Thursday 15 November 2012

Ox Wagon, Perry Miniatures

Yes, I'm finally back on the wagon! Well, at least painting-wise (apologies for the awful pun). This is the first set of miniatures I've painted since at least September but this isn't the new set of figures I promised in the previous post, which I hope to complete and post on here shortly.

This is the 'Ox wagon, (includes wagon, baggage, 4 oxen plus drover, woman and child) 'Code: WR24 currently £20.50 from Perry Miniatures.

Opening up the two boxes, you are confronted with a multiple of metal and resin components. Most of the parts are obvious, for instance the ox come with separate heads but I couldn't work out what four particular items, which looked like bent pitchforks, were supposed to be. After eventually checking their website I found that they fitted vertically over the top of the wheels and fixed to the carriage. I left these off the final simply because I didn't like the look of them. I'm sure they are authentic given the Perry's reputation for accurately but I thought they just looked a bit odd.



The set comes complete with three human figures the drover, woman (with a baby) and child, shown above. As the set is part of the War of the Roses ranges the figures are suitably detailed however my brother reminded me that he had picked up another figure that would also go well with this ox set.


I have no idea who the manufacturer of this figure is, my brother found it in a back room of Spirit Games in Burton in a pile of second hand figures. The figure still had traces of paint and a fair amount of flash on it but I can only guess that it's quite old. After a quick clean up I repainted him. The only thing missing is his jar of cider and a straw in his mouth.

Using the same technique I had previously used on the trebuchet model I've made the figures removable. This way I can use the original figure for medieval/Cry Havoc games and the other (mystery) figure for any period from the 17th C onwards.

The resin luggage is nicely detailed, there's even a big old cauldron hidden in amongst there if you have a close look.

12 comments:

  1. Wonderful, I really like it, characters, tracks in the mud are really perfect...great
    Phil.

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  2. That really has turned out wonderful, great flaming work sir.

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  3. What a comeback; great piece of work Matt, love the work on the figures particularly.

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  4. That's a great looking wagon! nice one!

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  5. I have one of these on the lead pile and your lovely painting of this has inspired me to dig it out and paint it up.

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  6. Nice characterful miniature. It looks fab. Nice work sir.

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  7. Thanks for all your comments. Not sure what's coming up next as one particular figure has jumped the queue after I found a old copy of Starlord magazine. Remembering I had a figure of my favourite character I rescued him from the lead pile.

    Matt

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  8. I hope you don't mind, but I have to choose five of my favorite blogs to give the Liebster Blog Award to and you are one of those five! There are absolutely no strings attached, awkward questions to answer or any obligation to take part on your part. I hope to post my chosen 5 tomorrow.

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  9. Superbly done! Wow - that is a lot of great painting crammed into one project. Best, Dean

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  10. @ Michael - Thank you, I'm both flattered and humbled.

    @DeanM - thanks, glad you liked it.

    Regards,
    Matt

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  11. Very nice looking wagon !

    I realy like the perry wagons.

    Best regards Michael

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