Atlantis campaign begins...

[Bullshott]

My order from Redoubt arrived today, including 30 heavily armoured Mycenean spearmen in Dendra armour. All very nice figures. They also come with tower shields which will look very nice on them in their role as Atlantean temple guards. I'm going to convert a few (turning helmets into a more Inca style and making up some energy weapons), so I should hopefully be in the position to photograph some 'proof of concept' figures by the end of the weekend. After that its a race for me (hopefully with help from Dr De'Ath) to get them all converted and painted in time for the game in four week's time.

[Malamute]

My order from Redoubt arrived today, including 30 heavily armoured Mycenean spearmen in Dendra armour. All very nice figures. They also come with tower shields which will look very nice on them in their role as Atlantean temple guards. I'm going to convert a few (turning helmets into a more Inca style and making up some energy weapons), so I should hopefully be in the position to photograph some 'proof of concept' figures by the end of the weekend. After that its a race for me (hopefully with help from Dr De'Ath) to get them all converted and painted in time for the game in four week's time.

Oooh, sounds exciting, looking forward to seeing them. 

I managed to paint two figures for the RGS expedition this week... thats a record

[Thunderchicken]

And there's me trying to get 10 marines painted up..........

[OSHIROmodels]

And then there's the Lead Painter League...

cheers

James

[Bullshott]

Well, I'm ahead of schedule   These are my protptypes for Atlantean temple guards. Figures are from the Redoubt Trojan War range. The only conversion needed was to remove the helmet plume, saw a slot in the helmet and fit a plasticard and greenstuff crest.

Each god's temple guards will have a unique weapon, shield design and tunic colour. These figures are destined to be guards from the temple of the god of hunting. The shield has not been glued in place (I'm going to batch paint these by unit begore fitting them to the figures.

[Thunderchicken]

That works nicely. Good job Bullshott!

[Bullshott]

I'm also working on producing some energy weapons for the unit leaders 

[Thunderchicken]

No machine guns?! 

[Sterling Moose]

No rivets?

[Red Orc]

Wow Bullshott, those are working really well! They're very close indeed to how I envisioned the Atlantean elite Temple Guards looking. The helmet crests look really good.

The six main Atlantean deities, for the benefit of the rest of you, are:
1 - a storm/sky god, whose colour is grey and whose sacred weapon is a club or mace;
2 - a moon goddess, whose colour is red and whose sacred weapon is a curved knife or sword;
3 - a hunting god, whose colour is dark green and whose sacred weapon is a pole-arm or spear;
4 - a water god, whose colour is sea-green (bluey-green) and whose sacred weapon is a straight sword;
5 - a forest goddess, whose colour is pale green and whose weapons are bow, and a dagger;
6 - a goddess of fate, whose priests wear multi-coloured cloaks and whose weapon is a mace-like staff.

And TC, they don't have machine guns (not yet, anyway) - they have laser rifles... oops, I mean 'magic crystal energy staffs'...

[Malamute]

And TC, they don't have machine guns (not yet, anyway) - they have laser rifles... oops, I mean 'magic crystal energy staffs'...

Phew, you had me worried for a minute there, imagining we'd be facing troops armed with modern weapons like rapid firing guns. Thats a relief, only magc crystal energy staffs, whatever they maybe? We'll be fine just giving them the cold steel then....

[Red Orc]

Just some heathen nonsense, Admiral. Savages and their mumbo-jumbo. Never you mind, "the magic crystal energy staff has no stopping power against men in red coats walking slowly." That's from an official War Department publication.

[Malamute]

Just some heathen nonsense, Admiral. Savages and their mumbo-jumbo. Never you mind, "the magic crystal energy staff has no stopping power against men in red coats walking slowly." That's from an official War Department publication.

Well said that man, my boys will sleep soundly in their bunks knowing that.

[Bullshott]

Wow Bullshott, those are working really well! They're very close indeed to how I envisioned the Atlantean elite Temple Guards looking. The helmet crests look really good.

The six main Atlantean deities, for the benefit of the rest of you, are:
1 - a storm/sky god, whose colour is grey and whose sacred weapon is a club or mace;
2 - a moon goddess, whose colour is red and whose sacred weapon is a curved knife or sword;
3 - a hunting god, whose colour is dark green and whose sacred weapon is a pole-arm or spear;
4 - a water god, whose colour is sea-green (bluey-green) and whose sacred weapon is a straight sword;
5 - a forest goddess, whose colour is pale green and whose weapons are bow, and a dagger;
6 - a goddess of fate, whose priests wear multi-coloured cloaks and whose weapon is a mace-like staff.

From Professor Shanks' obervations of details of battles on Atlantean stellae it appears that, although they normally carry maces or clubs, in battles the guards of the storm god's temples may carry a short pole-axe, similar to those used by the Incas. (it all depends on when my order from Outpost arrives and if I think clubs or poleaxes will work best on my Redoubt figures  )
Similarly, reliefs showing what appear to be guards from the water god cult show that, in addition to their straight swords, they appear to be using short throwing spears 

[Ray Rivers]

These are my protptypes for Atlantean temple guards. Figures are from the Redoubt Trojan War range. The only conversion needed was to remove the helmet plume, saw a slot in the helmet and fit a plasticard and greenstuff crest.

Wow!

Those have real potential!  Nice conversion and, of course, the kind of imagination which makes VSF so very cool!