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Post by Ken Gordon on Aug 6, 2023 18:27:15 GMT
Finally finished III/33 Early Muslim North Africa and Sicily all, the options ready (in some guise) for Britcon next week. 2xCv 3xLh 6xPs 1x3bw 3x3Ax 3xSp Just worried now they look like a ‘packet of spangles’
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Post by menacussecundus on Aug 6, 2023 19:38:40 GMT
I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw a packet of spangles. Possibly David Seamen's kit in the 1996 Euros.
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Post by macbeth on Aug 7, 2023 0:57:29 GMT
I was surprisingly distracted for most of the weekend - despite Wf(X) and the younger of the (not so)Little Warbands heading off to Wagga for a training camp (Inline Roller Skating) and the elder of the (Not So)Little Warbands house sitting.
I did manage to spend a day building terrain with two of my comrades in arms and over the weekend painted up
2x3Ax for the Scrap Build Hittite Empire 2x4Pk for the Ptolemaics - with these to the Ptolemaics are battle ready - ie I can field my preferred 12 element list
These Ptolemaics will be getting a run at MOAB but with more Ax than I'd usually field
Cheers
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 7, 2023 15:03:29 GMT
More Ghaznavid activity today.🙂
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 10, 2023 10:35:27 GMT
Got a good few hours in this morning and I'm almost done the Ghaznavid first batch...just some LBM studio shield transfers to do and a bit tidy up and they'll be finished....I'm happy with my progress so far.🙂
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Post by paulisper on Aug 10, 2023 11:53:00 GMT
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Post by carll on Aug 11, 2023 19:52:42 GMT
Well done Ken. If anyone has camera at Britcon must share Ken's work with us all (if Ken is happy to be snapped on film (or should that be in pixcels)??!! CarlL
PS In fact be good to see any photos of the DBA armies at Britcon. All 15mm I assume? (I haven't played 15mm ancients in a while ...)
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Post by carll on Aug 11, 2023 19:53:18 GMT
Sounds good Haardrada. CarlL
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Post by carll on Aug 11, 2023 20:19:10 GMT
Well I went sideways with my Portuguese rampaging in Africa and Indian Ocean project and thought of which [25mm] enemies I could field. Moroccans - using my Islamic Berbers. TICK! West Africans from sub- Saharan Africa - using my West Sudanese. TICK! Kongo? allies and enemies..... mmm... Zinga (pagan East Africans)... mmm... Swahili Afro-Arabs - possibly my old conquest and Abbasid Arab armies that have not been much used in recent years (after some rebasing) and perhaps finally adding swordsmen to my mainly spear and bow foot. [I did start these in late 1980s, old style Irregular Miniatures charging forward swing sword overhead... I dug them out and found many, all de-flashed, primed white, then given black wash to help pick out chainmail or folds in robes.} Omani Arabs (as above) Hindu Indians with Islamic Arabs (traders private armies) in support - as above for Islamic Arabs; perhaps use some of my painted (and unpainted once painted) Classical Indians as Hindus... mmm.. I was also tempted by the small side show in Abyssinia / Ethiopia with Christian Abyssinians with Portuguese allies versus Islamic Somalis.... Then I got diverted to converting some (well about 45 figures of) Africans carrying muskets, (very old Citadel? 25mm figures of porters carrying rifles for white game hunters) with addition of milliput 'ball and powder' pouches and carrying sword and shield, along with existing rifled musket for (later arquebus / musket armed) African troops. (Possibly Kongo style see image attached)... all because I liked the figures and thought I must find a use for them!! Next job priming them. CarlL
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Post by carll on Aug 11, 2023 20:28:23 GMT
PPS the very kind Duncan Head, over on SoA website, helped identify the source of these images of Kingdom of Kongo warriors to:
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 12, 2023 7:32:10 GMT
Ghaznavid shield work done.
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Post by tifast on Aug 12, 2023 12:08:29 GMT
Finishing my Norman army. Remind next time not to freehand the shields of a Norman army. Very very bad idea...
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 12, 2023 12:14:29 GMT
Finishing my Norman army. Remind next time not to freehand the shields of a Norman army. Very very bad idea... It was bold of you to try ....a Norman trait.😉
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Post by macbeth on Aug 12, 2023 22:38:38 GMT
With Wf(X) and the (not so) little warbands away again I managed some solid painting hours - 1xCv and 1xLH for the scrap build Sha-to Turks 2x4Pk for the Ptolemaics 1x3Kn(Gen), 1x4Pk and 1x4Ax for the Asiatic Early Successor (other) 2xPs and 1x7Hd for the Scrap Build Hittites - completing them 1xLH for the Anatolian Turkomen - completing them as well (army 168)
And putting the first licks of paint on the Palialogan Byzantine
Cheers
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 13, 2023 11:16:36 GMT
Ghaznavid first batch completed...2xSp,2x4Bw,1x3Wb & 1x3Bd.
Batch two undercoated...2x4Ax,1x3Pk,2x3Bw & Kanaaj 3xSp.I'm adding bits from other armies that I can also complete at the same time.🙂
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