My third batch of Bad Squiddo’s Shieldmaidens complete – three of the four completed by the end of February, and one completed just this side of March. That’d be the lass with the blue top, red scarf and yellow/red shield. She still needs the final coat of varnish, and a little flock added to her base as well. Not sure how lenient Alex over at Leadbaloony is being with the Fembruary submissions, but either way, at least three of these dangerous ladies got across the line in time. Similarly, those three will count for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge.
I much prefer these swordwomen sculpts over the previous Hearthguard Axewomen, and largely over the Hearthguard Swordswomen as well. particularly the models I have on the far left and right here, who are my favourites from the range so far, by far! Even though they lack the heavier chainmail armour and helms of the hearthguard, their unhelmeted heads manage to have a lot more character and detail than the helmed heads, and the hair looks much better here than that coming out from under the helmets on both sets of Hearthguard.
One more Viking Shieldmaiden post to go for now. Hopefully tomorrow(!?) Then Fembruary Round-Up, then February Round-up (or I’ll combine both of those) and then (hopefully) a round-up for the Paint What You Got Challenge.
I’ve got a few more female models I’d still really like to complete ASAP, even though February is over – and then it’ll be a mix of back to the normal stuff and doing something for Monster March, which I’m happy to see is running again this year!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nice job on these dude – they look ferocious!
Oh, and I’ll gladly flex the ‘rules’ for you mate 😊
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Thanks Alex – mucho appreciated! 😉
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Nice additional details on the shields and outfits.
Looking very good, indeed.
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Thank you, Jenn. They needed the trim really as the first of these were feeling very plain as they got close to finished.
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More very nice figures mate, will you also be taking part in Monster May(hem)?
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger. I was unaware of that particular challenge – if you could throw me a link, it’ll be almost guaranteed that I will. Someone mentioned a new challenge from Ann as well this month? I’ll have to go look that up as well…
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No problem, here the link to Keith’s original post from last year (before it was renamed Monster May(hem)….
http://angrypiper.com/?p=3685
Cheers Roger.
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Very cool indeed, mate. The work on those shields especially is impressive!
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Much appreciated, Steve. Time now to take a little break from Viking shields finally though! 😀
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Excellent work mate, a great group of ladies
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Thanks Dave. The Shed is a sty right now, but I’m looking forward to when i can get it cleaned up and then get out the old and new Vikings for some new group shots with the maidens added in…
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Very nice indeed
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Thank you!
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Very nice! 🙂 I think my favourite is the one in the red tunic!
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Thanks John. She’s one of the best in the entire range, in my opinion.
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Nice work- like those.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Again, Pete! 🙂
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They look excellent, good work. I’m a big fan of Bad Squiddo minis and yours really show the sculpts nicely.
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Nice…and I agree these are the best out of the range.
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I was thinking a lot of what you said in your post when I saw the picture and now that you’ve said it, I don’t have a lot to add other than the shields look awesome and your Vikings are going to look awesome when you put them all together!
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More of these fine maidens!!
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