Tuesday 6 September 2016

Casualty Markers (I)

Whenever I've managed to play games with my armies, there always comes a point where we're scrabbling around for more casualty markers. I'm not a rules guru, but do prefer the aesthetics of showing casualties and/or morale impacts with model figures (rather than other options such as dice etc). So I've started some models as markers for my Burgundians - first one is done.


It shows a fallen/wounded Burgundian man at arms about to be despatched by a Swiss. The Burgundian uses plastic parts from the Perry Foot Knights. The Swiss is a plastic figure from the Bills & Bows box, with legs repositioned and gaps filled. The dagger arm is cut down from plastic Perry Beja and then dressed with green stuff. I'm happy with the overall composition.







More coming along soon....

11 comments:

  1. Excellent job, I particularly like the additional GS work on the hair, feather and arm, the composition is rather nice too, looking forward to many more

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  2. Lovely finish and interesting wip.
    Best Iain

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  3. Great looking marker! I too prefer to keep track of casualties with such markers... unfortunately there are so few commercially available for those of us that lack your apparent skill at converting.

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  4. Tremendous work. Very realistic composition

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  5. Really great stuff. The Rondel dagger looks particularly mean!

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  6. Very nicely done but rather grim - that really brings home the brutal reality of hand to hand fighting.

    I was planning to do some casualty markers myself of dead / wounded combatants but after seeing yours and StuartM's, I'm starting to think something more abstract and less bloody might be more my thing, as well as less of a creative challenge.

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  7. Chilling stuff. Brutal but very well executed.

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  8. Bringing the battle down to a personal level. Wish you could make castings of this wonderfully done vignette.
    Cheers
    ~Ths

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