The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just makes me jealous 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice.
As soon as Leon gets some of these I would spend a lot of cash on them!

[mmcv]

Thanks! Yeah would be great to see a Pendraken bronze age range, but Newline and MM have a decent selection which is what I'm using for the moment.

Got the rest of the Trojan War range fully organised. I'd reworked the army lists a bit recently so was concerned I'd not have enough, but I'm only a little short on two units and needing some command figures so not too bad. Lots of leftover figures to be elevated as heroes and mangled into casualty tokens in gruesome Homeric style.

Also got a base of classic Greek hoplites painted and a test base of Imperial Romans done. Pictures when dry.

Back to work tomorrow. It's been nice to have a couple of days where I can dedicate a few hours straight to proper hobby time rather than just half an hour here and there like I usual.

[mmcv]

Took some snaps on my lunch break, a base of Greek Hoplites:





And my first base of Imperial Roman legionaries, going with the classic red look:





I didn't use ink washes on either of these. They're mostly armour and shield so I'm not sure it would add much beyond doubling the painting effort. I may touch up the faces at some point down the line as have some more flesh tones on order, but I'm unlikely to notice the difference on the table. I may be tempted to wash the fur cloaks, they do have a couple of shades of brown in them already but the light has washed it out entirely so maybe not intense enough. Then again, I'm only noticing this as super zoomed in, at arms length it all looks reasonable.

[Techno II]

 

Damn fine job, Mathew !

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool

[mmcv]

Thanks chaps.

Some Roman Aux join the field:





And the Royalists gain a unit of foot, Lord Kerry's/Duke of York's:





I'm also not entirely happy with the Trojan War foot a few posts back. I can't decide whether I want each infantry base to have its own distinct look and theme, or just mix a whole load of different figures on each base to give a more consistently varied look. The previous ones look a bit too regular, and the huge shields would have likely been going out of fashion at that time so entire units of them might be a bit much. Then again having a couple of units like that would represent being from old fashioned remote areas then have the core regions more "modern" with smaller shields and spears giving each unit its own distinct look. Have them all rated as javelinmen for TtS so don't really need to differentiate them visually. Decisions... 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks great

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

How does he do it ?

[Steve J]

Great work Matthew . For the foot, I like the idea of mixing up the figures, maybe with the odd unit here and there with a more uniform look to them, for say Veteran units or equally city guard with outdated equipment.

[Techno II]

Very nice, once again, Matthew.

Cheers - Phil.

[mmcv]

Thanks guys

Great work Matthew . For the foot, I like the idea of mixing up the figures, maybe with the odd unit here and there with a more uniform look to them, for say Veteran units or equally city guard with outdated equipment.

Damnit Steve, you made me look at the list and now it's sprouted two more units and now it's not a nice number of points, so it's probably going to sprout a couple more... 

At the moment most of the units are rated the same. So the bulk are "javelinmen" with a handful of units of archers, skirmishers and chariots. The only two foot units I need to visually represent differently to show veteran status are the Trojan Royal Guard and the Myrmidons. I have a fairly good idea of how I want to do these. There are a few units from "far away" that I'll probably make visually different (e.g. Ethiopians if I can settle on reasonable proxies) but for the rest, I'm thinking a mix of different, but with slightly different proportions of the figures so they don't all look so uniform and to represent regional differences. I'm also tempted to clip those long spears down, as in the period most spears were thrown, so the massive long ones look a bit out of place and make positioning difficult.

I seem to just love giving myself more work... 

[paulr]

 

[mmcv]

Nice big parcel from Pendraken arrived today assuming I've counted right it should give me enough to finish out the remaining ECW units for the current phase.  Also includes some other nice odds and ends, including some farmyard animals.

Well-timed as we've just had the new neighbours move in:



Also pressed the button on an order elsewhere to round out some of the Trojan War stuff 

I need to get some painting done! As paulr would say: 

[paulr]