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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25mm Old Glory Medieval - Revolting Peasants - Part 6 - Sticks and Hand Weapons

 These bring the mob up to 68 of around 150 models. Still going strong and I'm sticking it through til the end, so far. My allowable off-ramps are terrain and other Medieval-related things. 

These are representative bodies from the Sticks and Stones set (the sticks), some from the Looters and Pillagers (the torch bearers, and the bowl cut axeman), and the rest, the remainder of the bodies from the Scythes and Pitchforks set. I did the long weapons already, these are the handheld weapons - only one hand scythe and the rest axes. Remember that with Old Glory, each bag contains roughly 10–12 distinct body sculpts, with each one duplicated 2–3 times. The heads, however, vary from model to model—and even when a head is repeated, it's rarely paired with the same body.

A new color combo was centered around Reaper Pro Paint "Oiled Leather." The usual thing with these - a basecoat, Army Painter Strong tone, then a build back up with the base through the highlights. Every boot, belt and bag on every single mini has been and will continue to be, AP Fanatic Leather Brown. Natural wood are from AK Interactive Light Earth (as seen directly below). I may do some hair different - a few white haired dudes and a ginger seen here third from left:

Reaper Oiled Leather can be seen on models 2 and 6. 

Number 4 has a good scheme too, with Americana - Portobello. I'm trying to get a good undyed wool color, and that's been my favorite option so far. 

When I do use any Army Painter Fanatic paint, I will, after the Strong Tone, go right up through the tetrad, sometimes leapfrogging a shade to get bolder volumes. Much of the green was done this way. 

The red on figure 4 is one I've used before - Pro Acryl's Burnt Sienna - that's as bright a red as I'll allow on these. Once I get to the proper serjeants and knights, I'll get bolder and brighter with many of the colors.

All together now ...

... in a bunch, in a bunch!

In the background is a newly painted Peasant House and little woodshed to the right from Perry Miniatures

The next batch is 21 figures - models from the Sticks and Stones set - (the stones specifically) and some looters and pillagers. Neaither have much in weaponry sculpted on so I've had to dig through the bits box to get scabards, shields and other stuff to adorn them with. I also made a mess o' broom bristle spears and drilled out some hands to accommodate them.

That will be the end of the individual models - the rest will be the bases of 2-3 models and will include all the dupes of the models you've already seen. As always, thanks for looking - questions, comments and followers are welcome and encouraged! I'm doing more and more on Facebook so follow my page there too! https://www.facebook.com/One-of-My-Men-Became-Restless-100659928063858

25mm Old Glory Medieval - Revolting Peasants - Part 5 - Women and Children

 Here is the start of the multi-base models: kids, each with a female protector. 

This is a retread of some of the better color combos I've already used, but this time I wanted to do that blue-gray color, as well as some off-whites. 

An action shot ...

... and some AI slop. 

If done well, AI slop can be quite effective in setting the scene. I'm having some fun with it. 

After a dozen others with axes, sticks and sickles are bases of just children as well as a batch of man/wife, 2-figure bases. That leaves a bunch of unarmed looters with chickens, vases, barrels, etc and then the stone-throwing guys. I'm going to do some small conversions with these so they can actually be used as combatants instead of just, er loot markers? Not sure what function the stone throwers serve. They aren't even proper slingers and only a few have a dagger at their belt. Even the stones they are throwing are very small. I've got ideas - you'll see. 

Somewhere in all this will be all the duplicates of all the model types already seen, combined onto three-man bases to finish off the project - a self-imposed endurance test. Can I tackle a large project without wandering off into something else for once? I'm allowing myself to do some medieval buildings and accessories, but no new units. 

This particular entry brings the mob up to 56 peasants, over a third done. As always, thanks for looking - questions, comments and followers are welcome and encouraged! I'm doing more and more on Facebook so follow my page there too! https://www.facebook.com/One-of-My-Men-Became-Restless-100659928063858

25mm Old Glory Medieval - Revolting Peasants - Part 4 - Hags, Crones, Scythes and Pitchforks

Part 4! 16 new figures done. As I said before, all the main figure types will get a model on a single base; here, then, are from the Scythe and Pitchfork set. Still fishing around for good color schemes but found a few new ones. I'm trying to keep this lot muted and drab.

 

These are from the Revolting Women and Children set. The middle one was giving me nun vibes. The children and other women will be in Part 5 - 10 unique ladies here. And because they are revolting, I've tried to make them all hideous, gray hair, filthy, drab clothing, whatever seems most repulsive. I'll do fair maidens later when I get to Foundry and other manufacturers. I'm leaning hard into stereotypes for this. 

ALL the bases for this project will have Vallejo - Diorama FX Thick Mud - Russian Mud, no tufts, grass, or stones. Just a sea of mud, poverty, and depravity.

The red on the dress of figure 4 and the cowl on figure 2 are one you'll see again. It's rooted in ProAcryl's Burnt Sienna

This project is done in what I call the "YouTube" paint style: base color, dark wash, reapply base color, add highlights

Here's the lot. Once I get some more scenics completed, I'll get the entire mob into one shot. 

These are some of my favorites - a few of whom would seem quite at home in a coven for the witch hunters to tangle with. 

These are Rendedra Daub and Wattle Outbuildings, which I painted at the same time. 

The single model options are dwindling. Next will be the gents with axes and hand scythes and vignettes of two figure bases: women and children together. 

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