| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 4:56 a.m. PST |
Apart from two command stands and baggage my Armies of Islam are finished. 288 cavalry and 234 infantry. I've lined 'em up, called the roll, and taken their photos for posterity. You can see them all here: olicanalad.blogspot.com I've never had this much cavalry in a single army before. I might need another extension to my table! |
| de Ligne | 09 Mar 2009 5:30 a.m. PST |
There is only one word to describe that army – MAGNIFICENT!
Out of curiosity, I see the heavy cavalry units are 18 figures strong – is that two bases of 5 each and 2 of 4?
Its so impressive because of the painting, of course, but more so because the basing is consistantly good throughout and ties the whole lot together.
Well done. |
| TodCreasey | 09 Mar 2009 5:43 a.m. PST |
My fave pre gunpowder period – thanks for sharing. |
| Alxbates | 09 Mar 2009 5:44 a.m. PST |
Wow! That is an impressive horde there! As de Ligne said, the painting, cavalry, and bases all together look extremely impressive. Beautiful! I also like the banners. Are they handmade or printed out from somewhere? -Alex |
| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 5:47 a.m. PST |
de Ligne, Thanks. Yes, two of 5 and two of four, stands 60mm x 90mm. It gave me the look I was after – massed cavalry in two ranks without looking like 'Napoleonic' nicely spaced lines. I think it has the look of charging heavy cavalry the moment before impact. |
| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 5:51 a.m. PST |
Alxbates, The banners are a mix of made up and scanned LBMS transfers. The latter are lovely but they don't make enough of them and I wanted all of my banners to look the same, 'quality wise'. I intend to frame the LBM Studios banner sheets for my wall – they are very lovely and well worth the £10.00 GBP each price tag. |
| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 5:53 a.m. PST |
Whoops, should read – …scanned then hand painted (in enamels) LBMS transfers…. |
| Greylegion | 09 Mar 2009 6:35 a.m. PST |
Absolutely beautiful! Every bit of it, bases and all. |
| WarWizard | 09 Mar 2009 7:32 a.m. PST |
Stunning. This army looks like it belongs in a wargamming musuem. Excllent work!! |
| tabletopreview dot com | 09 Mar 2009 8:08 a.m. PST |
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| nycjadie | 09 Mar 2009 8:30 a.m. PST |
One of the most stunning armies I've seen. I really like the Bedouins. Who makes those? Perry? |
| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 9:33 a.m. PST |
Hi nycjadie, Thanks. Yes, Perry. They don't come with shields though, these were added (using cut down white metal lances drilled into the arm for the bosses) using the odd spare shield from command packs – a lot of command packs. James. |
| nycjadie | 09 Mar 2009 10:17 a.m. PST |
You have a lot more patience for conversions than I do! It looks like a really fun army to paint. You've done a stunning job. I have 30 or so packs of samurai to paint now. It's much more fun to consider painting bedouin clothing than samurai armor. |
| olicana | 09 Mar 2009 10:26 a.m. PST |
…agreed. I love the samurai period but I could not do it for myself; painting it commercially is bad enough. I like the Perry figures a lot, but if you don't paint the Perry stuff very well indeed they just look like black lumps (awful to paint). Good luck. |
| Cyrus the Great | 09 Mar 2009 11:10 a.m. PST |
Really inspirational. A nice, clean, strong painting style. A magnificent table presence. |
Patrick Sexton  | 09 Mar 2009 1:31 p.m. PST |
Outstanding work. Painting, basing and everything else. THAT'S an army. |
| Two Ducks Pond | 09 Mar 2009 5:41 p.m. PST |
Lovely work and thanks for sharing your army to us. Helen |
| DalyDR | 09 Mar 2009 8:42 p.m. PST |
Great looking stuff. And so much of it too! Dave |
| bloodeagle | 09 Mar 2009 8:47 p.m. PST |
Truely impressive.You have much more patience then I have.
Not to mention skill |
| CeruLucifus | 10 Mar 2009 11:52 a.m. PST |
Great looking army! Thanks for posting. |
| valleyboy | 10 Mar 2009 1:20 p.m. PST |
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gets medieval.
