First of my Mongols

[kev1964]

Excellent work,


kev

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

take care

andy

[get2grips]

Superb

[Hertsblue]

Really nice work, Subedai. 

[fred.]

Yes, I wanted a bit of mix for the unit but didn't want too much of an armoured look. Regular but slightly mis-matched  if you like.

I'm definitely thinking of mixing the medium armoured figures in with both the lights, and probably now having seen these the heavies.

The bows are painted with Vallejo colours with Orange Brown (981) as a base, then a coat of my Pledge dark brown stain mix followed by highlights in a mix of Orange Brown and Sunny Skin Tone (845).

I will add Orange Brown to my next order - can't have too many browns...

If we were talking about 15 or 25mm I would completely agree and I did try to do it on some others but it looked like they were wading through  some type of boulder-ridden, crumbly, rocky ground. The base sand I use is actually from the Sahara Desert (holiday in Tunisia) and it's the finest in texture I've come across, mixed in with some budgie sand (for want of a better phrase) but even that is out of scale. Another idea I tried was to use Milliput to blend the edges  but the figures are far too close together on the base...plus the fact it took a bl**dy age. On the lighter units, where the figures are further apart, this is not an issue.
Grey? It's actually a light-earth colour. If you are interested I got it from Homebase in a litre tin, Code: 5010Y30R. Dry-brushed with a golden yellow and tan acrylics from The Works.

Yes it can be hard work to get the bases covered, without swamping the hooves / feet of the models. .
Sorry about not being able to tell the base colour - its probably the photos. I have some photos of tanks that people thought the basing was a shade of purple, due to the lighting the photos were taken under!

[marie]

Great job, can`t wait to get mine..........envy,sulk.....

[wurrukatte]

Excellent stuff Subedai.

W

[realthing]

Really nice

[marie]

Mine have arrived, wow...what can I say...busy spraying them up in undercoat, as spray is hard to get in ghana, pissing off the cat with all the fumes..
Thanks Leon and crew....

[Dave Fielder]

http://www.exmouthwargames.org.uk/index.php/forum/ancients-to-medieval/20-mongols.html?start=6

[Subedai]

http://www.exmouthwargames.org.uk/index.php/forum/ancients-to-medieval/20-mongols.html?start=6

Very nice. You can't beat the look on your opponents face as your masses of cavalry thunder forward. I've still got about 50 odd cav and a pack of arrow fodder to paint from my Pendraken order to do but I have been painting the Polish to face them.

[Dave Fielder]

Your Polish knights are looking good so far, saw them on some other links. There is a guy in our club who is going to do a Mongol horde ... imagine the carnage as our two factions clash! It'll be like a West Ham and Millwall Derby.

[Subedai]

Your Polish knights are looking good so far, saw them on some other links. There is a guy in our club who is going to do a Mongol horde ... imagine the carnage as our two factions clash! It'll be like a West Ham and Millwall Derby.

Ta for that about the Polish.

Tell him to go for it! There can never be too many Mongol armies in circulation at any one time as far as I am concerned. For what it achieved it must be one of the most underused armies in the history of wargaming...ever. I blame the sets of rules. They were never just LC/MC/HC oe even EHC, but there again, without making them a super-army, what can you do? The command and control system was streets ahead of everything else at the time and how do you represent 'our deity has told us we are to rule the world so beware our wrath' on a wargames table? Especially with the previous the Mongol's had.

(You never know, if Millwall ever get into the Premiership -see the flying pigs?- that might happen, and hopefully, the powers that be will recognise the potential for a right old ruck this time.) 

[irregularwars]

Smashing job, well done!

[Plasticoutsider]

These are terrific.  Very inspirational stuff!