Lets take a look at a unit of Aquilonian footsloggers. These fellows are the rank and file rather than named levies such as the Bossonian archers and Gunderland pikemen.
Figures by Garrison. I may have to get another couple of units of these. I love the helm with aventail, straight from illustrations in the comics.
Love the shields, and that frame from the comic really takes me back.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I never had the comics as a lad (deemed 'not suitable') but I am collecting the bound versions now....they are great!
DeleteYes. I was pretty much allowed to read what I liked as a lad, but I can understand some reticence with regard to the Conan comics...so perhaps not a bad decision. Mind you, I'm pretty sure that GW business practices in terms of enticing kids out of their pocket money are more obscene than anything that was ever in a comic LOL.
DeleteI think the comics are pretty tame anyhow. The odd boob and butt is as racy as it gets. Some of the gribbly demons and horrors in GW stuff are far more disturbing. GW have got to be on the way out soon, my son and all his friends have moved to D and D or Mantic models because of costsand the local shop is often closed. Also (get this) I tried to get a new pair of side clippers from GW as my old pair finally died......new pair from GW would be £18 thanks. Got them from Armypainter for £6.
DeleteThat's incredible. They seem to have created such a monster of a business that the overheads are massive and it takes new figures and codexes, and tools with extortionate prices, just to feed it.
DeleteI'm not really a GW hater (though I never liked warhammer...ok i must be a hater then) but I think they've lost touch - as happens in many other 'industries' and, as you say, they'll be on the way out.
...and good to hear your kids like D&D. Mine too - though they tend to play much of the re-booted old school 're-mixes' like Labyrinth Lord etc. They're also girls, which brings an entirely new atmosphere to gameplay. You try to set up a dungeon that they have to find a vampire in - they instead prepare a masked ball for all the local nobility, and 'invite' the vampire to come. They want to be devious rather than roll initiative - too old school GRRR. No DM can cope with this mindbending stuff !!!!
Very nice, Springinsfeld! I am particularly struck and inspired by the basing style that you are using for this great project. I have a bunch of 70's era Persians that I really want to base in a very similar manner. Thank you for that!
ReplyDeleteThanks Private. I find basing figures a complete bore, and am never happy with the result. With this style it's very quick and if I decide to add texture, I can at a later date. Each 'theatre' will have a different colour. Yellow for the sands of Stygia, white for Vanaheim and Hyperborea and a stone colour for inside adventures and crazed priests etc.
DeleteMy basing method is to mix acrylic paint of an appropriate colour in filler, put filler on the base then embed figure into the filler - no glue. Base can be painted as normal, any chips to the filler don't show up white and the filler itself acts as a decent glue.
ReplyDeleteGood idea Xaltotun, I'm doing something similar for my more modern fantasy figures. Another order will be winging it's way to you soon.
DeleteThat's a brilliant idea re. the filler. I must try that.
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