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Offline Dr. Moebius

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2013, 12:45:46 PM »
Many thanks to all of you for the welcome and your kind words.

It feels very good to get that positive feedback and it also motivates to keep my painting going.

Will show you some more in the next weeks.

Cheers
Dr. Moebius


Offline Mason

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2013, 04:46:21 PM »
Welcome aboard, Dr. Moebius.
 :)

What a wonderful way to introduce yourself.
Stunning eye candy all round.
 :-* :-*


Offline Juan

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2013, 06:21:20 PM »
Welcome here. Fantastic, your painting work!!! These figures are full of character.

Offline Traveler Man

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2013, 06:39:40 PM »
Excellent paintwork!  :-*
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Offline Bugsda

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2013, 12:09:10 AM »
Superb toys  :-* Can't wait to see more  8)
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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2013, 04:58:56 PM »
Most impressive. They really are gems, those guys.
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Online Jeff965

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2013, 05:02:46 PM »
Excellent work Alex, new to the forum but not to figure painting if the standard of these little gems are anything to go by. And as for camera photography, these are very good photographs I,d like to see what you could do with a proper camera, just awesome.

Offline airbornegrove26

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2013, 09:01:55 PM »
Lovely paint jobs.  Keep them coming.   :-*

Offline Dr. Moebius

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2013, 09:27:07 PM »
Again many, many thanks to you all.
You all really made my day.

On the weekend I managed to paint some more stuff and I hope I can post some more of my DITDC project in the next days. I have to finish the multi bases for the next two Ruga/Manyema stands bringing the unit to five in total.

I've also started with two bases of Gongo Lutetes Tetela warriors which I will use as tribal allies for my Force Publique. I plan to have eight bases in total of these notorious canibals.
Choice of miniatures and painting is a little bit tricky on this as it is hard to find in depth information of these guys. Even Mr. Peers says not much about them in the foundry book.

The overall plan is to play a campain of the Force Publique Arab war once I finished all the models for both sides. I have read lots of this conflict and it fascinated me from the very beginnig.

Hopefully I will stick to it as I'm interested in many different miniatures and gaming systems.

Cheers
Dr. Moebius




Offline Hu Rhu

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2013, 08:52:33 AM »
Stunning work Dr M.  Love the mini diorama feel to your stands.  Do you intend to game with them?

Offline Dr. Moebius

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2013, 09:09:36 PM »
Stunning work Dr M.  Love the mini diorama feel to your stands.  Do you intend to game with them?

Thank you Hu Rhu,

yes I will use them for Chris Peers´ Death in the dark continent (DITDK). One great thing about the rules is that you field your miniatures on multibases of 60mm frontage size. Depth is not that important so I decided to go for 40mm for the depth of the bases (though 30mm is recommended in the rules).

It is really fun to create these little dioramas and it takes a while to decide where to place those painted heroes.
That is the same reason why I´m really looking forward to do a Horde of the Things army in 28mm.

Cheers
Dr. Moebius

Offline FifteensAway

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2013, 05:13:00 AM »
Dr. M, a question, sir.  Perhaps others are familiar with it so didn't notice, but on your casualty marker you have created a space for a die.  I'm assuming this is "free" so you can leave the die up as needed with how ever many pips are called for.  Is this from the rules or your own invention or some other source?  Where ever it is from, I plan to steal the idea.  ;)

And what everyone else said, by the way, very nice.

Offline Hammers

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2013, 08:20:41 AM »
Love the hats, love the shoes, love PJ.

Offline Dr. Moebius

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2013, 03:48:05 PM »
Dr. M, a question, sir.  Perhaps others are familiar with it so didn't notice, but on your casualty marker you have created a space for a die.  I'm assuming this is "free" so you can leave the die up as needed with how ever many pips are called for.  Is this from the rules or your own invention or some other source?  Where ever it is from, I plan to steal the idea.  ;)

And what everyone else said, by the way, very nice.

Hello FifteensAway,

the idea with the loose die on the marker is not my idea. You can find it on several blogs, Roundwoods World for example, a fantastic blog about World War One wargaming. There you can find great wound markers that Sydney has done using the same principle.

I've done this one as a first try but I will go a different way with further markers. The reason is that the die on the base is not really cool looking.
The maximum pips you can get in DITDC is five per unit. So I will go for putting one dead miniature on a 30mm round base, some markers with two on a larger round base and so on.
That will look more bloody and will help the look of the game.

I made use of Wargames Foundry's offer that you will get a blister for free when you buy three times the same blister. That brought me 4 bisters of african casualties (32 minis in total). Now I can go crazy ;D by producing pips that will look great in the game.
I have also plans for using severed heads on poles, piles of skulls etc. so that will bring me a nice collection of pips that fit the feeling of the game.

Cheers
Dr. Moebius

Offline Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.

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Re: Me, myself and I in the Dark Continent
« Reply #29 on: July 17, 2013, 08:44:42 AM »
Terrific work. They look absolutely fantastic.

 

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