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Title: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 03, 2020, 03:40:29 PM
Heyhey, finally I'm getting to work on that 15mm Samnites army. Here's a WIP of the larger part of the infantry:

(https://i.imgur.com/NShVFK2.jpg)

Circa 350 (345 or something like that) Samnite warriors. All Xyston miniatures.

The Samnites were a union of Italic tribes sat in middle Italy. As they expanded to the western shores of Italy they ran into the Romans and thus trouble. Three "Samnite Wars" were waged between Rome and the Samnites over the timespan of about 50 years. Despite alliances with the Etruscans and other peoples the Samnites had to submit to Roman rule and eventually were scattered across the Roman empire and beyond.

Samnite Warriors:
(https://i.imgur.com/TZ9mXtm.jpg)


For the next step I'll finish the metallics, then I'll see that I get the feathers/plumes/etc on the helmets done. I can't say that I'm proceeding swiftly on this project. I blame the combination of white/light grey primer, individual tunic colours and patterns and of course my own laziness. ;) Hope to post useful updates soon!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on June 03, 2020, 05:40:23 PM
A sea of white...  ;)

Super looking bunch of warriors there. Wish Xyston had been around when I was doing Greeks. They are great minis.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Eoin OCnaimhsi on June 03, 2020, 08:43:08 PM
Glorious looking.

All set for the Caudine Forks!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on June 03, 2020, 09:29:42 PM
Nice.  I always love a Sigur thread about armies I know something about and am interested in! 

Interesting to note that the Samnites were a loose confederation of 4 (?) city states in the region, and not as monolithic as reading the Roman view of the history would have you believe. 

Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Irregular Wars Nic on June 03, 2020, 09:54:52 PM
Always love a good Samnite. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Wiegraf on June 04, 2020, 12:18:31 AM
Looking awesome! Love all those plumes!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Plutarch64 on June 04, 2020, 12:48:19 AM
These look terrific.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 04, 2020, 07:21:48 AM
@Ray Rivers: :D Oh yes indeed. Mostly due to the plumes/feathers, I suppose. Also of course shooting a picture of figures which are 1/3 white at this point with white bases against a white background is a bit of a bold move on my part.

@Eoin OCnaimhsi:Indeed. A classic wargaming scenario. ;)

@Easy E: Well, it's good that you're familiar with the guys, because I sure am not. I tried to read about them over the past year or so, re-listened to some episodes of the Ancient Warfare podcast and so on, but my knowledge is very limited. Good point about them not being quite that coherent of a mass.

@Irregular Wars Nic: Thanks very much! Hope it goes ahead fast. :D So much to do!

@Wiegraf: Oh yes. I only got started on those yesterday, and there's lots to do. When it comes to plumes these guys don't mess around. There's one sculpt featuring little wings, feathers AND a horsehair crest, all on one helmet. ;)

@Plutarch64: Thanks very much! :)

Here are some of these chaps I did as a 'test batch' last fall:

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_06/wip1.jpg.244696bf39a3afaeaf2ffb38e4973d72.jpg)

Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on June 04, 2020, 01:45:45 PM
Stellar test batch! 

We actually know surprisingly little about many of Rome's enemies, especially the non-Hellenized ones.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Corso on June 04, 2020, 09:32:23 PM
Thumbs up for the output!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: mc_deli on June 05, 2020, 06:50:38 AM
Fantastic! I really like how you've brushed a few details here and there. Works great at this scale.

Do I guess this was white spray primer, but then you use a wide black as a shadow/undercoat for all the straps?
And with washes, looks like you have just washed the skin and fabric - no wash on the feathers or armour?
Any tips for painting with so much white?


(Sorry for the basic questions, but it's the stuff I still mess up!)
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 05, 2020, 09:58:43 AM
@Easy E: Indeed.

@Corso: If only the output was better!

@mc_deli: light grey primer actually, but yeah, basically white. I paint these for someone who's been painting 15mm Ancients for quite a while and has a nice collection. I've seen them at shows a few times. However, with this of course come specific requests in terms of what the figures should look like. Everybody's got their own approach to things (one of the great things about miniature painting), and his main concern is: no pure black, no blacklining. Which of course makes painting over white/bright base colours interesting. 

I'm actually using a fair amount of GW's contrast paints on these (these paints couldn't be further from revolutionizing or changing anything of course, but they work as intended). Or just paint thinned with an ink/wash and a bit of acrylic medium. If these were mine I'd probably go for a different approach of maybe giving the figures a big old wash all across the board before the actual painting starts to give them at least some sort of shading beforehand, help work out the details, etc. Since I went with contrast paints/inks/thin paint for most of the block coloring I skipped that though.

So basically since I'm working over white it's all a very wet affair. Actually the only "solid" painting on these chaps so far is the tunic adornments and the metallics (although these also were applied very wet, with a wash on top. Highilghts to follow). With the plumes and feathers I'm basically going one by one colour. First I did some blue-grey plumes/feathers, then red ones (or red tips), then black feathers/plumes/feather tips, then I gave the remaining white feathers/plumes a bit of a wash. Today I hope to finish all the metal highlights (each step takes a long time given the number of dudes in that batch  :D ) After that I'll start touching up things. Skin (faces mostly), deepen some shadows where required, and then I'll do the cloaks on the ones who got'em (luckily not too many). I'll cut back on washes on these, because the gentleman I paint these for prefers a layered look on cloaks. Which is a understandable. Oh, some of them wear linothorax armour. These require a bit of extra attention as I skipped those in the tunics phase.Then I'll go for the final detailling phase. Hair and so on, further general 'neatening up of things'. Then I'll put them on the bases, put some paint on their shoes and sandals and then I'll add shields (which will cover up 90% of what I've done until then anyway.  :D ) and spears.

Yeah, that's it basically. Sorry for the lack of updates, but since each individual step takes so long it also takes longer between at least somewhat meaningful WIP shots. I'll put one up this weekend though. Maybe tonight, depending on how things proceed.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: mc_deli on June 05, 2020, 03:21:34 PM
Where’s the like button!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 07, 2020, 01:20:07 AM
@mc_deli: :D

Right, I took a slightly dodgy WIP picture.

(https://i.imgur.com/kOkQjqL.jpg)
full size image: https://i.imgur.com/kOkQjqL.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/kOkQjqL.jpg)

next on the to-do list: neatening up the skin and tunics I suppose. That should take long enough. :P Hope you like them so far.

Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on June 07, 2020, 11:39:52 AM
A bit difficult to see as they are all blending in.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 07, 2020, 06:07:30 PM
Yeah, with WIP shots of larger forces I usually go with such group shots of the whole thing just so the overall progression gets visible. I also do that when figures are still WIP and I'm really not happy with what they look like individually. :D

I added that "full size image: ...." thing underneath the picture now, which I usually add on LAF. You can see the full sized version of the image if you click the link, which should make things a tiny bit easier to look at.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 15, 2020, 09:52:35 AM
Right, back to Samnites. Infantry's basically finished painting for now. Time for the horsemen. Not as many (naturally). 24 or so.

Main reason I dropped in now was to let you know that Infamy, Infamy is up for pre-order! I got nothing to do with it, I'm just a Lardy fanboy. :P

https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product/infamy-infamy-theyve-got-it-all-infamy-bundle/ (https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product/infamy-infamy-theyve-got-it-all-infamy-bundle/)

(https://i.imgur.com/gq8gH2O.jpg)

It's kinda like Sharp Practice Ancients. Which rather appeals to me. :D I'll make sure to pick it up. Maybe that'll help me getting at least some of those tons of Warlord Romans painted I got a few years ago....
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Steam Flunky on June 16, 2020, 07:23:20 PM
Fantastic work! :o
Looking forward to se where this goes.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Irregular Wars Nic on June 17, 2020, 12:15:07 PM
Wow, that WIP photo is impressive. There are a lot of the beggars.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 18, 2020, 11:40:29 AM
@Steam Flunky: Aye, me too. :D

@Irregular Wars Nic: Thanks. A lot of them indeed. Last week I was as close to my breaking point as I hadn't been in years. Every single brush stroke had become a soul-sucking experience. Over the weekend I did some painting on my own figures (28mm, painted in an approach which I'm a bit more familiar with), got the spirits right up again.

Right, now I did some work on the cavalry. Detailwork on those chaps will be done once I got the infantry and horses based. So right now I'm putting the infantry on bases (I'm at 80 bases right now). Leaving them to dry now, then they get another layer of sand. Then I'll go about painting the bases, I suppose.

Already the infantry looks WAY better on these bases than on these bloody painting sticks. That helps keeping the motivation going.

Here's a quick snapshot (bit weird looking because I used my phone to make it) of just under the half of the bases:
(https://i.imgur.com/AL3XbwA.jpg)

 Look at them. Standing there, all colourful and wargame-y looking. This is nice. You can see the top of the little cast-on standy things showing here and there, hence the second layer of sand/grit. That'll be the next step.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on June 18, 2020, 04:22:01 PM
They are going to look awesome when you put shields and weapons in their hands!

One question. Why do you use 2 layers of sand?
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 18, 2020, 06:33:11 PM
Because I'm a thorough son of a so-and-so.  8) Well, it's mainly because the first layer will fill up the gaps between the base and the cast-on standy thingies on the miniatures. The second (finer sand) layer will get on the tops of the standy thingies and fills gaps on the more coarse sand underneath and stuff. I don't know. I do several different ways of basing, and this time I went for this. :D
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on June 18, 2020, 07:17:18 PM
Well... you are the pro, so you should know what you are doing. If it works... and you do damn nice stuff, that's cool.

For me, when I am finished painting the minis, I apply a bit of white glue to their metal base and add some sand. I then paint the sand in the same color of the base. The base of the mini is now complete and doesn't need any further attention. This really makes basing easy with multiple ranks. I then mount the miniatures and with a brush I heap a large enough amount of white glue such that it is the same height as the rest of the miniatures on the base. I only have to worry about filling the gaps between the minis and not the minis themselves. I then add sand.

I use a big plastic jar of white glue from a hardware store. Mine is 1 Kilo. This stuff is thick as snot so you can adjust the height or amount of glue quite easily. When it dries I have a nice surface all across the base and you can't tell where the mini base is.

Oh, it is important to note that with this method you need at least 2mm of base height or you will have trouble with warping.

It is pretty easy way to base my minis and it works very fast. Mine are pretty basic though...

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/6/1615_30_05_10_12_39_21.jpg)
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on June 20, 2020, 12:30:50 PM
Yup, that's a very sound approach as well. I don't do two full layers of sand in this case; it's more like "main basing, then bits on top of the metal bases". Basically the same approach as yours if I read that right, just the other way around. :)  Very pretty Napoleon and staff too!


Well, I'm still doing base things and cavalry things and whatnot. Happy weekend!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: vexillia on June 20, 2020, 03:09:44 PM
Well, it's mainly because the first layer will fill up the gaps between the base and the cast-on standy thingies on the miniatures. The second (finer sand) layer will get on the tops of the standy thingies and fills gaps on the more coarse sand underneath and stuff.

I'm a two layer man myself and for the same reason(s).
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 04, 2020, 08:37:00 PM
@Vexilia: yar, we all got our own approach, don't we. One of the cool things in miniature painting.


Right, after a little 'emergency' project I had to squeeze in I sat down and did four testers for the 15mm Samnites. Turns out there are no decals for those in 15mm. Freehand time!


(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/wip4.jpg.70944ca1dddf6ca8e71871660f0ca97a.jpg)

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/wip5b.jpg.34fee97585ad065cc97b3e1141a67544.jpg)


Hope ye like'em! Also: Happy weekend!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 05, 2020, 05:45:58 PM
Damn!

Is that the best you can do?  ;)

 ;D
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 05, 2020, 07:36:19 PM
@Ray Rivers: This isn't even my final form! The question is always "with how little can I get away?". ;) Well, it's a standard which makes sense in regards to the number of figures. Thing is, I have to paint close to 400 of these shields if I remember correctly. Scared already. I think October was talked about as a soft deadline. I've done 64 now (including the ones pictured). So far I'm doing batches of 16 shields and basically paint them one by one. I was thinking of maybe switching to doing batches of similar patterns and then mix them up, but I'm not sure if this sort of approach would work for me when doing shields. I assume I'll switch it up during the process every now and then and slowly slog my way through the whole pile of shields. So far I actually find it rather enjoyable to do, but I think I haven't gotten a feel for the actual number of shields that have to be done there. Maybe in between I'll stick'em on, add spears and finalize basing so I have fully done bases and get a better visual idea of things proceeding. Not sure. I'll let you know in time when it gets really grating and I get close to giving up. :D
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Eoin OCnaimhsi on July 05, 2020, 07:42:20 PM
They are lovely, truely.

Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Irregular Wars Nic on July 05, 2020, 09:56:54 PM
You may not technically be enjoying the painting process, but you gave to love the outcome. Those are looking phenomenal!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on July 06, 2020, 08:14:59 PM
Amazing as always.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 07, 2020, 12:23:03 AM
@Eoin OCnaimhsi: Thanks very much. :) I'm very happy with how much positive feedback this handful of smaller scale figures get. There's something about hoplites (yeah, technically they aren't, but you know what I mean), isn't it.

@Irregular Wars Nic: Yeah, it's a lot of work which basically can't be batch painted (a.) for sanity and b.) I think if I paint sun patterns on say 50 shields, then half circles on another 50 and swirly on another 50 I think I'll get sloppy after a while), but I have to admit that I enjoy painting the shields quite a lot so far. Feels like something I know how to do and I feel more in my element with these than back when I painted all these warriors over light grey primer with lots of washes and a bit of contrast paints and whatnot.

@Easy E: Thanks very much. :)


Right, I'm on 96 shields now, painting them in batches of 16 (4 bases, like the testers). Got a serviceable brush, proceeding slowly, but surely, and I really like the look of the results. On the side I started making 10mm size gabions for my own Thirty Years War collection for some field fortifications, just for a bit of change.

Fun side note on those gabions - Yesterday I made 5 gabions, made a press mold for them (because I seem to have binned my Polymorph pellets [the stuff wot goes soft in hot water, used for making press molds mostly] after not having used it for like 10 years). If I keep using that 5-gabions-press-mold I won't get those two (!) test redoubts done until 2025, so I started making some more gabions from GS by hand. Goes quickly and cheerfully. Not that they look great or awfully detailled - but it's 10mm figures and it's gabions. So it's okay. So now I'm running the press mold and just making more gabions by hand simultaneously.

So between this and hand-painting 15mm shield designs I kinda feel like the least efficient person in the world. :D But I do my own stuff, it's unique (press mold aside :P ) and I'm happy doing it. And it works somehow. Kinda. For me. And my utter lack of drive for efficiency or 'being clever'. Story of my life. :D


edit: We're at 128 shields done now. This is riveting. :D
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 07, 2020, 08:51:25 PM
160 done now.

Here's a really bad snapshot of the latest batch:
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/shieldswip.jpg.3d8f620c25c2ea9566725e88013320f3.jpg)

I have to stress that they look much nicer in real life.

The more the designs I paint look like IKEA's latest christmas gift wrappers the sooner I should take a break I suppose. :P
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 08, 2020, 12:13:25 AM
Nicely done!  :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: guitarheroandy on July 08, 2020, 02:28:56 PM
Those shields are brilliant!!! Great designs and extremely well-executed!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: DintheDin on July 08, 2020, 07:47:28 PM
I've said before that you are a painting machine! Very prolific, neat and made with such care for so many minis!
Jaw dropping! Your free hand job on the shields is a must-see! Many congrats!!!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on July 09, 2020, 01:53:22 PM
Sometimes, I wish I was in the EU so I could pay Sigur could paint my armies! 

Plus, he has good taste in movies too!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Atheling on July 10, 2020, 06:48:51 AM
Fab freehand work on those shields given the scale  8)
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: mc_deli on July 14, 2020, 08:28:20 PM
160 done now.

Here's a really bad snapshot of the latest batch:
(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/shieldswip.jpg.3d8f620c25c2ea9566725e88013320f3.jpg)

I have to stress that they look much nicer in real life.

The more the designs I paint look like IKEA's latest christmas gift wrappers the sooner I should take a break I suppose. :P
Obscene for 15!

Amazing:)
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: markw on July 15, 2020, 08:05:04 AM
Hi Battle Brush,

Are they the Mirliton minis?
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 15, 2020, 07:12:47 PM
@Ray Rivers: Thanks! :)

@guitarheroandy: Thank you. I got some good reference material to work off of, but between those designs I gotta come up with ever new combinations and so on. I'm rather certain that no two shields in this force will be the same.

@DintheDin. Thank once more, sir. :) The cool thing about the shields being freehanded is that they fit in with the paintjob much better. Shield decals always look a bit like an "alien" piece on a painted miniature. With these here I know that these are "all me".

@Easy E: :D Cheers! Much appreciated.

@Atheling: Many thanks!

@mc_deli: Well, 'obscene' is what I'm going for always. :D 

@markw: Hello. :) These are all Xyston figures. The cavalry might be from some other place because they look a bit different, but I'm not familiar with the make of those. I got the figures to paint, I didn't buy them.



Right, I hope y'all like Samnites. Because that's all there is tonight! :P


(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/wip6schrift.jpg.7dc2dfed584e24c7bbf15a41dc481066.jpg)

That's 52 bases done. Out of a total of 99 infantry bases. Plus 17 skirmisher bases and 8 horsemen bases. Wahey! Hope you like them.

Not the greatest picture, but I put them all in a box and didn't want to get each base out again for the photo. I'll do proper pictures once all of them are done. If you don't get to see an army shot of those within the next ....4 months it means I went insane, ate my paintbrushes and decided to live the rest of my life as a chicken. At the moment experts calculate the chance of that happening to be at about 23%.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: DintheDin on July 15, 2020, 08:03:58 PM
Ah! Lucky man your client! Your production rate is unbelievable, Turbo Brush!  :-* lol
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on July 15, 2020, 09:56:42 PM
Oh my!    :o ;D :D

That is a great group shot, but only half way done! 
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 16, 2020, 12:30:10 AM
Find Waldo!  ;)

Darn, that is a lot of great looking minis!  :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 16, 2020, 12:47:47 AM
@DintheDin: Haha, thanks very much. :)

@Easy E: Yeah, I was kinda dreading the moment I get an actual overview, because it makes me understand the workload that's still ahead of me. Plus SO many other projects which start getting a bit pressing in terms of timeframe... oh well, I'll go on. Ramped up the batch numbers of shields from 16 to 48 now. That's shields done for another 12 bases now. I got 28 bases standing in front of me on the table, waiting for shields. That's the next goal, getting these guys done. After that I'll do the cavalry, because those are mostly done now as well (also just lacking shields and spears). Then I'll know how I'm supposed to do commander bases. Those I'll do along with the rest of the infantry, and THEN I'll do the skirmishers, because those aren't even painted. Hooray, there's a plan.

@Ray Rivers: :D He's there, just keep looking! Cheers.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 17, 2020, 02:58:02 PM
Heyhey. 20 more infantry bases done:

(https://i.imgur.com/ycufsiH.jpg)
full size image: https://i.imgur.com/ycufsiH.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/ycufsiH.jpg)


Happy weekend! What are we up to?
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: DintheDin on July 17, 2020, 06:44:14 PM
Cinema-like! I admire the richness of your colors and the multitude of the shield patterns! Congrats!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on July 17, 2020, 07:41:57 PM
That is/will be a fantastic looking army. 

Top-drawer!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 18, 2020, 12:51:51 AM
Nothing short of super!

 :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 18, 2020, 11:25:31 AM
@DintheDin: Thanks! Well, the smaller the figures the brighter and more colourful they should be. Also, we all know that wargaming tables are never as well lit as they should, and the figures are supposed to stand out. :D

@Easy E: Thanks very much. :) Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing them all done. That'll be a rewarding look I think.

@Ray Rivers: Cheers, always appreciated!



Right, here's 8 more:

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/wip8.jpg.76c1d1f0962c01fa36bcf48a57b2e640.jpg)

Well, I'm kinda running out of things to say about these.... :D  I guess I'll do the horsemen next, for the rest I'll have to wait for the next delivery of bases. Hope you like them. Oh, and have a good weekend!

I played the Untitled Goose Game last night. As fun as you'd think it is. Very pretty too and great music.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: DintheDin on July 18, 2020, 05:01:41 PM
@DintheDin: Thanks! Well, the smaller the figures the brighter and more colourful they should be. Also, we all know that wargaming tables are never as well lit as they should, and the figures are supposed to stand out. :D

So true!
And you have the best way to do this!  :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 20, 2020, 10:10:33 AM
@DintheDin: Thanks, very kind of you. :)



....aaaaand 10 more! Happy Monday!

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/wip9.jpg.35eadb01389ef0442a296ce46b3ab5a7.jpg)

I always keep two bases from the prior batch on the table, for comparison. During the final touch-up stage I got those two mixed into the new batch, and despite a check one of the old bases (from the 8-base update from Saturday) slipped into the new batch's photo. Oops. If you spot the base which slipped in you win the permission to get yourself a Kitkat.

Right, that'll be the last infantry bases for a while as I need new bases and new instructions (mainly for how to use the remaining figures in terms of the commander bases). I'll see that I finish the cavalry bases, but then I really have to switch over to some Napoleonics (and possibly other things as well) until I get the new bases and instructions to finish the Samnites. Hope you like them!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 20, 2020, 12:54:58 PM
The guy who commissioned these lads is going to get one heck of an army!

 :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: rumacara on July 20, 2020, 08:55:36 PM
Great painting. :-* :-*
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 21, 2020, 02:55:14 PM
@Ray Rivers: Thanks very much! I hope so.

@rumacara: Thank you! Much appreciated. It's the numbers that make this project, I suppose. :D


Right, here are the horsemen:

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav1.jpg.7e47b546169c7b238893ea34cf3b0c7d.jpg)
full size image: https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav1.jpg.7e47b546169c7b238893ea34cf3b0c7d.jpg (https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav1.jpg.7e47b546169c7b238893ea34cf3b0c7d.jpg)

(https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav2.jpg.06a20eaae17b53a62614cbfaa50dedfb.jpg)
full size image: https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav1.jpg.7e47b546169c7b238893ea34cf3b0c7d.jpg (https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2020_07/cav1.jpg.7e47b546169c7b238893ea34cf3b0c7d.jpg)


Hope you like them! I think those are the first batch of figures on which I'm aware of reusing a design I used on a prior shield (at least I'm darned sure I did) - the red sun on white I'm sure I used before in this army. Probably also the white sun on red. Because I don't have that many different designs for round shields at hand. :P
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: DintheDin on July 21, 2020, 04:10:03 PM
Impressive quality painting of riders and horses! Horses are my soft spot and you color them very realistically!
As for the shields, you have achieved an awesome variation of patterns, all of them convincing! Congrats!!!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Irregular Wars Nic on July 21, 2020, 05:37:07 PM
This continues to be a most impressive thread. Those finished infantry are simply stunning, the the ponies are gorgeous. Well done.
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Battle Brush Sigur on July 24, 2020, 01:26:50 AM
@DintheDin: Thanks! I painted a fair amount of horses for a gentleman who's been an avid horseman all his life, so I had to learn how to make horses look halfway decent. :D

@Irregular Wars Nic: Thanks very much!
Title: Re: 15mm Samnites
Post by: Easy E on July 24, 2020, 05:25:58 PM
I love the dappled grey horse!  Impressive!