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DBA STYLE NOVELTY ARMY GALLERY
A small army painted, and sold through eBay
Wargaming is fun - Ve haf vays of making it FUN !
Don't take it too seriously. If you catch yourself doing that, then it's time to do something completely different, hence the army below was created for some light relief.
Meet .........
The Knights of St. Nicholas
a.k.a. "Santa's Soldiers"
We all know that we have to be good little boys and girls when Christmas approaches, if we're not then Santa won't come to visit us ......
but there was a time when he would only visit us if we HAD been naughty little princes and despots .........
Meet Baron Santa da Klawze and his command staff - Brigadier Banner, Major Hessitation, and Colonel Clary Nett
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The Baron is naturally followed around by his personal bodyguard - The Happy Halberdiers, though no-one understands why they chose that banner - it sort of says "shoot here - X marks the spot" |
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Baron da Klawze is a very busy man and especially during the winter campaigning season he has to rely a lot on his deputies . . . .
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. . . One of his most important staff members is the Faerie Queen of Treetop Towers - She rides around on her white horse (it saves wear & tear on the wings) and organises the mounted crowd.
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Another important bunch are the "Chargehands" of the toy factory - they got quite good at making tight turns, on horseback, between rows of toy machines, but had to add some leather barding around their horses - for the protection of the production staff - dwarves heads are just the right height to get a neddy knee-cap in the nose - and we all know that dwarves already have redder shnozzes that Rudolph.. |
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Now it should be understood that not all is happiness and light in the da Klawze domain. Problems do occur with the likes of grumpy dwarves, or with erotic elves getting it on in public places ......... therefore Baron Santa conducted a survey of all his citizens and decided a policing force was needed, after a long deliberation over a cauldron of hot-toddied egg-nog, he decided upon ......
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The Gendarnerie of the Gnomery a.k.a "The Dragged-on Dragoons" |
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Of course - it's all very well having lots of "pretty boyz" on horseback, but when a reall man is called for to infiltrate through a chimney, Santa da Klawze is the first to admit he's more than the job needs, he therefore retains several elite units of infiltrators, de-filterators, and bribable standard traitors. These he loosely refers to as his . . . . |
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. . . . Scummishers
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Tough little fellas they are and always in a tight spot, or should that be they can get tight on a spot (of Christmas wine)? | ||
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The last and arguably most important group are the "Choppers and Loppers" - when they go into battle, they're a tough bunch and have cleared many a crowded tavern when "The Thirst" hits them. Carrying both a musket, and either a two-handed axe or halberd, they can clear away the discarded Crimbo Trees faster than Dad can polish off the turkey carcass. |
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All things considered, aren't you glad that Santa now only visits the good children, and then only when he's in a good mood? Imagine what it would be like if he was coming to punish you instead of give you gifts and presents . . . perhaps he started the phrase "Present Arms"?
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Army comprises - 24 Cavalry 24 infantry = 72 figures total
Painted with acrylics and inks Varnished with gloss before shadow washing, then matt-varnished Bases are wood, textured, painted with acrylics, then flocked
Banners and flags (all 8 of them) are from the Warflags.com SYW Bavarian Range printed on self adhesive photo-sticker paper and varnished after application
Figures are mixed Minifigs and a few makes I don't recognise |
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