tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507189930813582622024-03-05T15:55:28.798+00:00Miniature Workbenchtorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-27699487040034372722013-12-06T06:59:00.002+00:002013-12-06T06:59:35.689+00:00Bones updatePainting bones is a whole lot a fun :)<br />
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Stone Golem (Base stills needs some work):</div>
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Mimic (guess who just got some Tamiya Clear Red in the mail ;))</div>
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And I still got some commission work in (ACW 10mm Confederates from GHQ)</div>
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A beholder:<br />
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An Owlbear<br />
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Some sort of cyber gorilla grafted with a minigun:<br />
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The Frost Wyrm (complete with hot glue icicles). This is easily 15cm high - a big mini:<br />
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A pink haired fairy like lady:<br />
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A WIP Gryphon my 7 year old daughter is working on :)</div>
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And great old Squid head I´m working on while I paint other stuff (this is huge at about 30cm high). All pics are blurry :<br />
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Now I (really really) have to go back to commission work for a while. ACW 10mm and Medieval Portuguese @15mm are waiting in the workbench pipeline.torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-28157473777104753142013-10-31T18:13:00.003+00:002013-10-31T18:14:40.475+00:00Reaper: A bounty of BonesAfter a long time sitting in customs my Bones package has finally arrived - early Christmas :D<br />
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I have a Vampire Pledge, one Cthulhu and one Frost Wyrm, adding up to a total of 243 miniatures :)<br />
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My method of going about eating away at that 243 miniature high pile of bones is simple and fun (for me at least):<br />
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In between projects, when I need different miniature to avoid "period boredom" (sets in after I paint about 30 miniatures for a given commission), I close my eyes and dunk my hand into the Vampire pledge box and paint whatever comes up.<br />
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I started this process off with 2 miniatures:<br />
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Some stealthy Ninja approach a Dojo seen in the distance.<br />
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Statues are Chinese Drift shop incense burners with a lick of paint to look like stone.</div>
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A lone Ronin duels the Daimyo´s champion for the life of his family. It´s an unfair battle, but little do they know that his estranged stepfather (who had previously disowned his daughter) sent in an elite group of Ninja to retrieve her. Drama in the Sengoku Jidai! :D</div>
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Gaming & Beer over at Serbia.</div>
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Team FoW Portugal placed 5th overall - an excellent result :)<br />
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And a Reaper king like figure (still in WIP) which would fit nicely as a Pict king for the Conan universe (using Matakishi´s CROM! ruleset - <a href="http://www.matakishi.com/crom.htm">http://www.matakishi.com/crom.htm</a> . </div>
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And back again to the Bruegelburgs with a Poet-like character mounted on a pig. Very fun mini to paint.</div>
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Recently picked up Osprey Publishing´s Ronin (<a href="http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Ronin-%E2%80%93-Skirmish-Wargames-in-the-Age-of-the-Samurai_9781780968469">http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Ronin-%E2%80%93-Skirmish-Wargames-in-the-Age-of-the-Samurai_9781780968469</a>) which I thoroughly recommend and my brush itched for some samurai, so I picked those up again. Only the old woman below is a new miniature - Dark looking samurai was a not-Grave Guard for a WHFB Samurai/VC army I ran for a couple of years. All miniatures are Perry.</div>
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Perry Ashigaru amidst my Japanese themed scenery:</div>
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Scratch built Yumi (bow) wielding Samurai (next to a Muslim villager woman who´s been hanging by the workbench with a big pot on her head). And yes, a Yumi is the largest of all bows, and it´s easily over 220cm for a normal sized archer - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi#Bow_lengths">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi#Bow_lengths</a></div>
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An exception to all the Samurais I have in my collection, the fellow below is from em4 minitures, Oriental Blades line (<a href="http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Oriental_Blades__unpainted_.html">http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Oriental_Blades__unpainted_.html</a>)</div>
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Another em4 Oriental Blades Samurai, a barefoot Ronin. Really like this fellow, the sculpt is full of character.<br />
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Less text, more pictures from now on. This should make it easier to update.<br />
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I´ll going Reanimator on the blog post now all the pout-pourri of stuff I´ve been painting since my last (January) post. A pretty eclectic bunch of miniatures now that I look at them all in one place.<br />
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I painted a Reaper Bones Gargoyle to test out the stuff in anticipation of getting my Bones pile of fun<br />
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Then I painted up some more Perry Islamic Warriors to complement my ongoing Seljuk project (which finally found some support in SAGA, via the Steppes People board):<br />
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Then, to shift gears, I went for some of the (excellent Teutonic perfection) Bruegelburg miniatures (<a href="http://www.lead-adventure.com/index.php?cPath=22">http://www.lead-adventure.com/index.php?cPath=22</a>). A bit dark on this picture, but it´s the only one I got.<br />
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Followed by another Perry Muslim:<br />
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20mm Spanish Civil War by Irregular miniatures:<br />
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This brings me up to about March 2013. Still some pictures to upload, but latest work done were some Essex 15mm Aztecs (on commission):</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Pedro</div>
torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-83928297817855049252013-10-25T12:49:00.002+01:002013-10-25T12:49:52.085+01:00Well this didn´t turn out as expectedI started 2013 wanting to post regularly to a blog (as a means of self-motivation for painting slumps which still happen way too often).<br />
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Things started more or less ok and then, work happened. Lots and lots of work.<br />
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And in a wink of an eye I don´t post one single solitary pic during the better part of 2013.<br />
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This doesn´t mean I didn´t paint anything (fortunately), but it´s proof of a complete lack of discipline with the blog.<br />
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I´ll fix it in one fell swoop and do one massive post where I´ll try to sum up all the different things I painted in 2013 up until now.<br />
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Let´s see now if I can maintain some discipline and do some regular updates.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Pedrotorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-46630206934675727062013-01-29T12:01:00.001+00:002013-01-29T12:01:43.613+00:00A new look for some old halftracksI recently dumped my FoW halftracks in some soap and water and cleaned them up ready to paint them up as a whole collection. They were sorely mismatched, having been acquired over the past decade or so.<br />
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I wanted them to be flexible in their gaming use, good for any front or passenger, so I kept them in a no frills dunkgelb base.<br />
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Yesterday I finished one up and kept the recipe for all the others. Still not 100% happy with it - I hate that mossy green camo net and will have to to something about it.<br />
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Here he is - the first of about 16 to do:<br />
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torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-11093484326877883342013-01-23T15:35:00.001+00:002013-01-23T15:36:40.679+00:00Henschel 129 B3Finished last night, some air support for my Panzergrenadiers. A Hs129B3 with the massive 75mm canon. A truly unique (meaning weird) flying machine. Figure is 1:144 by Battlefront.<br />
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<br />torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-77163336877416010502013-01-22T10:59:00.001+00:002013-01-23T15:36:19.276+00:00On the table now<br />
Finished a couple of comission works and have some in the queue, but I took a brief interval to paint up some stuff for me. No more text, all pics from here down:<br />
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I also finished some Khurasan Tibetans but have no photos of that. Will wait for the customer to take some proper photos so I can have a memento :)<br />
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Upcoming post will mainly focus on 15mm Panzergrenadiers (Lehr) done for me and 20mm SCW/10mm ACW/15mm Romans on comission.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Pedro<br />
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torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-69363084732791592512013-01-02T10:30:00.000+00:002013-01-23T15:35:44.256+00:00On the workbench nowMy workbench has been brim full of commission work but I did manage to squeeze in a couple of personal projects.<br />
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First up, a Gripping Beast Monk (limited edition miniature) I received from my good friend and fellow Suricata Club member José Martins (Adamastorus). A joy to slap some paint on and I did manage to try out a couple of things in unfamiliar territory (OSL on the hand and some green tinting on the eye lids - nice and subdued as to not make him look like e cheap whore). On the whole I´m happy with him. May come around to make the base look more alien though (perhaps with some reddish Martian tint). I dub him "Ping the Pittiless" - totally unrelated to Ming the Merciless :)<br />
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And a couple of 15mm BF Sturmtigers WIP<br />
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These will be finished up soon.<br />
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Cheers,</div>
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Pedro</div>
torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-56986862051723943092013-01-02T10:21:00.000+00:002013-01-02T10:21:02.583+00:00A quick review of the last monthMainly focused on commission work for the last month and here is a quick review.<br />
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And that about sums it up. Next month will still feature commission work heavily, mainly the finished 15mm Tibetans from Khurasan and a new project - 20mm SCW :)<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Pedro<br />
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<br />torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-27433514824821036772012-11-30T11:03:00.001+00:002012-11-30T18:21:09.731+00:00Hurricane IId for FoWLatest commission work on the queue done - a Hurricane IId in tropical camo scheme, 15mm scale by Battlefront. Never had done a plane at this scale before, but I´m pretty happy with how it turned out.<br />
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On the commission queue lots of different things: from Tibetan 15mm Cataphracts to markings on Churchills. Will have plenty to keep me busy and variety enough to avoid boredom :)<br />
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Pedrotorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-47238188413489559362012-11-28T16:54:00.000+00:002012-11-28T16:54:17.845+00:00Seljuk Emir done (kind of)Apart from a couple of minor issues that a larger than 1:1 photo made blatantly obvious, these figures are now done and set the tone for what I want the rest of the army to look like:<br />
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Banner is in the Abassid fashion (plain black) accented with the Seljuk colours (blue) and with the Seljuk double-headed eagle in the reverse side. Carpet is based in the Konya patterns that originated in the Anatolian Seljuks.<br />
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I kept the pallete short to make the blues and reds stand out. I couldn´t resist painting up the "fruit" on the arab servant´s platter as Ferrero Rocher :) Plate itself in blue and white pottery, from China through the Silk Road.<br />
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I am not very familiar with desert basing and tried Sandy Paste - worked very nice. I accented that with some Basecrafts pebbles and dry grass tufts.<br />
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Now I will leave the Seljuks alone for quite some time as (happily) I have a good pipeline of commission work to finish.torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-316164322954472582012-11-21T13:10:00.002+00:002012-11-21T13:10:43.093+00:00Current status of Late Republican Roman 15mmThree additional elements finished and delivered on this comission.<br />
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One unit of Legionnaires (only two to go)<br />
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And a Gaul command (either auxiliary or to be used in different armies)<br />
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Not much left to go on this job. Everything should be done in 2 to 3 weeks.<br />
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Pedrotorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-8024052503275572062012-11-15T10:25:00.000+00:002012-11-15T10:25:44.639+00:00Viriathus & StalinsBeen busy on the workbench lately. Last work finished couldn´t be further apart in chronologically:<br />
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15mm IS2 tanks (Battlefront) done on comission:<br />
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And a Lusitanian command stand with Crusader Miniatures:<br />
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Next few days I´ll be finishing some Numidian Light Horse and a Late Republican Roman Legion, both part of a FoG army comission.<br />
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Oh - I also managed to find time and dab some additional paint on my Seljuk Emir (right down the middle of the timeline between the previous 2 figures). Still some way to go, but he currently looks like this:<br />
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Pedrotorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-64510908281623225172012-11-09T15:58:00.002+00:002012-11-09T15:58:54.705+00:00Work started on EmirStarted to do some work on the Emir who will command my small Seljuk host.<br />
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Blocked out some of the major colours and did some highlighting work. I also did the carpet. Turns out Seljuks in the Xth century were major influences in carpet making. I looked a whole lot of carpets and went ahead and concocted my own. Middle East means business with their carpets, and every colour and pattern in loaded with symbolism. I kept mine simple and floral/tree-of-life with some stars and moons on the border and made sure I used blue, which is a colour heavily identified with the Seljuks.<br />
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Sultan also sports a blue silk tunic, the traditional Seljuk hat (the boerk), riding boots and trousers of a pattern I´m still working out (currently stripped as you can see below). His golden goblet has water. I painted him with streaks of grey on his beard and braids. He certainly cannot represent Kilij Arslan - the Sultan was 17 when the 1st Crusade began, but already an accomplished commander. Will have to procure a more action oriented miniature for that (actually Perry´s command pack has Kilij himself, so I´ll just grab that).<br />
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This particular one would be an Emir, that has set up a command post directly on the Anatolian step and calmly surveys the battle field as he sips water and is waited on by his servants.<br />
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I quite like how its turning out. I will now move on to the other figures that will be in this composition (servants and a banner bearer). Overall look will help me decide on some colour details on the main figure.<br />
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I always try to do the "center piece" of a new project first, as it will set the tone for the entire project, even where it comes to colour pallet. I have a big load of unpainted lead but am in no rush whatsoever - these miniatures are an absolute pleasure to paint. On their way from Perry are another 3 packs of Seljuk horse archers, which will help flesh out a mainly horse archer force supported by an armoured horse archer elite, the ghulam and complemented by some foot militia (town garrison).<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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I´ve been doing more and more commission work in the midst of the personal projects, so I might as well make it official.<br />
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I´ve just started, so my rates are pretty aggressive. Contact me for details at torradas_at_gmail.com if you want me to budget some work. I paint any scale and any period (both for commissions and my personal projects), and historical work is well researched before starting.<br />
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Latest work out of the workbench:<br />
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So future posts will be a mix of commission work and personal projects - I´ve been slapping some paint on the Seljuk Turks and will have something ready to show soon.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Pedrotorradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-16828586613337452052012-10-29T10:46:00.000+00:002012-10-29T10:46:09.067+00:00On the workbench - commission workA pause from Seljuks and Crusades to do some Commission Work. I just started doing this type of work, having never previously sold a single painted miniature, and it´s going rather well. In fact - I have a massive pipeline of work already on order, so over the next month or so the comission work I´m doing will feature heavily here.<br />
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Last night I finished (all except basing) 6x Numidian Archers in 15mm (Corvus Belli is the manufacturer) for an ongoing Late Republican Roman FoG commission.<br />
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Excellent miniatures and a pretty straight forward colour scheme, as the Numidians used plain unadorned and un-dyed tunics. Bases will now get a dark brown wash and then a khaki drybrush to make the miniatures "pop" and I´ll add some tufts to give it some contrast.<br />
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All my projected commission work are in this 15mm ancients area. Next up will be a unit which will be much (MUCH) more colourfull - Gaul Cavalry (as Cavalry auxiliaries for the same Late Republican Roman army).<br />
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Already done are a couple of units of legionnaires, Cretan archer support, a command base with a mounted praetor and a Fortified camp - all of which went without any photos, unfortunately.<br />
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Currently the commission queue is filled for 2012 :)torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-75976118885934589382012-10-23T17:01:00.001+01:002012-10-23T17:01:50.927+01:00SAGA Rûm Seljuk Turk Project.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Been a bit slow on here lately, but for perfectly good reasons - I´ve been playing and researching more than painting, and this is mainly a painting blog, so no finished product to post here.<br />
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However, I can post up the framework of my <b>SAGA Crusades</b> project, to give some context for miniature posts to follow (which will be mainly in the Seljuk Turk theme).<br />
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I´m constantly finding excuses to get into yet another Perry range, and I found a good one now :)
As I mentioned in previous posts, I wanted to take advantage of a finished SAGA Norman host to make the jump to the Middle East and the 1st Crusade.<br />
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I knew the miniature range I wanted (Perry 1st Crusade Muslim Army - <a href="http://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_33_53&products_id=2116" target="_blank">Perry Crusades - Muslim</a><a href="http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php?cPath=23_33_53"></a>) but I knew little of the details and generally had a Hollywood like preconception about the crusades (Arabs with turbants and scimitars).<br />
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The more I read the more interesting and complex it became - there were Egyptian Fatimids that corresponded more to the Hollywood Muslim warriors, Bedouin tribes, Turcoman horse-archers, Armenian bare chested and bare-headed ghazis - a large selection indeed (and, very importantly, all covered by the Perry Range). So, where to start?
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<b>Quick historical note - The Rûm Seljuk Sultanate:</b><br />
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The 1st Crusade spawns from a call for aid by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexius_I" target="_blank">Byzantine Emperor - Alexius I</a>- to Pope Urban II - the Seljuk Turks had taken Anatolia in 1070s and where menacing the existence of the Eastern Roman Empire itself. Urban II answers de call (about 20 years later). Objective one, help Byzantium - objective two - take Jerusalem back into Christian hands.
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After defeating the Byzantines at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert" target="_blank">Manzikert</a> in 1071, one of the commanders (Suleiman ibn Qutulmish) promptly declared Anatolia a Seljuk Sultanate, the Rûm Seljuk Sultante - <b>independent</b> from the Great Seljuk Empire.<br />
The word Rûm originates from the word Rome - because Anatolia was "Roman" (Byzantine) land to the Islamic people.<br />
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Malik Shah, the Sultan of the Great Seljuks was not happy about the loss of Anatolia - the Rûm Sultan Suleyman would eventually lose his life in Antioch in 1086 at the hands of Tutush I (Syrian Seljuk Governor, a vassal of Malik, effectivelly dissolving the young Rûm Sultanate.<br />
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Suleyman´s son (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilij_Arslan_I" target="_blank">Kilij Arslan I</a>- literally, Sabre Tiger I) would be taken hostage until Malik Shah´s death in 1092 (a mere 4 years before the crusade).<br />
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Upon Malik Shah´s death, Kilij promptly takes command of a Turk tribe (the <a href="http://www.baluch-rugs.com/History/People/Oghuz_Turkmen.htm" target="_blank">Oghuz</a> Yiva) and heads "home" to Nicea in Anatolia, reinstating the Rûm Sultanate.<br />
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The death of the charismatic Great Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah left the Great Empire shattered.<br />
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A melting pot of tribes and emirates where the Byzantines dropped more than a little intrigue to keep the beneficial turmoil brewing. In this landscape, the Rûm Seljuk Turks are one of the largest organized field armies (some 10,000 strong) and the first enemy to be encountered, immediately at Byzantium´s southern border.<br />
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<b>The SAGA adaptation</b><br />
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The Rûm Seljuks presented some challenges in their adaptation to SAGA.<br />
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The largest one was that the army was almost exclusively made up of horse archers, something that is almost absent in the dark ages and therefore not very present in SAGA.<br />
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I worried that it would be too powerful on the table, but I couldn´t do it using levies (the elite of the Seljuk Turks where in fact armoured horse archers - the ghulam).<br />
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The other challenge was balancing the board to give me the feeling of the army, that deployed a multitude of Turcoman tribal horse archers to harass and pepper the enemy, feigning charges and running while shooting, etc (small anecdote: only Turks who could shoot both forward AND back where allowed to don 2 white hawk feathers - this is a tradition dating back to their far eastern origins).<br />
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When the Sultan deemed that the opponent was disorganized or wrong footed, the Ghulam Askari body guards would charge, ending the battle.
What I ended up doing (and it survived one playtest already) was reduce effective range of bow on horseback to M.<br />
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Also, to represent the multipurpose nature of Ghulams I allow them to take the bow on horseback without dropping 1 in armour (other mounted penalties apply).<br />
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I then had the boon of the Arab Conquest battle board on Wargames Illustrated #300 and made a slight adaptation of Arab Stallions to allow a shoot and move tactic (called Manzikert in the board bellow).
Turned out pretty well. Some further board tweaks will bring it closer to what I want (fatigue points on enemy via shooting to represent the disruption of the enemy line by horse archers and some evasion reaction to charges - both these board mechanics are already present on pre-existing battleboards, which leaves me confident in the balance.
Haven´t tweaked the board yet, so it looks like this now:<br />
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Also, rumour has it that Wargames Illustrated #301 will have a Byzantine battle board... :)<br />
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This means I get to see how they tackle the mounted archers question and also defines what the next natural project will be...<br />
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<br />torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-48073047155186534832012-09-26T00:45:00.000+01:002012-09-26T00:45:31.940+01:00Reaper DjinnBefore I jump head first into my 1st Crusade Arab SAGA warband I did one last fantasy figure. A Reaper Djinn - just the thing to ease me into the middle-eastern theme.<br />
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Last post here was a WIP of the figure where I mentioned a number of things I was not happy with. I've gone and fixed them in tonight's painting session and am now quite happy with how it turned out.<br />
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Quite different from the way it looked last night and I am now happy with it.<br />
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<br />torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-2948206346382325582012-09-25T10:02:00.000+01:002012-09-25T10:02:30.432+01:00Work in Progress - Reaper DjinnI will change the whole smoky bit, as I´m not at all pleased with how it turned out. Will make it darker and more unnatural, using either greens or blues in the deep recesses and some OSL to make it pop. As it stands now it really isn´t doing anything for the overall effect.<br />
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Went for some fine dark lines on arms and chest to try and emulate body hair. Not quite there, but good enough for a first experience.<br />
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Rest of the miniature is pretty much done, just a coat of matt varnish away and a touch up of the base.<br />
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<br />torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-450718993081358262.post-16875149524814074912012-09-20T23:32:00.000+01:002012-09-20T23:36:01.481+01:00Retro fantasy undead mounted LordI personally need to take a brake once in a while from a project so that I don't become bored with doing it. In my particular case I normally use fantasy to take a brake from historical painting.<br />
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I had this miniature lying around (among a pile of similar miniatures) for a while after I picked it up at a local store who was having a sale on the whole range. It comes with a mounted and foot version.<br />
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I used lots of blacks and grays to work on my highlighting/shading and tried to do indirect lighting in pale green (not completely happy with how that turned out though...).<br />
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Quick footnote: basing material is from a recent <a href="http://basecrafts.com/">basecrafts.com</a> order (autumn leaves was actually a freebie in said order). Inexpensive and excellent (plus, superb service). Recommended.<br />
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Only a couple of miniatures left before I can call this project closed and move on to the Muslim side of the 1st Crusade. I´ve kept those tantalizing Perry black boxes securely closed lest I stray from the path and leave (yet another) project 99% done.torradashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942510528292549497noreply@blogger.com0