In June myself and Dame Leslie bought Shadows Over Camelot to play on vacation. Really good fun game, totally recommend it.
The game came with a set of miniatures, which I have been (slowly) painting. One group we have the Knights of the Roundtable (left to right), Percival, Palamedes, Kay, Arthur, Gawain, Galahad and Tristran. Plus the treasures, Lancelot’s armour, the Holy Grail and Excalibur. Not pictured are the Picts, Saxons and catapults.
We’ll definitely be getting the expansion to the game next year which will have a Sir Bedivere miniature, can’t wait!
Ahh I envy you a lot! I don’t have people to play with (and I don’t know a lot about the game) but these are beautiful!
I’ve just watched Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, a 1963 animation, for the first time since I was a kid. As someone who also grew up reading the book(s) it’s based on, by TH White, it makes me cringe over how trivialised it makes the Arthurian legend, and how much extra misogyny they managed to stuff into this story of Arthur’s childhood as the Wart (which they didn’t even pronounce right grmmbl).
But can we also just take a moment to appreciate these… the background illustrations for the title sequence, being casually gorgeous behind the names of the crew. So delicious. (The purple dragon is my favourite, and is such a contrast to the joke one Madame Mim turns into, in the film itself.)
Finally painting again after nearly three months virtually without. I find it’s easiest to try out new approaches after a break (even a forced break can have its advantages like that.)
Arthurian Legends 