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01/09/2016 at 21:42 #47850
Mike Headden
ParticipantIn an effort to push myself into restarting my 6mm Sumerian armies and enemies project I thought I’d post some pictures of progress so far.
I’m using a mix of manufacturers figures, mainly Rapier and Baccus with some Perfect Six stuff as well.
Scenery is a mix of scratch built, Leven (lots of their stuff), Hovels and Baggage Train.
I did some unit test pieces a while back – all Sumerian, though I intend to do figures to represent Amorites, Gutians, Old Kingdom Egyptians and Melukkans eventually. Got sidetracked into other things in Real Life(tm) and have lost momentum.
Scratch built city
GISH.GIGIR chariots, or perhaps more properly donkey carts!
An attempt at a Sumerian warship
Lots more pictures here for those interested.
My Photobucket album for the project – King of KishThere are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data
01/09/2016 at 21:53 #47852Mike
Keymaster01/09/2016 at 23:35 #47855General Slade
ParticipantTwo lots of Sumerian Battlecarts in a week! The Wargames Website is finally taking off.! Love them donkey carts.
Mike I love your stuff. The city looks really cool. You seem a bit apologetic about your warship but I think it looks great. What is the technique for the water effect?
02/09/2016 at 00:18 #47857Mike Headden
ParticipantThanks, folks, for the kind comments.
The modular approach to the city is so I can do larger or smaller settlements. The four corner modules can be combined to create a large fort, for example.
I already have one more centre section so just need a couple of wall sections to expand the thing. At the moment swapping the centre module makes it a different city.
There are various “under construction” pics in the Photobucket folder showing how the wall sections in particular were created.
Next up for city building is a harbour area, or possibly a trade outpost.
As to the ship, I like it but I’m not sure it’s very Sumerian! At least the crew are paddling, not rowing like the crew of the flagship I’ve made. There are pictures of the flagship and some reed transports on the Photobucket site too.
The water effect is just flexible filler, shaped with a steel sculpting tool, painted dark blue, heavily drybrushed with a lighter blue, lightly drybrushed with turquoise and finally the wave crests picked out in white, matt varnish for the whole thing then a coat of gloss varnish for copper helmets, bronze spear points and the water. Takes longer to describe than the water did to paint.
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02/09/2016 at 00:34 #47859Victoria Dickson
Participant02/09/2016 at 01:32 #47861kyoteblue
ParticipantVery cool.
02/09/2016 at 04:32 #47870McKinstry
ParticipantNice! As a 6mm junky I’d never really looked at anything older than Alexander but these are so interesting, I’m having a rethink.
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02/09/2016 at 08:47 #47882Shaun Travers
ParticipantThat city is very cool. I love it!
03/09/2016 at 08:41 #47913General Slade
ParticipantThe water effect is just flexible filler, shaped with a steel sculpting tool, painted dark blue, heavily drybrushed with a lighter blue, lightly drybrushed with turquoise and finally the wave crests picked out in white, matt varnish for the whole thing then a coat of gloss varnish for copper helmets, bronze spear points and the water. Takes longer to describe than the water did to paint.
Thanks Mike,
It looks really good. It gives the water a really nice glassy effect.
03/09/2016 at 13:08 #47931Nic Wright
ParticipantThat is some superb stuff. Keep it up!
http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/
03/09/2016 at 18:20 #47951malc johnston
ParticipantI could never paint them, you did a good job though, well done
Willyoupleasehelpmefixmykeyboard?Thespacebarisbroken!
27/09/2016 at 21:20 #49422Mike Headden
ParticipantWell, slow progress to be sure but completed a little scenic item just to keep the project moving.
It’s a camp for the (yet to be painted) Amorites (MAR.TU or Ammurru).
A Perfect Six child herds Perfect Six sheep with the aid of an Onslaught Miniatures mercenary warhound, watched by a Baccus Amazon archer (minus her bow) in front of scratch built tents and a pair of storage jars made from glow in the dark fishing lures!
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27/09/2016 at 21:30 #49423Mike
Keymaster27/09/2016 at 21:53 #49425Victoria Dickson
ParticipantLooks really good.
26/10/2016 at 00:32 #51156Alex Bates
ParticipantThat city is great. I haven’t done any 6mm stuff since Inferno – but this all looks excellent.
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26/10/2016 at 18:48 #51208Mike Headden
ParticipantThanks Alex!
A shot of one of my beta test games (with all of the empty bases with nothing but dice on them carefully out of sight still!) to show I am still doing things with it 🙂
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26/10/2016 at 20:13 #51215kyoteblue
ParticipantLooks great !!
01/02/2022 at 16:47 #167916Mike
Keymaster01/02/2022 at 22:55 #167929Mike Headden
ParticipantHa, just posted a couple of pics of the city on your own 10mm town post.
I moved to Imageshack from Photobucket, hence the dead links.
The pictures of the city are at https://imageshack.com/a/Ao3X/1 now.
Pictures of the non-military stuff are here https://imageshack.com/a/g18n7/1
Naval stuff is here https://imageshack.com/a/E18n7/1
And, finally, the military stuff is here https://imageshack.com/a/ZwSX/1
There’s other wargames stuff in other folders too.
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02/02/2022 at 22:05 #1679636mmwargaming
ParticipantWhere are the boats and crew from?
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02/02/2022 at 22:51 #167967Mike Headden
ParticipantThe reed transports are Museum Miniatures 15mm boats with crewman, mast and sail added.
https://www.museumminiatures.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/310/s/reed-boats/category/129/
The flagship and the three other warships are Grumpy Miniatures 6mm boats. They don’t seem to be available anywhere. The flagship is a cossack chaika the others war canoes (I think). Masts and sails, slinger, flagship stern post (mini was damaged) and bow spearmen’s spears all added.
Ancient & Modern Army Supplies have a reed boat in their 15mm Nabataean range that I plan to use as a larger transport (eventually!!).
https://shop.ancient-modern.co.uk/nae01-reed-boat-441-p.asp
https://shop.ancient-modern.co.uk/
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03/02/2022 at 07:33 #167974Geof Downton
ParticipantThanks for pointing me at the A&M boats, they’ll suit my Iron Age port very well!
Your little city is fantastic.
I was particularly pleased to see Humbaba, I’ll have ensure Leviathan makes an appearance in my port.
One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:1103/02/2022 at 11:57 #167990Mike Headden
ParticipantThanks Geof, glad to help and Humbaba is definitely my favourite of the figures I’ve done. He started life as Microworld Games’ Great Dingonek.
https://www.microworldgames.com/collections/6mm-fantasy/products/great-dingonek
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03/02/2022 at 14:21 #167991Geof Downton
ParticipantI’m always happy to see a bit of mythology in ancient armies – I think the first example I came across, 40 odd years ago, was a Viking army with some of the berserkers represented by Ral Partha mid-transformation werewolves. It was in a competition against a Welsh army with shields in various rugby club colours…
One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:1103/02/2022 at 19:27 #1680116mmwargaming
ParticipantThanks, I didn’t think to look at 15mm range for boats
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