The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

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Got some time over the Easter break to have a good crack at painting, it's been a while so felt good to get the paints out and have a bit of time to relax, feel like I've had very little time for that of late!

Pictures (hopefully) coming soon but have a nice mix of Trojans, Romans and Parliament-men done. 

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Imperial Romans, this actually rounds out my "mini" starter army with the first cohort, the equities and commanders.





Three more horse for the ECW Parliament forces, Fairfax (blue), Sheffield (king's head) and Associated Horse (green).





And some Trojan allies, the Lycians (the colourful ones with the horned helms) and the Paphlagonians:





Basing on these isn't complete, just a basic layer, the plan is to do the entire project's basing once complete (in a decade or so...)

Apologies for the shoddy camera work, doesn't seem to cope well with trying to photograph multiple units at once.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice work sir.

[fred.]

Good stuff! Glad to see you getting figures painted up again. I do like the ECW cavalry. 

[Techno 3]

Excellent, Matthew ! 

[mmcv]

Got some more done this past week, photos in due course.

You really appreciate how good and stable the bases on pendraken figures are. Usually just need the odd clip. Took me twice as long to base the same number of figures from another manufacturer with chunky narrow bases. Lots of filing and frustration as figures faceplanted into PVA...

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Celtic warriors




Celtic Archers



Greek Skirmishers



These are Trojan allies, haven't decided who yet, but possibly Memnons Aethiopians



And some Trojan War casualty tokens, look away now if squeamish...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice, but no Keira in the Celtic archers?

[fred.]

Lots more progress - the switch from Celts to Greeks confused me for a moment (easily done these days  )

The Aethiopians might look better with a bit more work to blend the cast bases in, even just some sand / beige paint on them?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The confusion comes to us all with age....good stuff

[mmcv]

Nice, but no Keira in the Celtic archers?

No but that's her great, great, great, great..... grandfather on the front right.

Lots more progress - the switch from Celts to Greeks confused me for a moment (easily done these days )

The Aethiopians might look better with a bit more work to blend the cast bases in, even just some sand / beige paint on them?

Yeah I've been jumping about a bit, just clearing down the pile and trying to round out some of the ancient mini armies. Got some hoplites and greek command on the next set of sticks which should give me enough to field a classical Greek army, though the plan is to expand it enough to mix and match two forces together for some Peloponnese action. I'm building them mostly using TtS army lists but I'm not convinced they handle the nuances of hoplite on hoplite warfare so may have to try out some other rules or do some homebrew.


You're right on the Aethiopians but for my Trojan War project I want consistent basing across the board and my end goal is to have a table set up for it with some sort of terrain board or mat, so I'm holding off doing anything other than a base layer until I know how that's going to look to match it all in, then I can do them all consistently.

I suspect I might go for my Classical Greek style basing as seen on the greek skirmishers but I figure I'll make a large batch basing mix when I come to do the boards and use that to build up the figure bases a bit more.

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Athenian command and Epilektoi (chosen):





The alien ghost things in the shields are meant to be owls...

I might try again at some point.

[paulr]

    

The back left one looks pretty owlish

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Twits! Who?
Good effort on those

[fsn]

The alien ghost things in the shields are meant to be owls...

You're a braver man that I!

My shields have geometric designs (hence a lot of Spartan Lambda's) or I use decals.