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Post by claudermilk on Apr 21, 2024 14:13:44 GMT
I'm getting going on my Phokian army (II/5f). Everything is primed and colors will start going on today.
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rudi
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Post by rudi on Apr 21, 2024 21:16:45 GMT
I'm expanding my cardboard token collection... I've made these for trying DBA with my friends, since in my student economy I can't afford to buy a set of armies to just try a ruleset. These work pretty nicely. I'm planning to paint these so that I could form most of the armies in the army lists.
These are made from aquarell paper package back boards and are painted with brown ink with a brush. I've made a distinct design for every kind of troop, and I've tried to make them as recognizable as possible.
Propably will stick with playin with these for a while.
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Post by carll on Apr 22, 2024 8:53:29 GMT
Lovely work Rudi. These just remind me of: 1. Rock paintings from ancient times. So Beautiful work. 2. The troop descriptions from DBA so spot on. And as a bonus: They must be so light (and lie fairly flat) you can take them on holiday or anywhere else for a game! Brill. CarlL
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Post by kaiphranos on Apr 22, 2024 12:50:32 GMT
I like the style, but do you have a way to tell the opposing armies apart?
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Post by rudi on Apr 22, 2024 18:08:15 GMT
I like the style, but do you have a way to tell the opposing armies apart? I usually mark them with blue tack if they both have same troops. Not pretty, but works.
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Post by carll on Apr 22, 2024 18:47:13 GMT
Coloured dots or coloured edges to the bases would work. Something I did for my 6mm Napoleonics CarlL
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Post by rudi on Apr 23, 2024 11:48:22 GMT
Coloured dots or coloured edges to the bases would work. Something I did for my 6mm Napoleonics CarlL Oh yes, that would be prettier, but I would need to make even more of these tokens if I needed to have enough of every troop type for both colors. Now I can mix the tokens and play almost any composition, only not two extremely special armies of 3 elephants and 8 3Bd against each others.
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Post by kaiphranos on Apr 23, 2024 14:27:43 GMT
I wonder if you could get some colored rubber bands or something to go around the edges but be removable...
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Post by claudermilk on Apr 24, 2024 1:21:36 GMT
Finished up the Baueda generic fortified camp. I think I can add some more pieces and turn it into a BUA fort. Yes, the gates do open.
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Post by timurilank on Apr 25, 2024 7:38:17 GMT
My order from TimeCast arrived Wednesday. Thursday was spent cleaning, priming and painting the Armenian infantry. Detailing them today will complete two commands of II/28c. Two Armenian commands are ready for this Thursday game. Now, 48 Late Roman auxilia are next on the work bench. These will fill the various cohortales, numeri, citizen militia elements needed for the Bosporan, Sub-Roman British, Later Visigothic and Middle Frankish armies. Shields are now the last step. At the end of the 5th century, I doubt if shields had a uniform appearance. Still playing with several ideas.
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Post by claudermilk on Apr 26, 2024 2:06:03 GMT
Another finished stronghold. This goes with the Samurai Mongeese from Magister Miliutum. Camp pieces and base are all 3D printed.
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Post by mark leslie on Apr 28, 2024 4:14:44 GMT
Continuing to add to my Punic Wars force pool with a Numidian General.
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Post by carll on Apr 28, 2024 8:04:30 GMT
Lovely Numidian general mark leslie. I do think your finishing touch with shield insignia adds a bit more beauty to the scheme. CarlL
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Post by carll on Apr 28, 2024 23:02:05 GMT
I have no beautiful photos to add to the recent posts above, but I have been quietly busy on a restoration project or two.
I have added 22 elements of Horde to my BIG DBA Spartacus army so it can be used for a DBMM 400AP game! Mainly from purchase of second hand 25mm figures (real mix of Garrison, Minifigs and Hinchliffe!) which I have re-cycled by rebasing, repairing and repainting in small or large part depending on figures state. I also added some ‘youths’ by mixing in a few new 28mm and old 25mm ‘children’ with arms (child soldiers is not new in history) from Irregular Miniatures and Bad Squiddo Games mainly. I also added in some left over gladiator figures from my first painting cycle (when I found I had too many of one style / pose of gladiator to fit in comfortably in either blade or horde bases).
I over bought second-hand lightly armed figures for use as ‘horde’ so after similar restoration process, I added these re-painted 25mm to my Hellenistic / Mediterranean psiloi pool of 25mm figures giving me many more bases of javelin armed psiloi, 3Ax, or 4Ax.
When searching for the above I also found some second hand Cretan archers, from Minifigs (both from original PB range with thick cast weapons and later slender weapons re-cast PB range); and having had my original unit of 10 such figures pinched off a SoA display game at a venue in Lancashire many years ago, I decided to re-visit this unit and created two such Cretan archer units one of 5 and other of 6 elements (as this was what came in job lots). These followed another re-furbish job on them. I even made a better job of painting them than I did with my original 1970s unit. (The first Minifigs PB range was based on Phil Barkers August 1971 book, Armies of the Macedonian & Punic Wars; later replaced by Duncan Head’s book of same title, published in July [?], 1982; both published by WRG.)
So having set out to decrease my lead mountain I temporarily increased it! Meglomania in 25mm?
CarlL
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Post by macbeth on Apr 29, 2024 1:17:09 GMT
I was out of the house much of the last weekend but I finished off another HCh for the Kyrenean Greeks
I am perilously close to completing more Sea Peoples and the last element of the Palaialogan Byzantines but had to call a halt before the final brush strokes.
Cheers
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