Second Unarmoured Early Byzantine Unit Close Ups of Bases 21/04/2021

I really surprised myself by managing to get up very early this morning and taking the rest of the close ups after only managing the first two bases yesterday- the lure of painting my new Boukellaroi/Bucellarri was too strong to resist yesterday! This is going to give me time to keep working away at the beautifully sculpted Boukellaroi/Bucellarri later today.

If you look closely at some of the images you will notice that there has been some sort of reaction between the Humbrol Gloss Spray and the Windsor and Newton Matt Pro Spray. I usually use Humbrol brush on Enamel Gloss as it is easy to control thus I'm wondering if this might have been down to possible "pooling" of the gloss with the spray? If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear from you as I really want to avoid a repeat of the problem. You can either leave a message for me by leaving a comment of contact me through the email facility on the blog.

There is also a brief description of how I wanted the models to mesh with one another above some of the images.

First Base:







Second Base:
The moment in a melee where the highest ranking officer in the unit has been forced into the unenviable position of having to take his place in the front rank in order to hold the unit together. Perhaps the standard bearer is gesturing to a possible flank attack?







Third Base:
Here the musician blasts out a specific note to indicate to the officer placed in the back rank (see below) to order the archers to loose.







Next three bases to come ASAP!

What is your thinking behind the basing? 3 stand obviously equal one Impetus unit. Why not base on 12cm stands?

Gaius Cassius wrote:What is your thinking behind the basing? 3 stand obviously equal one Impetus unit. Why not base on 12cm stands?

Basically i got extremely sick of having to rebase units to suit various rules systems so I devised a basing method that would be good for Impetus (3 x 40mmwide x 60mm deep stands = 120mm) Too the Strongest, Swordpoint, Hail Caesar and WAB etc.

It was more out of necessity as our club uses a wide range of rules systems- it just makes more sense to maximise ones options

That does make sense. Thanks!

Gaius Cassius wrote:That does make sense. Thanks!

No problem, glad to help