Two years after purchasing the first batch of Foundry Vikings for my long planned Saga warband the first miniature is painted and based! This is also the only miniature completed since the Chaos Thug back in the spring of 2018.

A confluence of external factors pushed me over the top at last; the coming together of a handful of friends and colleagues interested in playing Saga 2 Age of Vikings and Age of Magic (already purchased and planning an undead faction using the splendid GW Night Gaunt miniatures…) and finally having purchased a more robust painting and modeling kit than the svelte Army Painter set I had previously wet my erstwhile painter’s toes with.

The core of my set up is now Foundry’s Original and Expansion paint sets, supplemented by a few GW paints, specialist inks and some decent Winsor & Netwon Series 7 brushes, as well a wider range of basing materials.

Although still a little rough for my liking the difference that access to a full range of paints has made to my rediscovery of miniature painting is, I hope, visible. Certainly I feel happier about placing this miniature on a tabletop than I did the Thug or Amazon. Hopefully the next few Vikings will see further gains as I get used to the Foundry paints and necessity of holding miniatures at arms length to see them clearly rather than at the the end of my nose.