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Offline powerfrog99

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My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« on: July 22, 2019, 06:20:15 PM »
At Salute this year Ainsty Castings had available some of Watchful I Studio's ancient Chinese.

I picked a few different packs to see how they are.

I am very pleased with the sculpting and casting quality (despite a severe mold line across some of the heads :?) and assembling painting works fine for me too  :).

I started with a small unit of light spearmen.

cheers Thomas




 
« Last Edit: July 22, 2019, 06:22:42 PM by powerfrog99 »
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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2019, 07:39:20 PM »
Nice work :-*
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Offline Hannibal

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2019, 07:45:35 PM »
Great Job! I would be pleased to see more. Unfortunately you don't see a lot of these superb miniatures painted except the ones on the manufacturers homepage. So keep on going!!!  ;) 8)

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2019, 07:50:24 PM »
They look great  8)
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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2019, 08:36:29 PM »

Nicely painted. Well done.   Which state will these figures be for?  I bought some from the kickstarter but they have been sitting on my lead mountain.  Hopefully, I start to paint mine as I see your painted figures which will inspire me.

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2019, 03:46:51 PM »
Nice coincidence, I ordered some test minis of the range last thursday.
Yours look great!
cheers and keep on gaming, Agis - http://www.adpublishing.de

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2019, 08:00:15 PM »
Thanks for your nice comments  :)

There will be more to come as I have participated in the latest Kickstarter  ;D

@ Hunlion: I have no particular state in mind, but have ordered a set of flags during the KS.
Colorwise I was inspired by the WAB "The Art of War" cover.

On the long run I'll also do a fantasy version with terracotta warriors, fu dogs and guardans of the underworld.

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2019, 08:18:49 PM »
On the long run I'll also do a fantasy version with terracotta warriors, fu dogs and guardans of the underworld.

Looking forward to seeing that  :)

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2020, 06:36:36 PM »
Took a while, but now I managed a few pics of the other minis I purchased at Salute last year.

Now I am waiting for the Terracotta Kickstarter stuff to be delivered...

cheers Thomas

P. S. The missing banners will be in the KS delivery  ;)
« Last Edit: February 08, 2020, 06:39:02 PM by powerfrog99 »

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2020, 06:52:07 PM »
Nicely done  :)

The poses look a bit samey, is there any other choice available?

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2020, 07:07:20 PM »
The first sets all have this marching pose, however there are 3 kinds (heavy, light and levy) available and 5 or or so heads per type. The later sets (like the front row archers) have different poses, also some characters are availble.
I like the idea of an army on the march, although I is a bit a daunting task to do so many similar mins.  ::)


Offline WuZhuiQiu

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2020, 11:21:41 PM »
Very nice work! Is the bamboo effect on the spear shafts painted-on?

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2020, 12:46:31 AM »
I like those. A lot.
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Offline fusilierdan

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2020, 02:17:59 AM »
Very nice brush work on those. What did you use to glue the arms and heads on?  I tried 5 minute epoxy and had some trouble with the arms.

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Re: My first "Watchful I" Ancient Chinese
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2020, 07:02:20 AM »
Very nice work! Is the bamboo effect on the spear shafts painted-on?

Yes, it is painted I wasn't sure if it will look good, but I really like the outcome  :)