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| By adding some Garrison officers and standard bearers I was able to muster another understrength regiment of Immortals. |
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| There were 12 figures with levelled spears and 6 with upright spears - most of the others were in multiples of 5. Had I given all three elements an officer and standard bearer I could have made three full strength elements! |
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| A close up of the two different figures... |
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| ...And rear view... |
Having a quick look though Rick's blog Notitia Metallicum I realised that I don't really do justice in the area of figure identification/listings. One set I could include the Barbarian side of the 'S' Range - I've done a lot on Greeks, Persians, Egyptians and Assyrians, nothing on the Barbarians. Mainly because they're not painted.
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| One reason for this is that I have PB Range (though S chariots!), Garrison and Airfix armies already. Most of these are ex-Harry, some were originally mine as part of my 70s Successor armies, passed on to Harry, then came home when I acquired Harry's collection! |
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| However, I do have a load of S Range infantry lying around, even a few I undercoated grey a long time ago! |
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| Now, it's worth noting these are Minifigs. Most of my ids could be wrong... Minifigs would produce several figures with the same code (sometimes at the same time) and some S Range figures transitioned without change into the PBs Range! |
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| AF1s Frank Axemen Advancing - I'm publishing these in the order they sorted themselves on my hard drive rather than catalogue order. |
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| AG1s Gaul heavy Spearman Advancing. The first figure I take to be an early version, the second figure is S Range 'cos it's shown in the picture in the catalogue... |
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| AG2s Gaul Standard Bearer. This is an early version. You will see a different standard bearer in the chariot - that could be later S Range, could be PB... |
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| AG10s Hun Archer... It's Minifigs, don't ask! |
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| AG11s Gaul Heavy Spearman, early version. Later version could well be the back figure listed as AG1s of course - there's no number on the base. |
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| AG12s. The one on the right has the code on the base (as AG12), the other one is assumed to be a variant. |
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| AG13s Gaul Spearman (Ancient Briton) - id assumed but there is a worrying spike on the shield rather than just a boss. |
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| AGC1s Gaul Lancer - assumed it's the lancer, not the javelinman! Early one piece casting. My two piece casting of Minifigs Gauls all seem to be PB Range figures. |
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| AGC4s Gallic Chariot. Ex Harry, chariot painted by me, no idea who painted the PB Range crew. |
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| APt1s and 2s, Pict Spearman Advancing and Pict Archer, Kneeling Firing. |
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| Makes sense to include a catalogue page with this! |
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| Three different small units! I'm using them as 2 x 3Bw and 2 x 5Hd. |
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| Only had five of these so calling them 3Bw rather than using them as 4Bw. It means I've got one spare lying around. The standard bearer animal skin gets used for a number of different creatures - yellow ochre with spots a leopard, without spots lioness, grey it's a wolfhead, brown and it's a bear! |
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| The boots make these Paphlagonian. Helmet should be plaited, either wicker or leather; I've just painted them as red leather. There should be 7 to a base but 5Hd is 'allowed' in DBM and I didn't want to give these units an officer and standard bearer. |
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| No real identifying characeristics here; could be Mysians, Moschi, Tibareni, Mares or Colchians... etc! |
These figures look better on the ground than they do in the photos. Again, figures in this range aren't bad...
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| OK, working now. For these, only had enough to do 3 figures instead of four on the back row. |
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| I've gone for a more ornate paint scheme for these - only one unit so not an issue as far as time goes |
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| Very quirky design but I quite like it. I don't paint my Garrison Immortals in such an ornate fashion because it would take too long - here, with just a few figures, I felt justified. |
Went through everything on Chrome and something must haver worked!
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| Now getting this - completely different to the former 'insert picture' message so it seems to have been a google/blogger change that didn't work very well! |
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| This is the the message I was getting. |
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| As you can see, cookies were always allowed! |
Not something I wanted to do, but as an interim (possibly permanent) solution I've simply started a new blog. Which I'm now going to have to sort out regarding layout. Please be patient (very!!) - first post is the Warrior Immortals post that should have appeared here a few days ago!
https://norfolkgarrison.blogspot.com/
And don't ask me why, if Google isn't accepting cookies, I can create a new blog that works but still can't get the old one working. Next tasks to see what I do about transferring stuff over from The Eastern Garrison, keep tweaking this one and possibly start some new blogs for the Pulp work or something...
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| First two units of the Warrior figures painted. As these figures are in 10s I've used Garrison officers and standard bearers with them - you can easily see how well the two ranges fit together. |
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| The first unit is a Bactrian unit so I've decorated the tunics. Quite nice figures but the spears won't behave themselves! |
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| Next figure doesn't match any figure from the book and I'll just be using as generic hill tribes or something. As such I've given them plain, rather dowdy, costumes. Both units seem to have come out OK. |
