The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[FierceKitty]

It's good junk! Especially if it lets me land a unit of Han sword-and-buckler men behind Qin lines.

What is the ancient Tibettan word for "twerp"?

[mmcv]

Good luck with that!



Preview of the Chinese. This colour scheme is what I'm going to use for most of the Chu. The Qin I'll probably go for lots or martial black and red. The Han I'm leaning towards green or yellow.

[FierceKitty]

I'm given to understand that the Han used red as their imperial colour. Chu made a lot of use of black (or dark charcoal, I suppose). What this implies for pre-imperial commoners, I'm not sure.

[mmcv]

I've gone for grey trim/under clothing on them with the white cotton armour and polished scales. Mostly based on the look of the Chu from the historical series "King's War". Somewhat fanciful I'm sure but I like the look and aim to have nice big white flags with a Chu character on it.

The Qin I've always viewed as being quite dark, so plan to do them with dark grey armour and red trim. I know what you mean about the Han, a lot of the artwork tends to show them in a dull reddish or even vaguely purple colour. May give that a go, though as I'm mostly aiming for around the late Warring States, Qin Rebellion and Chu-Han Contention periods I suspect things were a bit more raggedy for Liu Bang and his Han-some devils. And when I come to put the Han up against the Xiongnu I'll likely just draw from whatever's available in the collection.

I may give commands slightly different colouring - e.g. my Chu army will likely have two main commands so may give one grey trim and one blue trim to differentiate. They can all also be used for other states in the period.

Basing wise I'm thinking the Qin will have mixed halberds and crossbows, the Chu mixed halberds and swordsmen and not quite sure on the Han yet.

[FierceKitty]

Well, the Han were heirs to the whole lot. Btw, you might find some of the Mongol LC useful for Hsiung Nu.

[mmcv]

Well, the Han were heirs to the whole lot. Btw, you might find some of the Mongol LC useful for Hsiung Nu.

Way ahead of you! 

I've some of them done up as horse archers in my crusades forces, so they will no doubt see service against the Chinese too with a few additions.

[FierceKitty]

Why aren't you in Bangkok? We could have had a Hell of a Warring States campaign set up by now!

[mmcv]

Why aren't you in Bangkok? We could have had a Hell of a Warring States campaign set up by now!

Tempting as that is I can barely cope with the heat levels here at the moment... I suspect Bangkok would be the end of me!

Definitely could be some fun to be had with a Warring States campaign. Lots of opportunities there.

[FierceKitty]

Hmmm, last year I was in France for summer, the year before that in England. It was a relief to get back to Thailand, where we've got air-conditioning everywhere.

[mmcv]

Hmmm, last year I was in France for summer, the year before that in England. It was a relief to get back to Thailand, where we've got air-conditioning everywhere.

True, it's the lack of air-con at night that's getting me. The house is well insulated against cold and wet winters...not so helpful when things heat up. Usually, it's only for a week or two a year but it looks like we're in for a warm one this year.

Just have a desktop fan going which isn't really enough to make much difference. Have a bigger stand fan on order but the way the post is going these days could be another week or two.

[Chris Pringle]

Obviously I like your 2mm BBB Crimean War armies best.  

But lots of other good work on display too. Those Aztecs in particular look very cool.

Chris

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[FierceKitty]

I had a girlfriend here once who'd sleep with the fan running and a "foggy" spray bottle. She just sprayed herself every half hour or so, and seemed to do OK, but for an insomniac bedfellow it was unbearable.

[mmcv]

Obviously I like your 2mm BBB Crimean War armies best.  

But lots of other good work on display too. Those Aztecs in particular look very cool.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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Not that you'd be biased or anything... 

The Aztecs are definitely good fun to paint.

[mmcv]

I had a girlfriend here once who'd sleep with the fan running and a "foggy" spray bottle. She just sprayed herself every half hour or so, and seemed to do OK, but for an insomniac bedfellow it was unbearable.

My wife quite likes the fan going as the hum mutes the sound of the neighbors who seem to wear lead shoes and go to bed quite late, sometimes with an argument for good measure. I'm a pretty poor sleeper at the best of times though.

[mmcv]

Productive lunch break there, added some flock to the test boards, primed the next batch of Chinese and base coated and washed some Mycenean spearmen.

For the more colourful medieval and Aztec figures I'd been using a light grey primer, but for the Myceneans, I went back to black with a white drybrush to bring up the details. Works quite well for less colourful figures as it gives some nice definition between the different areas. Have the Qin test models primed in black to see how it looks with them.

And the dark age huts that I'd ordered to paint up as straw huts for the Aztec camp just arrived.



Now back to work...

[mmcv]

Some Mycenaean spearmen painted up, awaiting an order of some more with tower shields to mix on the bases.

Medieval command primed, have taken tomorrow off work for some much needed R&R so hopefully get a good bit of painting done and maybe tackle the big basing of all the crusader infantry.

[mmcv]

220 Crusaders based.

Phew.

Once dry will touch up and add flags.

[fsn]

That's a lot of cruiser tanks!




(Sorry. Every time I mention Centurions, someone pipes up about the Roman army.)

[mmcv]

That's a lot of cruiser tanks!


(Sorry. Every time I mention Centurions, someone pipes up about the Roman army.)

Well.... There were some knights getting based too and they are generally considered the "tanks" of the medieval battlefield. So it kind of tracks...

Pun intended.

[fsn]

 

Well played, Sir. Well played.