The Beach

On saturday i finished the beach elements for my DBA 15mm Pyrrhic littoral landing option. I built three beach stands with a lenght of 60cm together.The white crest was made of cotton and clear coat. After drying drybrushed with Skull White.

Here are the results:

And i did directly some pic of Pyrrhus arrival in Italy:

Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

15mm HotT Goblin army

Hi folks,

i am planning a 15mm Goblin army consisting of the following elements:

1x magician
2x behemoth
1x lurker
5x horde
2x beast

I took a look in my figure box and found the following miniatures for the current WIP army pic!

Left the toad is the magician, in the background the behemoth bases, in front the hordes. Not shown are the beasts and one behemoth - i don't have the figures at the moment. At the right the lurker element.

Do you agree with the list? Punch (behemoth) and wall elements (hordes) flavoured with a magician?

And the first four painted figs:

Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

Tutorial - How i make my rocks

In this tutorial i will show how i make my rocks and which things you will need in order to try it yourself.

Things you need:

1. bases
2. modeling mass (air aging)
3. dental technican instrument
4. water
5. a small schist rock
6. styrofoam
7. woodglue
8. Static gras
9. GW Colours Scorched Brown & Bleached Bone
10. GW Colours Codex Grey & Fortress Grey (not shown on the picture)
11. MiniNatur gras & flowers (Summer, Spring, Autumn in all sizes, Flowers are "Blumen (violett)" MINA_998-24S)
12. Vallejo Sierra Calcinado pigments
13. Some bushes
14. Sand

Step One

Glue the styrofoam in the position you want on the base and use all styrofoam garbage you have from cutting put the styrofoam piece.

Step Two

Press the modeling mass on the styrofoam and create the rock relief you know from my basemaking tutorial. I mean take the schist rock and press it in the modeling mass. After drying you have to sand the rocks and the base.

Step Three

Then paint it in your colour choice - i took Codex and Fortress Grey. Also paint the base. Next is the colour base and rock with pigments. I used Vallejo Sierra Calcinado.

Step Four

Now we make the rocks "alive". Take the woodglue and bring on some grass, flowers and bushes. Voilá we are ready.

I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions or think that something is not detailed enough please feel free to contact me.

Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

DBA 15mm Pyrrhic II/27b

I did it finally! Today in the morning i made the last figure ready for battle and here are the pics:

The army consists of:

1x3 Knights (General)
2x2 Light horse (Panonian riders)
4x4 Pikemen
2x4 Spears (Italiot hoplits)
1x4 Auxilia (Samnite Warriors)
1x Elephant
1x2 Psiloi (Cretans)

The core of the army: Pyrrhus and his brave pikemen!

Next are the Panonian riders close to the mercenary Samnite warriors...

...The loyal Italiot hoplits and the Elephant...

... and at least the hole army in terrain including baggage stand:

Hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome :)

15mm Italian allies complete

Today the Samnites and Italiots are completed!

On the left the Samnites with bigger shields and armed with pili. On the right the Italiot hoplits with round shields & spears.

Because there are no shield decals for the Samnites i had to become creative and painted those shield freehand. Only the second one on the left is a decal, a roman decals. But in my opinion it fits very good for Samnites. Do you agree?

Hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome :)

15mm Phalanx stands complete

Finally I managed to complete my pikemen stands:

Hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome :)

DBA 15mm Pyrrhic - baggage element done!

The camp stand is done finally:

Hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome :)