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Author Topic: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner  (Read 4734 times)

Offline Atheling

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Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« on: August 08, 2020, 11:39:47 AM »
I have absolutely enjoyed every moment of painting up this unit. They really are beautifully crafted miniatures and deserved all the TLC they received.

The last two ranks are currently drying after glossing and on the advice of meistro Redzed I'm going to be leaving the gloss to go off thoroughly for a few days before matting down.

I hope you enjoy the pics half as much as I did painting them up.

More pics including close ups and waffling can be found on my blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/08/early-byzantine-front-ranks-with-hand.html





Offline armchairgeneral

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2020, 12:32:37 PM »
Wow they look amazing!  :-*

Offline Yarkshire Gamer

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2020, 12:34:52 PM »
Smashing job on those, lovely hand painted banner.

The way the photo is done looks like there is some proper dangerous nose picking going on  lol

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2020, 12:59:16 PM »

wow

those look terrific!

Offline Atheling

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2020, 02:56:33 PM »
Wow they look amazing!  :-*

Cheers pal :)

Smashing job on those, lovely hand painted banner.

Thanks Ken :)

The way the photo is done looks like there is some proper dangerous nose picking going on  lol

 lol lol lol Just noticed that- after posting all across Facebook  lol lol lol

wow

those look terrific!

Thank you :)

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2020, 03:05:12 PM »
Lovely  8)

Red has forgotten more about painting and varnishing than the rest of us put together so always heed his advice!

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2020, 06:20:55 PM »
Hand-painted banner??  :o :o

Good God! Those are amazing. Checking out your blog right now...

Mike Demana

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2020, 06:52:01 PM »
An all around fantastic looking unit.
2024: B: 0; P: 148; 2023: B:77; P:37;

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2020, 07:12:27 PM »
Superb stuff Darrel  8) 8) 8)

It’s great to see you back on the brushes  :D

Offline Unlucky General

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2020, 07:24:22 PM »
That's a fine looking example of miniature soldiery. The banner is lovely.

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2020, 11:19:09 PM »
Beautiful paint job! These are stunning

Offline smirnoff

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2020, 08:13:43 AM »
Fanbloodytastic

Offline dampfpanzerwagon

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2020, 08:27:40 AM »

Beautifully painted minis - very well done.

Tony

Offline Atheling

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2020, 08:57:44 AM »
Lovely  8)

Red has forgotten more about painting and varnishing than the rest of us put together so always heed his advice!

Yep, he's a not so secret painting god ;) :) Waiting a week for the gloss to go off is somewhat frustrating but nowhere near as frustrating as seeing speckling on the mini's so worth the wait  8)

Superb stuff Darrel  8) 8) 8)

It’s great to see you back on the brushes  :D

It's great to finally to get back to to somewhere close to where I was with the old brushes before my wargaming hiatus. A big lesson learned there :)

Hand-painted banner??  :o :o

Good God! Those are amazing. Checking out your blog right now...

If you can find the time have a look at my old Justinians and contrast and compare Mike.

An all around fantastic looking unit.

Thanks to all for the kinds word and encouragement- all very much appreciated.  8)

Next up for the Byzantines is either a torsion engine and crew or a unit of 32 Unarmoured Spearmen..... I reckon on the Torsion engine as it doesn't feel as daunting  lol
« Last Edit: August 09, 2020, 08:59:28 AM by Atheling »

Offline OB

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Re: Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2020, 12:40:24 PM »
That's lovely work.

 

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