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Post by paulisper on Mar 28, 2024 12:51:40 GMT
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Post by paulisper on Mar 30, 2024 8:31:56 GMT
And the full II/75 Kaya Korean army can now be seen here: www.facebook.com/groups/382414395294162/permalink/2270049636530619/Moving onto a batch of 3D resin prints from Cromarty Forge. This is an army that was won by Tom Whitehead at the Cold Ash Clash late last year and, with a few extras, we can each have a Late Imperial Roman army, with all the options. First time I’ve printed plastic 15mm and it’s an ‘interesting’ experience 😉 P
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Post by martin on Mar 30, 2024 8:33:28 GMT
First time I’ve painted plastic 15mm and it’s an ‘interesting’ experience 😉 P What’s the main difference, Paul?
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Post by paulisper on Mar 30, 2024 9:01:07 GMT
First time I’ve painted plastic 15mm and it’s an ‘interesting’ experience 😉 P What’s the main difference, Paul? The casting is not as clean as I would have expected, with some occasional ‘flash’ needing removing, and more brittle than anticipated- lost a spear from the second unit on the deck. They’re painting up nicely though 👍 P
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Post by Baldie on Mar 30, 2024 12:59:34 GMT
Just starting some Isengard for MESBG. Loving the game at the moment and went a bit mental on 2nd hand purchases. Certainly no possibility of getting everything done before I pop of to the wargaming equivalent of Valhalla where I will eternally be beaten just as it looks like I am in a winning position. Is wargaming S&M a thing?
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Post by claudermilk on Mar 31, 2024 15:40:01 GMT
What’s the main difference, Paul? The casting is not as clean as I would have expected, with some occasional ‘flash’ needing removing, and more brittle than anticipated- lost a spear from the second unit on the deck. They’re painting up nicely though 👍 P These are 3d printed and not ultra cast? I just painted up some 3d printed figures, though from an independent vendor on etsy. I guess the resin chosen makes a difference, the figures I got are very slightly flexible and the long, thin sarissas are slightly bendy which is great. I did find the support contact points to clean up were different to clean than traditionally-cast metal figures.
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Post by paulisper on Mar 31, 2024 16:29:40 GMT
The casting is not as clean as I would have expected, with some occasional ‘flash’ needing removing, and more brittle than anticipated- lost a spear from the second unit on the deck. They’re painting up nicely though 👍 P These are 3d printed and not ultra cast? I just painted up some 3d printed figures, though from an independent vendor on etsy. I guess the resin chosen makes a difference, the figures I got are very slightly flexible and the long, thin sarissas are slightly bendy which is great. I did find the support contact points to clean up were different to clean than traditionally-cast metal figures. No idea… looking in the Plastic Soldier Company’s website, it’s tricky to find out exactly what their process is and the resin used for the Cromarty Forge ranges. I’m presuming they’re 3D prints. There’s virtually no flex in the figures… P
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Post by carll on Apr 4, 2024 17:35:40 GMT
Evening, Well my seven baggage / camp wagons are now finished. One is a re-configured ‘gypsy’ like wagon, a printed plastic model, with much interior detail, lost to view when assembled! It now has a shaft, larger body (and larger wheels), a draught animal and a driver who has dismounted to trade. The original (advertising image for) “Potion Merchants stall” is here to show the before and after conversion. Three of my six converted Warbases’ peasant cart 2, have been converted to limbered up, with a team of three draught animals each, to be used as baggage or as wagons just pulling into a laager, each can be either covered over or open to take a base of camp followers, (see photos). The other three have been deployed as wagons in laager, in camp, without their draught animals; with camp clutter on interior and some stakes to aid defence on the exterior. Again each can either be covered over or take a base of camp followers. (The simple ‘cover’ was inspired by the tented affair of the Asiatic wagon sold by Irregular Miniatures which I painted up many years ago for a Scythian DBA army! Photo on their website.)
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Post by carll on Apr 4, 2024 17:36:24 GMT
PS The interior camp items are a mix of old (leftover) 25mm items or recently purchased 28mm camp followers etc from Irregular Miniatures.
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Post by carll on Apr 4, 2024 17:38:44 GMT
Another item, my scratch built, almost 2D, impression of a Roman villa, and plunge pool, where Lucius Cossinius, Senator and commander, was caught bathing is inspired by the opening of Barry Strauss’s book “The Spartacus War”. So my model is part edifice, part BUA, to be used as a camp by Roman Republican commanders. It comes with two bases of camp followers: one of Lucius caught in the plunge pool with his female attendant nearby and the other Lucius, bodyguard and lady in waiting ready for fight or flight. All quite imaginative rather than historical. Photos below. (The plaster work paint job inspired by our SoA editors link to findings of painted plaster at a villa site in England. So slightly historical! But more ‘Carry On’ or ‘Up Pompeii’ in delivery!) CarlL
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Post by carll on Apr 4, 2024 17:40:39 GMT
Returning to an earlier thread, I decided to do some what if Spartacus Thracians: what if his fellow Thracians armed themselves with long or short curved cutting weapons and whatever clothing they could find. Here is my unit (or four elements) of ‘What if’ Thracians in revolt with Spartacus. I decided to give them an alternative camp follower base, of wailing women, as suggested in DBA army list. Are they cursing / swearing at the Romans or their husbands and boyfriends, to encourage the latter in their fight? I am currently completing a Celt or Germanic sacred grove, more on this at a later date! CarlL
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Post by Baldie on Apr 5, 2024 6:04:46 GMT
Wailing women! If you say so.
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Post by macbeth on Apr 7, 2024 8:01:09 GMT
This weekend I managed to finish
1xLCh(Gen), 1x4Bd, 1x3Bd and 1xPs for my Sea Peoples 1x3Bw and 1x4Bw for the Palaialogan Byzantines 1x3Ax for my Later Hoplite Greeks (Rhodian - other in Greece) to replace an element that had weak ankles and lost a couple of figs
Cheers
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Post by Brian Ború on Apr 7, 2024 16:34:12 GMT
Approx. 200 miniatures primed. A wide range from 2mm camps, scenery, Achaemenid Persians, Macedonians, 30YW Swedes to WW1 B.E.F. Infantry, MG & artillery crew.
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Post by paulisper on Apr 8, 2024 19:58:14 GMT
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