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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Atheling on August 08, 2020, 12:39:47 PM
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I have absolutely enjoyed every moment of painting up this unit. They really are beautifully crafted miniatures and deserved all the TLC they received.
The last two ranks are currently drying after glossing and on the advice of meistro Redzed I'm going to be leaving the gloss to go off thoroughly for a few days before matting down.
I hope you enjoy the pics half as much as I did painting them up.
More pics including close ups and waffling can be found on my blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/08/early-byzantine-front-ranks-with-hand.html (https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/08/early-byzantine-front-ranks-with-hand.html)
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Wow they look amazing! :-*
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Smashing job on those, lovely hand painted banner.
The way the photo is done looks like there is some proper dangerous nose picking going on lol
Top bombing
Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer
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wow
those look terrific!
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Wow they look amazing! :-*
Cheers pal :)
Smashing job on those, lovely hand painted banner.
Thanks Ken :)
The way the photo is done looks like there is some proper dangerous nose picking going on lol
lol lol lol Just noticed that- after posting all across Facebook lol lol lol
wow
those look terrific!
Thank you :)
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Lovely 8)
Red has forgotten more about painting and varnishing than the rest of us put together so always heed his advice!
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Hand-painted banner?? :o :o
Good God! Those are amazing. Checking out your blog right now...
Mike Demana
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An all around fantastic looking unit.
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Superb stuff Darrel 8) 8) 8)
It’s great to see you back on the brushes :D
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That's a fine looking example of miniature soldiery. The banner is lovely.
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Beautiful paint job! These are stunning
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Fanbloodytastic
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Beautifully painted minis - very well done.
Tony
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Lovely 8)
Red has forgotten more about painting and varnishing than the rest of us put together so always heed his advice!
Yep, he's a not so secret painting god ;) :) Waiting a week for the gloss to go off is somewhat frustrating but nowhere near as frustrating as seeing speckling on the mini's so worth the wait 8)
Superb stuff Darrel 8) 8) 8)
It’s great to see you back on the brushes :D
It's great to finally to get back to to somewhere close to where I was with the old brushes before my wargaming hiatus. A big lesson learned there :)
Hand-painted banner?? :o :o
Good God! Those are amazing. Checking out your blog right now...
If you can find the time have a look at my old Justinians and contrast and compare Mike.
An all around fantastic looking unit.
Thanks to all for the kinds word and encouragement- all very much appreciated. 8)
Next up for the Byzantines is either a torsion engine and crew or a unit of 32 Unarmoured Spearmen..... I reckon on the Torsion engine as it doesn't feel as daunting lol
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That's lovely work.
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Absolutely beautiful work there sir!!!
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Beautiful! :-*
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Thanks guys, very much appreciated :)
I'm thinking of painting some of the Byzantine Banners on A4 and have them for sale. It's about time I did something with that FA degree lol
A4 because it will be easy to get in lot of detail on the borders etc then shrink down to 30mm and 40mm squared.
I'll have to see how I go.....
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Stunning brushwork on some nice figures
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Stunning brushwork on some nice figures
Thanks Roo. :)
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Lovely :)
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Thanks guys, very much appreciated :)
I'm thinking of painting some of the Byzantine Banners on A4 and have them for sale. It's about time I did something with that FA degree lol
A4 because it will be easy to get in lot of detail on the borders etc then shrink down to 30mm and 40mm squared.
I'll have to see how I go.....
Please do some of us lesser mortals would purchase them
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Yep, stunning brushwork. :o
The last two ranks are currently drying after glossing and on the advice of meistro Redzed I'm going to be leaving the gloss to go off thoroughly for a few days before matting down.
Good advice. As I'm mainly a weekend painter the timing is easy for me. I gloss varnish on a Saturday or Sunday and leave them for a week before the first matt coat is applied.
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Yep, stunning brushwork. :o
Good advice. As I'm mainly a weekend painter the timing is easy for me. I gloss varnish on a Saturday or Sunday and leave them for a week before the first matt coat is applied.
Yeah, but staring at the mini's fully glossed up is driving me crazy lol
I am definitely going to keep this method up. The hardest part for me is to remember to matt the mini's down on the long awaited day despite leaving reminders online and on paper o_o :D
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I'm curious whether you have a good source for period-appropriate iconography, since I would love to do an Byzantine force in a similar period at some point.
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I'm curious whether you have a good source for period-appropriate iconography, since I would love to do an Byzantine force in a similar period at some point.
The drawing itself, is just one of many I've been working on. All are sourced from original Eastern Roman Empire 6th Century source material.
Eventually I'm planning on painting up the banners on A4 paper, then reducing them down to various sizes for 28mm and possibly 15mm.
Just watch this space ;)
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Keep up the good work.
Looking forward to seeing your flags.
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Keep up the good work
Cheers matey :)
Looking forward to seeing your flags.
I'm using the Aventine Justinian and Flat metal banners on the unarmoured infantry and adding my own freehand banners to the more elite units. That way I can exaggerate the size of the banners to make them stand out on the table top.
I'm thinking of making them available but that is only if I can get around to painting them up on an 400mm pieces of water colour paper first. (Actual banners will be painted at about 300mm then reduced to size, leaving a 100mm margin for the tape as I'm going to stretch the paper first).
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Yeah, but staring at the mini's fully glossed up is driving me crazy lol
I actually like the look of them like that - just for a while. ;) Which gloss varnish are you using? And brush-on or spray?
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I actually like the look of them like that - just for a while. ;) Which gloss varnish are you using? And brush-on or spray?
Humbrol brush on for anything that I've taken my time with. Humbrol Spray for speedy painty stuff.
The Humbrol Gloss brush one seems to have retained the original chemical makeup, unlike the Humbrol Matt Black, which had to be the best undercoat available (ever!) until they tinkered with it. The Humbrol Matt Black a sheen now :'(
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Those look the business, great colours and the banner is fantastic.
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Those look the business, great colours and the banner is fantastic.
Thanks George, you're a gentleman and a scholar (all of which are true) :)
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Have you considered using some of the Byzantine Ikons as reference for banners- I did print one off showing the Archangel St Michael for use as a Cossack banner.
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I did some Cossack banners for a friend (years ago) by cutting out the
pictures of CD covers from a catalogue. Classical music ones provided some
very nice religious Icon type banners.
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Have you considered using some of the Byzantine Ikons as reference for banners- I did print one off showing the Archangel St Michael for use as a Cossack banner.
I did some Cossack banners for a friend (years ago) by cutting out the
pictures of CD covers from a catalogue. Classical music ones provided some
very nice religious Icon type banners.
Yeah, I've got a quite a few taken from mosaics the 6th CE Eastern Roman Empire saved and many are already being worked on- well experimented on might be more accurate :) . Just 28mm scale to start off with. the 400mm x 400mm stuff can wait until later ;) :)
If you have anything from the 6 CE please email them to me George.
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Alas i don't. I grew up Byzantine ikons on the walls of my parent's and grandparent's home
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Alas i don't. I grew up Byzantine ikons on the walls of my parent's and grandparent's home
They would be interesting to see anyway. In your own time old chum :)
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Pure brilliance! love that banner too! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Pure brilliance! love that banner too! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Thanks Phil.... only another five days before I apply the matt varnish to the very glossy back ranks lol
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That’s a truly stunning pj and on top of that first rate photography as well, not to be underestimated.
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That’s a truly stunning pj and on top of that first rate photography as well, not to be underestimated.
Thanks :)
I've been trying to improve my photography and editing as my last efforts to do so were two decades ago! It's amazing how lazy digital technology can make us all.