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Another commission for a small (but perfectly formed) tabletop-quality army for De Bellis Antiquitatis, and based on Philip II*'s army



This is the first base I've finished: a cavalry base accompanied by the general (Philip II himself).

R.

*Father of Alexander the Great, in case you're wondering.

Finished the second base of cavalry between Iron Hands:



R.


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And this is the army's camp:



Apparently this is important in some games of DBA.

R.

They look nice, I know nothing about 15mm historical but still nice models. Those beards look so small to paint.

The only criticism I would add is that you can see a hard edge of what I assume is base on some of the cavalry. Couldn't you have smoothed that into the big base with a little putty or something? Would look a lot better.

I like them, great quality on those 15mm. Its rare to see non FoW 15mm minis at a place like this

I could smooth the bases in but this is one of those armies that is intended to be viewed as a whole rather than base by base. In practice, across all those bases, that would be another hour or two's work that, frankly, I'm not being paid for.

If this army were being painted at a higher quality than tabletop, I'd smoother bases in a bit.

I've got the rest of the army being painted by one of my freelancers, so I'll post up the peltasts, psiloi and hoplites when I've got them back.

R.

Got the remaining units back from new Freelancer, Simon. He had a bit of trouble getting hold of the Leather Brown primer I recommended, hence the slight colour difference on these, but otherwise I think they're a good first project.

Hoplites


Peltasts


Psiloi


R.

Finally got hold of replacements for the decals I lost and finished the Hoplites:



A note on the decals, which are from Little Big Men Studios (be careful searching for "Little Big Men" on Google!):  these aren't your usual decals.  These come with a plastic film on top.  You cut out the decal to precisely the shape that you want, plastic film and all.  You then peel off the film (I had to use sticky tape to get the film off, as it's very fiddly) and press the (sticky) face of the decal to the relevant surface.  Finally, dab water or (in my case) MicroSol to the paper back of the decal and, after a couple of seconds, the paper simply slides off leaving your decal fixed to the surface.

The fix is surprisingly secure and the decals adhered to the slightly curved surface of the shields without any trouble at all.

R.