{"id":2704,"date":"2014-07-04T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stronghold-terrain.de\/index.php\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:36:49","slug":"mongols-huns-or-dothraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stronghold-terrain.de\/en\/mongols-huns-or-dothraki\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongols, Huns or Dothraki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the release of the “Steppe Warriors”\u00a0 by Fireforge Games,\u00a0 I started a new project – a warband of fearless riders of the steppes for SAGA.<\/p>\n

In a first step I painted 2 Warriors on foot as a test and was quite pleased with the result – even though warriors on foot are not useful. After realising this, I decieded to use the infantry box manly for the peasants. To distinguish the levies from the warriors I used the different heads supplied, the great plaited shields and spears or langbows as weapons. The longbow and the quiver are conversions.<\/p>\n

Some weeks later, with the release of the\u00a0“Mongol Cavlary” , I\u00a0 built, converted and finally painted the first 3 riders. I dislike the original heads of the horses and so I replaced them with unarmored heads from the “Mounted men at arms” box by Perry Miniatures. I decieded to add some more fur to the models and use this as a constant theme for my warband.<\/p>\n

I choose natural and warm colors with mostly browns and beige color shades for the warriors and a dark green with an off white for the peasants.\u00a0 The strings of the bows are made of human hair (from my three girls lying all around in our house).<\/p>\n

I based the horses on self made elliptical resin bases with cast in coins to make them magnetical. For the first time I applied some floss for aquarium filters to represent dust.<\/p>\n

Enough said – further with the pictures:<\/p>\n