220 more Polemarch Egyptian phalangites arrived today, from Gripping Beast. I now have just about enough minis for my Phalanx (528); but can I get them painted in time (even with assistance)? Where's me brush?
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Masses more Machimoi
220 more Polemarch Egyptian phalangites arrived today, from Gripping Beast. I now have just about enough minis for my Phalanx (528); but can I get them painted in time (even with assistance)? Where's me brush?
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Raphia Phalanx begins...
A week since my last post; life has been interfering with art, again. Just so that you don't think that I've gone away and left you, below are a couple of quick WIP shot of my next big project.
Above, 30 Foundry Egyptian-style phalangites, started in 2010 and finished, belatedly, this week. Below 24 Polemarch Egyptian Machimoi, painted last week. Both clickable.
My plan is to mix the Foundry and Polemarchs together, and paint an awful lot more to match, in order to re-fight of Raphia with mate Craig at Partizan in June. More anon!
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Please don't try this at home
This afternoon there was a brief break in the rain, so I decided to prep some miniatures. After washing to de-grease, I popped them in the oven to quickly dry them so I could prime; I think I may have left them in there just a few minutes too long! :-)
Luckily the other 2 dozen survived, it could have been far, far worse.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Hoplites
I’ve finished basing the hoplites in my recent post, and
rebased my existing Foundry “Athenian” hoplites onto larger bases, so that most
are now in 8’s. I boosted the total
numbers by repainting my old Lunar Blue Dragoons (the minis with the tall crests), and mixing them in; they
scrubbed up OK. Economical, neh? Upgraded the tuftage, too, to my 2013 standard. 'Ave a click.
I took the opportunity to very roughly split out the later
hoplites with helms with separate cheeek flaps and Pilos, from those with the earlier Corinthian and
Chalcidian helmets, and put them on separate bases. The above unit has mostly earlier, and the
below mostly later helmets, although purists will quail... Later, I’ll
build distinct units with corresponding shield designs, which became simpler
and more abstract over time.
In a few weeks I plan to paint up 8 more Spartans. That’ll give me 5 units of 36 hoplites, and two
of 24, which will have to do for the time being, because I urgently need to start
painting minis with rather longer pointy sticks.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Jenga Phalanx
These are a continuation of a very old project, which is to
build a Ptolemaic phalanx on a grand scale, for use in a grand re-fight of
Raphia at Partizan in early June next year.
The plan is to combine these beautifully sculpted Polemarch Machimoi (Egyptian Phalangites) from Gripping Beast, with their Foundry equivalents. I absolutely love the tall crested helmets, which I assume are based on the Sidon stelae.
When I started this project (over 2 years ago!), I made the mistake of using an
Army Painter primer. This provided a
convenient base colour, but created a surface textured like fine grain
sandpaper, which wasn’t at all good to paint over, and which put me off the
project after I’d only managed to complete 30 miniatures (one shown in the link, at centre). This time, I’m stripping the remaining primed
miniatures and using my trusty can of Halford’s white. The Jenga blocks are mounts for ease of painting.
I need an awful lot more of these miniatures to build a
phalanx of the large size I covet. If
you happen to have a bag of these Polemarch phalangites, or the similar Foundry
miniatures in the link, that you always meant to paint but never quite got
around to, please drop me a line. I’d be
delighted to swap for them, or buy them off you!
Friday, 16 November 2012
Hoplites
Just so you don't think I've gone off and left you, a quick and somewhat blurry WIP shot of the 32 Foundry hoplites I've just finished (pre-varnish and basing).
I hope to get to grips with them, tonight... because other projects beckon, of which more, anon.
Thursday, 8 November 2012
November painting table
A quick shot of the painting table. The celts at the back are "stuck", I just can't bring myself to work on them, some hoplites have pushed in (othismos, anyone?) and I'm painting some more goths at the front. I'm also re-painting 18 other Greek hoplites, not shown.
The 3 goths or saxons at the front right, in red, I bought painted in a bag at the Bristol warboot around 6 years ago. They are lovely (beautiful triangles on one tunic fringe), I wonder who painted them?
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