Just added this to pages and placed it at the top!
Note: I've not included any of the 54mm figures, Pendragon figures or pohotos. The catalogue itself doesn't include any of the 1968-1972 'Classic' ranges of figures. Most of these figures should be available/castable, just won't always know until I try...
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| Rhoxolani MC - at some stage I intend to do an Alan/Rhoxolani conversion of the cataphract by cutting the kontos down, at which time I'll be able to do mixed LC/MC units with JLS/B/Sh. I painted the armour using Vallejo leather brown - can't say I like that choice, red leather would be better and use the leather brown for belts, etc. |
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| It's a nice figure - found the masters but no record of the figure, made it as a one piece casting because the original separate rider didn't cast easily. Must admit I like painting up the standards, just don't think of them as being in any way realistic! |
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| Over the years I've collected a lot of odd figures and units that really need to be spruced up a bit. This lot seem to have been sourced from at least two different places... |
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| Anyway, can't see me doing a full overhaul of these so I've pretty much done the minimum to make them presentable. At least it's another unit on the roster. |
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| After all the basing, sorting and generally getting into commission the Gauls I got from Harry there were still a few left lying around... |
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| Seemed a shame to waste them so they've been based and put together - not sure it's a unit as such, but at least it gives the Gauls another 10 elements! |
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| I seem to have taken a long time to paint this lot. Still, there are six of them, usually do chariots in batches of three. |
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| They have been done as line chariots/lower class nobility. Plainer horse furniture, side panels of chariots painted to represent whitewash. The charioteer is the Gallic archer minus his bow. |
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| This means I now have a total of nine chariots - three higher class, six slightly lower class warriors. Might do another six in the near future - that would give a goodly force of fifteen, should be enough for most purposes... |
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| First question has to be: If it's about Salute, why a random photo of a market stall taken from where we stayed. The answer is that we stay in an apartment on Petticoat Lane and they have a market every Sunday... |
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| Lots of expensive souvenirs in London. This one sells for £15 in the various tourist type stores in the city. Sells for £6 in the market... |
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| There are different sets you can get. This set goes for £15 in town. Guess what the market price is? |
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| The individual taxi is bigger than the one in the set. No idea what the town price is, here it was £3. So basically I got the lot for the shop price of the bus! |
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| But there's more! The middle post box and telephone box were actually on key rings - hence the rings on top! These were a pound each, so my total outlay was £19! Figures for comparison a Crooked Dice Dr Who UNIT soldier, the ladies are Bad Squiddo vigilante school girls. |
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| The larger bus seems to fit nicely with 28-32mm figures. |
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| Likewise the larger taxi. |
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| Smaller taxi 25mm and smaller bus 1/87th? Haven't sized them out really. |
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| At Salute itself I just got a few figures with a sort of Christmas horror theme - haven't unpackaged them yet. They are 3D printed figures by Modular Worlds - but can't find the figures in their shop! Pity, because they didn't have any of the Santa figure left... |
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| And finally a visit to Warbases to rebuild my very depleted stocks of cavalry and LI/LMI bases... |
Incidentally, the date for Salute 54 has already been posted - 17th April.
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| Came across a load more Gauls from Harry I hadn't rebased yet. Just realised that the chariot is the same one I used when I did my Gallic chariots - hadn't noticed it before! |
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| Firstly, a load of cavalry. Hadn't realized they were there - knew there was a load more infantry still to do, thought all the cavalry I got were Minifigs. This unit just about brings the historical Gauls/Galatians up to their full complement! Need a load more Ancient Brit light cavalry though. |
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| I've also based a unit of Gallic archers. This is the second unit and completes the Gallic archery force. |
I've still got enough figures around to make up another unit or so of regular LMI and still have a lot more needed on top of that!
Might leave the Dacians/Sarmatians for a bit and cast up some chariots. Or a couple more units of Dacian archers...
