Somewhere in Germania 400 A.D. (Update 27.05.2016: Arthur´s death vignette)

[aggro84]

More loveliness. 

You are on a roll.

[Johan]

The problem was not the colours (though some were very expensive like royal purple), the problem back then was to keep the colours vibrant after some use. After some wear and tear and some washings (not too often I suspect) colours faded rather quickly.

[LeadAsbestos]

We seem to have all gone very ancient and medieval on Lead Adventure all of a sudden

Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and SAGA, respectively, for me!

[Lt. Hazel]

Lovely collection taking shape, Jan.

We seem to have all gone very ancient and medieval on Lead Adventure all of a sudden

Yeah it seems so! For me it´s a melange of Mad Doc Morris all-embracing knowlegde of the ancient periods and a lot of cool storys he told me, Spartacus (like Lead Astbestos), Rome, Macro and Cato, the Nibelungen Saga and, not to be forgotten, BillT´s outstanding miniatures!

[Lt. Hazel]

OK the first 8-man-unit takes shape..only one lightly armed warrior missing.



Zotto and Faroald, Shield designs are from my blue period.
And I found more pics of ancient colours:

[Bugsda]

Excellent paintwork Lt 

And plenty of colour inspiration now the dye is cast  ................ sorry! 

[area23]

great comparison pic, thanks!

I'll have to consider these colours too now, for painting.

[cram]

First class painting   

[Lt. Hazel]

The last missing warrior for the warband is done. It´s Alger, the one with the striped shirt. The other one, Torth, was painted by Mad Doc Morris and based by me.



The first unit is done. Two more armoured Heathguard are currently on my table plus my Warchief´s command base, plus a pig-pen for my village and some German Houses for a comission work. More pics tomorrow.

[bigredbat]

Cor, looking fantastic!

Simon

[Prof.Witchheimer]

well done, guys! can't wait the rest

[Bugsda]

well done, guys! can't wait the rest

As the Herr Professor says   

[Galland]

What a pleasant start of the day. Its saturday, my fiancé is away for the weekend with our monster/terrorist 2.5 year old doughter... a large fresh pot of hot coffee and this thread with lovely miniatures. I wish every day started like this, I really could get used to it!

There is often a miss-conception about colours of the earleir periods, not to mention armour of the medieval times. Embrodiery and dyes where more common than what one might think. All due to a rather well developed trade system and well developed thoughts and institutions regarding monetary systems and or the value of trading goods.

[Captain Blood]

That is a great looking unit Jan. The shields look fantastic.

[Steve F]

There is often a miss-conception about colours of the earleir periods, not to mention armour of the medieval times. Embrodiery and dyes where more common than what one might think. All due to a rather well developed trade system and well developed thoughts and institutions regarding monetary systems and or the value of trading goods.

Vegetable dyes were also more colour-fast than most people seem to think.  The sections of the Bayeux Tapestry repaired in the 19th century using modern chemical dyes are now much more faded than the 800-years-older original sections.  Mind you, the same clothes were worn day-in, day-out, so that will have worn and dirtied the colours more than if the ancients had had modern-sized wardrobes.