These two stands of Fyrd were made from the Robin Hood Airfix set and a few leftovers of the last Revell Saxon´s box. Like this my Saxon army got to 17 stands against 15 stands of the Normans and I will probably let it be like this.
All figures got some degree of conversion. The Airfix figures got plastic card round shields and broomstick spears and the Revell figures also got spears replacing axes and swords.
Only two colors were used for the tunics which speeded painting. The shields were also kept with only a few colors and mostly some sort of cross. I felt tempted to glue paper shields but ended up by painting them as the Saxons symbols look far more simple than the Normans.
On the other stand there is a lonely Saxon lord in its chain mail armor leading its peasantry into battle (but at least fighting within its ranks). You can find one of the several Friar Tuck figures with shield and spear on the back row, left figure. There are two archer poses in the Robin Hood box and some four of these are spread on the second rank just for some variety. The original bows were a bit too big for 1066 and they were slightly shortened as the famous English/Welsh longbow is still far in time. From the box, only the Robin Hood figures, Lady Marian, and the figure with the pole high in both hands (another Friar Tuck figure?) were not used. All others are great peasant figures for many Middle Age armies up to the XIV century.
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