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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: tomek917 on January 11, 2021, 12:19:23 PM
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I've been furiously painting romans and barbarians (and some others) the last year since there haven't been much gaming going on. Thought I'd share some images of the models!
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Miniatures are mainly from Foundry but a few are from Warlord. The galley is from Sarissa Precision.
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Nicely done. Well painted and photographed.
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Second that!! Really well done :o
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They look absolutely beautiful.
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Very nicely done, and I'll second the motion about the amazing photography!
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Mmm, yes.
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Both the painting and the photography are just excellent.
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Nice work, as others have said both the painting and the photography. A shoutout though, to the Roman wounded in the arm; very realistic.
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Cracking brushwork and some lovely pictures too.
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A great looking collection and top quality images - more please !....especially of the boat ! ;)
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very nice indeed
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Thank you! :D
A great looking collection and top quality images - more please !....especially of the boat ! ;)
I'll definetly get some more shots of the boat, lovely kit from Sarissa! I'll just need to fix some sails for it...
My romans are based on the Siege of Alexandria so there's some Ptolemaic Thureophoroi coming up too!
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brilliant.
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Very impressive stuff.
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Very impressive stuff.
Indeed! :-* 8) :-*
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Outside of Thapsus, Africa, april 6, 46 BC.
Veteran legionaries of the Tenth legion await orders to engage Metellus Scipios forces...
”...when suddenly on the right wing, without orders from Caesar but under coercion of the troops, a trumpeter began to sound the charge. Whereupon every single cohort began to attack the enemy, despite the resistance of the centurions, who planted themselves in the path of the troops and sought to hold them back by force, but all in vain.”
- Julius Caesar, The African War
28mm miniatures by Wargames Foundry.
(https://i.imgur.com/xOR6QAj.jpg)
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Beautiful figures. I like the shield design choices.
What is the make of the cavalry?
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Beautiful figures. I like the shield design choices.
What is the make of the cavalry?
Thank you! I did a lot of research into shield design before painting these and I was very sure of these design when I started painting. Now I can’t find the source though so they may be pure fantasy lol
The roman cavalry are from Warlord Games, they are not that good sculpts though, if I do another unit I’d probably use Aventine Miniatures.
The german cavalry are from Foundry, can’t recommend them enough!
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Great painted figures,really well photographed
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very impressive
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(https://i.imgur.com/xyVHIF1.jpg)
Somewhere along the Nile, Egypt, 47 BC.
Roman cavalry, probably mercenaries from Gaul, skirmish with Ptolemaic thureophoroi.
”To them were added men collected from among the freebooters and brigands of Syria and the province of Cilicia and the neighbouring regions; also many condemned criminals and exiles had joined them. All our own fugitive slaves had a sure place of refuge at Alexandria.”
- Julius Caesar, The Civil Wars
Caesars description of the Ptolemaic forces he fought against in Egypt is intended for a roman reader. Perhaps it is also intended to justify his long stay in Egypt in the middle of a civil war which he started.
(https://i.imgur.com/UOGR0j3.jpg)
A roman testudo advances on the Ptolemaic defense lines during the Battle of the Nile, 13 january, 47 BC.
This was the last confrontation between Caesar and Ptolemy XIII. The young king, only 14 years old, drowned in the Nile while fleeing from the roman troops storming his camp. His older sister, Cleopatra, was made queen of Egypt afterwards.
Caesar lingered in Egypt for some time after the battle before continuing his campaign north into Syria and Asia Minor.
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Julius Caesar watches as his legions march to suppress Vercingetorix's revolt in Gaul in 52 BC.
After the Marian reforms in 107 BC legionnaires were required to carry not only his own weapons and belongings but also several days worth of supplies and rations. This logistical change drastically reduced the size of the baggage train and made the roman army much more mobile. It also earned the legionnaires the nickname "Marius mules".
Caesar is famous for his quick forced marches, something that would not be possible without the Marian reforms.
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Once again, lovely painting!
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Great painting and really nice photography. Also a nice mix of manufacturers.
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Outstanding photography really sets a tone and story! :-*
Christopher
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Outstanding photography really sets a tone and story! :-*
Christopher
Great painting and really nice photography. Also a nice mix of manufacturers.
Once again, lovely painting!
Thank you!
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I concur with all the other comments.
Very nice work indeed.
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Nicely done 👍
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These look nicer than most rulebooks. Great work!
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Thank you!
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South of Memphis, along the shore of the Nile, some roman legionaries relax with a game of dice, 45 BC.
Alea iacta est, ”The die has been cast”, is probably one of Caesar's most famous quotes. In fact the latin word alea refers to a game of dice, a common pastime in ancient Rome. The Romans used two kinds of dice, tesserae were like ordinary D6’s today and tali which were four sided (but not like our D4 ”pyramids” but more like a D6 with two of the ends rounded).
Source: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ”A Latin Dictionary”
Miniatures by Wargames Foundry.
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Ptolemaic Kleruch cavalry advance as thureophoroi infantry form up behind them. Northern Levant, modern Lebanon, during the Fourth Syrian War, 219 BC.
28mm Gripping Beast miniatures from their Polemarch range.
(https://i.imgur.com/BOWJCdq.jpg)
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Beautiful as always!
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Lovely painting on those cavalry. :-* :-*
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Very nice painting, and great diorama style pictures :-*
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The Romans used two kinds of dice, tesserae were like ordinary D6’s today and tali which were four sided (but not like our D4 ”pyramids” but more like a D6 with two of the ends rounded).
The British Museum have examples of Roman Polyhedral dice, &
I thought they only came about with Dungeon & Dragons in the 1970s.
They also have a pair (male & female) nude figures carved from cubes.
My friends & I postulated that they might have been used in a Roman
game that would have been a cross between 'Pass the Pigs' & the
Karma Sutra. :o :o :o
They also made frequent use of animal knuckle-bones as dice.
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superb, as ever
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Beautiful as always!
superb, as ever
Very nice painting, and great diorama style pictures :-*
Lovely painting on those cavalry. :-* :-*
Thank you!
The British Museum have examples of Roman Polyhedral dice, &
I thought they only came about with Dungeon & Dragons in the 1970s.
They also have a pair (male & female) nude figures carved from cubes.
My friends & I postulated that they might have been used in a Roman
game that would have been a cross between 'Pass the Pigs' & the
Karma Sutra. :o :o :o
They also made frequent use of animal knuckle-bones as dice.
Very interesting!
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(https://i.imgur.com/D00JpVP.jpg)
Achillas, guardian of Ptolemy XIII and commander of the kings troops, orders his forces to advance on Alexandria, 47 BC.
Achillas is one of the two men (the other being a roman named Septimius) who assasinates Pompey. He is later awarded command of the Ptolemaic forces sent to Alexandria to battle Caesar. He seems to have done a fairly good job but is himself later assasinated by Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatras sister Arsinoe(or rather on her orders by a eunuch named Ganymedes).
The armoured unit behind Achillas are imitation legionaries, or rather my take on them. The miniatures are actually Carthaginian veterans wearing roman lorica hamata chainmail but I think the attic helmets and greaves make them look very hellenistic, perfect for imitation legionaries.
28mm miniatures by Aventine, Gripping Beast (and Foundry in the back).
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Superb painting and great composition of the photo makes this an absolute winner. :-* :-* :-*
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Excellent work!!! ;)
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Thanks! :)
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Nubian hunters scare off an ostrich somewhere along the Nile, 52 BC.
This photo was inspired by a part of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina. The huge floor mosaic depicts scenes from the Nile during the late Hellenistic period and was found in Palestrina southeast of Rome.
I recommend you visit Wikimedia Commons and have a look at some photos of it. It’s fascinating, if nothing else for some of the weird creatures depicted.
The Nubians are Macedonian javelinmen from Wargames Foundry with a suitable paint job and the ostrich is from North Star.
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(https://i.imgur.com/qixAMld.jpg)
Nubian hunters scare off an ostrich somewhere along the Nile, 52 BC.
This photo was inspired by a part of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina. The huge floor mosaic depicts scenes from the Nile during the late Hellenistic period and was found in Palestrina southeast of Rome.
I recommend you visit Wikimedia Commons and have a look at some photos of it. It’s fascinating, if nothing else for some of the weird creatures depicted.
The Nubians are Macedonian javelinmen from Wargames Foundry with a suitable paint job and the ostrich is from North Star.
What a wonderful vignette :o
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What a wonderful vignette :o
Thanks!
I took some shots of the completed forces so far (There’s actually a few more units, some that are not based yet and some I’ve decided to sell because I didn’t like the minis).
The Romans
(https://i.imgur.com/jSlGdCK.jpg)
The Ptolemies
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I've been painting these forces for about a year now. The armoured legionnaires on the right with the white shield symbols were finished by the end of june 2020 and they were the first finished unit. Still a few things to do, mainly tufts on bases and I'm not really sure how to base the germanic cavalry, desert bases on those just seem...wrong.
I have a third unit of legionnaires to add to the romans and I'm going to bulk up the ptolemaic thureophoroi to 32 each and add a second unit of kleruch cavalry. Next stage is to extend the usage of these armies backwards in time by adding pike blocks to the ptolemies and somehow make the romans work as a republican force too.
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I just love your work - both the painting and the portrayals. Inspiring stuff. Makes me want to get back to my Romans.
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I just love your work - both the painting and the portrayals. Inspiring stuff. Makes me want to get back to my Romans.
Thank you very much!
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Some Galatians and Cretan archers.
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Love,y work and I love the ostrich hunt picture…very atmospheric image!