Mad Lemmey's Mongols

[Maenoferren]

Excellent work

[Subedai]

Lovely!

I had a weird moment of cognitive dissonance looking at the bottom pic - the round fringed standard looked like a sombrero for a second and gave me a very odd Viva Khan Zapata! moment

And just how are your therapy sessions going? 

The Latest Tumen to join the army, 8 LH and 4 MC



Light Horse





Medium (Heavy) Cavalry

Now those I like.
Just a quick note, a tumen was anywhere between 5 - 10,000 strong on campaign with 10,000 being the 'paper strength' so I was wondering about your figure scale. The Mongols worked on a decimal scale so 10 warriors were in an arban, 10 arbat made an jagun (100), ten jagut was a mingghan of 1,000 -which was probably the main battlefield unit, much like a modern battalion- and ten mingghat made up a tumen. Forces of two or more tumat made a tuk.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's all to scale, not 1:1 mate! 😛

[Subedai]

Just saying. You never know, it might come up in a pub quiz and you can wow your mates with your esoteric knowledge. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Kind of knew that bit due to Conn Iggulden, just reading 'Bones of The Hills', lots of Tumen action.

[Subedai]

Conn Iggulden's Mongol series as a reputable historical reference...hmmm.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Was meant to go out for a game of Blücher tonight, but due to family illness my opponent had to cancel.
So I broke out the paints:

Just needs basing and banners...

[Techno]

Look forward to seeing them finished off, Will.
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

So do I mate!

[toxicpixie]

Make sure you get the right can for the varnish on these and undercoat for the next lot...

Good stuff

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's chucking down here, so no varnish today unless I want frosty the snow-Mongol! 

[toxicpixie]

I've had to resort to undercoating by hand, it's unconscionable!

[Westmarcher]

I still do that for all my painting! 

[Leman]

Odd that, because I've just made a spraying box for undercoating, although I then go over it to obtain full coverage, Still too terrified to spray varnish, but a club member who does commissions swears by the matt spray supplied by Warlord Games, but won't touch Humbrol with a barge pole.

[toxicpixie]

I would use a spray box but I'd have to spray in the house the missus would kill me for the fumes 

I've sometimes tried the shed but it's so full it's a wee bit awkward and is down the end of the garden so I get wet anyway

Spray varnish is a wonder - I like Warlord/Army Painters anti-shine stuff as well, it's really good!