Tuesday, January 28, 2014

From AndrewS: 20mm Ancient Nubians (200 points)


Andrew motors right along from his win in the 'Vehicle' bonus round with these natty neu Nubians.

From Andrew:
Now I have cleared a large part of the miscellaneous projects from the painting queue it was time to get back to the Christmas Present from my boys.

These 48 figures are all Hat 1/72 Nubian Infantry, and these have been split up to make three light infantry warbands. I have had do a fair bit of conversion work this time as I have almost used all the standard spear/javelinmen in the boxes. 

Again I have kept the painting to a base colour and highlight over the primer. As I have already shown at this scale two colours can often be more effective than full 3 colour work and certainly at gaming distance there is no significant difference. 
These 3 units will form part of the 2nd Division so I have colour coded the loin protectors, in this case they are all blue and only the pattern and officers cloak to distinguish each unit 
I have also given each units shields a different set of colours, Once again I decided to use the stipple effect to represent the hides, I was quite pleased with the final results. 
A little bit of extra work on the bases give a better overall finish to the whole army, and continuing with the scheme already mentioned before.

I am just at the half way point, now with this project.

Beautiful work again Andrew! I love the hide shields, and the colour-coded loincloths are a great idea. Hm, I wonder if Ray has colour coded budgie smugglers for each day of the week? 

Actually, take that back, I really don't want to know.

These lads will give Andrew 200 points, which includes a few bonus pips for the lovely hide shields.

14 comments:

  1. You mean to tell me you don't Curt???

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    1. Nope, commando all the way baby (except for really cold days then its long johns to the fore). Hmm, tmi?

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  2. Great work again Loki and a handy extension to your lead on the points table :)

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  3. Nice. It's going to be great looking army.
    cheers

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  4. Well done Andrew, you're flying mate. This will be something to see when complete!

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  5. Really good looking stuff once again! Still can't believe how fast you are able to paint these guys

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  6. Wow - these look great - I wouldn't have thought they were 1/72nd plastics.

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  7. This army when complete will look superb as each unit looks so good on its own together they will be magnificent. Good Work Loki.

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  8. Fantastic work - I'm amazed at the combination of quantity and quality you're producing here

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  9. Great looking mini's again

    Ian

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Thanks for your comment! As long as you're not a spam droid I'll have it up on the blog soon. :)