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Author Topic: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army  (Read 15687 times)

Offline Mr Saturday

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2016, 03:49:34 PM »
On the table right now is a unit of 12 sword and shield bearing terracotta warriors. After that:

12 terracotta warrior crossbowmen
3 hopping vampires
Lo-Pan and 5 retinue (jade mummy, 3 Yaoguai (demons) and Yeren beast)
3 storms
Xing Tian (headless giant)
6 bronze cavalry
12 guardians
Bronze chariot(?)

I'm building the army for Dragon Rampant, so everything is either single or multiples of 3.

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2016, 03:51:14 PM »
I dream off getting one of those Jade mummys.
Loved this range when it was available but stupidly didn't buy any.
Looking forward to seeing how this all goes.

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2016, 04:08:41 PM »
I bought the entire range when it was available and it slumbered untouched for years. It was one of those projects I really wanted to do, but always stayed down the queue. When Dragon Rampant came along, the amount of models required made it ideal, that gave me the push to start, that as well as a friend of mine who's doing a Japanese themed fantasy force for Dragon Rampant and a gorgeous set of terrain.

The swordsmen are almost done, I should have photos soon.

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2016, 10:08:29 AM »


Finally my swordsmen are done. I had to pause while I looked for some good command models as I only had one set of the John Jenkins Designs command. I found an excellent source of Chinese Qin era miniatures at Renegade Miniatures in their Warring States range. They have plenty of infantry and command figures, but also a good range of cavalry, so I guess those terracotta warriors riding bronze horses is going to be happening now.






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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #19 on: August 05, 2016, 07:09:09 AM »
These are great,love the bronze effects  :-*

Cheers

Keith


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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #20 on: August 05, 2016, 09:24:51 AM »
Cheers Keith. Quite different to how I normally do bronze, but I thought the green would warm them up a little. The palette is pretty restricted, so they needed a little pop. I'm going to have a fun time with the bronze horses for the cavalry.

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2016, 10:03:36 AM »
Looks like the Renegade models are a very good fit.  :)

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2016, 04:45:16 PM »
Lovely stuff ...as always  :o

It has made me think that the terracotta army might be a nice twist on Frost Grave...

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2016, 04:53:43 PM »
They've turned out great  8)

cheers

James
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Offline Mr Saturday

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2016, 09:44:06 AM »
Thanks everyone, I am enjoying working on these quite a bit.

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It has made me think that the terracotta army might be a nice twist on Frost Grave...

Absolutely. As a setting, running about the dark halls of the first emperor's tomb would be theme heaven. As a warband, a Frostgrave take on a band of terracotta warriors would be great fun. The apothecary could be a mobile kiln.

Offline Mr Saturday

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2016, 01:20:55 PM »


After a lengthy delay, my final unit of terracotta warriors is done. The crossbowmen give the army a little ranged ability, and fit nicely with finds made in the warrior pits. The Chinese crossbow of the time was incredibly advanced, mass produced, simple and reliable, so it would be remiss to omit them from the army.

With this unit my clay painting technique has moved on again. I've stippled more colours over the basecoat before washing and drybrushing to give the impression of the remains of paint. The original warriors would have been very brightly coloured, gaudy even. I added some flowers to the bases to give them a little more colour.



With the crossbowmen done, that give me three infantry units, the halberdiers, swordsmen and crossbowmen, the guts of the army. It was a bit of a slog near the end, but I'm delighted they are done, and I'm very happy with them.

Here they all are, emerging from a hidden tomb entrance at LoPan's foul bidding, ragged pennants blowing in the wind as they await their new master.






Offline swiftnick

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2016, 04:18:02 PM »
Truly wonderful.

Offline Mr Saturday

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2016, 11:50:49 AM »
Thanks very much. Here's the latest addition:



Buried with his wife Dou Wan one hundred years after the first Emperor was interred in his tomb, he was awoken by LoPan to find tomb robbers had stolen Dou Wan's body. They would have taken him too no doubt, but the thieves warding stone failed them, and one of Sheng's tomb guardians awoke in time to scare off the looters before they could ransack the tomb further.

Something of a hedonist in life, Sheng's focus was sharpened by undeath. His suit ensured he was not bound fully to LoPan's will, and so Sheng resolved to find his lost wife and restore her to her rightful resting place, a quest he pursues relentlessly when not attending his new master.



« Last Edit: November 21, 2016, 12:21:24 PM by Mr Saturday »

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2016, 11:52:59 AM »
Love the colours on that  8) 8)

cheers

James

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Re: The Shadow Empire - Lo Pan's Ancient Chinese Army
« Reply #29 on: November 21, 2016, 12:19:23 PM »
Yes the colours are wonderful.
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