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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Turbo-Ben on May 23, 2014, 01:33:04 PM

Title: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on May 23, 2014, 01:33:04 PM: In the Ancients painting club I posted two pics of the 15mm elephants from my growing carthaginian army. Since I had the chance to play with them at the last weekend I decided to paint some more minis, a unit of spanish cavalry and my camp element:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vxDRxBeHIEk/U388_14lLSI/AAAAAAAAC4M/rgdqIQE7zT8/s800/IMAG3243.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-taaCGeQP5lg/U3883sx5hHI/AAAAAAAAC34/qjCti1OaMQQ/s800/IMAG3240.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KG1OOEwCEnc/U3884eCLRBI/AAAAAAAAC38/kPy0gtgEcMo/s800/IMAG3242.jpg)
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: von Lucky on May 23, 2014, 01:51:34 PM: Nice work. I like the camp, nice tones with the right amount of bright colours to set it off.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: A Lot of Gaul on May 23, 2014, 01:57:47 PM: Very good looking work so far! :)

Cheers,
Scott
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Steve63 on May 23, 2014, 03:19:13 PM: Nice work there and a good job on the freehand shields.
I also like the Corvus Belli figures, IMO the best 15mm Carthaginians around.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on May 23, 2014, 03:28:54 PM: Thanks guys!

I think I didn't post pics of the rest of the army before (except the elephants) so here's an older groupshot of the whole bunch Ipainted till now!

The camp and cavalry are missing, as are two bases of heavy infantry (roman style) that I painted after the photo!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yVBBdB1nBak/UcgMJH9DxEI/AAAAAAAABQs/lx5Ud8vy1K8/s800/IMAG2005.jpg)
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Steve63 on May 23, 2014, 03:35:22 PM: Great looking army! are all the shields freehand?
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on May 23, 2014, 03:57:14 PM: Quote from: Steve63 on May 23, 2014, 03:35:22 PM
Great looking army! are all the shields freehand?

Yes!

I have some wip shots!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZzZsudP3-_I/UbEZ-ARSiYI/AAAAAAAABLM/8pfWmDGeDO4/s800/IMAG1957.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uar8EG8pWSI/UbEZ-_Zan5I/AAAAAAAABLU/x6SPhMFVLu8/s800/IMAG1959.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5yzdl1y8UHU/UbTUOZCET7I/AAAAAAAABME/WRcHo9Fm6aA/s800/IMAG1965.jpg)

But the scutarii arent as detailed as these are.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JNlyvr9pMRg/UcSlcq485PI/AAAAAAAABNs/rI1gG8lM9i0/s800/IMAG1986.jpg)
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: jdeleonardis on May 23, 2014, 08:46:31 PM: Just amazing work on those shields.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: vonplutz on May 23, 2014, 08:48:53 PM: All kinds of awesome! :D
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Steve63 on May 24, 2014, 09:52:30 AM: I think hand painted shields are much better than transfers and yours are superb, definitely something to aspire to
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: A Lot of Gaul on May 24, 2014, 01:15:54 PM: Very nicely done. :)

Cheers,
Scott
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: moiterei_1984 on May 24, 2014, 10:30:01 PM: Excellent painting! These freehands simply look awesome.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on May 25, 2014, 03:52:54 PM: It's a truly beautiful army, Ben, well done!
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Dr. The Viking on May 25, 2014, 03:54:20 PM: Beautiful painting!
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on May 25, 2014, 04:31:15 PM: Thanks a lot!

I will have to add another minimum of 8 bases of gauls, 4 bases numidian light horse and another 8 bases of heavy cavalry (gauls and celtiberians) plus another two elephants... so there's still a lot to do! (Some not-shocktroop medium infantry would also be good...)

But as I really like the feeling of big battles FoG gives, I think they will come sooner or later! ;)
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on August 26, 2015, 07:36:54 PM: I just 'finished' this long time project!

Of course there are still figures I could paint in the box, but thats all that was planned for the FoG army when I first decided to build it (and a bit more).

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c31Okm7Q1dQ/Vd34aGXA37I/AAAAAAAADqI/HyB6T7mlxtc/s800-Ic42/IMAG4023.jpg)
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Hu Rhu on August 27, 2015, 09:38:17 AM: That is an excellent army, very well painted. Thanks for showing it to us.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: von Lucky on August 27, 2015, 09:51:52 AM: Lovely stuff. You'll find you'll want all 18 of the veterans with Roman equipment - I only see 6 :P
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on August 27, 2015, 10:22:10 AM: Quote from: von Lucky on August 27, 2015, 09:51:52 AM
Lovely stuff. You'll find you'll want all 18 of the veterans with Roman equipment - I only see 6 :P

Thanks!

I don't think i'll use the veterans. In my army they are just normal African spearmen. This army focuse uon the heavy and light cavalry, and the medium foot and elephants for the bad going, so too much heavy infantry wouldn't work in this case I think.

I have models for another two bases though and will paint them sometime, so there are only ten missing then! ;D
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Denouement on August 28, 2015, 07:33:11 AM: Impressive project. 8)

Stuart.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Mad Doc Morris on August 29, 2015, 09:39:32 AM: Can only reiterate: very impressive array, Ben! :-*
Fabulous paintjobs throughout, hope they'll serve you well.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Peithetairos on September 09, 2015, 02:23:30 AM: Beautiful army. All the units work well together and have a continous style and look to them.
Title: Re: 15mm carthaginians
Post by: Turbo-Ben on September 09, 2015, 09:08:57 AM: Thank you two!

Quote from: Peithetairos on September 09, 2015, 02:23:30 AM
Beautiful army. All the units work well together and have a continous style and look to them.

I'm quite happy about that, after about two years time and long interruptions between the single units.
It's also something I don't like when you see other armies with at least 3-4 different base designs and models from 10 different painters, but with 15mm gamers its very common.