After doing a few I accidentally cut a spear point 'wrong' and it looks better! So a couple more of these made for a mould. |
Meanwhile also working on a heavier spear woman and a light javelin woman. |
A place where Ancient Ancient armies can peacefully retire to... Possibly. Oh, and some pulp. A few things on 6mm SciFi tanks and stuff. And the toy soldiers. Especially the War of 1897... And now I seem to be starting on 20mm Napoleonics as well! email GarrisonMiniatures@gmail.com
After doing a few I accidentally cut a spear point 'wrong' and it looks better! So a couple more of these made for a mould. |
Meanwhile also working on a heavier spear woman and a light javelin woman. |
Not sure if this is a Beastmistress or Enchanter with pets... |
Haven't decided what to do with the unbased tigers - base some as beasts or leave them 'unattached'? Or paint a few more of course. |
Couple more of these units would be a good spine for the army. They're a surprisingly pleasing unit. |
Purely archery based infantry would be a bit fragile - I'm working on spear/javelin armed infantry at the moment. |
Actually I'm also looking at these archers as the top half of some cavalry. |
Next, squad of Movellans. Quite nice figures in useful poses. |
Comparison with my simple attempt - they match size-wise, so perfectly compatible with my Retro range. |
So, worth going on with using Blacktree for now - though I'm sticking with small orders!
Actually finished both the queen and a 'line' chariot. |
For the Queen's chariot I used Persian chariot horses. |
The plume is more impressive and it has reins moulded with the horse... |
Also finished the line chariot. I'll make at least one other using the SS64 Dancing girl girl instead of SS61 Amazon Enchantress as the charioteer. |
For reins I used something from a previous hobby - fly tying. There is a very useful range of materials to be found in the fly tying hobby! There is a wide range of tinsels available, for example from Veniard. Been using their stuff for 60 years... |
Follow up re my Black Tree order.
'Hi Rob,
I understand your concerns.
Your order is in transit to Cornwall and will arrive soon. Unfortunately DHL have screwed up and shipment was delayed and was then missent to Germany. I have the confirmation that they are sending the shipment to the UK right away. We will have your order shipped to you immediately it arrives.
Sorry for the troubles.
Cheers, John'
First contact after three emails from me over the last few weeks... my last one being three days ago 'As you will appreciate, I am getting a bit concerned...' - original order was placed on 6th February. But at least I have had a reply.
As I recall, the following has been on their website from around the time I placed the order and it is still there:
' Recently our main shipping provider for international orders misplaced and failed to scan a large multi shipment, because of this several orders were delayed much longer then we’d ever like and for that we sincerely apologize, we were as much in the dark as you due to this and never want to disappoint with delayed orders.
Very much in the unfinished experimental stage - the tiger, for instance, has been 'borrowed' from theTuranians! SS59, Amazon Queen with tiger on lead following Amazon Enchantress on riding tiger. |
SS61 Amazon Enchantress and SS37 Amazon archer - blue bases because they are going to be chariot crew. The shading looks a lot heavier in the photos than on the figures! |
Enchantress as charioteer with archer in standard Stygian chariot. Certainly the more viable option and I may even add reins! Wish now I hadn't painted both chariot bodies the same! |
So still a lot to do but in a week or two I could have the basis of a viable Amazon army. Might even see if I can have a go at converting some of the Amazons to make a few heavier infantry.
One thing I hadn't considered is that are quite compact - fitting them on 60mm deep bases leaves a big gap behind them! |