison. There's plenty of cover for any skirmish-sized game. Again, I would never set it up so unnaturally for a real game.

Part of what makes a scary forest scary is a deep dark canopy and undergrowth that hides whatever monstrosity your imagination can conjure up. While each of these pieces is sinister by itself, they lose what makes them frightening in big groups like this. I have enough to do a small cluttery table with dead, fallen trees and stumps, but I'm going to transition to more thickets of impassable but obscuring terrain. Still, having a large variety of scatter options is always useful. 

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25mm Old Glory Medieval - Revolting Peasants - Part 7 - Looters and Stoners

 This is the last of the individual models. The rest are on bases of 2-3 models to make moving them around a bit easier. 

Each of these models was, apart from a knife, entirely unarmed.

There are only five different bodies here. OG adds different heads in different positions, and I added the sheathed weapons, shields, and spears. 

I don't have a single bits box, but here I drew from some old fantasy parts as well as some plastic scabbarded swords I snipped off the Perry and Wargames Atlantic sprues I had left over. 

For spears, I used the ol' broom bristles method - super durable, but with just the slightest give. The round shields I got from Foundry at the long gone D&J Hobby near San Jose and the kite shields are Wargames Atlantic leftovers. 

More added shields, spears and swords

This time, and going forward, I've had to add some DAP, Ready Mixed Concrete to build up the ground to the lip of the integrated base. It does add another step, but it takes away the step of having to add second and third layers of the expensive Vallejo Mud basing product. 

Not as versatile as plastic kits, but between Old Glory and I, I'm able to get three quite different models out of the same base body. 

Old Glory very clearly labels these as suitable for Dark Ages through the Early Renaissance, so I've just had to come to terms with that and added round shields, kite shields, and a buckler all together. Odd for strictly historical games, but perfectly fine for orc or goblin victims. 

I can't abide these guys carrying nothing but a pair of stones. Here's where you can see the obvious spear as well as some short swords on the belts - three fairly unique (and armed) figures! 

A bodkin added here ...

... two swords added here. 

Sword and shield for the guy on the left, spears for the other two. 

A shield on one, spears for the others. I had to cut the stone out to give the middle one his spear.

The other half of this pack are carrying sticks, but I painted up every one of the stone throwers. 

Here's all the finished shields. I was going to lighten them back up again after the Strong Tone but thought they looked more revolting unretouched. 

Here's all the spearmen. On to the looters! 

Like the stoners, I didn't want a lot of unarmed miniatures around, so I added more swords, shields, and spears for those who needed something.  

This is one of each of the looting bodies. They all have duplicates with different heads.

All together now! This brings the count up to 89 of around 150 models - well over halfway done.  

Here's the looters making off with their spoils

And here's the cowards that'd rather throw stones than engage in fisticuffs.

And some customary AI backdrop - this one from ChatGPT

... and this one from Gemini, exact same prompt but decidedly inferior. (They both use nano-banana.) Grok wanted me to pay, so I passed. 

Until this project is done, I'm not painting anything else except terrain as my off-ramp exception. Next up are the second batch of multifigure bases - you've seen the women and children already. Husbands and wives, children on their own, and then, brothers? Fathers and sons? A bunch of two-figure bases - back to farm instruments, some duplicates, and then the variations on minis you've seen before. 

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