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Post by malory on Sept 9, 2024 21:50:55 GMT
Great job on the army claudermilk. Got aby cool camp to go with it?
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Post by claudermilk on Sept 10, 2024 13:34:07 GMT
Sure do! I put this together a little while ago. Yes, it's oversized--I just hang the back half off the board edge. It is the Baueda generic fortified camp, and I'm thinking about getting a second one so I can place them back-to-back for a fortification BUA in game. Yes, the gates do open! I might also get their Roman specific pieces later. That reminds me, I need some camp followers figures to make a dedicated element base for them (for now I generally use an un-selected optional element from the army).
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Post by carll on Sept 10, 2024 18:15:16 GMT
Well done Claudermilk.
At a distance your shields really stand out and impress.
Like your (dyed hessian?) cloth backdrop.
CarlL
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Post by malory on Sept 10, 2024 20:16:22 GMT
Sure do! I put this together a little while ago. Nice! I was thinking about buying two of those from Baueda to make a BUA for my Dark Ages armies.
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Post by jim1973 on Sept 10, 2024 23:03:06 GMT
The Scots-Irish are on the table and looking quite pale in their white undercoat (or is it their flesh tone? ) Jim
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Post by Haardrada on Sept 10, 2024 23:11:08 GMT
The Scots-Irish are on the table and looking quite pale in their white undercoat (or is it their flesh tone? ) Jim You'll be sporting a few gingers too perhaps?
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Post by claudermilk on Sept 11, 2024 13:16:36 GMT
carll That is one of my game mats. It's actually upholstery fabric I got at a local shop as a remnant (1 yard left--no good for a couch but perfect for a couple of DBA/HOTT mats). The colors happened to be exactly what I had in mind walking into the store. I am really pleased with how the shields turned out. They are Veni Vidi Vici decals and fit the Rebel Minis & Viking Forge figures perfectly. The rectangular scutum ones are two pieces and a pain to apply, but well worth it. Yes, Jim, for Scots-Irish a few gingers are a requirement! ;p
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Post by jim1973 on Sept 11, 2024 22:16:54 GMT
The Scots-Irish are on the table and looking quite pale in their white undercoat (or is it their flesh tone? ) Jim You'll be sporting a few gingers too perhaps? A few dabs of Speedpaint Fire Giant Orange or Nuclear Sunrise should do the trick! Jim
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Post by claudermilk on Sept 12, 2024 13:34:19 GMT
I like to use Fire Drake for darker red hair tones too, works out really nicely. (My Scots-Irish as an example, Boudicca specifically uses that color)
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Post by martin on Sept 13, 2024 16:05:00 GMT
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Post by carll on Sept 14, 2024 20:42:00 GMT
martin, in a word LOVELY!
Great use of baggage animal and handlers / warriors for camp followers, and a very effective camp scene of lott all around them.
Inspiring.
CarlL
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Post by carll on Sept 14, 2024 20:42:31 GMT
PS great photo links / photo inserts too, martin.
CarlL
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Post by carll on Sept 15, 2024 13:41:13 GMT
Well it’s nearly 3 weeks since I finished the elements / figures needed for a BIG DBA Hunnic army, (option with 1 HC 11 LC, or if you prefer DBA speak 1 Cv and 11 LH, times 3). In meantime I decided to paint up other old Hunnic 25mm figures I bought some time back (and I can’t recall what I intended to use them for!) and some recent additions. The older foot figures are now painted and stuck to bases as psiloi / skirmishers. (I probably intended them as dismounted light cavalry for Armati games with too much terrain – a rare event you might think – and for ambush situations.) But I have not finished their basing, ie 10 foot javelins / spearmen figures – from the Tribal infantry in Lancashire Games / Hinchliffe Chinese range; and 20 Hun foot archers from Hinchliffe Hun range. In the recent Lancashire Games sale I bought six Goth HC figures and horses, (lot bigger than the Hun pony), as subjects / allies of the Huns, these are now painted and based, see below. I recently bought some Mongol camp followers and Mongol Shamans (from the 28mm Curtey’s range of Mongols at 1st Corps miniatures – they also have their own range of Mongols!) and I have painted up most of the smaller figures as Hun camp followers, adding a couple of the Tribal figures noted above, to the camp follower mix. The Curtey’s Shaman pack has a mounted and dismounted version, and inspired by a photo on the DBA Fanaticus Forum, I put the foot version alongside a small tower of ‘enemy’ skulls where the Shaman is performing rituals. These are painted but yet to have bases finished. The mounted version has been remounted on an old Hinchliffe pony so he better fits in with the army, and will be added to a new General’s base when my small order arrives from Aventine Miniatures Hunnic and Asiatic figures (again I will be putting 28mm riders on 25mm ponies / horses as this tends to fit better with old 25mm – even the big ones like Hinchliffe – than the modern 28mm horses and ponies which tend to be huge. Those painted still need bases doing so no photos yet. I have also added one base (so far) of mobile baggage for other rules (like DBMM) in form of herd of horse re-mounts (mix of very old horse figures) behind the lines with a youth herding them from horse back, (I used an old 1/87 Atlantic US cavalryman as my base figure then added clothing and hat from milliput and bow case and quiver from my 15mm spares box). He is now painted and based, (if needing varnishing) and appears below. I had intended to use a 15mm rider but I forgot that 99% of my unused Mongol 15mm are one piece castings with the other 1% with separate riders but too heavily armoured for my youthful herder! I am a little stuck for other herders as not sure the Atlantic conversion works size wise. (I forgot to photo him next to a 25mm mounted warrior for comparison!) But I may return to my unused Atlantic Custers US cavalry box for another figure to convert as a youthful herder. CarlL
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Post by carll on Sept 15, 2024 13:43:30 GMT
I recently decided to re-fight the Battle of the Three Kings, 4th August 1578, trying different rules like DBR and ‘To The Stongest’ (ancient and medieval rules), as although in age of gunpowder this feels like a medieval battle with arquebus and early cannon (in both armies). I fielded my 25mm medieval Portuguese (and pikemen from another army) for this late Crusade by Portugal into Morocco, and my medieval 25mm Berbers to defend north Africa against these infidels. Then realised I had no Moroccan mounted arquebusiers, so initially I field light horse archers, till I decided to create some LH arquebusiers by converting 28mm Berber mounted riflemen of the late 19th century, by changing their rifle for arquebus (or blunderbuss), and re-mounting them on 25mm horses. Results in photo below. Photos below. CarlL
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Post by macbeth on Sept 16, 2024 5:37:25 GMT
Some painting time this weekend saw me finish 1x3Ax and 2xPs for the Early Libyans - they are now Battle Ready (I can field my preferred 12 element list) - currently I am fast tracking the basing so that I can have them ready for some games on Wednesday night. 1x3Kn(Gen) for the Medieval Portuguese Basing up a Batavian Revolt army from figures left to me by an old friend
Cheers
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