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Post by carll on Jan 19, 2024 18:14:54 GMT
Nice one Macbeth, CarlL
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Post by ratsmitglied on Jan 19, 2024 22:39:19 GMT
I am currently painting a III/30a Magyar army.
For use at Cancon in a week, so I probably should get something more than just the horses painted...
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Post by macbeth on Jan 21, 2024 11:37:16 GMT
Yesterday I finished
1x3Ax and 1xPs for the Asiatic Early Successor (Other) 2x4Pk and 1xPs for the Macedonian Early Successor (Polyperchon)
This has completed both these armies.
I put the first splashes on paint onto the Lusignan Cypriot
Cheers
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 22, 2024 16:43:23 GMT
Batch two of the Medieval Germans complete(6x4Bd), it's now on to batch three....2xSp,2xPs+1x4Cb.🙂
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Post by carll on Jan 22, 2024 20:39:56 GMT
Good work ratsmitglied, macbeth and Haardrada, CarlL
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Post by carll on Jan 22, 2024 21:01:32 GMT
Now I am retired I am free to pick up a paintbrush most days, and given the recent stormy weather has gone on and on for ages, it feels a bit like we have all been confined to barracks.... so its given me lots of opportunity to get on with my 25mm "Hollywood-ish" Spartacus army. Today I finished painting all the blades I bought 40 odd years ago. My target was 15 elements of four figure "Blades" so 60 figures ... but painted 77 figures (as I threw in some surplus Republican Romans and other odds and ends) in my enthusiasm to see what they all looked like when done!! So I have some spare figures beyond my BIG DBA aim for a future DBMM (or TtS) army but don't tell anyone about my heresies!! Just got to base them all now! They are old style 25mm for most part but including some of the later big 25mm (now seen as 28mm) and this with some exuberant poses means I may struggle to get four figures on a 60x20mm base (so some may end up on 60x25mm or even 60x30mm bases as happened with the large 25mm Berber Muslim spearmen I painted a year or two ago). I haven't included all the gladiator figures I bought previously as I thought I would use the figures of the Retiarius, Laquerius, Dimachaerus, and (some of the) Velitus figures within my horde bases which I plan to paint next. If you want a quick pictorial guide to different (and mainly later Augustan or Imperial period Roman gladiators - later than Spartacus era) then see www.historyanswers.co.uk/ancient/what-were-the-different-types-of-gladiator/ CarlL
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 23, 2024 14:21:52 GMT
Batch three of the Germans now de-flashed and undercoated.🙂
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Post by carll on Jan 25, 2024 19:14:59 GMT
Got 60 figures on paint sticks for 12 elements (based with five figures) of "Horde" .. read camp followers behind the battle-line 'Gladiator' swordsmen ("Blades"). A few needed primer touching up after rattling round in a box for 40+ years!! Also dug out 9 cavalry figures (mish mash of 25mm oldies and a few 28mm although biggest is a Warrior Miniatures 25mm one piece casting of a mounted Spartacus) for revised configuration of three Generals and cavalry bodyguards as option for DBA although historically I have only read about Spartacus deploying mounted scouts (Light Horse?) or using horses for raiding (as mounted infantry). Got them de-flashed, were needed, and primed. (I did have 9 cavalry de-flashed and primed and ready to paint from 40 years ago but after reading more recently about the revolt of Spartacus I thought I would go for more varied make up of riders and mounts and add general's standards.) Also dug out and de-flashed my 2 bags of 1st Corps "Rolling bails of fire" (all Hollywood rather than history, I think!?), see 1stcorps.co.uk/product/rolling-bails-of-fire/ so now ready to prime. They wont have shields like the ones in the 1st corps web photo, just a javelin in one hand and other pulling the rolling bail! On a slightly more 'finishing' note, after a little research about soil types in southern Italy, I made up a yellowish clay-soil mix, (mixing sand, very small cork grit, builders PVA, and paints) and applied that to my glued-to-bases gladiator swordsmen (DBA "Blades"). So a busy day at the 'painting table'!! CarlL
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Post by skb777 on Jan 26, 2024 11:24:03 GMT
Thought I would try out a sample of Red Copper Miniatures before buying. The level of detail is stunning
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Post by Les1964 on Jan 26, 2024 12:05:26 GMT
Thought I would try out a sample of Red Copper Miniatures before buying. The level of detail is stunning Have you based any infantry yet , as by the looks of the pictures the figures don't have a base attached to their feet ?
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Post by skb777 on Jan 26, 2024 12:12:22 GMT
Nope, basing clearly yet to come. Need to experiment with that first as never done sand before
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Post by Haardrada on Jan 26, 2024 13:03:18 GMT
Medieval Germans IV/13a painted,based and awaiting flocking.....I can't believe I've done it in 14 days(16 elements)!🙂
Since I'm awaiting the arrival of an order morphing the Danish allied contingent into a full army, I'll leave them (and the alternative Early Polish contingent) until they've arrived. Meanwhile I'll make a start on my Late Amorites.😁
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Post by claudermilk on Jan 26, 2024 15:00:53 GMT
Just getting started on my II/53 Ancient Britons. Because chariots.
I have some touch ups on my II/12 and II/54b to do then finally get a protective coat on them before playing again.
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Post by carll on Jan 26, 2024 19:09:42 GMT
skb777, great painting of detail, lovely photo in link, to show detail and how you painted it. CarlL
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Post by carll on Jan 26, 2024 19:14:51 GMT
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