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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: pbjunky1 on 21 February 2016, 06:07:23 PM

Title: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: pbjunky1 on 21 February 2016, 06:07:23 PM: With the mountain of plastic bits I have I decided to make some Andalusians for EL Cid WAB gaming, specifically the later period list. The bits came mostly from Conquest Mtd Norman Knights & Inf, GB Arab foot, GB Arab Heavy Cav, FF Sargeants, FF Tempar knights. I've a few more cav to do but the inf block is finished. Missing shields/shield arms will go on after I've done the painting as they wore fancy patterned clothing & my attempts at rendering this will be more hopeless than usual with shields blocking access to torsos. arms etc.
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I'll post up some more pix once they're painted.
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: Hu Rhu on 21 February 2016, 06:18:20 PM: Excellent start. Can't wait to see more.
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Post by: rumacara on 21 February 2016, 06:20:47 PM: Lovely conversions. :-* :-*
Very well done.
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Post by: caveadsum1471 on 21 February 2016, 07:45:13 PM: Very nice conversions, lots of energy, can't wait to see them painted!
Best Iain
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Post by: georgec on 21 February 2016, 11:55:10 PM: Inspirational. I will be stealing all those ideas shortly, particularly mixing the cavalry bodies with the infantry legs.
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Post by: Bryanbowdell on 22 February 2016, 04:18:07 PM: I look forward to seeing them painted....and then crushing them in battle!!
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Post by: Codsticker on 23 February 2016, 07:01:43 AM: Awesome work. I also converted my Andalusians out of plastics, mostly the Conquest Norman Knights and infantry as they are a 11th C. Taifa kingdom force.
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: sukhe_bator on 23 February 2016, 08:56:32 AM: Some very creative conversions here. I also like the mixing of legs and torsos. Some nice green stuff sculpting too. I particularly like the waist sashes. It is often quite tricky to render softer fabrics like silks. Well done sirrah! I look forward to seeing them painted.
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: pbjunky1 on 13 March 2016, 05:24:33 PM: I've had quite a lot of distractions so its going quite slowly but here are the first few painted, banners still to be sourced. The patterning on the cloth is a bit repetative but I've been experimenting with patterns so the next lot should add some variation.
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Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: Stecal on 13 March 2016, 08:14:15 PM: very nice and unique
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Post by: von Lucky on 13 March 2016, 09:25:59 PM: They've come up very nice.
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Post by: marcusluis on 13 March 2016, 10:15:38 PM: a lot a patience to do all that green stuff...
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Post by: cram on 13 March 2016, 10:29:10 PM: Cool! :-*
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: Belisarius on 14 March 2016, 06:39:00 AM: Very interesting thread, you,re a dab hand with the green stuff, very effective conversations. I,d be tempted to use these for Lion Rampant .
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: Atheling on 14 March 2016, 10:16:00 AM: Nice work 8)

Darrell.
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: James Morris on 14 March 2016, 04:06:00 PM: Very nice indeed. I applaud your determination to keep them individual- great work with the green stuff. The later period never really got a range of models for Andalusians so this is the way to go! Please show more when you have done them
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: pbjunky1 on 14 March 2016, 04:16:37 PM: Thanks for the kind comments.
The green stuffing isn't that bad to do once you get the hang of the quickest way to render it- that being said its ok for a couple of units but I wouldn't fancy doing a whole army (WAB).
I think what it does show is the great versatility of plastics - and how lucky we are now in the range of really nice plastic minis available to us.
Title: Re: Scratchbuilt Andalusians
Post by: sukhe_bator on 14 March 2016, 04:28:25 PM: pbj
Quote from: pbjunky1 on 14 March 2016, 04:16:37 PM
I think what it does show is the great versatility of plastics - and how lucky we are now in the range of really nice plastic minis available to us.
Amen to that!