Victrix Numidians - painted

[madaxeman]

 With a mostly-Foundry Republican/Camillan Roman army at the head of the painting queue right now I've already done the Velites and next up I have made a start on, erm, not the actual "Romans" but instead a small Numidian allied force made up from Victrix figures.   



All of these figures tunics were done with a white undercoat, Warlord Holy White "Contrast" paints on the clothing then layered with actual Vallejo white on top of that. The skin tone is done with a couple of layers of Contrast Darkoath Flesh, with some having an extra layer of ArmyPainter Dark Tone wash on top. 



The round shields all have LBMS transfers of animal skins, whereas the scutum-type shields are hand painted (as you can no doubt see), partly to save money and partly because I felt the LBMS scutum ones were actually a bit too intense in design and colour.



I kept a fairly dull dusty pallete for these, mixing up some tan and beige colour for the shields in particular on my wet pallette and doing blending and shadows on the edges of the shields with a think coat of Contrast Aggaros Dunes or other brownish colours.

[sgzleada71]

Nice job.   I've got too many Numidians!   Always fun and quite easy to paint.  I  notice you changed a few spears to  "  broomstick spears" .  Was that tricky to do ? 

[Tim Haslam]

I think the Victrix Numidian range is superb.
I have a full army of them!
I love those muted colours.

[madaxeman]

Nice job.   I've got too many Numidians!   Always fun and quite easy to paint.  I  notice you changed a few spears to  "  broomstick spears" .  Was that tricky to do ?

Pretty easy - well, far easier than the 72 pikemen I did last year !

A small hand drill will put a hole in the hands very quickly and easily, although I’ve found the real trick is first to slice a bit off to make a flat surface, and then start the drill hole with the point of a scalpel. Doing both of those before getting the hand held drill out really stops it skittering around and get a clean drill hole.

[Easy E]

Very nice! 

Tempted to follow the lead of those Numidian players in this thread!

[sgzleada71]

Pretty easy - well, far easier than the 72 pikemen I did last year !

A small hand drill will put a hole in the hands very quickly and easily, although I’ve found the real trick is first to slice a bit off to make a flat surface, and then start the drill hole with the point of a scalpel. Doing both of those before getting the hand held drill out really stops it skittering around and get a clean drill hole.

Thanks.  I'll try that method.   I've drilled my fingers too many times !   I'll  probably  now  slice w the scalpel blade instead 

[VonAkers]

Tim
Those Numidians look Wonderfull , well done mate .
Cheers

[madaxeman]

I've now added some pics of the cavalry to the blog at https://madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2024/10/28mm-numidian-light-cavalry.html

[Wilgut Spleens]

These are lovely , I particularly like the shields

[Basementboy]

Hard agree with Wilgut! The shields are superb, nice work.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Very nice indeed but the yellow hued horse looks a bit off and grabs too much attention from the otherwise superb work.  I hope that is more an issue from photography and lighting.

[madaxeman]

Very nice indeed but the yellow hued horse looks a bit off and grabs too much attention from the otherwise superb work.  I hope that is more an issue from photography and lighting.

Yeah you’re right it does look a bit, erm, “spotty” in that picture ! 

It’s Aggaros Dunes Contrast paint on a white background with some enhancement in the image to counteract my camera taking a photo that was a bit too dark despite a (cheap!) light box so the real things isn’t as “giraffey” 😏.

Aggaros Dunes is the contrast in my collection that I’m most dubious about for horses, but as one of a number in a unit it’s quite useful as a different level and type of hue to the browns and blacks, so I will probably persevere with it anyway tbh.

[madaxeman]

I have also added some pictures of the elephant ...



https://madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2024/10/28mm-numidian-elephant.html

[Basementboy]

Very nice!

[Tim Haslam]

Well done.