Saturday, December 13, 2014

III/37b Abbasid Arab

747 AD - 945 AD

DBA 2.2

Army Composition: 1 x (Gen) 3Cv, 3 x 3Cv, 3 x 6Bw, 2 x 6Bw or (1 x 4Bw or 2Ps + 1 x 4Sp) 1 x 2Lh 1 x 3Wb or 3Cv, 1 x 4Ax or 2Lh

Historical Enemies: Nobades, Blemmye or Beja, Abyssinian and Horn of Africa, Christian Nubian, Tibetan, Khazar, Thematic Byzantine, Khurasanian, Bagratid Armenian, Dynastic Bedouin and Dailami Dynasties.

The Abbasid Caliphate, was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Abbasid dynasty descended from Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. Read more Abbasid Caliphate History.....


Abbasid Caliphate to their greatest territorial expansionism 632 AD - 850 AD



This is my 100th posting :o)
A cute army to paint with a lot of "fire power/missile troops" 6 figure Bowmen bases, their job is to hold the center battle line of the army and prey their Ghulam's Cavalry (3Cv) and Light horse (2Lh) flank their opponents! The 6Bw elements should be mounted on one 40mm x 40mm bases but went for single bases instead, shields hand painted by me as usual, tried to use different light pascal colours /stripes for the infantry which look fine.... The usual flocking of the bases by me, but a different approach... I primed the Buff Fine Ballast with Ceramcoat "Flesh" acrylic colour paint put the stands aside to completely dry, the oil heater going on in the house helped dry the bases quickly...anyway... I dry brush over the flesh colour with Ivory acrylic paint and added the grass turfs ... got an interesting result, the bases look like or show "sunset or sunrise" effect? :o) what do you think guys?

Once again some photos came out a little blurry, sorry about that, perhaps I should use my good eye instead of my patched eye during photo shoots...  :o)















Amir - General (3Cv)

Ghulams (3Cv)


Abid Spearmen (4Sp)

Mercenaries (4Ax)

Abid Bowmen (4Bw)

Abid Fanatics (3Wb)

Abid Skirmishers (2Ps)




Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Xyston Mounted Generals

On my work bench...I manage to fit in during breaks from other projects paint up these great looking Xyston Persian Mounted General packs ANC20063 I added ANC20068 - Persian Satrapal Guard figures to the stands as Escorts with the mounted Generals. These stands will be part of DBA and Basic Impetves Persian Armies I'm working on.....  :o)

(My apologies for some of the pictures which came out a little blurry)


Persian's










Hellenistic

Macedonian Mounted Generals ANC20109
These guys (single generals) are for my Xyston - Successors and Later Macedonians DBA & Basic Impetves Armies currently working on....









Friday, November 21, 2014

Xyston Hellenistic Cavalry

It's no secret that Xyston miniatures are the best to have in one's miniature army for ancient wargaming, great sculpts with a lot detail, easy to paint but a pain in the back side to drill holes through the hands for wire Pikes, Spears and Javelins and some what cumbersome (bulky with some figures) to fit/mount the figures on their bases......anyway...To show you how bored I was after having a few breaks from painting miniatures, I thought I share with these previous painting projects/pictures from the past.....

click on links/images below to view more of my "cavalry blocks" photos ;o) ..... Charge!