The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[mmcv]

Yeah each one is around 3.5MB, as it's just taken with my phone camera and uploaded to imgur then linked and resized from there.

[Steve J]

That explains why they take a while to load chez moi.

[mmcv]

Some more work on the terrain. Set of trees, patch of rough ground and a piece of impassible terrain all drying. Two hills shaped and awaiting painting. Think I'll use the airbrush on them as would take too long and too much paint to do by hand! Would be a good opportunity to airbrush all those 2mm Russians too...

Also painted and based a base of Qin mixed infantry and two of Chu standard infantry for my Chinese ancients. Pictures once dried and base finishing touches done.

Began prepping some chariots. Need to decide basing for chariots. Given I'm mostly doing mini units at present (40x20 or 40x40) then a single chariot on a 40x40 would represent a unit of chariots but I don't like the idea of just one chariot as a unit of chariots, will be too easy to confuse with the General so may do two on a 60 or 80 X 40 instead for the aesthetic. Most rule systems won't really care, and I'll hopefully scale the rest up to an 80mm frontage down the line anyway...

[mmcv]

Some Chinese ancients from Newline finished up (other than varnishing).

First up a base of Qin mixed infantry (Ji halberd and crossbow):











Then some Chu infantry (Ji halberd and swordsmen):











I now notice some stray static grass and flock on the figures I'll need to pick off before varnishing! Always the way.

[Techno]

Nice ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Different and cool

[paulr]

 

[mmcv]

Thanks chaps. Some Qin chariots today, plus some flags for the command chariot.

The glue I used to attach the horses to the chariot though went all white and crusty so will have to do a bit of scraping and repainting when the base dries.

Ended up just basing each chariot on a 40x40 as they were much too big to do anything else. Will just act as motivation to get the rest of the forces up to 80x40 in the future once the "mini" version is done...

[mmcv]

Had hoped to get some varnishing done this weekend but the weather didn't suit, nevertheless some pics of what I have unvarnished so far.

Some Qin chariots:










Qin General:







Also have another base of Qin foot and Qin cavalry drying.

[mmcv]

Some Chu additions too:

These (un)impressed spearmen:











They're MM figures rather than Newline and a little more squat looking but okay on separate bases. Will likely use these figures for some yellow turban and red eyebrow rebels in future as their ample foreheads and headgear will work well.

Also have a base of Chu crossbowmen drying.

[mmcv]

Last up some terrain pieces, the colours didn't come out too well on these, they look a bit more natural in real life.









I've also got two hills to paint and flock but will hit them next time I've the airbrush out. Finally I'll have terrain that isn't just bits of card with colouring pencil terrain drawn on!

After taking the photos I also painted a few medieval tents and middle Eastern buildings to use as camps for some upcoming crusades games.

[mmcv]

Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Not sure what's up next, possibly keep up the momentum on the Chinese or dip into the bronze age for a bit. Considering numbering my projects then letting a dice roll decide which I do a unit of next... But for now probably keep up with the Chinese.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice work

[FierceKitty]

Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Not sure what's up next, possibly keep up the momentum on the Chinese or dip into the bronze age for a bit. Considering numbering my projects then letting a dice roll decide which I do a unit of next... But for now probably keep up with the Chinese.

I remember we used to play the boardgame Civilisation in a group including a dear Chinese. She was so adamant that her people were blocks and streets ahead of everyone else that we ended up renaming the game Catching up with the Chinese.

[Steve J]

Nice terrain and figures, with the dark colour scheme on the latter very effective.

[Techno]

Some pics on previous page for those who just jumped to latest and can't see the figures for the trees.....

Glad you mentioned that........They look great !!

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

Thanks guys!

I remember we used to play the boardgame Civilisation in a group including a dear Chinese. She was so adamant that her people were blocks and streets ahead of everyone else that we ended up renaming the game Catching up with the Chinese.

Was there a special event for the Chinese fracturing into 3/7/16/18 different kingdoms every couple of turns?

Nice terrain and figures, with the dark colour scheme on the latter very effective.

Thanks!, Yeah the Qin are noted for favouring black so thought a black (well dark grey) colour would suit them. Makes them hard to photograph though! The impressed spearmen look a bit darker in the photos than they really are - they're a mid-grey and a dull purple. Left them looking a little more dirty and scruffy looking than the regular troops as they'll generally be "Raw".

[Techno]

Matthew.

What are you using to take the piccies ?....An actual camera, or some sort of smartphone ?

If it's an actual camera, you might have the facility to alter the 'colour balance'....Depending on the light source you're using.
If it's a smartphone, I can't really give you any help, as I don't know how much you can 'mess around' piccy wise with one of those.

Forbes would probably know...The camera on his phone takes far better piccies than my 'decent' Canon camera.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

That is just your techical ability Phil, and before you say owt, I can never get anything in focus...

[mmcv]

Matthew.

What are you using to take the piccies ?....An actual camera, or some sort of smartphone ?

If it's an actual camera, you might have the facility to alter the 'colour balance'....Depending on the light source you're using.
If it's a smartphone, I can't really give you any help, as I don't know how much you can 'mess around' piccy wise with one of those.

Forbes would probably know...The camera on his phone takes far better piccies than my 'decent' Canon camera.

Cheers - Phil

I'm just using my phone. It does have some colour balancing options and can do some tweaks to the colour and light balance in Google photos too so they mostly come out okay. Think it was mostly just the time of day I was taking them. I had my painting light over to give some additional brightness but the natural light was starting to go a bit as was coming up on 10pm so think it was the balance between the lower natural and artificial lights. Think most of my figure pictures are coming out a bit better recently, especially since trying your trick of using coloured or textured backgrounds to improve the focus. And applying some colour/lighting adjustments before uploading.