In the first post of this Calendar, I explained that I recently painted figures just because I had a color scheme in mind, and not necessarily to complete existing armies. This is the case today, because we will follow the steps of two warriors lost in the forest, and they won’t find their friends…

Here you are, the fourth image of the calendar.

These two Housecarls might be Saxons, or Danes, in the north of England at the beginning of the 11th century AD. They got lost in the forest, and discovered by chance an old Neolithic site, a circle of huge vertical stones named a cromlech.

These guys are carrying two-handed axes. They are probably the ancestors of some Galloglaich who will walk on the same land 500 years later – see here if you want to know more about them.

A technical thought about photographs: I took pictures in the same conditions as usual, i.e. with two lamps on each side to lighten the scene. The result was so bright that I found necessary to lower light and contrast, in order to locate my guys in northern England… I was probably influenced by the TV series Vikings, in which the sky is mostly cloudy.

Hope you like them 🙂

See you tomorrow.