Not to be recommended… this evening I decided that I really needed to paint something. I managed to get so far before giving up as I was coughing my guts up throughout…
Hopefully the cough will have gone by tomorrow and I can carry on.
Well this evening I decided to hunt out my various Ancients rules.coukd I find them all? Could I like heck. Spent the whole evening hunting through the house.
I managed to find only a couple, so sadly no painting occurred. It didn’t help that I remembered Fallout 76… well it is research for the RPG…that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.
Well my Victrix order arrived today and I got some of them built to see how they compare to the Warlord infantry and the Wargames Factory cavalry.
First up the infantry…
These would fit in well with the Warlord stuff. As it stands they probably be on their own as a pile of naked nutters bounding towards the Romans.
The cavalry are a different matter…
They won’t look too bad on the table, but I really doubt I will be able to match them in the same unit.
However, once again, these will be formed into their own units. The originals have no armour apart from the odd helmet, the Victrix ones are in mail. Therefore we have elites and more run of the mill types.
Either way these are a nice couple of sets.
The fanatics have four bodies and nine heads. Along with assorted weapon options.
The cavalry have three horse types, there are six halves but I haven’t tried to do different combinations. I would say not as the saddles are designed to fit a specific code.
These have four bodies and ten different head options. They come with seven crest options and a couple of cloaks.
Again lots of weapon options as well as three types of shield (well diameter of shield would be a better description). This is compared to the six the infantry have.
They go together well. Upon saying that, one body does have a right arm configuration which requires a certain selection of arms. Left hand weapons are also available as the musician shown has a gap for the right arm and a gap for the left hand.
The ones from yesterday have been undercoated. I am just waiting for the paint to cure.
Well my throat feels like sandpaper and I spent a fair bit of the earlier evening dozing off, but I did manage to do ten of the Warlord Celts….
I intended to make units of twelve as that is what Lion Rampant uses, then it dawned on me I could, shock horror, use different rules!
My new acquisitions did not come today so I can’t show you them.
I will add the two spare metal fanatics to these to bump them to the dozen…just in case😉.
I will get these and the three remaining cavalry undercoated tomorrow.
This evening I built the last three Wargames Factory cavalry. I think I chose better arns this time. The poses aren’t perfect, but certainly better than the last two.
I gave all three shields and shoved Warlord heads on a couple of the saddles. These have all got fancier helmets.
Once these are painted I will have twelve cavalry and four chariots.
Hopefully my other Celts come tomorrow… not sure why… I was going to build twelve of the Warlord infantry and couldn’t be arsed!
Ye God’s I am absolutely knackered this evening and the pain in my feet is back with a vengeance. I did however manage to finish the last chariot and charioteer.
I also finished the pair of cavalry. I have decided to mount the chariot warrior so cut the base from one of the Warlord miniatures and then built him up to fit in the chariot next to the driver.
I now have nine cavalry finished, this leaves three to go … well I think there were twelve in the pack.
I will try and get them built tomorrow, along with some more warriors on foot.
This evening I worked on the remaining two chariots and managed to get them nearly finished.
Still a bit to do, but nearly there. The driver is almost finished too.
I almost finished the two cavalry too. Hopefully they will get done tomorrow.
Next question for myself is do I add the warrior to the chariot or onto the base.
My new acquisitions have been posted and should be here by Saturday.
Now in my Tags for these posts I always tend to say Army Painter as to be honest yhey have been used the most. These chariots have also had Vallejo, Contrast and Dipping Inks.
The title says it all really. This evening I worked on the celtic mobile mob.
I got the horseman finished as well as the chariot…
I might darken the legs on the right hand horse.The interesting thing about the chariot crew is that it is basically the same miniature with a different head and the right arm is rotated slightly.
I worked on the other chariots and cavalry too, just never got them finished.
Because I am an idiot and felt that I didn’t have enough to paint I went and bought some Victrix naked fanatics and Celtic cavalry.
My only excuse, apart from being a total pillock is that I have fifty legionaries and therefore required a few more of the enemy types. Obviously I will need to get some Auxiliaries both infantry and cavalry… oh yeah and some artillery…. I need help, I really do! Does anyone actually reckon I will ever use these?
That is what I achieved today. Motivational crisis occurred, so sadly no painting this evening.
I reckon I could have had this one finished in ten minutes.
Once again I seem to have a thing about choosing green.
I never got any painting done this evening, but I did manage to get a couple of chariots built as well as a couple more cavalry…
If I am being brutally honest, I like the horses but noy necessarily the riders. Now to be fair it is mainly the weapon arm. Perhaps I need to choose a better arm…
Bogenwald 