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corfe
25th Oct 2017 04:50:26
  • After running shy of Ancients for about twenty years, I decided to get back into DBA with pocket-sized armies. I'm no stranger to painting 6mm (WW2, mostly), but it's been a long time since I tried anything other than tanks, and I found that my eyes are damn near unequal to the task. I went for 60mm by 30mm bases with approx 36 figures to the base, in three ranks (for solid infantry) - I'm building up forces for a Peloponnesian War campaign, and I'm already tired of painting hoplite shields) with a few stragglers to the rear to suggest a bit of raggedness to the phalanx. I would post pics, but I have no idea how!  
  • Anyway, if any other of you good people have any ideas or inspiration about painting Baccus hoplite elements. I would be very grateful to hear your input. I'm working on a 3" by 3" battlefield for this size of element. I will post pics (as soon as I figure out how.)

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rsjahn
25th Oct 2017 05:12:39

I have done some late hoplites for the macedon/greek-persian-war

https://www.baccus6mm.com/forum/PaintingandModelling/Gallery/496-1-anancientpileoflead/

The symbols on the Hoplon-shields are done with baccus transfers - to paint them myself would have driven me crazy...

To post pics: load them to a free server (I use www.abload.de, but that is a site in german), there you usually get various links to your pictures. Use something like 'direct link', and that you can put in here (there is a small picture-symbol on top of the edit field).


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dourpuritan
26th Oct 2017 11:59:07

Wow! some amazing pictures there. I am awaiting a Roman Polybian army to prepare for my TtS Hellenistic project.


A little goes a long way

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2nd Nov 2017 05:23:11

rsjahn, you put me to shame - those figures are superb


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2nd Nov 2017 05:28:43

 

Well, here are some of my Greeks - hope this works.


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corfe
2nd Nov 2017 05:29:54

Apparently not. Bugger.


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17th Nov 2017 02:22:28

Those figures are indeed amazing - inspirational stuff! As soon as I figure out how to post a picture, I'll put up a few of my own. I've had three battles so far between Greeks and Early Achaemenid Persians, and while there was quite a rugged battle in two of the three encounters, the end result was always the same - a Persian Rout. I am thinking of modifying the rules a little to give elite troops such as the Immortals (and the Spartan homoioi (Am I right with that - it's been a while?) -  a +1 advantage in CC.) Be interesting if any of you guys thought of doing the same...


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17th Nov 2017 02:34:15


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17th Nov 2017 02:34:51

Peter, you really should make it easier to post images on this forum...


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17th Nov 2017 02:35:37

http://<a href="https://imgur.com/N44RYWt"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/N44RYWt.jpg" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>


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