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Author Topic: Romano Brits ready for action More Irish added 15/2/18.  (Read 7856 times)

Offline Irregular Wars Nic

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2017, 06:06:51 AM »
Those are just great. Very nice indeed.

Offline Ragnar

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2017, 06:18:20 AM »
Nice victims Britons! 

On the subject of blues, I'd like to see the discussion taken up in a separate thread as it is of interest to me, having used blue freely in my early medieval army.
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Offline tancrede

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2017, 06:41:27 AM »
I love those minis, and your paintjob does them great justice.  :-*
Do you have more of them to come ?
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Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2017, 06:47:11 AM »
Great work CID  8)
They are a joy to paint, aren't they?

As far as the blue goes, personally, I'm of the 'who gives a toss as long as they look nice?' persuasion, but I appreciate some people are more historically discerning  ;)

Offline THE CID

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2017, 11:07:13 AM »
Great work CID  8)
They are a joy to paint, aren't they?

As far as the blue goes, personally, I'm of the 'who gives a toss as long as they look nice?' persuasion, but I appreciate some people are more historically discerning  ;)
. Thanks, I'm of the same opinion as long as you don't go too overboard and paint designer labels on them lol.
Going to start my second batch tomorrow, they are a joy to paint.
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Offline Psychlic Bob

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2017, 07:50:58 AM »
The issue with clothing colours is that they will fade rapidly as natural mordants don't "set" permanently - I paint my lower class warriors with very faded shades and my nobles with brighter

Offline TWD

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2017, 11:02:30 AM »
Lovely job on those.
And as for the colours, they're your toys, paint 'em how you like.
If I had your skill and patience I'd love to get mine looking that vibrant.

I'm working on a WAB army of the same models http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102620.0 and they are great models to paint.

Offline Duncan McDane

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2017, 11:42:38 AM »
The issue with clothing colours is that they will fade rapidly as natural mordants don't "set" permanently - I paint my lower class warriors with very faded shades and my nobles with brighter

That' s indeed the overall consensus, the higher status the warrior had, the better quality his clothing and gear. In Warhammer Ancient Battles - Shieldwall are some thougts about that.
I think the main confusion over here is that the colour Indigo ( as posted in the link by Dags ) isn't exactely the same as Blue.
But hey, as long as were not talking about purple, anything goes  lol.
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Offline gostgost

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2017, 07:32:41 PM »
I always think the academics, who say colour would wash out quickly, don't do their own laundry.
Fruit juice stains, for one are a sod to get out!

Offline Ragnar

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2017, 08:21:01 PM »
Ah what the hell, one more parting shot.  Again from the Thegns and snaffled from facebook.  (although I can't link a specific post).  The description reads: "Mid 6th century Anglian freo (lady) or sithwif (princess) impression. The elaborate peplos dress (made this summer by members Æd and Lindsey) is of extremely fine diamond-twill natural wool dyed with real woad (some of which home-grown).
The fine, 4-colour tablet-woven detailing is in the style of the 6th century Snartemo V weave. The under-dress is of natural linen in plain/tabby weave, with trim at the neck of the same material dyed with woad and then overdyed with weld to achieve a subtle turquoise. The overdress is pinned together at the shoulders by a pair of silvered small-long brooches with abundant swags of beads between, and, finally, a square-headed brooch centrally, which can be used to pin a cloak or shawl. "

Offline archiduque

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action.
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2017, 11:39:11 AM »
Excellent work! ;)

Offline THE CID

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Re: Romano Brits ready for action. More added 18/10/17.
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2017, 01:50:05 PM »
A few more Footsore beauties including Guinevere. I painted her as described in Cornwalls Arthur trilogy, flowing red hair.

 

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