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Post by carll on Aug 25, 2024 8:56:07 GMT
Lovely Hsuing-nu / Hun figures and basing Haardrada! And I like the many standards especially the 'running elk / deer' standard just like the illustration in J.P. Greer's "Armies and Enemies of Ancient China" (1975, WRG) And you had a go at shield designs too, which are lovely to see, I have 'chickened out' on that one for want of a theme. THANK YOU for the link.
And that tower of skulls in your Timurid photos could inspire a theme for a Hunnic Shaman and skulls etc as my camp. (I was planning to re-use the wagons I made previously for my Germans!) Its a brilliant piece! And your Light Horse archers are brilliant, even flights on arrows, set to be shot, are clear and I guess these are tiny 15mm!! Another inspiring set of figures and photos and thanks for the links. Your Timurid HC are lovely to and I am planning to add some some subject HC in Asiatic stye armour for variation. There are not many Cv / HC in a DBA generic Hun list so I wont need many to create variation!!
Inspiring Haardrada.
CarlL
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 25, 2024 12:55:58 GMT
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 25, 2024 13:48:10 GMT
Lovely Hsuing-nu / Hun figures and basing Haardrada! And I like the many standards especially the 'running elk / deer' standard just like the illustration in J.P. Greer's "Armies and Enemies of Ancient China" (1975, WRG) And you had a go at shield designs too, which are lovely to see, I have 'chickened out' on that one for want of a theme. THANK YOU for the link. And that tower of skulls in your Timurid photos could inspire a theme for a Hunnic Shaman and skulls etc as my camp. (I was planning to re-use the wagons I made previously for my Germans!) Its a brilliant piece! And your Light Horse archers are brilliant, even flights on arrows, set to be shot, are clear and I guess these are tiny 15mm!! Another inspiring set of figures and photos and thanks for the links. Your Timurid HC are lovely to and I am planning to add some some subject HC in Asiatic stye armour for variation. There are not many Cv / HC in a DBA generic Hun list so I wont need many to create variation!! Inspiring Haardrada. CarlL Thank Carll, that running elk/deer standard(Donnington Miniatures) was a must have for the army and happily I found one!The colour palette I based on a picture of the mongol army in the film of the same name using unbleached wool and stone colours as a base and adding in a few more primary colours.The symbols I found on Wikipedia. Again with the Timurids the Crimson standard and the tower of skulls were must haves and then I researched the armour and colours to get the army the way I wanted it to look....even down to the camp follower element of a warrior holding two bound captives by the hair.The armour had to be Mongol/Timurid and I was able to almost choose a different figure for every cavalryman in the army using Donnington Miniatures mixed with Outpost Minuatures. Researching all the armies was a most enjoyable part of the process.
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Post by macbeth on Aug 25, 2024 23:53:16 GMT
A productive four days at the painting desk saw me finish 1xLH for the Lusignan Cypriot 1x4Bd for a Scots Common Army - much of this army has come to me from the estate of a good friend who passed last year - I've been rebasing them and need to top up the army with the last few elements 1x4Bd and a Wagon Camp for the Sea Peoples - completing this army 4xPs for the Early Libyans making this army legal (I can field 12 elements from the list)
Cheers
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Post by carll on Aug 26, 2024 18:26:09 GMT
Haardrada, Not a period I know much about, so not sure why I felt surprised by the presence of chariots and Egyptian headgear in a Sea Peoples army! They look good which is the main thing. CarlL
PS thanks for posting public link to photos
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Post by carll on Aug 26, 2024 18:27:31 GMT
nice one should be nice many, macbeth! wide coverage in your painting spree, well done. CarlL
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Post by carll on Aug 26, 2024 20:16:23 GMT
Today, I finished painting the 16 Dixons one piece 25mm casting of an Asiatic horse archer and combined them with completed spare Hinchliffe 25mm Hun javelin holding LC to create a fourth DBA generic Hunnic army, and four spare LH elements. So in total now got stuck to bases, enough figures for 4 Cv (HC) elements and 48 LH (LC including one that could be a general) elements. This would also give me 2 HC units and 24 LC units for Armati or ‘To The Strongest’ rules.
I decided I would create some tall grass for their bases by cutting small pieces from scrap door matting material (which comes in golden brown colour); so I dyed this (well painted it really) with some acrylic green ink, applied with an old nylon craft brush, pushing down hard into the matting material (we are talking small pieces roughly equilateral triangle of about 1/4 inch or 8mm per side, so small enough to be held with cheap tweezers), this helped reshape the matting to give a better shape for long grass. When this is dry I will stick it on to the bases then build up ‘terrain’ (from one of my home made basetex like a gloops) to apply before adding tufts and static grass. Well that’s the plan! Just 52 bases to do it to! CarlL
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Post by carll on Aug 27, 2024 12:19:58 GMT
I forgot to add photo! CarlL
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Post by carll on Aug 27, 2024 20:36:07 GMT
Currently recovering from flu, and feeling pretty washed out. Thankfully repetitive filling of bases fitted my washed out mindset! So layers 1 and 2 (soil and big bushy grasses) applied, next to ‘dress’ them with some varied ‘planting’ by tufts and / or static grass, and maybe a dry brush of the soil to give it a sunny spring or summer look. Picture quality a bit naff which seemed to reflect my state of feeling naff currently! CarlL
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Post by claudermilk on Aug 28, 2024 14:38:49 GMT
Back from vacation and a little family drama. Slowly working on the II/56 Early Imperial Romans (because everyone needs a Roman army, right?); all figures are in hand except the gladiators and one each archer and auxilia, which are coming later. I should accelerate the process since the next club meet is 2 1/2 weeks away.
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Post by carll on Aug 28, 2024 16:14:50 GMT
Well countless years after buying these secondhand Hinchliffe 25mm Huns at a show, I have got them painted and based. I just need a good day outside to spray them with matt varnish. There were enough riders and horses for a BIG DBA army; and with some repairs and adding some secondhand 25mm old Dixons Asiatic horse archers I made a fourth DBA army and four more LC / LH elements. (Useful for DBMM or Armati or To The Strongest games.) I have added an image of the whole army, then a closer view of one of the four DBA armies in a block deployment, then a few close up shots. There are still some spare riders with broken bows, (but no horses) however for the time being I shall stop and play with them instead of painting more. (Mind I do have some old plastic conversions which I am tempted to repair and re-base and add to this mix! They were torso of Robin Hood Airfix and riding legs of Airfix US cavalry with their Airfix horses and much plastiscene and banana oil for cloaks and hats etc..) Elsewhere I have a few 25mm Huns in my Late Roman box and in 15mm some Hsiung-Nu as mercenaries in my Chinese army! And I have an old 25mm camp followers base I converted many years ago for the Huns! (I will add some new camp followers and Shaman in due course by ‘converting’ some Mongols!) I was going to use the wagons I previously constructed with as yet unpainted 25mm Hinchliffe Hun foot archers and foot javelins for my DBA camp and followers. So I suppose I haven’t finished yet!?! But I am also thinking of adding mobile baggage for other rules (like DBMM) so may yet add a herd of foals with a young boy shepherding them from horse back, using a 15mm rider as boy on a 25mm horse and giving him a long pole like the ones modern Mongols use when shepherding their horses. A ‘holy’ edifice might yet appear too if I can find a column of skulls to add to my 25mm 1st Corps ex- Mongol Sharman!) More fun to follow when the painting mojo gets going again. CarlL
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Post by gregorius on Aug 28, 2024 23:35:53 GMT
Very impressive en-masse CarlL.
Cheers,
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Post by paulisper on Sept 1, 2024 7:38:35 GMT
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Post by carll on Sept 1, 2024 8:46:22 GMT
It is a strange thing technology, or is it just FB, gregorius CANCON FB link begins with same share tag as paulisper's two links above; but while the former took me to gregorius images of his paintwork, paulispers took me just to the title page and the private no entry unless you join FB message!? I am not a computer software creator so I dont quite 'understand' why the same 'share' coding ends up with two quite different results?
Pity, a book IV Syrian army could be quite exotic with all its West / Crusader V East / Turkic or even Mongol v South / Islamic influences.
CarlL
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Post by claudermilk on Sept 1, 2024 17:38:52 GMT
Progress on the Romans. I'm going kind of backwards & received and painted all the oddball optional elements first. So LCm, Art, Ps, 2 LH, 2 Cv are ready for basing. I just need to print up some 40x30 bases (going as I type). I have the Celtic/Germain 3Ax in process, and the core of the army is ready for cleaning.
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