It is a total of 20 gaming elements. Here I show only 8 of them: defenders of the wagonfort.
Camp, cattle and bagage train prictures will be posted later.
These Germanic ladies and children encourage their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons in battle in front of them. In case their camp is attacked, these ladies will first insult their attackers before defending their wagon barricade.
19th century romantic inspiration: The Teutonic woman rather kill themselves and their children on their 'Wagenburg' in stead of being enslaved by the Romans.
For constructing the wagons I prefer to use wood and some hardboard and plastic wire.
I based my designs on Scandinavian and prehistoric archeological findings and reconstructions. This one is an archeological miniature model from India.
A neo-romantic painting:
My own interpretation:
The figures are a mix of Airfix, Atlantic, Caesar, Esci, Hat and Imex.
The four wheeled wagon is from Viking origin and so it is far too modern for the early Germanic era. So its a misfit in my group of gaming elements and I added some Celtic druids to this model to have all misfits together.
A very old and primitive design is from Armenia:
For the construction of the movable parts I was inspired by a medieval design:
Other wagons I used are existing models or conversions from different manufacturers in plastic, metal and resin.
All together, I must conclude while some of the prefabricated wagonmodels are on the small side, my scratch build wagons are a little too big for this era. It must be because I wanted to make nice large wooden wheels but after choosing the size of the wheeldiameters everything else became that large too. We may also call it little experience in building scale models. My wagons will fit the 28mm range better. Next time I make it all a little smaller.
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