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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Clearco on January 15, 2013, 07:54:25 PM

Title: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 15, 2013, 07:54:25 PM

I have started an army of almoravids for Impetus, using the lovely minis from Legio Heroica.

I´ve always had a fascination towards these veiled warriors of the desert (Maybe the parades of "Moros y cristianos" that I always watched as child when I was on the coast region are the cause of this...and the book about El Cid that I have always read at my grandma´s home  ;)) so what was intended to be a little DBA army has evolved in a bigger Impetus one... ;D

Here the first 3 units of S:
(http://i48.tinypic.com/d4mpv.jpg)
(http://i50.tinypic.com/4qmn1x.jpg)
(http://i48.tinypic.com/eklt2c.jpg)
(http://i49.tinypic.com/qnplc6.jpg)

These are my seconds 15mm ever, and on the other ones I used "betuneado" (it´s like dipping) because I was afraid of the tiny size of the fellas. Therefore I´m glad I managed to paint these "normally", since I don´t like dipping that much :D

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Elk101 on January 15, 2013, 08:13:38 PM

Very nice Clearco. I thought they were 28mm with your paint job! I particularly like the clothing work.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: janner on January 15, 2013, 09:53:20 PM

Great work, really effective  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Sangennaru on January 15, 2013, 09:57:41 PM

impressive paintjob on 15mm, great work!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 16, 2013, 09:27:02 AM

Thanks! I´m very glad you like it!
Next I´m painting an unit of heavy infantry  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on January 16, 2013, 09:45:06 AM

Clearco! Good to see you over here! :)
Pretty amazing work of yours, they're really characterized with a flavour of authenticity. Superb!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 16, 2013, 10:50:30 AM

¡Gracias, Suber! I´m happy you like them!

I´m also pleased to see you here by the way :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Totleben on January 16, 2013, 10:50:56 AM

Really impressive.  :-*

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Hendrid on January 20, 2013, 10:15:40 PM

Nice work Clearco. Excellent units.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 22, 2013, 04:04:10 PM

Thanks for the comments!

Today, the black guard:

(http://i48.tinypic.com/2nlblhi.jpg)
(http://i45.tinypic.com/ei05dt.jpg)
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2nr3rfd.jpg)
(http://i50.tinypic.com/15hd5si.jpg)
(http://i45.tinypic.com/1571au0.jpg)

The photos are rather dark so the highlights on the black robes are not so easy to see as on the flesh :P

The officer is a conversion: I made a sword out of a spear (hammering and hammering :D) and made a helm for him.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Paul on January 22, 2013, 05:18:10 PM

 :-* :-* Lovely!!
Where did you get the flag?

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 22, 2013, 08:28:30 PM

Thanks! The flag and the shield transfers are from LBM  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on January 22, 2013, 08:54:12 PM

Can't find the words, they're impressive :o :o

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 23, 2013, 04:04:01 PM

Thanks, Suber! :) I hope I manage to paint another spearmen unit for next week.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 31, 2013, 08:32:38 AM

As promised ;) :
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2m5koxz.jpg)
(http://i49.tinypic.com/11vnt75.jpg)
(http://i50.tinypic.com/aujlac.jpg)

 :D

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on January 31, 2013, 09:11:46 AM

I can't manage to understand how you can achieve such level of detail on these tiny minis :o.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on January 31, 2013, 01:40:00 PM

Thanks! I´m the first to be surprised, if truth be told  lol
I thinks the LH sculpts are mainly responsable of the paint job  ;) They are simply a joy to paint.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Elk101 on January 31, 2013, 07:39:39 PM

I'd be delighted if my 28mms looked anywhere near as good as those!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 15, 2013, 08:58:23 AM

Thanks Elk101!

I managed to paint a few more, I was very busy these weeks. They are not my best but I have to like them  ;):
(http://i49.tinypic.com/ruxrlw.jpg)
(http://i45.tinypic.com/70bb4m.jpg)
(http://i46.tinypic.com/105v5ls.jpg)
(http://i47.tinypic.com/1zy7kut.jpg)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on February 15, 2013, 09:42:50 AM

Oh, man! That effect is AWESOME! :o

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Elk101 on February 15, 2013, 11:31:50 AM

I'm loving these! Very, very nice mate.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 15, 2013, 02:04:02 PM

Thanks!  :)

Now I want to add dust in every unit of the army  ;D

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on February 15, 2013, 02:51:20 PM

Is it cotton and spray or have you done something else?

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 15, 2013, 05:52:30 PM

It´s cotton but since I don´t have spray, I dipped it in water with paint and let it dry. It came too white so I brushed a bit of paint and spread it on the cotton rubbing with the fingers :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Phyllion on February 15, 2013, 06:40:48 PM

Lovely. I don't game 15mm but I want to buy some now!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 21, 2013, 06:48:06 PM

Thanks Phyllion :)

A new unit:

(http://i50.tinypic.com/2mh7jn8.jpg)
(http://i47.tinypic.com/nbqav4.jpg)

Cavalry so far:
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2mr9nv9.jpg)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Sangennaru on February 21, 2013, 06:55:02 PM

Sweet! 8-)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Dr. The Viking on February 21, 2013, 07:28:30 PM

Lovely touch with the dust!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: janner on February 22, 2013, 08:32:43 AM

Quote from: Dr. The Viking on February 21, 2013, 07:28:30 PM

Lovely touch with the dust!

Absolutely - super cool  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: CyberAlien312 on February 22, 2013, 09:48:48 AM

Wonderful paint job and I love the dust!

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Suber on February 22, 2013, 11:59:28 AM

Ain't those lovely? :-*

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Hendrid on February 22, 2013, 12:38:14 PM

Really great looking mini's. Well done indeed.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 22, 2013, 01:26:21 PM

Thanks to all!  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Vermis on February 23, 2013, 12:12:35 AM

Excellent. :D  I came onto this topic wondering about multibase 'dioramas' for other games like Hail Caesar and Kings of War, and you've made my mind up for me.  Cavalry is brilliant.

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Clearco on February 23, 2013, 02:04:37 PM

Thanks a lot!
The visual aspect of Impetus was one of the main things that appealled to me. I like how you can "break" the linearity of other basing arts and make it more lively, more organic  ;) I recommend to give the diorama basing at least a try  :)

Title: Re: Almoravids for Impetus
Post by: Paul on February 23, 2013, 07:09:50 PM

 :-* :-* Very nice and the idea with the dust behind them is great