DBA First Crusade project

[paulr]

  22 Celsius (72 Fahrenheit) and sunny here, which is helping with drying times

Last dry brush on the river sections done

Added rocks and scrub to those markers

While waiting for the PVA on the markers to dry I post processed the pictures of the first couple of batches of the Egyptians and did a count up

Based
181 Mounted
520 Foot
701 Total

[paulr]

III/66 Fatimid Egyptian 969-1171AD

1x General (Cv),2x Ghulams (Cv), 1x Berber lancers (Cv),




1x Kurds (Kn or Cv), 1x Bedouin (LH),




1x Volunteers (Hd f) or Syrian town militia (Hd s), 2x Dailami (Ax s)




The Sudanese; 3x Abid al-Shira (Bd s), 1x Sudanese archers (Bw f or Ps)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful again.
Can't believe you've painted every option too.

[d_Guy]

As always very pleasing to the eye and as Mr. Lemmy said - you bypassed no details! - I am jealous.
As I have a fondness for militia and levies of any period your town militia is my favorite - like the mix.

[Techno]

Top notch, Paul.  

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

Superb work as always and admire your ability to keep focussed on one project.

[petercooman]

Great stuff once more!!

[paulr]

Final batch of this project, Armenians and Berber foot, based and flocking touched up
Edges to tidy up and then varnish

One more dry brush on the river sections done, all terrain now ready

Added rocks and scrub to those markers and varnished all the markers

[paulr]

PS thank you all, catching up on the forum was a very pleasant way to pass the time on my train trip to my first day of work for the year 

[petercooman]

PS thank you all, catching up on the forum was a very pleasant way to pass the time on my train trip to my first day of work for the year 

I feel your pain, tomorrow is my last day off, and then it's back to reality 

[FierceKitty]

I'm at my first day off for the semester.

[paulr]

Mutter, mutter

[paulr]

With this project winding up I'm looking at my next projects

I will work on my some more of the Tumbling Dice 1/4800 Napoleonic ships in my lead pile http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11957.msg166264.html#msg166264

When Pierre the Shy's latest 1914 reinforcements arrive I'll move onto those

My other project is the Italo-Turkish & First Balkan Naval Wars http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,15393.0.html
This is still at the research stage but I have sorted all but about 8 of the 130 ships I'm thinking about ordering

The Sudan or ECW are still the likely candidates for my next 10mm projects but we need to test some rule sets

[paulr]

Final batch of this project, Armenians and Berber foot, edges tidied up

Now I just need some varnishing weather

Looking at the forecast that might be tomorrow evening, after work, or Saturday morning, the day of the game

[fred.]

Looking good (the photos on the last page!!)

I do like how you are presenting these figures - especially with their impressive moustaches!

I have some of the figures you have used in my fantasy arab army, so its good to see them painted for their intended armies.

[paulr]

The weather cooperated after work yesterday so I got the final batch of this project, Armenians and Berber foot, varnished 

I also got the rulers I made varnished as well. All measurements are in base widths, 40mm, so a lot easier to have a custom ruler. They also have combat factors and a few other commonly used bIts on them

I ran out of daylight so pictures will have to wait until after the first multi-player game with them tonight

[toxicpixie]

Measuring in base widths instead of inches sounds a bloody good idea. The awful kludge of metric basewidth for somethings combined with inches for others was a poor choice

[paulr]

...
I ran out of daylight so pictures will have to wait until after the first multi-player game with them tonight

Weather still not really cooperating so no pictures yet

Last night's game seemed to be fairly well received
We're giving another go next week

I'll put together a brief AAR in due course

[paulr]

I finally got round to post processing the pictures for last Saturday's game

Unfortunately some idiot didn't get the camera settings right and all have suffered from camera shake

Fortunately we have another game tomorrow night so I will be more careful this time

[paulr]

I managed to get the camera settings right this time so there is a brief report of last night's game here http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,15361.msg224630.html#msg224630