Basing is on mdf from minibases, and with tea leaves and static flock. Varnishing may happen in the future.


Heavy foot. First of these veteran African spearmen I painted. The transfers don't like the very rounded shields to much. Later iterations I figured out how to make relaxation cuts to help with the problem.
African Heavy foot. Colour scheme was copied off Joels 28mm carthage spearmen. It might be sacred band colours? Which I think by the late period don't really exist anymore.
African heavy foot. Last unit to be painted. These are Bueda/Corvus Belli. The spears are seperate and a hassle to glue. They also break off occasionally. Boo.



Elephants! Of course I took the picture of the wonky eye on one. Also, the 'spears' were simply wire. I sculpted a bit head on them. Probably standard poles, but I didn't want to bother with flags at this point.

Leaders. I aimed for a mix of colours from the various units I had painted. The green heavy spearmen arrived after I had painted these guys.
Dave mate, these are fantastic. So much effort and detail in such tiny minis!
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Thanks Kindly Dai. Arguably they are *too* detailed. I'm sorta using 28mm techniques on them which is a bit silly. It's fun when they finally get finished though.
DeleteGood job on those, Dave. It is hard with the very good macro lens these days, not to be critical of one's own work. However, your style of bright colours and high contrast do work well on the 15mms.
ReplyDeleteThanks Doug, an excellent point about close up shots in high resolution. I think I owe you additional thanks for the high contrast technique.....it evolved more that way looking at your figs and painting up for Borodino.
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