It’s autumn in the dark age, a Viking raiding party storms a small village somewhere in the north.
The stockade is bypassed, and the chief of the clan is going to kill the monk if a proper ransom is not given.
Against the normal Viking use, he imposed his crew the use on shields of the clan’s colors, the blue and the yellow, to make them clearly distinguishable.
The small bunch of defenders (the head of the village and his servant with swords, plus villagers armed with working tools) is trying to protect the persons escaping with their poor possessions.
I spent around 100 hours to complete this diorama, the base is cork, I like the shapes it takes and how I need to adapt the diorama design to its curves. The terrain is gypsum with sand, while grass and tree are from the material used for crib.
The Vikings are the marvelous Zvezda, the defenders are the venerable Robin Hood from Airfix, civilians are a mix of Zvezda Spartans, Caesar Mycenaeans and Atlantic Egyptians (Airfix and Atlantic directly from my child box-of-games of the ‘70s)
The water well is Italeri, as the shack and the stockade (made from the Napoleonic’s accessories).
Comments are more than welcome, and have an happy and Covid-free new year !
Let's try the link of the pictures....
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Hi Iceman, very glad to see you even here!! BTW an amazing work as usual!! 
