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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Vindice on August 21, 2016, 05:10:40 PM
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Hello chaps.
I've recently purchased the rather wonderful Faustus Furius rules and am very much in the mood for some race action. I've been talking to Mary Beard online about the team colours. But now I need some miniatures. I'm looking at around 15mm as that gives a 90cm track which is just about right for my needs.
Has anyone had any experience with the Essex 15mm chariots, or are there any others people would recommend? Looking for a classic Roman circus feel, 2 or 4 horses are fine.
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A long time ago I did chariot races using Essex. I would say they look great.
If doing it again, that is likely the way I would go. When my group and I did it
we did the chariots up in NFL football colors. We had a Packer, Viking, Lions and
Steelers fan in our group. Added some friendly humor in the games.
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Many thanks.
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I think mine are Outpost Wargames Services.
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Thanks Poiter - I've had a rummage around on their site but can't find any 15mm chariots. Could you point me in the right direction?
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Thanks Poiter - I've had a rummage around on their site but can't find any 15mm chariots. Could you point me in the right direction?
right here :
http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/hellenistic.htm (http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/hellenistic.htm)
there are very cheap and usefull for the job. ;)
Cheers
Eric
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Thanks Eric.
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Thanks Eric.
no problemo.
At the origin, in the late 90' i has asked to Outpost to realize this race chariot that we use in our club for a homemade great racing game.
A lot of hours of fun, i 'll expect to get back with Faustus Furius lol lol lol
Cheers
Eric
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I'd just like the say that Outpost Wargames Services were exactly the right people to go to for this - the chariots were £2 each and nice crisp little sculpts. I'll post pictures when they're done, but for anyone else looking to get into FaFu racing, these are a no-brainier.
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Here's the outpost Wargames chariots: lovely little sculpts:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UvdsjZMetgk/V9HKyY4kO7I/AAAAAAAACbc/cs4SRCU3XWw/s640/blogger-image-173214512.jpg)
And here they are painted up:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GNrobrfrU8g/V9HKsuvLKlI/AAAAAAAACbU/SKgYG1Hx1-o/s640/blogger-image-469793170.jpg)
Full details on what I did with them on the blog - including a guest appearance by Mary Beard - here:
http://critfailure.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/a-day-at-races.html
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We used to do a chariot race board game as our pre-Christmas game many years back. Then we all bought a 28mm chariot and team and one of the guys copied the game board onto a huge cloth that just fitted our 8' table. Unfortunately, the guy with the original board game has retired down to Cornwall and the guy with the cloth has "dropped off the radar" as well.
I miss the fun of our old games. Hope you enjoy yours.
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We used to do a chariot race board game as our pre-Christmas game many years back. Then we all bought a 28mm chariot and team and one of the guys copied the game board onto a huge cloth that just fitted our 8' table. Unfortunately, the guy with the original board game has retired down to Cornwall and the guy with the cloth has "dropped off the radar" as well.
I miss the fun of our old games. Hope you enjoy yours.
That's a" funny" story because , we get the same story in our club.
One of our buddies bring us a homemade game based on a playing card activation's system.
I buy 12 Outpost chariots for the club.
and we have a lot of fun to play with. For club's cohesion it was a very excellent experience.
We get closer after such kind of game played all long night....
And the guys leaves us, bring back the game material....and then that was the end of a good period of fun in my wargamer's life.
I hope to come back with Faustus Furius then :D
Cheers
Eric
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Hello chaps.
I've recently purchased the rather wonderful Faustus Furius rules and am very much in the mood for some race action. I've been talking to Mary Beard online about the team colours. But now I need some miniatures. I'm looking at around 15mm as that gives a 90cm track which is just about right for my needs.
Has anyone had any experience with the Essex 15mm chariots, or are there any others people would recommend? Looking for a classic Roman circus feel, 2 or 4 horses are fine.
I have a bunch of Essex chariots from Biblical and Greek/Persion eras. The MPA range scythed chariot would work great. 4 horses, one rider, optional scythe pieces.
I've made up about two dozen custom teams, with a fantasy theme. Most of my teams and crews are from (cherry picked/special order) Splintered Light Miniatures. The chariots themselves are mostly scratch builds. Picked up the FF rules based on the various blogs and forum comments I've come across.
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may be we all need a race car like the one from "justforkix" form the albums of asterix
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One of our players, laurent aka pif d'aigle, had made a 15mm conversion of this asterix's chariot.
We had ben hur and massala ones too. You always needs a good and evil character in this kind of game lol lol lol
Cheers
Eric
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Love to see some pics of those. ;)
One of our players, laurent aka pif d'aigle, had made a 15mm conversion of this asterix's chariot.
We had ben hur and massala ones too. You always needs a good and evil character in this kind of game lol lol lol
Cheers
Eric
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Love to see some pics of those. ;)
Sorry, but the chariots are gone with our buddy and the games. :'(
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OK, thank you. :'( :(
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With the new arrival of Faustus Furius, i ll start the project again for my club but in 28mm.
For a cost question, i ll scratchbuilt the chariots and use the plastic horses from
Perry medieval spare part sprues.
I have some 28mm converted into driver and i try to give each of them a characterfull look.
We 'll get Ben Hur (white horses team of course) and Masalla (black ones) as the bad guy ;)
Also availablee : a greek driver, a spartan , an ethiopian prince, an arab (even if ben hur is already driving for an arab sponsor), a celt (of course), an egyptian, a german , a nubian driver.
I hope to create some new rules (like traits for "song of......") for customized the driver at the player choice.
Then a lot of work o_o
Cheers
Eric
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I have a bunch of Essex chariots from Biblical and Greek/Persion eras. The MPA range scythed chariot would work great. 4 horses, one rider, optional scythe pieces.
I've made up about two dozen custom teams, with a fantasy theme. Most of my teams and crews are from (cherry picked/special order) Splintered Light Miniatures. The chariots themselves are mostly scratch builds. Picked up the FF rules based on the various blogs and forum comments I've come across.
Could you show us some of your converted chariots ?
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Hello gents,
Nic here, the author of Faustus Furius. I'm delighted with the way that the game has been so favourably received. I don't post in forums too often any more, but I'll make sure to pop back here every now and again to catch up on your projects.
If you have any rules queries, you can either post them through the:
Ganesha Games Yahoo group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/songofblades/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbXY0dTk1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5OTAxODcxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTA4MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NzQxMDE5MzQ- (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/songofblades/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbXY0dTk1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5OTAxODcxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTA4MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NzQxMDE5MzQ-),
the Song of Blades and Heroes Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/),
or with a direct message via my blog page http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/).
Cheers an happy racing!
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Could you show us some of your converted chariots ?
sure...
these are the teams I have completed at this time.
scale is 15mm, on 60mm x 40mm bases.
4 of the 14 chariot bodies are commercial, the other ten are conversion/custom/scratch built, from a variety of sources.
top row: dwarves w/ polar bears ; rangers w/ giant weasels
2nd row: skeletons w/ skel horses; sons of horus w/ griffons; orcs w/ wargs
3rd row: skeletons w/ skel horses; dark elves w/ raptors; ratlings w/ giant rats
4th row: wood elves w/ saber tooth cats; elves w/ elk; elves w/ lions
5th row: high elves w/ unicorns; dwarves w/ grizzlies; goblins w/ giant boars
(http://i.imgur.com/CQhtV2F.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/lelhnGM.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Di773ly.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/baCoAtH.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ulrYwIq.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/olQt0p6.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/1xFt8kt.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Sf4D4Qf.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/r2dUIgU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/cOqjmwN.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/B1X89f6.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Vob39bH.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ybakueK.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/BXSbJyu.jpg)
And some of the WIP chariots.
(http://i.imgur.com/UkVXb5U.jpg)
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Exellent work !
;D
Very impressive.
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Hello gents,
Nic here, the author of Faustus Furius. I'm delighted with the way that the game has been so favourably received. I don't post in forums too often any more, but I'll make sure to pop back here every now and again to catch up on your projects.
If you have any rules queries, you can either post them through the:
Ganesha Games Yahoo group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/songofblades/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbXY0dTk1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5OTAxODcxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTA4MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NzQxMDE5MzQ- (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/songofblades/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbXY0dTk1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5OTAxODcxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1OTA4MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NzQxMDE5MzQ-),
the Song of Blades and Heroes Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/),
or with a direct message via my blog page http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/).
Cheers an happy racing!
Welcome home Nic
:D
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Those are some pretty cracking fantasy chariots Nervisfir!
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Those are some pretty cracking fantasy chariots Nervisfir!
I agree with you, nic, Pacarat has done a very good work on his 15mm racing chariots.
Hope to see a race report in a near future about them.
Cheers
Eric
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All this got to me! Rules ordered, downloaded and printer.
15mm Chariots coming in the mail.
Guess I need to build a track.
This will put me more behind on my Viking army for Lion Rampant!
Thanks guys, for all the help! o_o
Dale
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All this got to me! Rules ordered, downloaded and printer.
15mm Chariots coming in the mail.
Guess I need to build a track.
This will put me more behind on my Viking army for Lion Rampant!
Thanks guys, for all the help! o_o
Dale
We are sorry for you Digid lol lol
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here it is the 1st batch of my 28mm converted's Chariot drivers :
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7531/29814330611_2b2b066c99_b.jpg)
Mainly based on Foundry 28mm range.
Cheers
Eric
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I like what you are doing with those drivers! :-*
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love the conversions!
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I like what you are doing with those drivers! :-*
Thank you nic.
It was the easy part of the project......
Now i have to scratchbuilt the chariots......the wrecking ones, the track and may be the mob...
o_o
Eric
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here it is the 1st batch of my 28mm converted's Chariot drivers :
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7531/29814330611_2b2b066c99_b.jpg)
Mainly based on Foundry 28mm range.
Cheers
Eric
Thank you too Pacarat.
I have forgot to present you the characters.
From left to right :
A roman (the emperor favorite may be), the greek, the professional (Massala or Ben Hur), an another professional (a nasty dwarf) and the spartan.
Eric
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For the cheering/jeering mob, look at slingers or figures that are throwing separate spears. Figures without armour or even Arab style clothing. Perhaps some of the Celtic women.
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For the cheering/jeering mob, look at slingers or figures that are throwing separate spears. Figures without armour or even Arab style clothing. Perhaps some of the Celtic women.
I have this kind of ideas for the mob : Plastic Vitrix light infantry and/or a mix with Gripping Beast arabs.
i move on from this topic to stop to highjack the Vindice's one.
I create a new one about Faustus Furius, right here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94095.0)
Cheers
Eric