Phil's Wargaming Website

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I'm sure some of you know this site. I did not. The best painted Romans I've ever seen. An unbelievably high level of painting of Ancient armies. I'm more than impressed. If someone knows the guy, tell him, he is invited to LAF, he will get a honour place and food and drink for free if he comes

http://www.philhendry.me.uk/Phil_Wargaming_Website/

some expamples, but check the site, there are a lot more.

[Bugsda]

Wow! They are superb, love the Testudo 

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

really well painted,oh wait theyre all Quick shaded? 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Yes, they are and I have to say, I never thought one could achieve that top notch quality using Quick Shade. Stunning!

[guitarheroandy]

I've met (Dr) Phil Hendry. He's an absolutely top chap and these models look every bit as good 'in the flesh' as in his pics!! He's done some articles about Quickshade for Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazine, which are worth reading.
Just goes to show, it's not so much just the resource you use or even the technique so much as the way you use those things.
I use Quickshade dip myself now for a lot of things and I can layer pretty darn well. For me, it's all about colour choice (lighter and brighter than you think you'd ever need!!) and being really neat with the base colour application, plus the best matte varnish you can find...Using LBM shield transfers also helps... I also highlight mine once with basecoat colours, but Phil doesn't do that (he uses a turps 'wipe' on the raised areas while the dip is tacky, I believe, which achieves a highlight effect. I also seem to recall reading that he dries the models in the oven (LOW heat!!  ) while the dip is drying...he must have an understanding wife!!)

[philhendry]

Now I'm embarrassed (why isn't there an embarrassed emoticon?). Alex sent me an email this morning to tell me he'd posted a load of my pictures here, and to invite me to join.  So here I am, ready to be mocked, or whatever, for being such a blatant cheat when it comes to painting. 

Hello Andy <waves!>, how's life mate?

Cheers,
Phil

[Bugsda]

Nothing wrong with quickshade, I've used it well diluted with varnish as a filter.

It's not like he's injecting testosterone 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Welcome, Phil, glad to see you’ve joined!

Any new stuff on your workbench? What next eye candies we could expect? 

[Captain Blood]

Beautiful figures, Phil. Even with the dip! 

As mentioned above, it's ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it. In your hands, the dip certainly looks a useful addition to the painter's arsenal.

Anyway, welcome.
Look forward to seeing more of your work and projects here, if you can tolerate the company 

[The Baggagetrain]

 Hi Phil

I have read that some Romans carried spare javelins in a large quiver but when I asked about this on some groups I was told that this was not so. I personally think they did have this and I am sure there is a sculpture out there somewhere showing a legionary with one on his back but I think it was in the east somewhere, I wish I had printed it out as I cannot find it. I have done some of my 10mm late Romans with them but then I decided I will not to put them in production; though I really do like the idea and am now thinking I may change my mind.  I have also gone with my late Romans having a large quiver at their hip for their darts as some of the darts that they have now found are up to 18” long and one group in the Netherlands say they could have been longer.

Great photos and I enjoyed looking at your site, Thanks

Stephen

[philhendry]

I have read that some Romans carried spare javelins in a large quiver but when I asked about this on some groups I was told that this was not so. I personally think they did have this and I am sure there is a sculpture out there somewhere showing a legionary with one on his back but I think it was in the east somewhere, I wish I had printed it out as I cannot find it. I have done some of my 10mm late Romans with them but then I decided I will not to put them in production; though I really do like the idea and am now thinking I may change my mind.  I have also gone with my late Romans having a large quiver at their hip for their darts as some of the darts that they have now found are up to 18” long and one group in the Netherlands say they could have been longer.

Great photos and I enjoyed looking at your site, Thanks

Thanks Stephen and everyone else for the kind welcome.

I haven't seen a sculpture of a Roman with a 'javelin quiver' on his back, however there is a sculpture from Apamea in Syria (dating to the third century AD), depicting a 'trainee lanciarius' (Aurelianus Mucianus), and he is holding a 'bundle' of javelins, the lower part of which is solid rather than showing the javelin shafts:



You could interpret that as a 'quiver' - something I chose to do with a unit of third century Romans I put together a while ago:



I figured they'd be most likely to have slung the quiver over a shoulder so as to have both hands free.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Phil

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Phil, I've slightly corrected the pic link in your post, now it works.

There also is another tombstone from Apamea depicting again a lanciarius with javelin quiver (Lucius Septimius Viator). And

And finally the modern interpretation based on these tombstones.

[philhendry]

The problem with Lucius Septimius Viator is that the handful of javelins look like just that - a handful of javelins, because the shafts appear to go all the way down - I see no evidence of them being 'in' any sort of container.  So, personally speaking, I prefer not to use that sculpture as evidence for the existence of 'javelin quivers'.  YMMV!

And it's always possible that the sculpture of Aurelianus Mucianus doesn't show one either - it may have been that the sculptor was too lazy to sculpt the shafts all the way down to the end, but that they were depicted in paint - which has, of course, eroded away.  So nothing is certain!

Phil

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Agree, Phil, it actually looks more like a bunch of javelins, so it stays uncertain 

[The Baggagetrain]

Thanks for the photos Phil/Prof, the one you list Phil shows two distinctive lines near the top and near the bottom making it look very much like a quiver. I do remember seeing this photo at the same time I saw the other one. I really wish I could remember the articale I saw it in but it was to do with the use of javerlins and darts in the late Roman Army.
 Prof thanks for the drawing it is very intresting and I think it is from a book I have been trying to get for for quite some time now but I think it is out of print now.

Stephen