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Author Topic: Pyrrhic Victory - was Hoplites of Magna Graecia - now with more Phalangites  (Read 33456 times)

Offline Dave Toone

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2015, 08:21:32 PM »
Lovely work, as always Phil  :)

Dave

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2015, 08:24:10 PM »
That's great news.... expect me to be picking your Brains (your painting brain that is!) very soon :)
No worries, happy to help… Though for a moment there I thought you'd become a zombie!!!

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2015, 08:24:42 PM »
Lovely work, as always Phil  :)
Thanks Dave!

Offline Orctrader

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2015, 08:39:40 PM »
Painting looks terrific.  (Many examples of QS over the web look, er, not this good.   ::))

Some close-ups of one or two figures would be good.   :)


Offline Atheling

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2015, 05:51:43 AM »
No worries, happy to help… Though for a moment there I thought you'd become a zombie!!!

 lol Not too far from the truth  lol

Thanks. I'll be in touch mate :)

Darrell.

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2015, 04:46:24 PM »
Painting looks terrific.  (Many examples of QS over the web look, er, not this good.   ::))

Thank you!

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Some close-ups of one or two figures would be good.   :)

I don't really do close-ups… My figures are supposed to be viewed at table-top distances - if I was being pretentious I would say that they are like an Impressionist painting - designed to be viewed form a distance instead of peered at from close range. But, I have relented, a bit… Here is a sort of close-up:


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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2015, 06:49:20 PM »
I don't really do close-ups… My figures are supposed to be viewed at table-top distances - if I was being pretentious I would say that they are like an Impressionist painting - designed to be viewed form a distance instead of peered at from close range. But, I have relented, a bit… Here is a sort of close-up:


I understand completely.   :)  As I paint in a different style - only occasionally using washes -  I'm always curious as to how other styles look.  So thanks for bending your own rules.  (Incidentally, these look pretty good to me!)

Thanks again.   :)

Offline Prof.Witchheimer

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #22 on: August 11, 2015, 09:08:02 AM »
Amazing work and photography, these are very lovely, Phil, great to see you performing QS magic again :)

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2015, 10:50:57 AM »
Thanks! This week I've painted another 16 figures to complete the unit:


Offline Emperorbaz

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2015, 01:27:50 PM »
Superb as always. You always seem to get the colour combinations spot on!

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2015, 01:45:18 PM »
Thanks! I love choosing colours for wargaming projects - on the strength of that, I even get the job of picking colours for decor around the house! The missus openly admits that I have a far better eye for colour than she does.

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2015, 02:36:03 PM »
Aventine does some great minis.

And yours looking awesome!  :-*

Offline bigredbat

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2015, 10:22:26 PM »
Stunning Phil!  Your Pyrrhus project is really cracking along.

Offline Mad Doc Morris

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2015, 09:41:56 AM »
Great showcase for those Aventine models!
Thanks for sharing, hope there's more to come.

Offline philhendry

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Re: Hoplites of Magna Graecia
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2015, 10:28:14 AM »
Great showcase for those Aventine models!
Thanks for sharing, hope there's more to come.

Thanks Lads!

Yes, more to come - just starting on a unit of 30 Tarentine levy phalangites - five ranks of six figures. They will, quite deliberately, use virtually the same colour palette as the hoplites on this page - so they look as though they're from the same place.

 

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