IV/60 Catalan Company

1300 AD - 1542 AD

DBA 2.2

15mm Essex Miniatures
Army Composition: 1 x (Gen) 3Kn, 1 x 2Lh, 6 x 4Ax, 2 x 2Ps, 2 x 4Ax or 2Lh

I/21b Kassite and Later Babylonian

1595 BC - 747 BC

DBA 2.2

15mm Essex Miniatures

Army Composition: 1 x (Gen) HCh, 1 x HCh, 2 x LCh, 1 x 3Cv, 5 x 3Ax, 2 x 2Ps

Back to reality :o) painting 15's again.....anyway...  

This Later Babylonian Army is a tough one to command and control, the main strength of this Army are the Chariots (HCh - fight as Knights and LCh as Cavalry) the other (elements) troops, the Auxiliary, their main purpose/function is to really try and hold :o) the center if possible while the chariots attack opponents flanks or take a risk by placing the chariots in the center and charge!....

28mm Napoleonic Saxons Part 3

I managed to finished off the Saxon Prinz Clement's Regiment today. No dipping/washes on these figures, straight brush on color tones and some dry brushing here and there as I do with my 15mm ancients...anyway... I'm still waiting for my GMB flags to arrive, used a temp-online printed Prinz Clement's flag to see what the regiment would look like. The figures are on 30mm x 40mm this time as a test, haven't really decided which base sizes to use for my 28mm - 30mm Saxon 1810-13 Napoleonic figures :o)

1st figure on the left I used Army Painter strong tone shade/dip 

2nd figure used ink wash, 3rd figure no dipping/washes

28mm Napoleonic Saxons Part 2

28mm Elite Miniatures: Saxons 1810-13

During the weekend I started working on Prinz Anton Regiment. This time round,  I primed the Elite miniatures light gray and used my usual "15mm ancients" style painting approach on the 28mm Saxons - no quick shade dipping method. My Prinz Anton figures look "cleaner" and a little better in appearance, instead of the heavy muddy quick shade campaign look I used on the Konig Regiment figures.....

I painted and dry brush brown from the base of the figure up and over the shoes/to the knees of the figures. I'm not to sure to use the AP strong tone quick shade over the figures again?....any thoughts?......more updates later, thanks Guys!

28mm Napoleonic Saxons

Hi Guys,

something different for a change purchased 28mm or should it be 30mm? Elite Miniatures Napoleonic 1810-15 Saxon Infantry Battalion pack.

32 figures   ( 1 x mounted officer, 2 x officers, 1 x nco, 1 x drummer, 1 x standard bearer, 26 musketeers )

The figures are great, so I ordered more ;o) Battalion bags and a few sheets of GMB Design flags....

Nice figures to work with and they do paint up well and rather quickly. Painted this battalion as the König Regiment 1810-12 with Scarlet facings, 1813 the facing colors changed to red... umm..I think I over did it using Army Painter Quick Shade - Strong tone on the infantry.... oh well.. ;o)

I set up my Saxon's on 60mm x 40mm bases as a test to see how they would look. 32 figs to represent one battalion where as if I mount the figures as 2 x 16 figure battalions (regiment) on 30mm x 40mm bases may be the way to go considering the costs involved to buy Elite Miniatures if one is to put a brigade or even one 1812 Saxon Division together...anyway something for me to think about...  :o)