More Medieval and Roman siege artillery

Last week I ventured into my loft for the first time in about eighteen months.

I have recently acquired a number of Rose and Hinton Hunt ACW units and I needed to see what I already had, and put them into the best combinations as units.

I also knew I had a small number of additional painted Rose Napoleonic units which would just need rebasing to my new Rose standard.

Then I had my RJW project, where I needed to find again the ones in the loft I already had painted. Figures are mostly Jacklex with some Stonewall ones thrown in. The bad news was having fairly recently finally tracked down the Stonewall figures on their website (not easy, I promise you) and having taken an inordinate time to paint the 60 or so Japanese infantry I had in the queue ... I found I hd another 60 or so of the blighters undercoated in the loft. So more work on them, then...Still it puts forward the evil day when I have to try to put together the handrails on the two new Japanese field guns I bought a while ago from Mark at Jacklex.

But a collateral benefit was this group of medieval and Roman artillery pieces. I think that is now the ninth Lamming medieval ballista I've found I had, together with some type of mini trebuchet and two Roman scorpios. I've no idea who made these last three items - the scorpios are definitely right bu the "trebuchet" has been assembled from a box of bits including some other frames and a catapult arm. These will all have been odd bits which were included with something else I bought and which I had wanted at the time.

Glad to have (re) discovered them now - I had no idea they were there.

Next post will be the Rose Napoleonics - more of the same as in previous posts, but only one more Old Guard battalion which means the ration of line to Guard has improved a bit.

Then I will do some posts on the Rose and other ACW units once I have done the photographs.

And eventually something about some Hinchliffe System 12 figures and accessories which I have recently acquired -- though that might be on Vintage Wargaming.

So all in all I'm hoping to increase tyhe productivity of my logs a bit in the near future, Good intentions, eh?

Something different from Lamming - medieval Cogs

These are the 1/2400 scale Medieval cogs made by Bill Lamming and introduced, I think, at the same time as his medieval Campaign rules. I never had any back in the day, although BL sold them for pennies. They are now available again from Tony at ERM but cost a bit more these days.

I obtained these - all vintage castings - in two lots, in the last three or four motnhs. One set have a small cast on sea base, the other lot just a plain hull. I have put both types on basetexed pennies, to give a robust and protective sea base.

I'll add a bit of context to this post in the next few days.

Lamming Medievals: MA/3 Ballista

I recently bought an eBay lot of seven Lamming Ballistas, unopened in their original packets.

I had hoped they might be the Roman ones but I am sure I could easily use them for either period.

While Bill Lamming made two crew figures for his bombard model as far as I know there were no specific ballista crew. Of course there are plenty of figures with open hands which would easily serve in this role.

The seven packs I bought didn't all have the same number of all the pieces, hence there are one or two differences you may spot on the three models in the photograph.

I decided to mount them all on round bases that would just accommodate them, then singly based figures could be used as crew.

Lamming Medievals: Mounted Figures

The posts below about the Lamming Medieval mounted figures show the variety which could be achieved through the mixture of heads, helmets, crests and weapons.

The barded horses are very distinctive, being cast in two parts. I am sure this should make them easier to paint but I have still not worked out how best to do this....

I have nearly finished my foot figures (with the exception of 16 bombard gunners with ladles...) and have run out of enthusiasm to do the 50 or so mounted knights I still have to go. I have filled in the time with painting Jacklex Russo Japanese war figures and will come back to these knights in batches later.

Lamming Medievals MC 1 and 2 Mounted Knights with sword and battle axe

Lamming Medievals Mounted Knights with helmets

Lamming Medievals Mounted Knights with helms

Lamming Medievals MC 7 Herald with trumpet

Awaiting their trumpets...

Lamming Medievals MC8 mounted men at arms

Two men at arms, with a mounted knight with the bishop's head MF/l

Lamming Medievals: foot figures

There follow some posts of foot figures from the Lamming medieval range. As I had already glued these to mdf bases I haven't been able to verufy code numbers, so I have done my best to identify the figures from the previously posted B&B Miniatures catalogue (here).

The examples demonstrate some of the head and crest options which were available. As I have refurbished these figures recently, some have weapons which are not original Lamming ones but which have come from other current manufacturers and other sources.

I am reasonably happy with most of the suggested identifications, but of course you may know better.

Lamming Medievals: MF 1 Standing knight with sword and shield

The two variants (with axe and with mace) are not listed in the B&B catalogue

Lamming Medievals: MF 2 Archer

Lamming Medievals: MF 3 Man at arms (chain mail) with pike

I am reasonably confident of this identification. These figures have replacement wire pikes - I believe originally the figures cam with soft metal (and therefore bendy) pikes

Lamming Medievals: MF 4 Man at arms (plate) with halberd

Lamming Medievals: MF 5 Dismounted Lord with axe and shield

Lamming Medievals: MF 6 Bombard gunner with ladle

Lamming Medievals: MF 8 Genoese crossbowman

I think I have got this (Genoese) and the following (British) crossbowman figures the right way round - I think the Genoese has the squr=arer, and the British the rounder, hat

Lamming Medievals: MF 9 British crossbowman

This figure comes with a separate right arm on which the crossbow is moulded

Lamming Medievals: MF 9a British pikeman (chain mail)

It seems to me that this figure must be MF 9a. It is the same figure as the crossbowman, but with a different separate arm. I think perhaps this is a variant as I wouldn't describe the weapon moulded to the arm as a pike.

Lamming Medievals: MF 10 Footman in gambeson with poleaxe