From Mike W - 28mm Ancient Britons (60 Points, 1 Squirrel Point)

This post is a journey back in time to AD 43 / AD 56 and all that ancient malarkey! The figures are Warlord Games Ancient British, which have been kicking around my loft for a good few years now.

Completed Ancient Briton Warband

You will see in another post what my plans were for some of these figures but many of these remaining figures could only really be used as Ancient Britons, due to their distinctive armour. I added in some additional figures to make up their numbers to a viable warband.

The guys in armour

My aim was to put together a small warband that could be used in an SPQR game to oppose a Roman force that I previous painted a couple of years ago (I believe!).

These little guys are very dynamically posed, with a 'ball & socket' joint at the waist to allow for a multitude of different positions. I took the opportunity to take advantage of that and produced quite a lively warband.

And the unarmoured guys

As with most figures - I gave them a white undercoat (using Halfords Acrylic Paint Spray) this dried quickly and my first stop was to paint in the flesh.

Next up was a variety of muted greens & brown colours for their clothes before adding in appropriate wood, leather & metalwork. To give them a British feel, I then added chequered and stripe effects to the clothes and blue 'woad' paint to some of the exposed flesh.

My attempt at adding 'woad' tattoos / war paint to the guys with a lot of exposed flesh

Once dry I used a variety of suitable coloured inks to add shading, I then highlighted with base colours again - where appropriate.

Shields were completed with the pre-printed sticky back sheets supplied with the kit, this was the fiddliest part of the project as each shield pattern has to be cut out using scissors. That said they do look pretty effective.

An old and tattered sheet of Warlord Games Shield designs - on sticky backed paper.

Each figure was then coated with Matt varnish, with an extra coat applied over the shield designs to help them stay in place before being based in my usual manner.

I claim 1 x Squirrel Point for Ancient British

POINTS

12 x 28mm Foot Figures  = 60 Points

Nice work on these Britons Mike they look ready to challenge the might of SPQR.  I like the woad tattoos but you've positioned the figures so that the shield designs are either no visible or at a very oblique angle so we can't get a look at them.  Still I salute you must having the patience to deal with stick on shield patterns as this is well beyond my skill set.

Mike's got a couple more posts in the READY queue but I think that I'll leave those for Tamsin or another minion so as to share the goodies with more  minions than just me.

IanS: 15mm Ancients and Napoleonics (412 Points)

 Dear All

Due to a family illness I have not posted for a couple of weeks and although I have painted a few figures I had not based any.  So this week I have been frantically basing figures.

First up Ancients, this post is just Ancient British.  The wonders of this challenge is that every time I go to my spares/eBay box I find more figures to paint.  So last weeks dip into the box for a spare wheel for a chariot uncovered two bags of Celts I had won on eBay.  This means that I have enough for another clan, 5 warbands, 2 light infantry and a light cavalry unit.

So first Up are 4 warbands, I recognise some of the figures as being Donnington have no idea on the rest.

Here we have 2 light infantry units again a mixture of manufacturers mostly unknown.

The mounted arm for this army, a unit of light cavalry and a chariot unit.  

So only have 4 warband, a slinger, Light Cavalry and General and then the army will be finished, may be for this Friday as there is an ancient game at the club.

Total Army will be 30 warband, 12 Light infantry, 6 Light Cavalry, 3 Chariot units and 3 generals.  The last unit to be done for this army is a suggestion of a band, the singing slingers which are being converted as we speak.

So points 

Warband 48 x 15mm figures = 96pts

Light Infantry 16 x 15mm figures = 32pts

Light Cavalry  8 x 15mm figures = 32pts

Chariots 8 x 15mm figures plus 4 chariots (4pts each) = 32pts

Total I would like to claim - 192pts

In addition I would like to claim a Squirrel pt for the warband. 

Napoleonic

In the continuation of finding units that are not French to use the Epic Waterloo figures acquired through Wargames Illustrated we have a Westphalian Cuirassier Brigade consisting of two Cuirassier regiments, and two gun horse artillery battery.  One of my many pet hates is white uniforms i just cannot get it right, so when the option of what uniform to use for the 1st regiment, my son said white, oh happy days.

Now i did say on my last post that i would put some comparison shots of these figures against other makes.  I only have two makes of Napoleonic cavalry, Lancashire Games and Minifigs.  Left is Minifigs centre Epic and right Lancashire games .

As you can see there is not a lot of difference between them.  The big difference is cost with metal figures ranging from 80 -100p these come in circa 22p.  

Next up more Wurttembergers, two line battalions and a brigadier figures are from Warrior Miniatures

 

Points

Westphalian Cu - 24 x 15mm Figures = 96pts

Westphalian Art - 8 x 15mm figures and two guns = 24pts

Wurttemberg Inf - 48 x 15mm figures = 96pts

Wurttemberg Brigadier - 1 x 15mm figure = 4pts

Total to be claimed - 220pts

Plus Two Squirrel points 1 for Westphalian and the other for the Wurttembergers

So for this post

Ancients  - 192 

Napoleonic - 220

Total - 412pts

Squirrel - 3

A couple of questions curt 

1. For squirrel pts can I get one for 24 Wurttemberg line infantry and another for 24 Wurttemberg light infantry?

2. Do all figures have to be based to collect pts?

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Very fine work Ian and quite the points bomb as well. Well done!

As to your questions: 

Squirrel Points. Stuart is the SquirrelFinder General so I defer to his ruling, BUT as I understand it, you would get one point for your Wurttembergers entire, not for each troop type within the nationality. The Squirrel Points are 'awarded' for each entirely unique theme/period/force. I think that if you did French Napoleonics you could claim a Squirrel for that as they themeatically different from the Wurttembergers. Again, I defer to Stuart to adjudicate.

Unbased Figures. Figures can still be scored if they are unbased, but should have 20% deducted from their total. So a 28mm figure will be scored as 4 points instead of 5.

- Curt