Lovely work . Would have commented earlier but the pics took ages to load, not sure if it's my laptop, internet connection or just large file size .

Those look really zippy ! 

Quote from: Steve J on 12 June 2020, 05:13:16 AM
Lovely work . Would have commented earlier but the pics took ages to load, not sure if it's my laptop, internet connection or just large file size .

They take a fair old while to load here, as well, Steve......I'd guess it's a combination of large file size & slow internet. (Which I certainly have at Techno Towers.)

Cheers - Phil

Thanks guys. They would be the same as all the other pictures I've done. I wonder if having so many in a single post is what does it. May split into separate ones in future when there's a lot of pictures.

Though there have been a lot of internet issues nationwide lately (even though the providers tend to deny it!)

I'm guessing that each individual piccy is a pretty 'big file', M

Yours certainly aren't the only ones that take a while to download..... (here in the wilds of Wales)....so I wouldn't worry about it.
I'll check how fast they load onto the tablet a while later....Just as an experiment

Cheers - Phil

I rather suspect that you have an old box, my Toshiba takes an appreicable time whilst the new HP is much quicker. It's mostly a matter of cache.

Yeah each one is around 3.5MB, as it's just taken with my phone camera and uploaded to imgur then linked and resized from there.

That explains why they take a while to load chez moi.

Some more work on the terrain. Set of trees, patch of rough ground and a piece of impassible terrain all drying. Two hills shaped and awaiting painting. Think I'll use the airbrush on them as would take too long and too much paint to do by hand! Would be a good opportunity to airbrush all those 2mm Russians too...

Also painted and based a base of Qin mixed infantry and two of Chu standard infantry for my Chinese ancients. Pictures once dried and base finishing touches done.

Began prepping some chariots. Need to decide basing for chariots. Given I'm mostly doing mini units at present (40x20 or 40x40) then a single chariot on a 40x40 would represent a unit of chariots but I don't like the idea of just one chariot as a unit of chariots, will be too easy to confuse with the General so may do two on a 60 or 80 X 40 instead for the aesthetic. Most rule systems won't really care, and I'll hopefully scale the rest up to an 80mm frontage down the line anyway...

Some Chinese ancients from Newline finished up (other than varnishing).

First up a base of Qin mixed infantry (Ji halberd and crossbow):

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Then some Chu infantry (Ji halberd and swordsmen):

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I now notice some stray static grass and flock on the figures I'll need to pick off before varnishing! Always the way.

Nice ! 

Cheers - Phil

Different and cool

 

Thanks chaps. Some Qin chariots today, plus some flags for the command chariot.

The glue I used to attach the horses to the chariot though went all white and crusty so will have to do a bit of scraping and repainting when the base dries.

Ended up just basing each chariot on a 40x40 as they were much too big to do anything else. Will just act as motivation to get the rest of the forces up to 80x40 in the future once the "mini" version is done...

Had hoped to get some varnishing done this weekend but the weather didn't suit, nevertheless some pics of what I have unvarnished so far.

Some Qin chariots:










Qin General:







Also have another base of Qin foot and Qin cavalry drying.

Some Chu additions too:

These (un)impressed spearmen:











They're MM figures rather than Newline and a little more squat looking but okay on separate bases. Will likely use these figures for some yellow turban and red eyebrow rebels in future as their ample foreheads and headgear will work well.

Also have a base of Chu crossbowmen drying.