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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Wilgut Spleens on June 17, 2020, 11:04:15 AM
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Hi lovely Lead Adventurers!
This is my First post , recent interest in this article I wrote for my blog made me think that maybe some folks here might like to have a look
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They look great! And the conversions in pose of the original elephants worked very.
Why not post a teaser photo here to the forum, and include a link to your blog?
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that's a great idea thank you, now How do I post a photo? i can see "attach photo" but I am darned if I can make it work
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Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!
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What models do you use as your Southron?
The scarlet uniforms and pointed helmets are terrific looking.
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Nice :)
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Great to see you posting here mate!
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Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!
Thank you
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What models do you use as your Southron?
The scarlet uniforms and pointed helmets are terrific looking.
They are all kit-bashed. The heavy Haradrim infantry with spear and shield are Frostgrave Byzantine infantry . I cut the strange, presumably Byzantine, leg guards into greaves and used round shields with a green stuff spike.
The Easterlings have the bodies of Victrix WoC , I liked the Triarri style chain mail as it looks markedly different to the full shirt of most Dark Ages mail. The helmets are Victrix Warriors of Carthage Liby-Phoenician style. The heads are from various sources , the axes are scratch built from brass wire and green stuff
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A fantastic army! Lovely work on those shields.
The oliphants are wonderful, and really dwarf the guys standing around at their feet.
The eyes in the closeup pics seem a little on the large side, but eyes are always so fiddly.
Great work!
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Thats pretty much legendary from my point of view ...
What inspired you for the shield designs?
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Thats pretty much legendary from my point of view ...
What inspired you for the shield designs?
Thank you! Well Tolkien writes of yellow and black shields, so that decided the colour. Geometric designs seemed a natural choice somehow, probably easiest I guess.I decided to make them all different as a kind of heradlry. I used different designs for other elements of the army. Desert creatures for the Jakhala and images of the Grakhuul for the Ubhadi. The great thing about this army is so little is written you can really use your imagination.
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Great choice of figures/ conversions & colour schemes
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A fantastic army! Lovely work on those shields.
The oliphants are wonderful, and really dwarf the guys standing around at their feet.
The eyes in the closeup pics seem a little on the large side, but eyes are always so fiddly.
Great work!
Thanks Phil. These are the first eyes I have painted , I think with practice, I am better now
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https://wilgut.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html
here are the profiles for my army of the Southron Empire, my take on the Haradrim
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I'm sure many folks are far better at eyes than I am. But here's the trick I learned, after disappointing results: after painting the eyes, I go back in with flesh tone paint to cover up anything that got too big on the first go. That way I don't have to be as exacting on the first pass. I've just done up a couple dozen dwarves, about 20mm tall, and their eyes are tiny!
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Ah, now that is a pdf I can access. I recall seeing it before but Aretha time I forgot to save it or print it out. I will rectify that mistake. Thanks again for continuing to inspire mate!
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Ah, now that is a pdf I can access. I recall seeing it before but Aretha time I forgot to save it or print it out. I will rectify that mistake. Thanks again for continuing to inspire mate!
no worries, it cuts both ways! It was your decision to start a blog that made me decide to start one of my own!
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some pics of the crew! mostly made from Gripping Beast Arab heavy cavalry torsoes, GW Corsair legs and occassional GW Warriors of Rohan with heads from GB Arab heavy and light cavalry
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Looking good! The active crew really makes this model come alive.
On the top level, do you actually have a spear held in midair on a wire, as if the guy had just thrown it? Brilliant work!
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Looking good! The active crew really makes this model come alive.
On the top level, do you actually have a spear held in midair on a wire, as if the guy had just thrown it? Brilliant work!
Thank you, he's another kit bash the hand is from a Gripping Beast Arab Cavalry man who has just released an arrow. I bored out the javelin(cut from a spear) with a 0.3mm pin drill, did the same to the hand and threaded a length of 9 guage guitar string into both.
Here is a pic of all the crews deployed as an infantry unit
https://wilgut.blogspot.com/
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Some more pics of me mumaks!
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Amazing project!
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The army looks great. Especially like the beetle and serpent banners, and that was a good eye to spot the Byzantines would work so well! :-*
Also: the banner pic on your blog is fantastic! Wow! Guys, is this eye-catching or what?
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxDxa_m5ZuE/XcaiY7gFM_I/AAAAAAAANnc/w9CKhfcWXSIUSQ4F82IUttWpOMIAwR_IQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/blog11.jpg)
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Amazing project!
Thank you
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The army looks great. Especially like the beetle and serpent banners, and that was a good eye to spot the Byzantines would work so well! :-*
Also: the banner pic on your blog is fantastic! Wow! Guys, is this eye-catching or what?
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxDxa_m5ZuE/XcaiY7gFM_I/AAAAAAAANnc/w9CKhfcWXSIUSQ4F82IUttWpOMIAwR_IQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/blog11.jpg)
Thank you. I had no plan to build this army, but once I had started, it was difficult to stop. I can see a place for some suitably converted Numidian cavalry and some more heavy cavalry, I am waiting on Fireforge Byzantine Cataphracts!
I think Orcs next tho, I have already created a "war beast" from a toy rhinocerous and a toy dinosaur, its a Rhinosaurus!
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Great warbeast!
And I am looking forward to seeing that cavalry.
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Good work 8)
Feels much truer to Tolkien than the (admittedly spectacular) versions of both the creatures and the Haradrim portrayed in the Jackson LOTR movies.
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Good work 8)
Feels much truer to Tolkien than the (admittedly spectacular) versions of both the creatures and the Haradrim portrayed in the Jackson LOTR movies.
Thank you! That was the aim .Each to their own and everyone has their own vision in their head when they are reading LOTR, but Jacksons ideas are far from mine. This was such a fun project, Orcs next!
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Here are some Haradrim
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Lovin' it!
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Lovin' it!
Rick, you may be able to answer this, why can I see your signature on your posts, but I can not see my signature on mine? When I check my profile its there but it's not appearing on any posts
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Rick, you may be able to answer this, why can I see your signature on your posts, but I can not see my signature on mine? When I check my profile its there but it's not appearing on any posts
Appears on the first post in each page....not every post otherwise can fill up the page ;)
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Appears on the first post in each page....not every post otherwise can fill up the page ;)
ah , that makes sense, thanks mate :)
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Thanks for answering that AKULA.
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here are some more Hardarim
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A real exotic mix of figures there... 8)