{"id":2714,"date":"2020-01-16T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2020-01-16T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:05:08","slug":"2714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Norman?&#8221; is that you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow two post in as many days! a new record! Well really just part of one of those resolutions you make to yourself around this time of year, to do something more, or do something less! Well one was to do more painting of mini\u2019s, more playing with mini\u2019s, and actually posting more about it! I also vowed to try and take pictures of and categorize my entire collection here\u2026lol we\u2019ll see about that, I will try. So here goes the first \u201cmini post\u201d of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that my breaking from the tradition of never taking commissions for painting a few years back has led to more and more commissions, mostly for friends and many times to try painting figures that I would not paint for myself but I feel may be interesting or a challenge to paint.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another unit for Chris Armstrong\u2019s ever-growing Byzantine SAGA warband. This time it\u2019s a \u201cwarrior\u201d unit of 8 Mounted horsemen. They are painted as Normans in Byzantine service but I kept the paint job a bit more \u201cgeneric Norman\u201d so they can be used by Chris as mounted Medieval horsemen in many roles.<a href=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2716 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1738\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1.jpg 1738w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1-1024x398.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Normans-1-500x194.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1738px) 100vw, 1738px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The horses and the riders are from Gripping beast and have had some modifications to their poses as well as hand made steel spears added. Shields are hand painted. The next unit up for Chris\u2019s Byzantine army is a 4 horse Cataphract unit.<a href=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Norman-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2715 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Norman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Norman-1.jpg 444w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Norman-1-140x150.jpg 140w, https:\/\/historicalhobbies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Norman-1-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow two post in as many days! a new record! 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