really good Fred, basing is excellent.

Hear, hear.

And thanks for the compliment, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

Really lovely work Fred, great painting and basing, a top job mate. I'm looking forward to having a go at these next month.


kev

Quote from: fred    12df on 20 May 2014, 08:44:04 PM
Thanks Chaps - glad you like the look of them.

Phil - these paint up very nicely, excellent work.

A couple more shots



And an overhead view


I've deliberately gone for a more sparse basing on these

(Only just found this and I am so impressed I just had to re-post the whole post again.)

Glad I could be of help with the wood colours.

They are absolutely stunning. The combo you finally decided on for the bases has worked out a treat and only enhances the figures.

What size bases are they on and are they based that way for any particular rule set?

Love these, great basing and painting - a winning combination!    Like the bows and spears, I think going for a light colour is much better than the usual dull brown. I go for an even lighter buff colour, but your tan colour really works.  As a (much) younger generation might say "Respect!" 

Mollinary

The tan colour for the bows and spears works well - I nicked it from Subedai's figures! For the smaller scale figures I quite like the paler browns for bows and spears. I also think that most weapons would be fairly new, so not in the dark stained wood we now see in museums and castles. I still go with dark brown for fire arms though.

The bases are 40x40mm - I have gone off the 40x20mm warmaster standard recently, as I like the bigger bases to give a bit more of a diorama feel. Rules wise, not certain, but these should work for a few options, including Hail Caesar, perhaps KoW (but light cavalry aren't great in it) or in a set of home brew rules we are cooking up at the moment.

I've taken a bit more time over these bases - using a mix of rocky areas, tufts, flock and some small bushes. Again the space allows this, rather than crowding everything in.

I also took some more pictures last night
The Mongolian Death Worms, all based up:

Looks like I need to sort the base edges on these - see what comes of using some older bases, not the nice new laser cut ones from Mr Leon.

And some WIP shots of the heavy cavalry, based up much more densely. I thought these would be quite quick with all their armour, but they actually seemed to take longer than the light cav (or its just I had to paint more to get fewer bases!)

Great job!

Those are some if your best yet Fred!

Excellent again, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

Very interesting point about british webbing in WWI. I was considering going with buff but I may look at the dead flesh. I'm assuming it's in GW. Was in the Southport branch about a month ago and the sales person asked the obligatory question, 'And what are you painting at the moment fella?' I received  a very blank look when I replied sword and buckler men from the Great Italian Wars.

Really good stuff Fred. I'm in total agreement on the larger "diorama" style basing - really lets you give them a nice feel. I'm half tempted to rebase my Warmaster but think that can go to the bottom of the to do pile!

I like the lighter wood colours as well - pops really nicely.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 22 May 2014, 08:26:57 AM
Very interesting point about british webbing in WWI. I was considering going with buff but I may look at the dead flesh. I'm assuming it's in GW. Was in the Southport branch about a month ago and the sales person asked the obligatory question, 'And what are you painting at the moment fella?' I received  a very blank look when I replied sword and buckler men from the Great Italian Wars.

I actually use the version from Vallejo Game Colours. I don't think I have been inside the southport GW, but I do occasionally drive last and see if it's still there.

Considering how close Italian wars stuff is to GW empire it's a bit of a shame that there was no connection made. But perhaps we have to remember that there is The Hobby, and just a hobby that  the rest of us partake in.

Thanks to the rest of you, really glad everyone likes these figures, they have have come out a treat.

Toxic pixie - avoid rebasing, it's a bit of nightmare. Though I did  rebase a bunch of WWII stuff recently, and it turned out OK.

Yeah, I don't like rebasing much at all... guess the Warmaster can stay. Sabots would let them fit a different scheme and be a damn sight less work

Those heavies are great, love em!

As far as I am concerned re-basing is a complete no-no. Luckily, I tend to collect both sides so only if a set of rules says base sizes immaterial or everything is on 60 X 40mm will I give them a second glance, otherwise forget it.