Saga - Aetius and Arthur Coming Late November

I must have been living under a rock or something but it had completely passed me by that the new supplement for Saga, Aetius and Arthur, is coming later this month.

I haven't played Saga for ages, primarily because of playing too many other things, but this new supplement could well see that change as it deals with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and Arthurian Britain, for which I have plenty of models and which, as you all know, is my favourite of favourite wargame periods!!  Several folk at the club also have models for the period and also play Saga, so this could be a winner.

Apparently, there are boards for Late Romans, Romano-British, Early Saxons, Goths, Huns and Picts, with options to create Salian Franks and Eastern Romans by using pre-existing boards. There's also a campaign system and four new scenarios, all of which makes it a bit of a 'must-buy' at Geetarhero Towers!!!

Watch this space later this month!!

In other news, painting has slowed to a crawl or is non-existent. I'm trying to battle on with some Fantasy stuff, but I'm not getting very far. Mojo gone again, I'm afraid and no deadlines left to work to... Gaming has taken a bit of a hit too... Hope to be back on track soon. Thanks for sticking with me.

Dip/Single Highlight Welsh cavalry

Here, in response to Matt, are some pics of my dipped models. The method is white undercoat, then bright flat basecoat colours (except armour/helmets, which is painted black before drybrushing with GW Boltgun Metal & Chainmail for mail. Helmets have Boltgun Metal painted onto the black.) Black areas, e.g horse manes, are highlighted in layers before applying dip.
The dip is lightly brushed on and left to dry at least 24 hours. Once dry, I use the original basecoat colours to add highlights, except helmets which are layered as normal. I then brush on GW gloss varnish followed by either Humbrol matt clear if working indoors in winter or I will use Dullcote brush on (cos I have loads to use up) in summer when working in the fresh air.

As you can see, some models work better than others. The following are Foundry Normans "11th Century Welsh-i-fied" for Saga. They work really well with this technique!

The following are Musketeer Goths. These are superb and suit this method brilliantly, as do the new GB horses! Bill from Musketeer is my fave sculptor now...he's gonna do early Byzantine cavalry soon and I won't be able to resist!!!

This is a West Wind Pict. He looks better in the flesh, actually...

This is Foundry Frankish/Goth cavalryman. He works ok with this method...

This is a GB Welshman on a Foundry horse. I don't like this model...It doesn't suit this method at all. Soapy definitely didn't get the Welsh as consistently brilliant as the Saxons, IMHO...

This is my favourite GB model...sadly, the mould must have been getting a bit shagged when I bought this one, as the detail is very shallow, so this method works less than brilliantly. Still a great model soldier though!

Here's one of Soapy's superb mtd combrogi from GB. This one works really well in this style...and yes, that's a Foundry horse he's on...I like to mix n match a bit!!!

All shields by LBM for quickness...

Let me know what you think. In ranked up units, the Musketeer models are brilliant done like this, some others less so. The method is about 33% of my normal painting time so that's 3 models finished in the time it'd normally take to do 1 and given the lack of painting time I get these days, that's a bonus!

Cheers

Andy