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Post by felixs on Mar 27, 2018 13:22:13 GMT
Hello Gentlefolks,
my Later Carthaginians (does anyone ever do Early Carthaginians?) are nearly finished.
I just need to finish the six cavalry figures, which are about 50% done.
Everything else is finished, even the Ligurians (of which I had no idea how they should look, now they look quite Celtish) and the Spanish (which I enjoy painting, but the castings are quite poor). But the cavalry is not yet done.
For me, it is always the cavalry that I paint last. I could probably just paint infantry for army after army without ever wanting to do the cavalry for a change. Even with armies that I am interested in, I still find painting cavalry unexciting and chore-ish. The only thing that is worse than cavalry is chariots. Luckily, few armies that I am interested in have those.
I believe this to be a rather common phenomenon.
What do you paint last?
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Post by ammianus on Mar 27, 2018 14:53:31 GMT
I'm with you 100%; horses last. Chariots last if called for in army list. I hate painting horses.
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Post by bluestone28 on Mar 27, 2018 15:17:54 GMT
for me i always start with chariots and horses, btw i like to paint horse, (i made a Mongol Army some month ago...) but not chariots! especially general units (it's to motivate me! ) but i hate when i need to paint serial of lot of same figs... it's quite boring... it's true that painting figs is a long process, and you have to do the base too (a beautiful base is important for the overall look, it can save an average paintwork! ) rhaaa i have to paint my First Roman Empire Auxilliaries.. (only 2 different poses) hopefully only 16 figs... but it will be loooong! and next will be Egyptian new kingdom... yes i like to hurt myself...
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Post by edonaldson on Mar 27, 2018 16:40:45 GMT
Horses first. I like painting them..... Shields last. Usually after much dithering about shield patterns and such. Working on Aztecs currently. No horses but LOTS of shield patterns.
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Post by Baldie on Mar 27, 2018 17:46:47 GMT
My poor old Ancient Britons Cavalry division still to do after five years. Infantry got cracked out in no time but these poor chumps are bare or just undercoated.
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Post by martin on Mar 27, 2018 19:05:59 GMT
What gets painted last? Too many half-done figures to mention.......a Minoan camp follower element has dust on it, I think, tis sooooo long since it were primed. Some Italiot Hoplite Greeks have been started and stopped too many times to mention. Also some 2mm ECW stuff was started when Pontius was a pilot (as they say). Last to paint tends to be anything 'uniform', which accounts for my HotE Egyptian 1880's guys. Should be easy (with white uniforms and little else to tackle),but maybe the lack of je-ne-sais-quoi makes restarting them less attractive......(?)
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Post by Baldie on Mar 27, 2018 20:27:37 GMT
And of course the garden fence
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Post by paulisper on Mar 27, 2018 21:23:28 GMT
I like to vary it and actually now enjoy painting horses... Sometimes I start with the foot and other times with the horse - it's all grist to the mill ;-)
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Post by macbeth on Mar 27, 2018 22:53:31 GMT
I have a system where I have three armies underway utilising three trays
Tray 1 - the figures that are underway (paint being slapped on) Tray 2 - undercoated figures to move up to Tray 1 Tray 3 - prepped figures waiting for undercoats and move up to Tray 2
Each tray has 6 strips of figure one mounted (3 or 4 figs usually) and one foot (6 - 12 figures) for each of the three armies
About once a week replace the figures in tray 3 that have been moved up.
When an army runs out of either foot or mounted before the army is done I add in odds and sods from the box where I am bringing armies up to DBA3 compliance
When this process is in full swing I find that Medieval Knights (those that require heraldry to be painted) drag along behind the rest. I have to be really pumped to try and get those intricate designs (or my best attempt at said!) so for example when I was painting the Scots Common - I had completed every element of the army except for the last two Kn elements - and in that time as the paint was slowly slapped onto the Kn, I completed two other armies that had not been started when the Scots first hit the trays.
Samurai are another heatbreaker - that fine detail with cords and laces. I get all pumped up to paint a Samurai army and then as I start getting into the Samurai Cv the enthusiasm wanes
Cheers
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Post by Cromwell on Mar 28, 2018 7:20:10 GMT
Artillery, I hate painting gunpowder or torsion artillery. They never come out to my satisfaction.
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Post by felixs on Mar 31, 2018 22:14:04 GMT
Finished my Carthaginians. I decided to do all the rest in lavender and the horses in simple brown. Looks great that way and I liked painting lavender coloured shields.
Still. Horses are awful. Luckily the Polybian Romans only have 6 horse minis. That should be doable.
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Post by goragrad on Mar 31, 2018 23:58:12 GMT
Greek shields.
Back 8 years or so ago when I started painting again, I had received 44 AB/BH unarmored hoplites in an acquisition off TMP. They were already primed and being 18s i felt they would be a good bunch to start with. Went fine until the shield devices. At that point they went on the back burner and I did some Palmyrans and Han. And they stayed on the back burner until last year when I bit the bullet and hammered out a few more shields (my niece had done a few i n the interim - including a rather nice dolphin).
Then I got to the last half dozen and decided to do some of the 'running leg' designs. First effort was not a success and so the rest of the Greeks are back to the back burner.
In the general run of painting it is figures with a lot of detail work - straps, fittings, etc.
On a figure by figure basis it is shield devices - whether infantry or cavalry shields are last.
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Post by Haardrada on Apr 1, 2018 7:46:27 GMT
Greek shields. Back 8 years or so ago when I started painting again, I had received 44 AB/BH unarmored hoplites in an acquisition off TMP. They were already primed and being 18s i felt they would be a good bunch to start with. Went fine until the shield devices. At that point they went on the back burner and I did some Palmyrans and Han. And they stayed on the back burner until last year when I bit the bullet and hammered out a few more shields (my niece had done a few i n the interim - including a rather nice dolphin). Then I got to the last half dozen and decided to do some of the 'running leg' designs. First effort was not a success and so the rest of the Greeks are back to the back burner. In the general run of painting it is figures with a lot of detail work - straps, fittings, etc. On a figure by figure basis it is shield devices - whether infantry or cavalry shields are last. This is the same reason why I have not finnished my Athenians...I'll get round to buying some little big man transfers one day.😦
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Post by Haardrada on Apr 1, 2018 8:06:51 GMT
I find my main reason for not finnishing off armies is the distraction of other armies!I have such a varied interest in History that my interest can switch from Biblical to War of the Roses in the blink of an eye...which is annoying when your trying to concentrate on completing an army project.This has left me in the embarrassing situation of several partly painted armies.
Currently I have Sea Peoples,Ghaznavid,Hindu Indian (with Tamil & Rajput morphs) and Athenian armies all with a few painted elements but all incomplete but it is not one specific troop type that holds me up...With the Athenians its the shields,I've painted the Ghaznavid Ghulams but not the rest,I've painted the Hindu infantry but stalled on the elephants and with the Sea peoples I've started the Sherden and Peleset blades but left the rest...its become a vicious circle where no one army gets completed!
How I managed to paint my Spartans,Hsuing nu(with Hu, Southern and Juan Juan morph elements),Normans,Lombards,Timurids and Late Swiss (with all 4 army options) is now a mystery to me...I've painted vast armies for other periods...even a large union army for Fire and Fury and managed to vary the army enough to break the monotony of the dark and light blue!
Does anyone have the same problem....solution suggestions welcome.lol
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Post by timurilank on Apr 1, 2018 12:57:24 GMT
I find my main reason for not finnishing off armies is the distraction of other armies!I have such a varied interest in History that my interest can switch from Biblical to War of the Roses in the blink of an eye...which is annoying when your trying to concentrate on completing an army project.This has left me in the embarrassing situation of several partly painted armies. Currently I have Sea Peoples,Ghaznavid,Hindu Indian (with Tamil & Rajput morphs) and Athenian armies all with a few painted elements but all incomplete but it is not one specific troop type that holds me up...With the Athenians its the shields,I've painted the Ghaznavid Ghulams but not the rest,I've painted the Hindu infantry but stalled on the elephants and with the Sea peoples I've started the Sherden and Peleset blades but left the rest...its become a vicious circle where no one army gets completed! How I managed to paint my Spartans,Hsuing nu(with Hu, Southern and Juan Juan morph elements),Normans,Lombards,Timurids and Late Swiss (with all 4 army options) is now a mystery to me...I've painted vast armies for other periods...even a large union army for Fire and Fury and managed to vary the army enough to break the monotony of the dark and light blue! Does anyone have the same problem....solution suggestions welcome.lol I sold essentially all my DBA ancient and medieval armies after 2.2 appeared. The collection was similar to what you have described and contained very few historical matched pairs.
Returning to DBA when 3.0 appeared I resolved to hold my focus on one particular period before moving on to next. The biggest challenge was to avoid the repetition of colour schemes and shield patterns for similar type armies, such as what I have now done with the Nuestrian, Austrasia, Armorica, Visigoths, Burgundy and Provence armies.
Broadening my research to a particular period with all the possible combatants did work as a stimulus to finish an army as I was eager to start on the next one. I have recently finished the Avars and Armorican Bretons and now have Early Lombards and Italian Ostrogoths on the workbench.
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