tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55565995579137656402024-03-05T17:55:40.849+01:00Ancient MiniaturesA Danish Blog, in English, about painting, wargaming and collecting 1/72 ancient figures.Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-14272474819480710452014-06-25T10:12:00.001+02:002014-06-25T10:12:42.139+02:00Quick NoteThis is just a quick note, to make sure that everyone sees I have a new page up, with figures I am willing to part with. That is trade or sell to anyone interested.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-20933209474611132662014-06-21T05:20:00.000+02:002014-06-21T05:20:27.803+02:00Arcane Legions: CentaursEarlier I mentioned that I got some Centaurs, from the Egyptian Cavalry set. Officially these are known as Centaur Chargers. I bought 2 packs of this Cavalry set, which gave me some 10 Centaur Chargers. That is 5 in each box. I also got an Extra from a Arcane Legions, League Booster Pack. This one prepainted (or factory painted, if you like to call it that.)<br />
<br />Yesterday I got a few more Centaurs, this time Centaur Archers, as they are officially known, in the Arcane Legions Booster Brick. You get 6 of those, in each Booster Brick, all prepainted.<br />
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This is how they look. As you can see, the paintjob is not half bad, not good, but definately passable, if you do not want to paint them, and you do not have a different colorscheme in mind, and can live with the fact that all the horse bodies are the same colors (I cannot).<br />
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You also get the hero Achilles from the Booster Brick. He is a "rare" figure. You get 1 rare figure, and 2 units of Uncommon figures in each Booster Pack. Achilles if you remember the greek fables correctly is a Human, not a Centaur, but the card that comes with him explains, that he is the reincarnated hero, or claims to be. Here are a few pictures of him.<br />
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First picture is from the side. Again it shows him in the same, to me, not very common horse color, of the Centaur Archers. <br />
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From this angle you can see that he is blond as well, despite having a black tail. In my world, those two would have to be the same color. So he too will recieve a paint job.<br />
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The third picture shows off his nice shield. And I must admit that It looks good. These figures are painted much better than the centaur charger, that I got that was prepainted.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-69784472203735037252014-06-21T05:07:00.000+02:002014-06-23T07:12:47.860+02:00Arcane Legions: Egyptian Booster BrickOne thing I realized when browsing the web for pictures and information about what I would actually get if I bought the Egyptian Booster Brick, for Arcane Legions, was the lack of information and decent pictures of the figures I would get.<br />
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So I thought, why not publish my findings on the blog. Beats having the information out there but being very hard to find. Originally all the figures could be found on the Arcane Legions website. But like the game, that too is closed down.<br />
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So here is a list of what you get from the Egyptian Booster Brick:<br />
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1 x Cleopatra VII<br />
1 x Decidius Saxa<br />
1 x Amenhotep III<br />
1 x Darius of Pontus<br />
1 x Achilles<br />
1 x Masika, Hand of Isis<br />
3 x Hand of Isis<br />
3 x Hand of Osiris<br />
3 x Anubian Guard<br />
5 x Sta, with 1x Egyptian Beast Handler<br />
3 x Criosphinx, with 1x Egyptian Beast Handler<br />
2 x Protosphinx<br />
6 x Centaur Archers<br />
4 x Lionrider of Bast<br />
6 x Undead Golem<br />
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In addition to these, Egyptian forces you get the following mercenaries<br />
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1 x Warlord Khudu<br />
1 x Gülüg<br />
2 x Kör Tiger Rider<br />
4 x Kör Sniper<br />
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A total of 8 Boxes of figures, all prepainted, mostly quite well in fact. I got an additional 2 Egyptian boosters. I wanted to get some Centaur Archers, if possible, extra. I did not get them. In addition to the figures, you get alot of formation cards, and some sortie cards, that are meant to be used with the figures.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-56179322836139006172014-06-20T03:18:00.001+02:002014-06-20T03:19:03.032+02:00More Ancient Greek CentaursUsually I try and do something different for each post. But... I had these centaurs on my painting desk simply screaming for my attention. I had hoped that I had finished off some other unit too, and I would have shown that unit and then this unit of centaurs. <br />
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However as luck would have it, a package arrived, from Germany (took 9 days to get here, which is pretty long), and it contained some prepainted cavalry figures from the Arcane Legions booster pack. Among these 4 cavalry figures, was 1 prepainted (factory painted) centaur, in the pose I had made my previous unit in.<br />
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So here it is, along with some I have painted myself. Can you guess which one is the factory painted one?<br />
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It should be obvious, but in case it is not... Here is a picture of the pose from the other side.<br />
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Right, still need a clue? The figure in the middle has a different base color... and skin color for that matter, and no, I was not going to do a centaur with that pale skin. In fact it should be very obvious which one is factory painted. Just 4 colors on it, painted on black plastic. I usually don´t rant on about how bad somebody elses painting skills are, cause I do not consider myself very good. But It seems I am better than the factory painter...<br />
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Now on to the unit I made.<br />
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Here it is from the side. The shields are a design I found on the web, and after double checking that figures had actually been produced with a shield with a spartan symbol, on a centaur, I went ahead and painted it. Incidently, not many Centaurs out there with shields... alot of them have bows though.<br />
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Here they are from the other side. I like the unit I painted before this one better. Somehow the colors fit better together. If that makes sense.<br />
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And here you can see the 5 figures from the front. I plan on eventually painting the prepainted one like these, and then I will have 6 centaurs in this unit.<br />
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For a parting picture, here are two of those I have painted, each presented with a different side to the camera.<br />
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I ordered the Booster Brick for the Egyptian side of the game, along with a Roman Booster Brick. So I will get some more centaurs, but these will have bows. I really hope they arrive soon. I have been waiting more than a week now, and it seems they are scheduled to arrive Monday. What to paint until then?<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-50353859338968769682014-06-16T05:03:00.001+02:002014-06-16T05:03:50.362+02:00Ancient Greek CentaursWell, this is really unlike me, but I have been smitten by some ancient greek Centaurs. They may not be the prettiest figures, but they have their charm none the less.<br />
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Here is a picture of the unit from the side.<br />
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Sizewise these are comparable to 1/72 figures, although they are officially listed as 25mm. They are from the defunct game Arcane Legions, which is made by the Wells Expedition. The plastic is comparable to the one used by Caesar Miniatures. It is sort of a bendy plastic, but not quite as bendy as the Caesar one.<br />
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The shields come prepainted. The motif is a centaur wielding a spear. I could not quite duplicate the color, and since one side is not painted, I decided to repaint all the figures.<br />
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They come unassembled. But that is not too much of a problem. I glued them with regular plastic glue and it is holding up very well. I wanted to glue the shields on with Superglue, but the glue had dried up and caused a blockage in the tube. So I tried to use regular glue, and it held up pretty well.<br />
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Historically of course, there was no such thing as Centaurs. so this is a forray into fantasy. It is not too off topic for me, though. So you will have to live with it. Here is finally a picture of two of the Centaurs placed up against each other, so you can get a good look at the pose.<br />
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They were fun to paint, which to me is more important than many other things. The sculpting I read elsewhere is so-so, some even call it bad. I can mention a couple of miniature manufacturers that would be proud of these figures. They are from the Egyptian booster pack, of Cavalry. They are sold along with 2 different poses of "mongol" or "steppe" warriors that are also horsemen.<br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-80698560250777563772014-06-12T02:39:00.000+02:002014-06-12T02:39:14.505+02:00More Samnite WarriorsAs the title says, time for some more Samnite Warriors. As has been the theme lately, these are from the Linnen Legion. That is all painted in white, and with the dash of silver inbetween.<br />
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Here is the whole unit.<br />
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No surpise in the looks. As I wrote above, they are all white. I like to think of these as being the elite Samnites, among the Elites. The Linnen Legion was in itself elite, but someone has to be even more elite than the elite.<br />
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Here is the pose that is the most numerous in the unit.<br />
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I really like it. He looks tough, and stands like he is more or less ready for anything. Really the pose I like the most of all the poses in the HäT set.<br />
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But with so many copies of the same figure in the unit, I thought some variety would be welcome. So three of the have the same helmet now, that the one to the left has on this picture. It was a simple headswap, from the kneeling pose, that I have yet to paint.<br />
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The figure on the right is also a headswap conversion. This time with the head from the "officer figure" that I have shown before.<br />
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The HäT set does not come wth a standardbearer, as earlier discussed, but I am using the spear with an enemies clothes as one none the less. The horn blower or musician in this picture, below, is not from HäT.<br />
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It is from the Odemars, Oscan Infantry set. I found most of the poses in that set useless. Much to flat, or too much flash, and too little definition. Painting this guy was mostly to see if it could be done. And it could. He looks alittle out of place, but not much.<br />
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Next up, I think I might just finish the Iberian unit that is on my painting table and has been for a while. I just need to paint the belts and leather straps in plausible colors, and then paint the bases of the figures. So not much. Alas I do not feel up to it in this heat, we are having here these days. But maybe if the nights turn out as sleepless as recently I will do it during one of those.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-74101439155193108362014-06-07T20:46:00.000+02:002014-06-07T20:48:21.541+02:00Liebster AwardSean from Sean´s wargames corner (http://seanswgcorner.blogspot.com/) has awarded me a Liebster Award.<br />
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So what is it?<br />
Basically it is an award that is given to a place you like, and you want to give alittle more trafic, because it might have been unnoticed by everyone, or at least many people. One of the requirements to get a Liebster Award, is that you have less than 200 followers.<br />
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Sean has given it to me because he thought my figures were nicely painted, and that is good enough for me. I appreciate the sentiment, and I would like to thank him, and accept the Liebster.<br />
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Already it has increased the trafic my blog has recieved, by quite a bit, and I have gotten another follower. Cool. So it works. Once again, thanks Sean!<br />
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Usually you answer a couple (11) questions, which vary from blog to blog as far as I have noticed, and choose 11 other blogs that get a nomination to get the Liebster Award. Sean has graciously allowed that none of his recipients need do that, and I am going to do as he wishes, and not nominate anybody.<br />
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Although if you should want to visit one of the places I like alot, with few followers, go here:<span class="GEE3RVNDI1"> 1/72 Ancient Wargames (http://ironcolumn.blogspot.dk/) which I enjoy reading every once in a while.</span><br />
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<span class="GEE3RVNDI1">~Claus </span> Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-54631740545147600502014-06-05T18:36:00.000+02:002014-06-05T18:36:43.995+02:00Balaeric Slingers (Iberians)Ok, it has been a while once again. I have slowly been painting up a few Samnites, but for now I thought I would show you the figures I am using and am going to use as Balaeric slingers. That is the famed slingers from the Balaeric Islands.<br />
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Here is a picture of the first unit.<br />
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And a picture of the second unit of them. <br />
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Notice how the figures are the same, but the feel is quite different. The ones in white with red trims are perhaps the most original, and correct, but the pictures in Ospreys books also shows them in brownish garments with brownish trims. So a unit of slingers in these would not be too far fetched. Personally I like the brownish unit most.<br />
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Here is first standard poses for each unit<br />
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<br />I made the headbands red, before I read that they were supposed to be used as extra slings, for other ranges. Apparantley slings have different ranges, according to how long they are. It makes sense I suppose,<br />
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Here is the other standard pose for the units.<br />
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The legend goes that as children the Balaerics were given a sling and told, that from now on they would have to find their own food. It is no wonder that they were expert slingers. Notice that unlike the pose in the Orion set, these slingers, from the HäT set, have a dagger each. You never know if you are going to be involved in some hand to hand combat.<br />
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I of course, as I do mostly when I can do it, preformed some simple conversions, with these figures. Mostly headswaps, but also one where I removed a hand from a sling. So here are those four poses.<br />
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This is a rather old paintjob that I did perhaps some 10 years ago. Glad it is still holding up pretty well...<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-18521222175854733082014-05-27T04:53:00.000+02:002014-05-27T04:53:21.805+02:00Samnite CavalryI realize it has been a few days since my last update. I was suffering a little bit from burn out. I guess it is one of the risks of painting many figures. Well fear not, I have some units almost ready to jump of the painting table, and onto the photoshoot.<br />
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Here first is the unit of Samnite Cavalry, of the Linen Legion, that I have painted.<br />
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It is a smallish unit, compared to the ones I usually make, even for Cavalry, but it should be proportionate to the number of infantry I have in my units.<br />
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Here is a picture of the horse pose, with rider, in side view. Note I usually do not paint the many pieces of bit and tackle. So I have omitted those here. Also I don´t usually paint hoofs. So likewise omitted.<br />
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I try to paint horses to a certain scheme. That is always a color I know a horse can be, with a darker mane, and tail. believe it gives a nice realistic look, without being too complex. Horses of course are not all brown, nor black, but mine usually are. It is simply easier to deal with when painting.<br />
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Here is a look at the rider and horse in front view.<br />
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I took this picture, the way I ordinarily take pictures of rank and file troops. But in this case I had to take it at an angle. Why do you ask? Well the feathers on the horse simply obscured the riders face, and much of the helmet. Making it look rather strange. <br />
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I am assuming that these riders are all samnites, because they have the triple disc pattern on the breastplate/pectoral. I found a note in one of Ospreys titles that said that they would look much like the Campanian Cavalry depicted, except that they would have the samnite breastplate. Originally I thought one of the more unarmored ones were samnites.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-23985468977099596202014-05-23T01:43:00.000+02:002014-05-23T01:43:26.502+02:00Samnite AuxiliaI painted up some Samnite Auxilia, of the Linen Legion. I am going on the asumption that the legion included both light and heavy troops, as well as cavalry.<br />
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Here is a look at the unit.<br />
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They are not surpisingly white and silver in color. I tried taking the picture from an angle and alittle from above, to give an impression of depth. I think I succeeded. The unit does not look "flat", so mission accomplished.<br />
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Here is a look at the pose that is most numerous in the unit.<br />
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White on white is not the best way to bring out details. So I have used light grey as crest color, and a yellowish cream color for the back of the shield. I think it looks ok. The belt, sources show, are inlaid with silver or iron, so, I painted it silver.<br />
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Here is a look at the unit leader.<br />
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Not much to say about him really. Except that the difference in silver and iron is much more prominent on the pictures I have taken than in real life.<br />
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At the moment I have three units on the painting table. One Samnite Linen Legion heavy unit, One Samnite Cavalry, of the Linen Legion too, and a unit of Iberian Caetrati. The two first are HaT products, the latter is all Orion figures. So those are the coming attractons!<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-44742655629240820422014-05-21T11:16:00.000+02:002014-05-21T11:16:07.419+02:00Iberian Caetrati, armoredSo back to the Iberians, and these fellows are a strange bunch, but here goes.<br />
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The Iberians are distinguished ordinarily into three types of troops: Slingers, Scutari and lastly Caetrati. The Caetratri are like the Scutari destinguished by their shield. Where the Scutum is large and oval, this shield is small and round, in fact one might call it a buckler. Ordinarily the units would be light and agile, but this unit is different.<br />
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The reason why it is different cannot really be seen on this picture. But there is a hint, some unusual straps of leather on the back. They are used to hold a round plate in place over the breast. Which is unusual, but not unheard of. From my google searches I found at least one representation where they had this plate and a "buckler".<br />
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Here is another view of the unit.<br />
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Notice how big the shield of the Champion of the unit is. I did not find any small enough shield I could use, so his bigger shield will have to do.<br />
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I have spoken alot about the unusualness of this unit, and of the pose in particular. Well here he is.<br />
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Another thing that is unsual about this figure, is that his sword is not the usual falcata type, but it is straight. So is the scabbard. Very strange and quite unusual.<br />
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The champion too is interesting, if not for anything else, then for the weapon he is holding.<br />
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It is an axe, from the Caesar set of egyptians. You get a few spare ones pr. sprue, so, I thought why not use it to denote someone special. The uniform is not that strange, white with red trimmings. Just like most texts say the Iberians had. But the shield is also something I found online. Not sure if it is something the Iberians used; black shields that is.<br />
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The officer is the standard pose from the Orion set. Here he is, once again:<br />
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He is however interesting because he must be rich. Why do you ask? Well he has a purple cloak. A color that was extremely difficult to manufacture back then. So only the richest could afford it. Perhaps this unit is this fellows personal bodyguard. Would explain why they are so different.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-89239460851521759652014-05-20T23:53:00.000+02:002014-05-20T23:53:37.871+02:00Samnite InfantryAnother Oscan unit, this time a Samnite Infantry unit, part of the Linen legion (or silver legion) has raced ahead of a Iberian unit I was painting at the same time.<br />
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It is a unit, 16 strong, with 14 identical poses. They are as earlier mentioned part of the Linen Legion, or Silver Legion. Thus they are considered elite. The Linen legion was chosen in the following manner. The General, selected 10 men who he considered to be strong and braver than the rest, these in turn again each selected 10 men, and so on, until the Legion was 16.000 strong. They were then placed on the right side of the battlefield, as this was a position of honor. They were all clad in white, and had silvered weapons and armor. This was considered holy to them. The rest of the army was deployed on the left, and they numbered some 24.000. They were not clad in white and silver, but had many colors, and golden weapons and armor.<br />
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Here is a look at the pose that is the most common in the unit: the spearman.<br />
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Again I have on purpose given him "shoes". The metal on him is either painted silver or chainmail color. Everything else, is white or whitish. The spear is kept in wood color. The box, which you get these figures in (HäT 8040), does not specify which Italians are which tribe, but the samnites are easily recognized by the tripledisc breastplate that they have.<br />
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The officer, and standardbearer are the same pose. The standardbearer is not really carrying a standard either. It is a spear with the tunic of a defeated enemy drapped over it, and his belt on top. The idea was to display that your enemy had been forced to become naked, and thus was defeated.<br />
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Here is a look at the standardbearer.<br />
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As you can see, he is more heavily armored. It is quite possible that he is actually not a Samnite, but some other type of Italian, as he is not wearing a triple disc. However he will do just fine for me. He is also a headswap conversion. <br />
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Here is a look at the officer.<br />
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He has been equiped with a sword, which I guess will denote him as an officer. The crest on his helmet might not be a crest, but part of the helmet design. But I have chosen to paint it as a crest. Not that it is very visibile with the Silvered helmet and the light grey crest (Ghostly grey).<br />
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Finally it is time for some of the Iberians to leave the painting table. This time it is a unit of Scutari, so named because of their shields, the Scutum. Here is a sideways view of the unit. It is the best way to show off the shields. </div>
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Notice the colorscheme, it is the same as on the box, that you get from Orion, when you buy the Iberians. Here is the unit seen from the front. </div>
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The unit is composed of 8 spearmen, wearing a single metal plate over the breast area, and carrying Scutums and a spear. They also have a scabbard for the traditional spanish sword. There is also a single officer, this time with a red cape, as well as a standard bearer (from HaTs carthaginian command set)<br />
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Here is a close-up of the infantry type.<br />
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The shields were really fiddly and was perhaps the part of the figure that took the longest time. The motif is molded on, so no choice there if you want a different design. Unless you want to carve it off that is...<br />
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The officer is by now the well known type. Crested helmet, breastplate and greave. The colorscheme is more traditional Iberian than what I have done the other officers in.<br />
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The standard bearer is as mentioned earlier from the HäT command set, for the Carthaginians. Ordinarily I would have given him a brown cloak, for lack of word of what the garment is he is wearing over his armor, but I chose red to tie him in with the unit.<br />
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And that was one more Iberian unit ready for the tabletop.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-49996473662131327002014-05-18T00:54:00.000+02:002014-05-18T00:54:16.223+02:00More Oscan AuxiliaOnce again a unit of Oscans have run past my Iberians waiting on the painting table. This time it is another unit of Auxilia. Auxilia by the way is latin for "It helps", meaning they are not part of the regular army, but more a reserve of some sort, that helps out in times of war.<br />
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This time I chose a more fitting uniform than the first unit got. The dress here is definately more Oscan, and the shield design is too more Oscan than before. This one can be seen on the box art, that is, apart from the inverted E i painted on, which should be replaced by a wolf. Since my painting skills do not make it possible for me to paint that many identical wolfheads on a shield I chose to paint the letter the Oscans used for E, and that is the inverted E.<br />
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Three conversions are present in the line-up of figures. They are simple headswaps. Can you find them? The 11 figures are all of the same pose, with 3 of the 11 being the conversions. There is also the Oscan officer painted in the scheme of the unit as well. 12 figures all in all.<br />
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Here is a close-up of the common figure in the bunch.<br />
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The belt is shown in all illustrations I could find, as being golden or gold, but I found that it was not to far fetched that it could be leather. This fellow too is barefooted. I could have made the edges of his sleeves white too I guess, but I went with a simpler design.<br />
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Here is a close-up of the officer figure.<br />
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I think I could have painted him a bit better. There are some edges along the armor on the backside that seem to have been guilded. That is golden paint has run out on the cloth. Not very professional of me, I guess. The camera really catches all those small faults you do not notice when painting, even in bright light.<br />
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A bit of info on the Oscans I guess is appropriate. Especially since I did not give any in the last post. They are an Italian Oscan speaking collection of tribes, that lived south of Rome, basically. The most numerous of them were the Samnite League, which I have yet to paint any of. These Oscans here are just meant to be general Oscans. They wrote from Right to Left. That is opposite of the direction you are reading this. They were eventually conquored by the Romans, but there were several big wars. The Samnite wars being the most known. There were three of them.<br />
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Oh and did you find the conversions? If not here they are.<br />
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The figure to the left is perhaps the worst one of the lot. His head and neck has a sort of platform that I forgot to remove before attaching the head to the body. The two others have the same heads as the "Officer". You got 8 of the "officer" pose per package of HäT Italian Allies, and I somehow managed to pick up 7½ packages. (Two of them just recently.... I should really have checked how many I already had).<br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-2875272756055829282014-05-16T22:10:00.000+02:002014-05-16T22:10:29.437+02:00Oscan AuxiliaA bit in from left field is here a post about my recently painted Oscan Auxiliaries. To be honest I got a little bored painting the Iberians, and thought a change of pace would be fine. Better to be painting something than nothing at all.<br />
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So here they are. A single unit. 12 men, 2 poses. Or rather one pose, and an officer. I more or less painted these from imagination, rather than a historical source. Then I check the sources and tried to make up for my blunders. A smaller blunder of mine is that perhaps the Oscans never really wore shoes. The officer is clearly wearing some, so perhaps I should have painted them skin color, so he would be barefoot like the rest of them.<br />
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Another blunder can be seen on this shield design. Not sure that this color combination ever occured. So to make up for it, I thought I would put a symbol on the shields that was definately Oscan. Turns out its hard to find symbols. Then I got a brainchild, what if I used part of the Oscan Alphabet. And sure enough, it was less hard to find the ancient Oscan alphabet. So I used one of the 21 letters they had as a symbol. A V with a dot in it.<br />
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The officer is perhaps not an officer, but just another Oscan. However he is heavily armored and with a cupped hand. I put a sword in it. The shield is also glued on. Both are from the HäT set which these figures are from. <br />
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This is then a small unit, by some standards, of just 12 men, but with just one pose it felt like there where more, when painting them. The standard pose is unarmored, and just has a shield and spear, so they are Auxilia. They are basically painted generically enough to represent any Oscan tribe, the tribes of ancient Italy, before Rome took all of it.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-83840707879978668102014-05-15T00:00:00.001+02:002014-05-15T00:02:35.133+02:00Iberian SlingersSo what do we have here... Well the title says it all: These are Iberian Slingers. That is slingers from the Peninsula, what we today would call modern Spain (and Portugal).<br />
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The sling was a cheap and accurate weapon back in the days of the Punic wars. It was deadly too. Famed where the Balaeric slingers, used much by the Carthaginians. These however I have decided are just regular slingers, from Iberia. Here is the first unit, clad in brown.<br />
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As can be seen, they are pretty much just armed with a handweapon, and a sling. The hand weapon is something along the lines of a long broad knife or dagger. Here is the second unit, clad in the traditional white cloth with red brims. <br />
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They are the same figures, just painted up differently, and as it was at different times. One is painted some 18 months ago, the other a mere hours ago. The ones in white are the oldest, they have wear and tear, as can be seen on the figure on the extreme left. Part of the paint covering the base has flaked away.<br />
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Here is a close-up of one of the two poses, in their different painting scheme: The loading slinger.<br />
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Note how I forgot to paint the iron on the scabbard, on the white clad figure. While i remembered on the brown one. These kinds of mistakes annoy me alittle, but not much. I paint in volume not in detail, so if there is detail, and I remembered it, good. If not, I will fix it later, maybe.<br />
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Here is a close-up of the second pose, in the different painting schemes: The slinger who is swinging his sling, ready to fire.<br />
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Again, the little details are missing on the white clad one, but at least I am consistent. If these where elite slingers, like the Balaeric slingers are supposed to be, they would have extra slings, for different ranges. Such slings would usually be in the form of a headband or hanging from their belts.<br />
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So here they are, the Iberian Slingers, from Orions set of Iberian Infantry.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-42359892901914196022014-05-13T04:47:00.001+02:002014-05-14T19:14:45.168+02:00More Heavily Armored Iberian Warriors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, these guys had been sitting on my paintdesk for nearly a year, mocking me. But now they are finished. Yay!<br />
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Perhaps they do not look so impressive lined up like that, so I tried to take a photograph to make them look less flat, on more "in action". This is how it turned out.<br />
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Looks like there are more of them this way, and they are sporting their good sides too. Like the other heavily armored Iberian Warriors, these are from Orion, except for the Standardbearer, which is from HäT. These too must have plundered the battlefield and found some armor. So I guess they are in roman mail, although it could be Iberian in origin.<br />
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Now for the individual close-ups.<br />
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The Officer of the group comes first. He is easily recognizable with his cape and crested helmet. He might even be of Cathaginian decent, with such equipment, or perhaps he is just rich. Notice that on this one, that you have seen before, I have painted a shinguard, which I am not entirely sure is there, or not.<br />
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This fellow is sporting some very nice armor. A full breastplate, unlike the officer that just has a metal plate protecting his chest. Also he has a round shield, which makes him somewhat different from his fellow infantry friends. I had glued this fellows shield on before I decided he should be part of this unit, hence the difference. He is holding a Bull Standard, which is also from HäT.<br />
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Finally the Iberian Warrior himself.<br />
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The shield he is using is the standard Scutum, and the spear, was much longer on the molded figure, but I cut it down to a more reasonable size. It was the length of a small pike, this way it is just a spear. The typical Iberian sword can be seen in its scabbard, and there really is not much more to say about this figure.<br />
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Stay tuned. I think there may be an update more coming within the next couple of days.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-60731544128884979022014-05-12T00:22:00.001+02:002014-05-12T00:22:26.535+02:00It has been a while...So it has been a while since my last posting. Actually a long time. The reason for this was that I simply stopped painting, at least for a while, and I first began again, today. That is since it is past midnight yesterday.<br />
So something is happening again on this blog. I picked up my brushes and painted a few Sherden Guards, but they are not finished yet, so no pictures of them, although they may be the next thing you see from me.<br />
I´ll leave you with a picture that is a small section of a battle I fought years ago, with my Republican Romans vs. Egyptians and allies.<br />
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Enjoy, and hopefully you will all get to see some more images soon.<br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-75863515725140720452013-04-09T19:52:00.001+02:002013-04-09T19:55:11.574+02:00Iberian Heavy CavalryThe Iberians had some heavy cavalry, but it was not the most common component of their armies. These would typically represent some more wealthy men, perhaps nobels. Here is a unit of them.<br />
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Notice how they all are armed with swords, and armored with chainmail as well as having a scutum shield. They are part of the <span class="HeaderText" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder3_lblHeader">Spanish Cavalry set that HäT make. There was only one pose of them, and I found I would not make any conversions of them. Here is the pose.</span><br />
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<span class="HeaderText" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder3_lblHeader">Basically he is a warrior waving his sword. Also notice how the camera captures everything, down to the pieces of bit and tackle I have not painted. You get 3 of this pose in each set. I bought 2 sets.</span><br />
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The standard bearer is also one of those poses from the set. He is special, in the sense that it is actually a multipose. You can get a standard, or a spear, simply by cutting off the boar at the end of the standard. You also get 3 of this pose, and as it is unlikely you will need 6 cavalry standardbearers when buying two sets, the multipose is a good idea.<br />
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Finally we have the leader of the unit. He is a conversion, made from the HäT Punic Wars Command set, and a headswap. He has been given one of the lose swords. Notice he does not have a shield, I think it may have snapped off. But I did not find one, so I have taken the picture of him without it.<br />
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Finally here they are all three poses, that make up the unit, seen from the front. I tried messing with the picture alittle seeing if I could get them cut and pasted into the above pictures, but it just looked wrong. It is also somewhat easier to see the special Spear/Standard that the standardbearer is holding in this picture.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed the view<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-69553716052597000952013-04-05T15:40:00.000+02:002013-04-05T16:04:56.592+02:00Iberian Warriors, ScutatiSo, after what seems like an eternity, here I am again, writing a blogpost about my Iberians. This time its the Scutatis turn. Named that way because they carry the large spanish shield, called the Scutum. It is sort of oval in shape and covers most of the body.<br />
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Here are the guys.<br />
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I was probably better at painting when i painted these than I am today. Notice the shield pattern. Aparantly this kind of pattern was quite common. As for the colors i cannot say, but it seems reasonable to me.<br />
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Actually the unit consists of figures from up to three different sets; three conversions, in total and the standard scutati from the Spanish infantry set that HäT produces.<br />
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Here is a look at the most common type figure in the unit:<br />
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Notice how "heavily" armored he is. That´s right. Apart from the shield and a breastplate, he has no armor. Until Orion came out with their set of Iberian Infantry, this was the heaviest common unit type that the Iberians had. That is unless you make a few conversions, and convert some of the Command Set that HäT produced to Iberians.<br />
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Here is a look at the first conversion.<br />
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Please note how the head is split in two by bad molding. Some would have fixed this, but I generally do not do that kind of thing. I simply don´t have a steady enough hand, I think. The conversion is a simple headswap. The body is a light infantry man (or levy infantry man) from the Punic Wars African Infantry set, also done by HäT. I made two of these figures, just for the variety.<br />
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Here is a look at the officer of the unit.<br />
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He is much more heavily attired. He too is a conversion, made by swapping heads onto a figure from the HäT command set. The shield is much too big, but so is the figure, when compared to the others in the unit. I guess he is somewhat of a giant, this officer.<br />
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Well that was my first post in almost a year now. I hope you enjoyed it.<br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-88713711358746006072012-06-27T12:34:00.000+02:002012-06-27T12:34:09.100+02:00Iberian Warriors, Heavily ArmouredAfter a break painting, I can feel I am yet as good as I once was, but nevertheless i finished a few figures here today, and thought i would show them to the readers of this blog.<br />
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They are the heavily armed swordsmen from the Orion Iberian Infanty set. There is some controversy to the existance of this type of unit, as heavily armed Iberians is something that really does not fit in their style of fighting, which is guerilla warfare, basically. There is something about being heavily armored that just does not fit in with those tactics.<br />
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I guess one could assume that they have stolen the heavy armor from fallen romans, and that would explain the chainmail. They would then be troops fighting for Hannibal in the Punic wars, in Italy. Which is probably how I will use them when fielding them anyway.<br />
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The standard of sculpting is somewhat more lumpy than i am used to, having painted alot of HaT figures. These are the first troops I have painted from Orion, so the style is foreign to me. But I must say that i think that they overall are pretty good. There was one figure that was alittle mismolded. The shields are supposed to be the Scutum, and the figure to the left in the picture below shows a shield that is improperly molded. The one to the right is how it is supposed to look.<br />
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The unit I have presented above, 10 figures all in all, is composed of 1 officer, 1 standard bearer (from a HaT command set), and 8 swordsmen. The swordsmen look like this up close.<br />
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I chose to paint them more or less like the box backside specifies. The picture is not that clear, and the shield design was not readily visible, so i had to use my imagination. It turned out OK, but nothing more than that. I am not good with engraved shields.<br />
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The officer was simple to paint. That is apart from his breastplate which seems to be less well defined on some of the officers. I expect I will show more pictures of this pose, later on, as more units have been painted. I think that the officer might be a Carthaginian, but he might be an Iberian. It´s hard to know for sure.<br />
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The standardbearer is as mentioned from the HaT Carthaginian Command set. He probably should have had a scutum instead of a round shield, but now i am just nitpicking my own choices. As you can see i tried to use the same shield design that the other Iberian warriors had.<br />
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PS: I think I might be the first to paint up this set. I have not seen the pictures of these figures painted anywhere else.Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-3959899611441404502012-06-18T04:16:00.000+02:002012-06-18T04:20:02.450+02:00Ambushed - Goblinized and PharaoOk, so there I was faithfully updating my blog every day, or every other day, and suddenly nothing? What gives. Well I was ambushed. Sort of. <br />
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A friend had this project he wanted me to be a part of. I was supposed to bring out of the closet my old Orcs and Goblin Army and face a few of his adventuring friend in a battle with them. It was going to be great. I had not seen this friend for a long time... and I decided, hey why not?<br />
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Ok, so what happened: I brought out my old army, and discovered that I would need a few extra figures, and before you knew it, I had bought over 200 plastic orcs and goblins. All needing assembly. I figured that I would be done with them within a reasonable amount of time. Boy was I wrong!<br />
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I got to finishing the Night Goblins (all 100 of them) and then they overwhelmed me and goblinized me. It might have looked something like this:<br />
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The picture is from a magic card, called Goblin Piledriver. Anyway, I was completely overwhelmed, and did not find any motivation for assembling the rest. The goblins had gotten the better of me! At least that´s my story, and I am sticking to it.<br />
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As luck would have it, I recovered. And among other things I made a few figure trades (in 1/72 ancient miniatures). I traded away some atlantic Pharaos court civilians, and got a nice bag of figures in return from Tommy, also from Denmark. He was apparantly very excited about it, and also sent me this beautiful figure:<br />
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It is a Pharao, one of the rares from Caesar Miniatures, that you just do not get your hands on if you are not either a). Very Lucky or b) pay for alot of sets. The paint job is Tommy´s i believe. I think he´s done a very good job. So I plan on keeping him like this for the foreseeable future. What do you guys think?<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-5707848591702308802012-02-14T12:02:00.001+01:002012-02-14T12:03:08.503+01:00Carthaginian War ElephantsWatch out! Here come the Elephants.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Actually these elephants are quite small compared to the elephants we know from today. That is because they are of a species now thought to be extinct (or maybe near extinct). The North African Forest Elephant. We know that the Carthaginians used these Elephants in battle, the way that can be seen above. They were used to crash through the enemy infantry, and scare the enemy horses, who did not like their alien smell.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First I will show a two pictures of the units with the red howdah. Here they are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1J6IsOkBeshQ6pQxiwozSDtTapK80AqNFgUhGVyCk1BpDtC4FhcbMwt4oyMWzmxbspxCb3yQ96yProGsQfxYLSs-bdorp52I3zM-zM7Q5gah6_I0GGiulbBEpANygPhGGS_RWQGOxjrb/s1600/Carthaginian+Elephants+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1J6IsOkBeshQ6pQxiwozSDtTapK80AqNFgUhGVyCk1BpDtC4FhcbMwt4oyMWzmxbspxCb3yQ96yProGsQfxYLSs-bdorp52I3zM-zM7Q5gah6_I0GGiulbBEpANygPhGGS_RWQGOxjrb/s320/Carthaginian+Elephants+004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">~Claus</div>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-52237801019353140202012-02-13T20:46:00.000+01:002012-02-13T20:46:09.962+01:00Trees and HedgesAny battlefield worth it´s salt has got to have some signs of nature. So what would be more natural than to have a few trees to put on it.<br />
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Here first is a single pine, that I have.<br />
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Then there are the hedges. I have 3 of those. They are all Games Workshop products, so again, they are a bit tall for 1/72 (some call 1/72 20mm figures), and are meant for 25mm figures. Heres what they look like.<br />
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Right, now that I have shown a few terrain features, and such, I feel that the next update should be more figure related, and it will be, I promise. But that will have to wait until tomorrow.<br />
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~ClausErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951260078865895363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556599557913765640.post-57033981069287853252012-02-13T20:06:00.000+01:002012-02-13T20:06:36.260+01:00Ruined Towers and WallsContinuing my efforts to show my sister what I have of terrain, so she can get an idea of what I am missing, here is a little photoshoot of my Ruined Towers, and Walls.<br />
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I have forgotten who the manufacturer of the towers is, so if anyone out there recognizes them, feel free to post an answer in the comment section.I like these towers very much. Although they are probably not exactly in time periode with the Imperial Romans, from Airfix, I have shown them here together with these figures.There are 4 ruined towers.<br />
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The walls are a Games Workshop product, and some of them are a bit too large for the figures, but you can judge for yourself, when you see the pictures.<br />
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Next up trees and hedges I think.<br />
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