After finishing a 10mm Napoleonic French and a 28mm Assyrian army, the next Lockdown project has been a 15mm Essex Ready Made Medieval Hungarian army. It was sold as a FoGAM army, but with a bit of a squint has more than enough troops to give me all the options and more for both a Feudal and Medieval Hungarian ADLG list.
With extra time in Lockdown I also took this as an opportunity to take more time than I usually do in painting the army, and especially to try and do the horses properly, using base colours and a number of different ArmyPainter Inks.
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP07.JPG)
I also experimented with a new, higher resolution printer we now have at home, and found a load of images for shields on the web, printed them out onto normal paper and glued them onto the shields of the figures to make them a lot better than I could ever hope to paint. Finally I upcycled some old figures and added new shield graphics to them as well.
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP14.JPG)
In the absence of LBMS transfers for this army it seemed to go OK.
I've posted the full WiP and also lots of photos of the finished figures (https://www.madaxeman.com/main/15mm_Hungarians.php) on a couple of pages on Madaxeman.com (https://www.madaxeman.com/main/15mm_Hungarians.php), including a link to download a PDF of some of the shield graphics I used. There's still a few more spearmen to come, but the bulk of the army is now online.
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3675.JPG)
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3683.JPG)
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3698.JPG)
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3704.JPG)
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3715.JPG)
First page (of two) online at Madaxeman.com (https://www.madaxeman.com/main/15mm_Hungarians.php).
You've got some spiffingly-oomphy results with those shields.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 June 2020, 02:07:04 AM
You've got some spiffingly-oomphy results with those shields.
I couldn't have put it better myself! :-bd
I'll third that !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Seed worser ;)
Looking good
Pretty
I like them!!! Nicely done!!!
Terry
Looks good, I'll have to try that idea with the shields for my 15mm figures when I get back to painting though for my Athenian DBA army I already have bought commercial transfers.
Quote from: madaxeman on 08 June 2020, 10:57:19 PM
(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Hungarian/IMGP3715.JPG)
Brown-on-brown field with a brown charge, with a duck on your banner; these Hungarians surely are mavericks! :o
;)
Great work :-bd
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 14 June 2020, 10:47:43 AM
Brown-on-brown field with a brown charge, with a duck on your banner; these Hungarians surely are mavericks! :o
;)
Great work :-bd
The amusing thing is that particular shield is actually a photograph of a real shield from a musem somewhere...so those are the most 'real' colours on the whole lot ;)
( Not sure on the duck banner though ! )
Don't start Ian off......Please. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: madaxeman on 16 June 2020, 05:49:56 PM
The amusing thing is that 8)particular shield is actually a photograph of a real shield from a musem somewhere...so those are the most 'real' colours on the whole lot ;)
( Not sure on the duck banner though ! )
Maybe it was originally black and white bars and it's just faded/got grubby over the years :-\
Or they just do things differently in other places ;)
Anyway, I think I'll adopt this heraldry for my next Pendragon character 8)
Quote from: Techno on 17 June 2020, 06:35:41 AM
Don't start Ian off......Please. X_X
I'm already going ! ;)
Those shields work a treat, really adding to the look of the units.