Couple more units emerging from the "to paint" pile - Alans and Huns. The former are mainly Donnington from their older ranges - still quite nice figures IMO but I think the moulds are getting a bit tired now so not quite what they were. Huns are PSC plastics - cheap and cheerful :)
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Looking good. I hope I can do mine justice like this when I get around to them
Mamluk general and a unit of cavalry to be the guard when they have ArmHrs. There is a reference to the issue of steel horse armour to the guard covered in red velvet - OK, it is from a bit later than the style of these figures but a bit of licence and all that ;)
Figures are all Donnington with, of course, LBMS shield transfers.
Just need to add some suitable Mamluk flags now - again thin evidence but enough to go on I think.
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A camp to go with the Mamluk cavalry posted earlier. A red tent/pavilion is mentioned in one, or maybe two sources as being set up for the sultan - one at the siege of Acre in 1291 CE IIRC. Might add a flag to this later 8)
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Great looking figures. FWIW I think the background is distracting somewhat from the figures in this case, or maybe it's just my eyes LOL. It's as if the overall grey / green is blurring with the armour on the riders.
A bit back on the SoA forum this picture was posted - figures used for (presumably) Murabit or similar Berber infantry.
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Inspired by this I went and ordered the figures and shields to do my own - a downright blatant copying ;D
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Mainly done with GW contrast paints as these seem to work well for this style of figures.
A wodge of Legio Heroica 15mm Arab archers bashed out quickly mainly using GW contrast paints. In all honesty doing these for completeness rather than they'll figure highly in my armies, so the quick contrast paint job approach is OK for them ;)
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From the "to paint pile" a snit of 15mm Legio Heroica Arab cavalry with LBMS shield transfers. Now need to remember why I needed another unit of them - must have had an army composition idea sometime that required them ;D
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nice paintwork Nick! (as usual I should ;))
inspiring to paint new units and completing more toolboxes :)
Cheers
Gilles
File boxes for me not tool boxes - I have filled 10 since April last year :o
A unit of Turcoman cavalry to add to my Muslim horde. Had no idea I had this until was going through the "to paint" pile; not even sure why I bought them as I have loads of these guys. Ah well, not unusual for a wargamer I guess :o
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Those look really good. You turn out good looking units faster than i can paint a single figure!
Nik is so fast that I suspect the intensive use of little hands and eyes working for him in his basement to help him ;)
ok I must confess that it's a pure speculation of mine who are also bad tongues when they are alone in my basement :P
congratulations for your brushwork on them Nik! one day I should paint some of them ( ok, when I will find the figures in my lead pile :) )
Cheers.
PUNCH "a view from a hill (of lead)"
Something a bit different, some early Japanese archers with pavise style standing shields. Outpost 15mm.
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Nice paintwork Nik!
excellent contrast between the green shirts, the dark armour and the pavises!
another cool project!
Cheers.
PUNCH
Rather than some new figures a unit of stripped and repainted figures I already have. These are Grumpy's Miniatures Ghurids. They are modelled with the mobile pavise interpretation of the "karwah" - looks different from anything else even if you don't believe it to be correct ;D
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Been a bit quiet but got round to adding some flags to some Legio Heroica ghilman.
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Following those I have added some flags to my mamluks.
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And a few more flags done this morning. The ones on the infantry are for my Almoravids and I think they should really be white, but I liked the colour of these so went with them ;D
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Excellent as ever - like those cavalry . what's your preferred flag/banner material/technique? These are applied to fully painted miniatures? I've used foil so far for LBMS transfers/hand painted designs and can't decide if it's the best option.
Cheap printer paper and a cheap inkjet printer is my method ;D
I mention it in my latest blog post - https://gamer-at-the-end-of-time.blogspot.com/2021/04/uncage-colours-unfurl-flag.html
Han horse archers and nomad horse archers - all Lurkio.
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As well as new figures I'm slowly doing some refurbishment of some older stuff - or in this case a complete strip and repaint.
Grumpy's Ghurid infantry with the rather improbable, but distinctive representation of the karwah as a sort of large wheeled pavise pushed along in front of the troops.
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Also a couple of bases of mamalik with banners. Already have bases with banners but those are most suitable for Ayyubid/Mamluk armies, these allow a couple of units to look more suitable for some other armies ;D
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When I recently flogged off a load of figures that I had decided I was never going to use (my Thematic/Nikeforian Byzantines) I rather foolishly included the 8 bases I used for the Vardariots in my Nikaian Byzantine army :o
So these are the replacements. Donnington Magyar cavalry as it happens. I don't believe we know what they looked like and as I was ordering some figures from Donnington anyway these seemed reasonable - suspect the armour over the legs is a bit wrong though.
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Very nice. I like the way you stick to a predominantly limited palate of colours. It works well.
Very nice. I'm currently wondering the best models/colours for vardariots too. The Magyars are a nice choice sculpt wise - close enough to the look of the rest of the army without being just standard armoured horse archers. I wondered about using
mix of tukopouloi cav/Turkish types as they're re settled Turks aren't they? Though the amount of "Romanisation" of arms/armour/dress is probably unknowable. Can't see how armour over knees/legs is a massive deal breaker
Quote from: Hunter on August 16, 2021, 09:58:28 PM
Very nice. I like the way you stick to a predominantly limited palate of colours. It works well.
Helps getting them done quickly as well :)