Marcus' Many Historicals

[lord marcus]

Hi everybody!

So, I have my Undead project log up an running in "the Dead shall walk" (which should be getting a large amount of updates over the next few weeks, but I digress.)

I also have historical projects, which I have decided to showcase and follow here. Currently I have three projects:

Persian wars - Successor/greek army and A Persian army
Rome and her enemies - generally cesarean romans, but i have a smattering of earlier and later. I also have some lybians, nubians, and celts made up. not really an army as it where, but the romans are playable
18th century - early - using War of the Spanish Succession plastics

All of these are imagi-nations, and all are based for Warlord games series of rules-sets, specifically Hail Ceaser and Black Powder.

As an example of my progress, some Persian spearmen (more pics to come, when I get home from University.)

 

[Undying Scourge]

Nicely done!

 

[lord marcus]

Update!

Bowmen this time:

 

[lord marcus]

Bamf, more spearmen:

 

[Duke Danse Macabre]

They're looking good mate, don't think I could ever get used to the bases having so many troops on though, love the feel of removing models and dwindling units fighting to the death far too much for that.

 

[lord marcus]

Update! Division minimum completed:

And I just realized the epic fail on the banner bearer's buttspike. That will be fixed post haste.

 

[Mad 'At]

Nice work on those minis. It is good to see something different from all the fantasy and sci-fi you normal get in our hobby.

I like the colour scheme you've went with. A strong desert feel to it and the red complements it very well. The little command group look very well painted to, their vests and skin has some nice highlights. Would be nice to see those kind of highlights on the rest but I understand that you want to get things done. Must ask though, what are the red and purple things around the edges of their vests?

Also, buttspike erv:

 

[lord marcus]

Nice work on those minis. It is good to see something different from all the fantasy and sci-fi you normal get in our hobby.

I like the colour scheme you've went with. A strong desert feel to it and the red complements it very well. The little command group look very well painted to, their vests and skin has some nice highlights. Would be nice to see those kind of highlights on the rest but I understand that you want to get things done. Must ask though, what are the red and purple things around the edges of their vests?

Also, buttspike erv:

The buttspike was noted as soon as I posted the pictures.

You are correct on the highlights. too many troops to get done and not enough time, but command elements get special treatment.

The Red and purple danglies are Pteruges, or the perisan equivalent of them. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteruges

 

[Mad 'At]

Ohhh, nice attention to details with the pteruges. Any special reason for the colour choice on them? If not, I think purple might be a bad choice as it is hard to get good together with red. Green might serve you better, or turquoise.

 

[lord marcus]

royal purple. them being officers of the kings army. red was just a supporting color.

This army, as all my historical armies are, in historical mini gaming parlance...Imagi-nations.

I.e. they are my specific creations, rather than a view on a historical state, such as Achaemenid persia

 

[mousekiller]

These are coming out very nicely, looking forward to the update.

 

[lord marcus]

Update!

and now for something....slightly different:

The beginnings of the first phalanx

the might of Cesarian rome:

and some roughed out numidian horsemen, 2 per 40mm base

 

[lord marcus]

I GIVE YOU GREEKS!

 

[lord marcus]

16 out of the first 40 pikemen are completed. I'm doing the box in halves, so technically it's 16/20

 

[lord marcus]

and we have 20! Thoughts?

 

[lord marcus]

Hoplites! :tongue:

More progress, half a unit of bog standard hoplites done, and 4 unarmored done.