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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Dubbya on November 18, 2022, 09:16:12 PM
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Some very quick painting, these end up in mixed eras and genres collections, but all Roman themed for my first post!
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They turned out well. How difficult was it to prepare the figures (especially cleaning up flash)?
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Thanks!
The Strelets are really rough, I don't even clean the flash at all unless there's something that can easily be cut off. HAT aren't as bad, but again I don't really clean the flash. I spend only a few minutes painting them and have so many I'd rather just get on with them haha!
Strelets seem to still be greasy and hard to cover with the undercoat after the usual detergent wash.
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Thanks for the info. That fits my experience with 1:72 softies, the Strelets figures I have worked on took some effort to tidy up and had more flash than HAT. HAT figures were a bit hit and miss for sculpting- some are quite good and others have faces and soft details like LEGO figures… their kits that need assembly can be a challenge, too.
I have read that giving soft plastic figures a bath in diluted vinegar can help get cut through the mould-release that makes it hard to get paint to stick, but I haven’t tried it. It almost seems like with some plastic it is that the surface itself is just really smooth and there’s nothing much for paint to grab, but that’s a very unscientific conjecture on my part…
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I just got the Zvezda 1:72 scale Successor Elephants. (I'm usually a 1:56 scale guy.) I'm pleasantly surprised w the quality. Not too soft and minimal mould lines and takes paint fine.
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Yes, Zvezda made really excellent 1:72 kits. I don’t have the elephants, but their Napoleonics I have are consistently excellent. Unfortunately, a bunch of their soft plastic kits went out of production for a while when they shifted to making hard plastic game pieces for their WW2 and Napoleonic games. Those are often nice too, but are like small dioramas and hard to build wargaming units with.
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Thanks for the kind words guys!
Yes, Zvesda are brilliant and HAT can be inconsistent (I like the republican Romans more for nostalgia).
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Zvezda Elephants WIP
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Yes, Zvezda made really excellent 1:72 kits. I don’t have the elephants, but their Napoleonics I have are consistently excellent. Unfortunately, a bunch of their soft plastic kits went out of production for a while when they shifted to making hard plastic game pieces for their WW2 and Napoleonic games. Those are often nice too, but are like small dioramas and hard to build wargaming units with.
As I recall hearing the original owner was a wargamer hence the art of tactics gaming range, but he died unexpectedly, after whch the range has moved more to traditional modelling and away from wargame intended releases.
Can still get some good wargaming specific releases, but that tends to be with the older items. OFC I may have heard that incorrectly but that's something I saw mentioned about changes with Zvezda.
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Nice elephants! I'm working on HAT... again, more for nostalgia!
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The HAT ele looks nice but not as sharp as Zvezda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAQEXTxQl_E
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Some Romans done up as generic models for Runequest, mostly to test basing options.
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They came out fine. And I am surprised how well all this bronze works on the little guys.
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They came out fine. And I am surprised how well all this bronze works on the little guys.
Thanks! Yeah, just the bronze alone helps to make them fit the theme/setting.
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Thanks! Yeah, just the bronze alone helps to make them fit the theme/setting.
Definitely! And they would equally well work as Atlanteans, the Old Race, Numenoreans in many other settings.
Heck, I’m tempted to buy some for my 15mm collection-after all isn’t Tolkien quite specific that the people of old Numenor were quite a tack bigger than today’s men?
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Some 2mm models from Irregular. I painted them to match my VSF, but they are of course ancients.
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Wow! Now these are small :o :o
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I like those!
I'm painting 2mm stuff for Strength & Honour, very slowly, and my painting style is best described as Impressionism meets Pointilism!
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Some updates! Got everyone out for some photos.
Lesson learned, I feel the single-colour and simpler models look better at a distance than any I've tried to do lots of colours.
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Some Thracian cavalry and gauls today. Schemes aren't historical since they're really for my fantasy armies.
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1/72 bolt thrower today. I haven't painted the crew yet, since it's really for my 15mm fantasy armies.
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Some of my favourite 1/72 figures, the Greek in particular.
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Lovely painting. Those 1/72 figures look great. That's definitely a viable scale these days and much less of the poor relation it once was.
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Some Gauls today. HaT to mix in with my Italeri. Sadly no where near as good, but still welcome.
Lovely painting. Those 1/72 figures look great. That's definitely a viable scale these days and much less of the poor relation it once was.
Thanks Trev! Yes, still seen as the poor option, but I'm loving it lately.
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Those 1/72s look lovely, especially considering you say you don't spend very long on them!
Question (purely interested to hear yours and others' thoughts): Given that soft plastic 1/72s seem to be a faff to prepare and paint, what advantages or plus points do they have over, say, 15-18mm metal or hard plastics? Just interested to hear - I can see a few possible reasons but would be good to hear your thoughts.
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Thanks! For me, it's the value. You can buy a box of 50-odd figures for the price of a couple of cups of coffee. You get the odd ugly or useless pose, but it's not a big problem.
I'm finding some guilt in having big expensive collections unpainted (Warhammer and old school fantasy in particular) and the occasional "what happens to my collection when I die" threads make we wonder... I'd much rather a big collection of 1/72, 6mm and 2mm models get binned or sold some next to nothing!
I actually prefer them to 15mm sometimes. Quality and scale varies incredibly from kit to kit, from maker to maker, but so does 15mm!
Also, I spend so little time on each model, it's almost a waste to paint, say, 28mm models to the same quality, but for 1/72 it seems appropriate.
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Yes, I figured the cost element is a nice plus point. Personally I think the more realistic proportions are quite refreshing too, compared to exaggerated 15mm and heroic 28mm styles.
Keep up the good work!
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Nice thread, thanks for the pics of the Strelets Caesarian Romans, wasn’t sure how they would paint up, but they look pretty good.
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Thanks for some nice replies again!
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The cavalry look fantastic! The bronze and blue scheme looks really nice, can’t wait to see more from you ;)
Out of interest, what paint range are you using on these guys? I’m a mix of Army Painter, Vallejo, and Citadel myself.
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The cavalry look fantastic! The bronze and blue scheme looks really nice, can’t wait to see more from you ;)
Out of interest, what paint range are you using on these guys? I’m a mix of Army Painter, Vallejo, and Citadel myself.
Late reply but thanks! I'm the same, with Citadel, Vallejo and AP washes, but also some craft paints.
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HaT Persian heavy cavalry. (Bought second hand so the rectangle bases don't match, I don't mind)
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Late reply but thanks! I'm the same, with Citadel, Vallejo and AP washes, but also some craft paints.
“A late reply is better than none at all”- someone, probably. And I love the new cavalry :-*
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“A late reply is better than none at all”- someone, probably. And I love the new cavalry :-*
Thanks! These are simple, but really nice models
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They are very nice indeed, you have done a great job on them. :)
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Some models from the Caesar Trojan army set. Made up colours since they're really for my fantasy armies!
They are very nice indeed, you have done a great job on them. :)
Thanks!
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They look lovely! Very suitably blingy colours too, really evokes the wealth of Troy :)