DBA 15mm Thracians tiny update

A tiny update. Now 13 miniatures are painted, 27 to go.

You see 1x3 Auxilia and another figure which will be used as battlestandardbearer.

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

DBA 15mm Thracians current status

My short term project at the moment is 15mm DBA Thracian army. Its a nice army which consists of: 1x3 Cav (Gen), 6x3 Aux, 2x2 Ps, 3x2 Lh or 3 Ax. With this army you need a lot of terrain i guess therewith the Auxilia can resist against hard hitters (Bd, Elli etc.). Six Aux are enough so i will take the 3 Lh as a Getai ally. The Lh will give my the opportunity to charge everywhere on table/ where i can find enemies weakest point or allure enemies cavalry into terrain/away. Miniatures will come from Xyston who have the best Thracian models in my opinion. I will use them on the DBA 15mm tournament in Ulm at march the 26th so i have to hurry a little bit.

The current status of the project:

1x3 Aux, 1x2 Ps painted, part painted are 1x2 Lh, 1x3 Aux and 1x2 Lh who cannot be seen on the photo. The first picture shows an overview.

The second shows an auxilia closeup

Spears will be added when all elements are done.

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

Design change & The new project categories

On the one hand i have my short projects which i plan to complete this year ( see the post below) but on the other hand i have some goals which will need more time then finishing them in a year. These are my longterm projects.
I have several of these:

• Warhammer Fantasy High Elf army 2500 Points
• Fields of Glory 15mm Alexandrian Macedonian 600 Points
• DBA 25mm ALL OPTION armies Early Germans II/47, Later Carthaginian II/32, Scythians I/43
• Upgrade my 25mm DBA Seleucid army to FOG 600 army

I will work on these projects whenever i find some minutes, but the short projects will have priority!

Anyway, i changed the layout. In my opinion it looks better now. What do you think?

I also added some new categories:

"Completed projects". This category links you directly to my ready made armies.
"Long term projects". Take a look up
"Short term projects" This category shows my goals for current year.

Hope you like it. Feel free to add comments & critics.

A new year..

Late but not too late (...as i hope..) i start my wargame year 2011. Because of making my final exam at the university i will not have as much time as i wished to have for my miniatures. So what are my wargame plans/ short term projects for 2011:

- finishing my DBA Ancient Thracian army
- making some terrain for them
- rebasing some older painted elements
- painting some more elements for my DBA 28mm Seleucids .. in order to use them for FOG/DBMM in the future?... maybe
- buying no new figs!!!

I wish you, dear readers, a happy new year 2011.

We will see which tabletop goals i will reach :)

DBMM 15mm in the future?

Yesterday on the "Advents DBA 2010" at Amstetten we talked about DBMM. I don't know how or why but i am a little bit keen on having a DBMM army. It was always a dream of my and i checked my tin mountain today. For a 15mm 100 AP DBMM Later Carthaginian Army i have most figs! The missing figs would be a nice christmas present for me :) ! Maybe i will make a DBMM 100 AP army in the future...

So here is the masterplan:

CinC Reg Cv (O)
2x Numidian Light Horse Lh Irr (o)
4x Libyan Spearmen Reg Sp (o)
2x Psiloi Irr Ps (s)
1x Elephant Irr (o)
4x Spanish Mercenary Foot Reg Ax (s)
3x Gallic Foot Irr Wb (o)
1x Gallic Cavalry Irr Cv (o)
1x Gallic Cavalry Irr Cv (i)

As miniatures i will use a mix of 15mm Corvus Belli and Xyston Minitures.

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

28mm Perry Crusaders

I rebased a knight element of my IV/19 Crusader army yesterday from my old to my new basing scheme. Take first a look to the old picture and compare it then with the new one. In my opinion the new scheme is more realistic. Hope you agree.

 

 

In Addition on the left of the second picture you can see an element of 1x3 Crossbows. I will use them as Venetian mercenary crossbows who supported the crusaders in the holy land against money and trade contracts. Pisean and Genoese Crossbows will be added in the future. Just as that i will add some shields to the crossbows as an forerunner of the pavise shields.On the shild i will try to paint the lion of Venice, Genoase red cross and the Pisean white cross. Hope you like it.

The three knights and the right crossbowmen are painted in my old style. the two crossbows on the left are painted in my new style.

Models by Perry Miniatures.

Comments, hints and critics are welcome :)

On the Workbench

Today i had the first time the chance to paint since three or four days. I painted some 15mm Thracians, 28 mm Greek skirmishers and rebased some older Numidian light horse which still need some spears, while the Greeks need some shields.

Sorry the picture is a little bit fuzzy but i hope you can realise what is shown. I am too tired now to make a new one. The picture shows the current status of these bases. If they are painted i will have 15mm Thracian Auxilia and Psiloi base, a 28mm Light Horse, a 28mm Aux (both miniatures in the middle) and a 28mm Psiloi(on the left).

The Thracians are from Xyston, Greeks by Wargames Foundry and the Numidians are from Gripping Beast.

 

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