tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810407756833843472024-02-19T00:24:27.672-08:00Deadkingsrise Painting and ModellingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-58617189496100309282015-09-19T03:02:00.002-07:002015-09-19T03:02:26.845-07:00And more Greek Hoplites - Nautical Theme<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A country made up of islands - and mainland not conducive to land travel! - naturally led to many Greeks becoming experts in all matters boaty. With this in mind, I painted some of the Hoplites in mostly blues and whites, suggesting a coastal / island origin, and echoing (with the red-bronze) the same colours you are hit with when you look at those tourist pictures of Greek fishing villages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I chose two different blues, one dark and one lighter, with the lighter blue more common on shields, and white appearing most often on armour / tunics. The more striking dark blue appears less, and works as a spot colour. The same variety was used in the helmet crests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had planned to use mostly nautical-themed shield designs, but I was also trying to avoid anything other than black or white. This limited the choice, so not everyone got a seaside design :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Three different coloured tunics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Three chaps all finished in white (apart from crests).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These two have pale blue tunics, so one gets a dark blue crest, and the other a white one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And these two both have pale blue crests, so they get white / dark blue tunics.</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-5180817094555126762015-09-19T02:51:00.003-07:002015-09-19T02:51:40.690-07:00More 28mm Greek Hoplites - the Foul Myrmidons!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Achilles fought with a band of black-clad desperados, hand-picked for their ferocity and skills. These aren't from the heroic age of the Trojan Wars, of course, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to represent a unit of Classical Hoplites who had maybe taken their inspiration from the Iliad too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The choice of shield designs was limited (since I'd chosen to use only the white ones), so I added some variety by using an Omega (taken from a Games Workshop Space Marine transfer sheet!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I went with mostly crested helmets, and armoured torsos, but have included some less well-equipped chaps to show the 'new recruits' that such a notorious unit would always attract. Note the red tunics, perhaps retained from their life before joining the Foul Mymidons...</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-91382261935942130132015-09-19T02:39:00.002-07:002015-09-19T02:39:39.749-07:00Perry Miniatures Wars of the Roses Billmen - Yorkists!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And now for a different twist on a unit of WoTR billmen. These are a different commission to the previous three posts, and the requirement was for a Yorkist livery. I originally went for an all-white scheme, but it looked a bit bland (and was too similar to a Lancastrian livery I'd used before), so I picked my favourite Yorkist livery instead; Blue and Murray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I retained the off-white for sleeve and hose contrast, which I think compliments the red and blue nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most liveried units would be provided with cloth for make-up of their coats, and some accounts also mention cloth being provided for other purposes. I have imagined these chaps being provided with unbleached wool for hose and other clothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These three all have puffed-sleeve livery coats, two of which have been opened to expose breastplate beneath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brigandines and padded jacks in livery colours look cool. I've rung the changes between the two brigandine chaps by making one sleeveless. I've just noticed that these three all have boar spears - unintentional!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, sleeveless versus sleeved brigandines on otherwise very similar figures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yellow is a pain to paint with sometimes, but remains one of my favourites. The inspiration for this livery was a motorbike - the old Yamaha racing colours. Against a background of greys and metal finish, the yellow really stands out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To get a really good deep yellow, you need patience. Over the primer, I've layered white, then two coats of dark yellow, then washed with thinned brown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As with the other units, I kept to mostly muted tones for the hose, so as not to distract from the main livery. Light grey, panzer grey, and a smattering of black. The red brown I usually use for leather (shoes etc.) looks better with the yellow than it does with the red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brigandines look odd in lighter colours, so I used the contrast black for this chap's - rather than painting it livery colour, as I did for the red and blue units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I couldn't resist painting parti-coloured hose on this armoured guy. I have painted whole units of Swiss in this yellow / black scheme, many with parti hose. Looks great, and the high contrast adds drama.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I went the same way with these chaps as with the blue-liveried fellows - mostly browns and greys for the hose and sleeves. The dark red is a favourite colour of mine from the Games Workshop range - 'Khorne Red'. It works nicely with grey, though the contrast with the browns I've used is not great... with hindsight, maybe black or off-white would have worked better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The light grey is from a cheap acrylic art set I bought in a bargain book shop - art paints are a different formula to model paints, generally thicker, but with (curiously) less pigment, so if you normally use one coat (for black or dark grey, for example) you need to use two with art paints. With this light grey, two coats was enough, though usually light colours need three for dense coverage. The paints often also dry with a slight sheen, which you can use to advantage for horses / leather; this wasn't a problem for me, as I wash all the cloth areas with thinned brown paint anyway, which leaves them dead matt. I don't usually varnish miniatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The light grey on the right hand chap's sleeves is the colour mentioned above, but the darker grey is actually Panzer Grey. It's a slightly bluer grey, which works well with the dark red, but clashes a bit with most lighter reds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The changing fashions of 15th century warfare, with the leftmost chap in an old-fashioned steel cap, the middle guy in ultra-trendy short jack and sallet, and the other fellow in an exotic 'ear-muffed' helmet more commonly seen on the continent (for non-UK readers, it's common for the English to refer to the rest of Europe as 'the continent'... deep down, we don't see ourselves as Europeans at all!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interesting to compare these two armoured chaps with those similar troops from the blue unit. Here, I've gone with red hose (on the breastplated model) as very little sleeve was visible. The other chap has only half-armoured legs, but the panzer grey hose give the impression of full plate from the waist down. I might use the colour trick again in future. At a pinch, I could have scribed lines down the inside and outside of his calves, and painted the hose in a metal finish... hmmm... I'll give that a try on some up-coming command units and you can judge for yourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two chaps with boar spears in this last grouping. For a long time, I didn't really use the boar-spear arms in bill units - I preferred the extra metal on show - but now I think they're cool. The arms also fit the Fireforge crusader foot sergeants, so if you want to model those with no shields, you can use the Perry arms (see earlier posts for other examples of Fireforge / Perry crossovers).</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-54819698751946222662015-09-19T01:27:00.001-07:002015-09-19T01:27:29.687-07:00Perry Miniatures 28mm Wars of the Roses Billmen<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are one of three units forming a commission for a client who wanted one each in blue, dark red, and yellow liveries. The bases are 20mm square MDF (supplied by the client).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The blue is French Blue, and I've kept to very muted tones for the sleeves and hose (greys and browns). Apart from the supplied bases, the actual basing technique is the same as I normally use (sand and glue over clay, with about 33% coverage of mixed green flock).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kit offers bill arms in raised or lowered positions. For this unit, I assembled half with raised bills. I also went for a good mix of armour and helmet styles. Usually, when using the breastplated body (second from right), I paint the hose in the livery colour to keep unit cohesion. This time, I went with the sleeves instead, as if he'd put his armour over the top of his livery coat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These two are more heavily armoured, but still in blue coats (one sleeveless jack, one brigandine).</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-52133242285598920612015-09-19T00:54:00.002-07:002015-09-19T00:54:52.715-07:00Mark B - Fireforge 28mm Foot and Mounted SergeantsI posted most of Mark's medieval troops a short while ago, but here are some pictures of the last batch - the foot and mounted sergeants. These are intended to be a better class of sergeant, with good armour, so I used the Templar Infantry / Knights set for most of the components.<br />
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I modelled matching pairs of foot and mounted troops, and the foot versions were all to be spear-armed, so I cut down the knight's lances to show them spear-armed while mounted. The unit of twelve was split into two sub-units, one in blue / white, and the other green / white. I varied the shield designs, while keeping the colours constant.<br />
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The flash on my camera has leached some of the colour out of the shields, but if you look closely enough you can see that checks / stripes / quartering all feature. This first pair have grey horses (I like painting greys), and they use the same 'foot' body. Thanks to the different heads / shields, they don't look too similar.<br />
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Another pair with one helmeted and one not. The guy in the mail hood is one of my favourite heads in the set; and if you save one of the fully-helmeted heads, and employ a spare 'crossbow supporting' left arm from the Templar infantry set, you can model a knight who has removed his helmet (useful for a command group or similar).<br />
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The second sub-unit, finished in green and white. Basically very similar to the blue / white troops, though with a preponderance of brown / bay horses. I've added cloaks to one or two of the mounted sergeants (quartered, like the surcoats), but have left them off the foot versions. This partly shows the common practice of removing the cloak for battle (to avoid entanglements!), but is mostly so I'm not restricted in choice of arms or pose - the mounted bodies are designed to take the short cloaks, but the foot bodies don't all 'work' with them.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-56279207145749842682015-09-19T00:08:00.001-07:002015-09-19T00:08:21.955-07:00Perry Miniatures 28mm Medieval Arab Cavalry<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I recently completed a commission for some Crusades era Arab foot and cavalry, using Gripping Beast plastics, but there were also a few Perry Miniatures metal cavalry to complete too. I prefer working with plastic, as metal figures have some serious drawbacks (they destroy brushes quicker than plastics, multi part figures require cyanocrylate or epoxy to fix them together, and if you drop them... they bend / break / chip easily). But there's no doubt that metal miniatures offer much more choice - and when they're Perry models, they're not such a chore :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the armour and weapons, it was bronze all the way. A simple four-step process (black undercoat, bronze, gold/bronze mix highlight, then sepia ink), with the highlight kept fairly muted, so as not to overpower the eye. Recently-minted pennies was the effect I was going for. Most of the tunics were off-white, and most of the linen cuirasses too. Where a hoplite had a white-painted shield, and white armour, I tried to give him a red or black crest, to tie him to his comrades. Similarly, red shields with white armour, black shields with white tunics etc. all helped to make them look like they belonged together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another angle on the second trio. I did a few red or black tunics, and some of the crests are striped red / white or black / white too. All the leatherwork is red-brown (as with most of what I do), and the bases are nothing out of the ordinary either - kit-supplied plastic ones, with clay / sand / glue / patches of green flock and black edging. The whole commission is 138 miniatures, so look out for more posts this week, showing the other two main colour themes (Mermydons in black, and some nautically-themed chaps in blue and white).</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-54154644913021152392015-09-07T01:24:00.001-07:002015-09-07T01:24:16.705-07:00Gripping Beast Arab Heavy Cavalry - Dark Ages / Medieval<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After working with the Gripping Beast Arab footsoldiers, I was keen to see how the cavalry looked - and they didn't disappoint! Lots of spares / options, and separate torso / legs, which were especially useful when modelling the archers. Spearmen first though;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Less variety in the horses than you'd find in a typical Fireforge or Perry's set, but not bad. They're lot smaller than the Fireforge Templar horses too - which is accurate, as the Islamic armies tended to favour mares rather than stallions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used some spares from the Arab footsoldiers set to add variety, including these teardrop shields. The remit for this commission was variety, so as well as varying the horse colours, I've also finished some of the spearmen in black, some in white, and some (like the chap in the centre) in brighter colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reverse angle of the same grouping. I used different saddlecloth colours too, sometimes matching the plumes dangling under the horses' heads, and sometimes not. Most of the armour was finished in bronze (black primer / undercoat, then bronze, gold highlight, then sepia ink), though some is finished in steel (black primer / undercoat, gunmetal, silver highlight, then sepia ink). This steel finish is different to that used on the crusaders, as the sepia ink gives it a warmer tone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main cloth colours used (in addition to white and black) were mint green, french blue, and a deep wine red. All the saddlery and leatherwork are red-brown, though I varied the shoe / slipper colours on the riders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The miniatures were to be left unbased (hence the fetching green plastic / blu-tack) - the shield covers are Little Big Man studios. I used a slightly different technique with these (to that used on the Irish and Vikings, earlier posts). Instead of applying the decal to a primed shield, I placed them on art paper instead (good quality printer paper works too), then glued the cut-out paper discs onto the shields with wood glue. This was mainly to allow me to 'battle damage' the shields, like I do for most medieval subjects, but it also had the effect of reducing the amount of 'shine' from the decal. In the end, I opted not to battle-damage the shields anyway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The archers were much easier to put together than the spearmen, as I didn't have to worry about the spear butt colliding with the horse flank, or not being able to get the shields in place. The arms are annoyingly at the wrong angle for easy shield placement - nice straight arms would be much better - and next time, I might employ spare left arms from Warlord Games Bolt Action WW2 infantry. The plain sleeves will match nicely, and this will give much more in the way of options when fitting them together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, no such problem with the archers. The ability to 'twist' the torso allows for more natural (or dramatic!) posing, and no fouling of the horse's neck with shields. The quivers could use a flat back on them, to make them easier to fit to the saddle, and the odd right arm which was actually holding the reins might be good too...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bow cases were a handy way to add some colour, especially to the archers in black. I was matching these up to some Perry ones which the client had provided, which included slung shields on their backs. I hoped to give these chaps slung shields too... but they looked a bit cluttered, so I left them off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The crossbowmen themselves are pretty much straight builds from the Fireforge medieval sergeants kit, as described in previous posts. I've included them in this shot to show that the mantlets are painted-up to match the same quartered red/white scheme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cut some 1mm plastic sheet into rectangles 22mm x 18mm. You could use other materials, thin ply or MDF, or even card. If you are matching to smaller / older miniatures, you might want to reduce the height or width slightly. Likewise, if you have huge steroid mutants (Games Workshop miniatures, for example) you may need larger proportions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I made up some artwork in Photoshop for the front, and printed it in colour onto sticker paper. I use quite expensive good-quality paper, with a smooth finish and a slight sheen to it (though not glossy), so tht acrylic paint flows nicely over it, rather than just soaking in or clumping on the surface. Of course, you can also use decals (Veni Vidi Vici, Citadel Six, Little Big Man etc.), or paint freehand - and if using printed paper, you can use plain paper and attach with wood glue (as I usually do for plastic shields).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next, I covered the back surface in wood-grain sticky-back plastic film. You can buy this in DIY stores, though mine actually turned up in my local ALDI. The supports are made from lengths of square section plastic kit frame (or 'sprue'), trimmed to approx. 15mm length. The horizontal is attached about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way up, and secured with plastic cement (this handily bonds styrene and sticky-back plastic film). The vertical piece then attaches to the underside of the horizontal, roughly halfway. The support pieces are deliberately not exactly alike, and the angle of attachment varies too. This gives a very pleasing effect when they're lined up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next, the mantlets were attached in pairs to 'cavalry' style plastic bases (from Perry Miniatures sets, but I think Renedra do them for lots of manufacturers). The fronts were battle-damaged with a few light scuffs, and some spare plastic arrows (Perry Miniatures Wars of the Roses longbowmen kit) painted up to stick in. Holes for these were made using a heated pin, as my 0.5mm drill bit snapped under pressure from my big gollum hands. A drop of plastic cement in the hole was enough to secure the thin arrow. I stuck them into every other mantlet, but if you want more battle damage, you can chop off corners / rip the painted cover / add more arrows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, I put the scenic treatment onto the bases. If you do this after assembly, as I did, be careful to 'squash' the mantlet into the surface, so they don't appear to be balanced on top (unless your bases are rock / paving / stonework!). In this case, they were based to match Mark's existing collection, so looks a little different to my usual sandy ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These could also be made with no heraldry on the front, in which case you could cover both sides with sticky-back plastic film - or paint wood grain by hand. It would be fun to do some with religious scenes, as I do sometimes for my 15th century pavises. The larger, flatter 'canvas' would give more room for artistic freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By chopping a 1.5mm - 2mm square chunk out of each bottom corner, and adding small slices of 2mm - 2.5mm plastic rod or dowel, you could make wheeled mantlets. Sometimes, the mantlets had a dedicated footsoldier to support them and move them around (the 'pavisier'). Sadly, the Fireforge set doesn't include any kneeling poses, so I couldn't do them like that - but if your collection includes kneeling figures, that would look great too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did some for Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game too, modelled to look like Orc / evil ironwork. I'll post pics of these at some point soon.</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-24158057103533844752015-08-29T01:21:00.003-07:002015-08-29T01:21:40.986-07:00Mark B - Fireforge Crossbowmen and foot militia<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll get this out of the way first - I get bored painting crossbowmen! I'm the same with musketeers / riflemen / handgunners... I just lose interest painting all those identical weapons. For some reason, this doesn't set in when I paint spears, or swords... seems peculiar to missile weapons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway - enough my psychological foibles. You can't really have a medieval battlefield without crossbowmen on it somewhere (even if they're just being ridden down by exciteable French knights), so the client requested 24 of them. As with the sergeants, I thought finishing them in two units of 12 might offer flexibility - and this is likely what he had in mind in the first place, rather than being my inspired notion;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Style #2 is quartered blue / white. Again, I've thrown in some mailed arms, and gain I've chosen hose / sleeves here and there to echo the heraldic design on the pavises - in this case, gold / yellow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My favourites - the archers. Only 12 of these chaps, but they were fun to put together. They use Fireforge bodies and heads (apart from the chap at extreme left, who sports a Gripping Beast head); combined with the arms from Perry Miniatures Wars of the Roses archers. I used a combination of short sleeve / amiled sleeve designs, as many of the arms in the Perry set are far too 15th century for this sort of model. The limited choice was not a problem, as the Fireforge bodies are quite dynamically posed - so the same arms on two different bodies makes for a radically different look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No unit colour scheme for these chaps - though they mostly sport Opal Fruits / Starburst acid colours; bright green, orange, strawberry red, lemon yellow. The remaining garments are mostly unbleached wool (off white) or red-brown leather. The sheaves of arrows are taken from the Perry Wars of the Roses set, but the quivers are Wargames Factory Orc ones, or Gripping Beast Arab ones. Despite what Hollywood shows, most medieval archers kept their arrows in barrels, then grabbed a handful before battle commenced - sometimes in a bag, or wrapped in a cloth, but often just wedged in the belt or carried in the hand (to be stuck in the ground later).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last element in the army is a unit of twelve 'bargain basement' peasant spearmen. The design cue was unarmoured / basic, so I went with the cloth hooded heads from the Fireforge set. There are only two designs of this, so I've tried to vary the skin / hair tone and the colour of the hood to make them look less like clones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used four different schemes for the shield designs, red/white, black/white, blue/white, and burgundy/gold. The idea here is that some local lords have donated shields to their peasant levy, but everything else is their own - so they have a basic spear, and their clothing is mostly unbleached wool, or dyed various vegetable colours (green, brown, grey). Yes, I know there aren't really grey vegetables, but you get the idea - neutral colours!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-49265723618367060512015-08-29T01:01:00.000-07:002015-08-29T01:01:01.280-07:00Mark B - Fireforge Foot Sergeants<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next attempt at modelling the same chaps both foot and mounted was to be a unit of 12 sergeants. I opted here to split the unit into two colour schemes - allowing two units of six to be fielded instead;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The sergeants had to be easily told-apart from the knights, so I went with unbarded horses, and no shield blazons. One half of the unit has variations of blue and white on their shields, plus blue / white quartered surcoats. This means they can be fielded as the retinue of a knight - as the six knights (see previous post) feature one chap with the same colour scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As with the knights, each pairing uses matched shields / weapons / heads. The keen eyed will notice that the legs on this particular pairing don't match. On horseback, he has mail cuisses. The backstory (excuse...) for this, is that he retains the lower leg protection while fighting mounted, but abandons it for convenience and lightness when fighting on foot. It also meant I could vary the foot poses, as the Templar infantry set only comes with four mail-cuisses-equipped body styles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another of the blue / white pairings. The sergeants are all armed with spears, which required some cutting-down of the lances for the mounted versions. To further distinguish them from the knights, they can't all afford beautiful thoroughbred white chargers either - this chap is mounted on a bay. Although his gret helm seems to have gone the journey, he has at least retained his leg armour when dismounted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green and white sergeants - all the same thinking was applied to these as to the blue / white - even down to the option of pairing them with a matching knight (see previous post).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worth mentioning the shields at this point. Normally, unless the shield has moulded 'wood grain', I paint the backs the same way - a nice dense 'light leather' colour, followed by lines of red-brown and chocolate-brown for a grain effect. This is how I did the knight's shields. These chaps get a slightly different approach, with a combination of red-brown base, with chocolate-brown and black lines. I chose to make the switch for a couple of reasons; firstly, the leather items (shoes, saddlery) I normally paint red-brown, and the way I do shields is meant to replicate leather-covered wood... so it seems sensible to use the same leather colour on all items. Secondly, though not used here, I have acquired some red-brown 'wood grain' self-adhesive film, which gives a nice pattern without taking as much time. You'll see it later in the footsoldiers from the same commission. The red-brown colour matches this plastic film nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More sergeants, this time mounted on grey horses. I have shied-away from piebald and other colourful horse finishings, as the troops themselves are quite bright. So almost everyone gets a white (actually known as grey), grey, or brown / bay mount. This diamond pattern on the shields is one of the variants (along with diagonal stripes, quartering) used to suggest uniformity, without actually being all that uniform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reverse view of same. I have more pictures of the sergeants, but I've run out of things to say about them... :)</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-17450472061029384562015-08-29T00:38:00.003-07:002015-08-29T00:38:25.516-07:00Mark B - Fireforge Knights<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apologies for the long gap in posts, as I have had some things to contend with beyond painting / modelling. Hopefully the next few posts - which are all part of a commission for the same client - will make up for it a little (individual apologies being sent out to those who have had their commission work delayed).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each of the knights was to be distinguished from the sergeants (see later post) by being mounted exclusively on barded horses. For this first pairing, I went with a horizontal 'bar' in mint green and white - like the Pacer sweets I enjoyed as a kid (that's vert and argent for you sticklers!). I chose matching heads for the foot / mounted versions, and used one of the surcoated bodies from the Templar infantry set for the dismounted knight. I also chose to use the same weapon, and the same shield design - hopefully making it clear that he's the same chap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rear shot of the same - the heraldic design is a Veni Vidi Vici shield transfer of a hydra. These knights are not supposed to be actual depictions of anyone historical, so mythical beasts and geometric designs were used to keep them generic-ish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love orange - so there had to be a knight in an orange scheme. Often, I pair orange with green; but on this occasion I didn't want to clash with my 'green knight', so I quartered the orange with white (the white helps with keeping the models nice and bright too). I took the same approach as for the other knights, in that I selected matching head / shield / weapon. I suppose I could equally have armed each of the mounted chaps with a lance instead. Perhaps Mark will commission lance-armed versions of his knights in future :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rear shot of the same. Again, I used a mythical beast for the blazon - most of the VVV transfers I have are black, so again it makes sense to keep the colours light; otherwise a black design might get 'lost'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Light blue - another favourite of mine, and usually / often paired with scarlet. Again, I didn't want to clash with a later red knight, so the blue is quartered with white. The weapon matching is not exact here, as I liked the idea of at least one knight with his shield slung and a huge two-handed axe in use. The mounted version does have an axe, but not the single beard design which the foot version is wielding. Mark - if this jars, let me know and I'll try lopping the axe head off and replacing with a matching design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rear view of same, showing the geometric 'sun radiant' design (this time nicked from a box of Greek Hoplites). From most angles, the axe difference is not noticeable - and most often, they'll not be seen on the field of battle at the same time anyway :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another bar design, this time using wine red and white. The base style differs from my usual, though some of the steps were similar. Firstly, I used bought-in 3mm MDF precut bases, which I have used elsewhere but usually round rather than rectangular. I cut down the figure base and superglued them in place, as I normally do, and then disguised the base edges with a clay filler (again, as per usual). To match with the client's own basing style, I then omitted my usual sand-coating stage, and just gave the clay two sealing coats of PVA. The PVA sets flexible but hard, and makes a great base for the brown 'mud' colour which was applied next. Finally, I was back on familiar ground (pun intended) with a smattering of green surface texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rear view of same. The green ground cover I use is a mix of Heki railway scatter, with assorted green tea leaves / mixed herbs / shredded raspberry leaves mixed in. This is meant to replicate blown leaves over grass - something medieval man would have experienced a lot of, given that most of Europe was still pretty tree-covered in the 12th / 13th centuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love these eye-catching chequerboard designs, and they're great fun to paint. I knew I wanted to include one, but I agonised over the choice of 'opposite' colour to go with the white. It finally came down to a straight fight between blue and black, and I reasoned that if I went with blue and hated it, I could easily overpaint with black. As it happens, I really liked the blue. The heraldic design is a wavy Spanish cross, in red this time as the blue was just a shade too dark for a black one to work well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I recently painted some Wars of the Roses guys in a mostly yellow / white scheme, and thought it might suit one of the knights. I'd already done several 'quartered', so I thought I'd ring the changes with a diagonal stripe, or 'bend'. This was the beginning of the trouble. First, the stripes were much harder to get at the correct angle than a horizontal or vertical line. Then, the yellow I chose was a bit feeble and needed multiple coats. Next, the yellow-on-white looked odd (and broke a heraldic rule - as it was metal on metal, argent / or). I solved the latter by striping the yellow with thin black lines, so now the two metals were butted against a tincture. The next issue was the charge, or shield design. I had about 70 to choose from, and they all looked wrong. I toyed with the idea of having no charge at all, then took inspiration from football shirts, and placed small 'rose' badges at top left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, that was the first part of the commission, next up is another foot / mounted combination - the sergeants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firstly, two units of crossbowmen. Apart from grouping them in fours (easy, apart from the more dynamically posed miniatures, such as the chap second from left), these were similar to previous Hospitaller crossbowmen I'd painted. Firstly, I prime and undercoat in black. Next, all the metal areas are treated to a gunmetal base and steel highlights, followed by a thinned black ink wash (ink - not paint - so as to give a slight sheen). Next, all flesh areas get a ruddy flesh coating, and the eyes completed with white and chocolate brown (oval of white, flattened dot of brown). The Fireforge faces, in common with the Bolt Action WW2 faces, don't need any highlighting - they look great with a single coat, and much more natural.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two units of (mostly) spearmen, again finished in the normal way. Once the flesh areas are complete, tunics, hoods and sleeves get a layer of mid brown. Any scale-armoured miniatures (such as the chap second from right) get their scale armour coats layered in a red leather colour. Hose are not painted uniform colours - so two or three complimentary colours (sometimes more for large units) are selected. In this case, a deepish red, french blue, and a blueish grey. The hose colours are then applied in such a way as to avoid two similar miniatures having the same colour hose. The scale-armoured chap mentioned earlier has no hose - I've painted him bare-legged (same skin tone as his face).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another two units of (mostly) spearmen. With the hose complete, the belts and shoes are finished in red leather (as for the scale armour) and most of the weapon hafts given a layer of light buff. 'Grips' on the weapons are also touched-in with red leather. The miniature himself is then finished off with a cross applied in white to his chest. Regulations existed for the size and placement of crosses, but these changed over time. I usually apply a mix - some large and plain, some with serif, some small ones (placed top left, like a school blazer badge), and some 'Maltese' style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fifth and final foot unit. The last step in painting is to complete the shields. I have a few techniques for this, but these ones feature an old standard style I've used since the 1980s. The shields are separate here, making the job much easier. First, the shield is primed and undercoated (colour not important, though grey / black / brown works best). Next, the front has a printed paper cover applied with wood glue and pressed smooth. This is less shiny than a typical transfer, and mimics the leather cover many shields of this period had. Next, the back is layered in buff, then thin lines of red brown and dark brown applied to imitate wood grain. In reality, the grain is overscale, but they would otherwise be quite plain! Finally, nicks and tears are applied to the paper cover, and buff leather colour applied where damage has occurred. Attach the shield and presto! All done.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-57056668916865113582015-07-02T05:29:00.001-07:002015-07-02T05:29:08.822-07:0028mm Fireforge Hospitallers - now in red!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having now painted more Hospitallers than actually served in the Holy Land, any variety when it comes to painting Fireforge's excellent medieval miniatures is always welcome. In this case, there were to be several deviations from my normal way of working. Firstly, and most obviously, six of the mounted Hospitallers were to be finished in red;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The second difference was that the miniatures were to be multi-based. As you can see in most of my other postings, I usually base miniatures singly. It's a small feat of engineering getting three mounted Fireforge guys to squeeze onto a 60mm x 45mm base and not look like they've just crashed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I was modelling two units of three, one is equipped with lances, and the other with hand weapons (yes, I know a lance is a hand weapon... but it's a common Rules distinction). I have to admit I wasn't at all sure that the red scheme would 'work' on a barded horse, and almost chickened-out and gave all six unbarded horses. But I'm happy to report that I was wrong. Despite the huge amount of red already on display from the cloaks and surcoats, the barded horses (to me) just look more intimidating - rather than too fancy or just too much :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't think I got the shield shade quite correct, as it looks a bit soft compared to the vibrant blood red of the rest of the miniatures... but the crosses on the barding look pretty good. Looking at the pictures now, I'd have had maybe only one barded horse per base. And not had two brown horses on the same base. And maybe left the cloaks off the riders who were on barded horses. Just to improve the balance a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As well as the red ones, I was also to produce some in classic black. Again, these were a little tricky to rank up on the small bases - this is probably just the right size base for three horsemen in 'true' 25mm, but a bit cramped for these more heroic sorts. I'd guess Perrys would fit more easily. I'm much happier with the composition of the unit above - three different horses both in pose and colour, and only one of them barded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is another lance-armed unit. Again, it might look better with only one barded horse - but I wanted to do half the riders (overall) with barded horse and half without, so some bases got two. This looks more obvious, as both barded horses are also black!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the command group. They've clearly been paying attention to the ordained instructions of not shedding blood, and have chosen to wield maces instead :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another unit with hand weapons, and a better looking composition. Incidentally, some of the Hospitaller shields use transfers from Veni Vedi Vici, rather than printed paper shield covers as I normally use. There's a bit less variety, but they look pretty good. The transfer sheets are well priced, and you get two sizes of cross. I've used the larger on the horses, and the smaller on the shields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A short note on horse colours... there are probably hundreds of guides on painting horses, and I wouldn't profess to be any kind of horse-expert. But I find that some colours / combinations work better than others. For impressive knights charging into battle in their splendid black gear, a range of sober tones and patterns is complimentary - blacks, greys, browns, and keeping the markings to white or black. Historically, the best horses were mostly gone after the first flush of crusading zeal, and many were not replaced at all - or replaced by smaller local mounts, or even mules. But here's the thing... I wouldn't want to see a unit of Hospitaller knights mounted on a mishmash of chargers / piebald mares / draft nags. So instead of going for the visually-unappealing (but historically accurate) I plump for making the horse more of a background item.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This means darker neutrals for the Hospitallers, where I might give Templars mostly greys or lighter browns for their mounts. So you're looking at the rider, not his steed. If you take a peek at the earlier posts of dark ages Irish, you can see the opposite approach. The mounts are small ponies (historically accurate) so I've 'enlarged' them by painting them mostly lighter colours, and even going piebald with a few.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-39621797666371092682015-07-02T03:48:00.003-07:002015-07-02T03:48:52.505-07:00More 28mm Gamezone alternative Brettonians<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are more pictures of the Gamezone miniatures I recently completed for a client. These are the knights, and are (if anything) even more brilliant sculpts than the footsoldiers. As you may know, I'm not exactly youthful... and I can remember the likes of Ral Partha and Citadel in the late 70s producing classic fantasy knights just like the ones I've presented here. The poses are a little less flat, and the overall height greater (as we moved from an actual 25mm to a nominal 28mm - which is usually more like 30, 32, or even more), but the spirit is old school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't know if the choice was deliberate, but the ornate 'joust' helmet crests all have a mythical beast theme. This first pairing being a unicorn and a dragon. I didn't choose the yellow / white quartered scheme (that's to fit in with the client's collection), and wouldn't normally have gone for it unless historical accuracy demanded it (such as with the Wars of the Roses Tiptoft units, earlier post); but I think it really works here, especially on the dragon-helm chap, whose dark hair and skin, and large areas of exposed metal armour, might have otherwise led to him looking a little gloomy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Booty shot of the same two knights, showing how simple quartering can look effective on both surcoat (left) and cloak (right). I wasn't asked to paint a 'charge' or 'device' onto the quartering, but if I had, I'd have been tempted to echo the crest animals, perhaps in red for the dragon, and in white / outlined red for the unicorn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the other pairing. Now, the kneeling chap might not actually be a Gamezone miniature... but I recycled his packaging and can't remember now! Anyhow, he is in a scheme more closely related to the footsoldiers, though in truth you can't see much of it. Or his face. So he's a nicely detailed lump of kneeling metal :). All very pious and holy, but not my favourite pose to paint. And not much to say about it either - I used my usual ink-over-highlighted-paint for the armour finish, and went with dark hair again. The other chap was much more fun to paint. A green dragon this time, to make him different to red-dragon dude (above), but I carried a little red hint through all four miniatures - scabbard and cloth twist on this guy.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-51607118647386157422015-05-31T03:18:00.001-07:002015-08-28T23:47:36.552-07:0028mm Alternative Brettonians - Gamezone Miniatures<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although Games Workshop produce a huge variety of miniatures for their two main games systems (Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy Battle), it's always good to have even more choice / variety. This is easy with WFB, as it doesn't have much in it that can't be found elsewhere in the fantasy wargaming world - or indeed in historical conflicts. The following pictures are of some miniatures I've been painting for a client for use in fantasy gaming, which strongly resemble the 'high medieval' look of the Brettonian faction;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The miniatures are by Gamezone - they are in metal, and come with separate hands / weapons, and lovely sculpted shields. The red / blue colour scheme was specified by the client - which I've hopefully interpreted as he imagined it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was supplied with two basic poses - the 'guard' (at right) and the 'charge' (the other three). Within each basic pose, there were different armour styles and slightly different arm angles. Added to this, the 'guard' stance came with a separate right hand, and a separate weapon (he could have been armed with a sword instead of a halberd - supplied in the kit). With this flexibility, it would be easy to arm him with almost anything - pikes or flags spring immediately to mind, or any kind of pole weapon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The three basic styles of body are (left to right) with long surcoat, scale armoured, and with short surcoat. With the same colour scheme applied to each style in different ways, it was easy to make them obviously part of the same unit, without them looking like clones. I used the same techniques for these as I use for most historical miniatures - and the deep sculpting makes the metal effect look better than ever. The shields were easy to paint too - again, mostly thanks to the deep sculpting, which helps to guide the brush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They're all based on Games Workshop 25mm round bases - as per the client's requirements - though I think they'd look pretty amazing all ranked up on square bases too. I wasn't familiar with this manufacturer before receiving this commission, but having seen the models now, I can see that they are a pretty good fit for WFB. Many other ranges look a bit puny compared to the mightily-proportioned Games Workshop figures, but these are as compatible as any I've seen.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-46922236158294620242015-05-28T22:58:00.001-07:002015-05-28T22:58:10.145-07:0028mm Pagan Rus<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yay! Back to the Dark Ages for the first time in, well, ages. I've loved this period of European history since childhood - my boyish allegiance usually torn between the Vikings and Saxons of my own genetic origins, with the odd grudging nod to the Carolingians. Airfix didn't do 1/72 Vikings and Saxons, so it wasn't until I was older and able to afford metal miniatures that I could really game in this era. Over the years, I've done very little commission work for this period - so it was with great pleasure that I was approached to tackle not one but two Saga-era armies for a client. The first of which is Pagan Rus (vikings who settled in the river basins of Ukraine and Southern Russia - giving Russia its name);</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are all metal miniatures, manufactured by Gripping Beast. I tackled the ordinary troops first (saving the heroes for later, and for a later post), who were mostly spear-armed, with typical centre-boss round shields. The client had kindly provided Little Big Man Studios shield and banner transfers, which I'd never used before. What an absolutely top-notch product! I recommend these to everyone - if they make what you need, buy from them. If they don't make what you want, then write to them / pray / ask Santa until they get round to producing your requirements. They are beautifully-detailed, easy to apply, and so far seem to be pretty robust with only a light sealing coat over them. Brilliant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The miniatures are lovely too. I don't normally enjoy metal miniatures as much as plastics, but these were a joy to paint. Nice smooth cloth areas, fine detailed mail, and good anatomical proportion / pose compared to many. The only thing I didn't like was the open hand / separate weapon combination. To me (and it's just me, maybe...) this approach leaves the hand looking thumbless. I'm not keen on metal spears either, but for non-painting reasons. I've found that, in use, the spears get bent - which looks daft. Of course, with enough brute force a plastic spear would break... which is even more noticeable. But I have found the 'spring' in a plastic spear helps it to survive. The hard wire spears I employed on a Landsknecht force some months ago (see earlier post) were best of all - thin, resilient, and springy enough not to bend easily. Mind you, I was stabbed about 20 times during painting and photography.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The shield transfers made light work of replicating both fancy painted designs (right hand pairing) and the less decorated. The clean lines and smooth surface of the miniatures made painting the cloth areas easy - even where a contrasting line or edge was added to the tunic. If you've looked back through many of my other posts, you'll notice almost everyone has dark-to-mid-brown hair. This is for batch-painting reasons, and also because I reserve that particular colour only for hair - so it doesn't turn up on a cloak, backpack, or pair of boots. When more hair is visible, such as with English Civil War troops, or these hairy pagans, I introduce more variety. Blonde and lighter brown both make an appearance, as does grey - and ginger (red) hair of course, as that's where the Rus get their name (slavic word for ginger!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not everyone was lightly-armoured. The chap on the left has done without a helmet, but has a lovely mail shirt and bronzed scale armour vest. Combined with his baggy trousers, he looks pretty exotic. The chap at the right has also gone for a stand-out look, using a large rectangular shield and keeping his big fur cloak on. The rectangular shield doesn't use a transfer, I did the simple geometric design by hand, copying an image in a reference book but switching the colour to blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Three more with rectangular shields, showing the variety in headgear (including the chap on the left, who originally had a red cap, until he was christened 'Santa Claus' by a casual observer. It's brown now...). Again, the very simple geometric shield designs are just hand-painted. By now, I needed some relief from painting spears - the chap on the right already had sword in hand, but the other two have hand-grafts from Fireforge medieval sergeants, axe and sword respectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />These two veterans warranted standout colour schemes. Purple cloth was expensive and difficult to make, so would only show up on those who could afford it. Since the guy on the left was bald, and had a fur cloak and fancy shield, he seemed to be displaying a bit of wealth anyway... so he got the one and only purple tunic. He's keen to keep it clean too - standing off and throwing an axe instead of getting stuck in. The other chap is clearly a person of some note - mail shirt splinted leg armour, fur-trimmed coat - so he seemed a natural companion for the axe-thrower when taking the pictures.</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-21533482932213422482015-05-28T22:07:00.002-07:002015-05-28T22:07:42.025-07:0028mm Wars of the Roses Casualty Markers<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I completed a WoTR commission a short time ago which included some nifty casualty miniatures. I'd seen examples of casualties from several manufacturers, but couldn't quite work out what I would ever do with them. A vague notion of substituting the odd casualty figure among a large unit (to break up uniformity) occurred, in the same way as I might use a standard bearer, officer, musician, or hero. But the client planned to use these as fancy casualty markers, with the aid of some nifty MDF counters;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you can see from the above, three layers of thin MDF - the topmost with a 'window' - sandwich a printed dial with numerals on it. The projecting lug allows you to wheel the centre disc around such that different numbers are visible through the window. Not sure if the intention is to count up or down, but with painted miniatures using the counter for a base, it's a more eye-catching solution than a post-it note or a scrap of paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each casualty was finished in a particular livery, for association with a particular unit (this would help in recognising which unit had which total casualties). Most of the models were in livery coats, so this was easy to achieve. I painted them the same way I do regular miniatures, except that the chap on the right looked dead - so he got a paler skin tone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Step three is to apply base details - sometimes this is just the odd patch of green flock, sometimes a clump or two of rougher foliage. I don't go wild with base treatments, as I like to see the miniatures clearly - and I've seen some examples (particularly among competition-entry Warhammer units) where there is so much clump foliage / bristle reeds / dead trees / fallen masonry that it's difficult to see the troops. Or indeed how they could ever advance through such a piece of rough terrain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dazed and dead. I'm not a great one for slathering gore all over my miniatures, but having witnessed some pretty horrific injuries in my time, I can see why people do. Chap on the left clearly has a (currently) non-fatal head wound, so perhaps a subtle 'Hollywood drip' of blood might have been appropriate. Maybe he is just concussed from some blunt force trauma to the helmet. Chap on the left, however, is clearly dead or dying (pale skin tone applied - literally a dead giveaway), though seems to have no visible cause. Unless the stress of battle has given him a stroke, then perhaps the scenic treatment could include a nice pool of blood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another two who are soon to be in the hands of their maker, though maybe the chap on the right is feebly raising his hand to ask for water... and might yet survive. I suppose it depends on the rule set you use - as some allow recovery of casualties during campaign games.</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-11341213905368079902015-05-27T00:45:00.001-07:002015-05-27T00:45:09.359-07:00Sale now on! Ready-painted 28mm Perry Wars of the Roses Foot Knights<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As for the archers in the previous post, I have a limited number of ready-painted Perry Miniatures foot knights for sale on eBay too. As with the archers, I'll accept offers on here too (if you can't be bothered to hit eBay).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lot #2, same parts composition as lot #1, though I think the deep sallet (left front) actually came from the European Mercenaries kit command frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll be listing more sale items over the next few days (more archers, men at arms in tabards / no tabards, militia polearm troops), so keep an eye out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Up first, six militia archers in a variety of gaudy medieval colours - actually five archers and a captain. They're unbased (as you can see) but I'm willing to include basing in the price if you're successful in winning the auction. If you'd rather just email me an offer on here, my details are at upper right of this page, or leave your email in the comments and I'll get back to you.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-37636818488118266932015-05-26T23:24:00.002-07:002015-05-26T23:24:13.673-07:00Perry Miniatures 28mm Burgundian Handgunners<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There isn't much which shouts out '15th century European Warfare' quite like a Burgundian Handgunner. Well, an English archer perhaps. Or a French Gen D'armes. Or a Spanish Sword-and-buckler man. A Swiss halberdier. Ok... the list goes on - but the Burgundian handgunners are definitely in there! Peter Dennis even put them centre front of his box art for the Perry European Mercenaries plastic kit...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">... and it was this kit which formed the basis of a unit of handgunners which a client planned to use as mercenaries in his Wars of the Roses games. If you check some earlier posts, you'll see I've already tackled medieval Burgundy a couple of times, and the same scheme was applied here - royal blue and white jackets, with a crimson saltire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hose colour varies, from dull but serviceable brown, through black-and-white parti, crimson, to blue-and-white parti (very patriotic). This helps to add variety without spoiling the unit feel (as I've mentioned in other posts), but if you find you've accidentally done two very similar chaps (2nd and 3rd from left), just rotating the miniature a few degrees on its base makes them look much less twinned. Perry plastics are a lot less 'animated' than some other plastic kits, making them much easier to rank-up, and easier to place on small bases (less chance of half a yard of weaponry poking out, or them trying to balance on one leg for all eternity).</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-80027895307327230562015-05-26T23:13:00.001-07:002015-05-26T23:13:16.451-07:00Dogs of War - 15th Century Mercenaries - Flemish Pikemen<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In order to add some foreign colour to his Wars of the Roses forces, a client asked me to do a largish (24 man) unit of mercenary pikemen. I'd seen some good illustrations of similar mercenary troops in Osprey publications - including one of a Flemish soldier in a classy black and white colour scheme. I decided to use this scheme, applied to Perry Miniatures 28mm plastic 'European Mercenaries';</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd used a similar scheme before on a small unit of handgunners, and one of crossbowmen; but it saw its most extensive application on my Warhammer Fantasy Battle Empire troops. Instead of painting these to match the livery and heraldry found in the Games Workshop books (excellent as they are), I had themed each unit around a different European football team. In the case of my Empire handgunners and halberdiers, this was Juventus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The trick with a simple scheme like black and white is to vary the way the colours are applied. Looking at the front rank (above), and moving from left to right; chap #1 has his jacket open to reveal his metal breastplate, so painting his jacket black, and his hose white, gives him a top/bottom split between the two main livery colours; #2 has a lot of metal on him, and a black brigandine, so his small amount of white hose visible makes him mostly black; #3 is similar to #2, but massive puffed white sleeves and an exposed face make him seem much lighter; #4 is a simple top/bottom split, with his black jacket and white hose; in contrast, #5 has gone for mostly white, with just his upper left quarter (one half of his jacket) in black; #6 is actually very similar to #3, in terms of black / white split, but his greater expanse of exposed hose shifts the balance such that he appears mostly white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You get the idea... so I won't go on. Except to point out the chap second from right, who has eschewed the popular white hose, in favour of a black pair. It's still a top / bottom split, but looks quite different .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parti, or bi-coloured, hose gives the man at second from left a 'quartered' look; whereas the same treatment on the two rightmost miniatures doesn't. Because the jackets are less visible (or not at all visible, as with the chap on the right), the quartered look is lost, and we get something else - mostly black, but with a distinctive 'leading leg' in white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's probably pretty obvious to most of you that you can go this way with only two colours, and still create variety, even if you do it subconsciously because it feels right and looks right. What's missing (deliberately) from this scheme is a 'spot colour' to draw the eye. On my Warhammer guys, this was red. It turned up as cockades, hats, tying points, dagger sheaths etc.. I omitted it from this unit as I thought it might look a bit contrived. I can definitely imagine 24 tough Belgians going into the drapers and ordering black and white cloth so they can identify each other on the battlefield - but the idea that the same 24 bruisers would co-ordinate their accessories in the same shade of red was a bit too much...</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391563529218047112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481040775683384347.post-46078319543430701702015-05-26T22:52:00.001-07:002015-05-26T22:52:50.418-07:00Perry Miniatures Wars of the Roses Northumberland / Percy<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These troops were last retinue to be completed for a large WoTR commission, and represent the Percy element as present at Bosworth. As a Newcastle native, the Percys are my 'home team' - we have a Percy Arms pub, a Percy Street, a Percy Main metro station (much of what isn't named after Percys appears to be named after the Nevilles... ahem);</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was keen to do the whole lot in the orange / tawny scheme (with blue badges) that I've used before, but the client wanted to follow the much more striking black/red with white crescent badge as featured in a well-known piece of art used by Osprey Publishing. Handily, this also matched the Citadel Six decal sheet - so my tawny folly was gladly abandoned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The badges on the majority of the miniatures are Citadel Six transfers - but as I've mentioned on other posts, I struggle to get the tiny decals to sit correctly on studded brigandine or deeply-padded armour. So, on these miniatures I freehanded the Percy Crescent in white - sometimes going for the large centre-chest badge, and sometimes the small left breast badge, for variety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Looking back at these pictures, I notice that one officer and one standard bearer are absent... no doubt enjoying a last minute ale at the Percy Arms before heading into battle.</span><br />
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