For the last week there's been the start of a draft post for my latest DBA game... which is set up but hasn't happened yet. Mainly because the wargames shed is currently showing a temperature of 96 degrees and hasn't dropped below 90 in that time...
But I'm still doing other things - mainly painting 'orphan' units again. This time it's getting a unit of Companion EHC sorted.
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| Simply my Sarmation cataphract conversion - bowcase removed and given sidearm - mounted on the Achaemenid Persian half armoured cataphract horse. |
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| Not about to try and say it's a realistic representation of early Successor uparmoured Companions, but it will do. |
Adding a shed temperature update - 104... but then, our outside thermometer is reading 110!
They look great! WHat's the basing material? Plasticine?
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
2mm mdf bases, for the texture it's just cheap ready-mixed filler to which I've added paint to dye it. Plonk the figures in the filler-covered base, smooth filler over figure base, leave to dry. The original idea was to stop any chips showing white once I'd painted/flocked/whatever over the base but I finished up just leaving the base filler - felt it would take too long to base everything in more complicated ways and the plain version actualy does the job. The filler itself acts as the glue once it dries.
DeleteGood stuff... some of those lances might be wilting in that heat.
ReplyDeleteCould be...
DeleteThat cavalry pose is so distinctive of Garrison lancers - lovely to see yet another unit resurrected and ready for battle Rob.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, technically conversions so new rather than resurrected - but I would have loved Garrison to have brought out more professional versions of the ones I've done back in the 70s.
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