Saturday, 20 June 2015

Finally! More massed ancient North Africans

Well, not that ancient by the standards of the area. 144 massed foot in three units for Jugurtha's army:
All figures by Crusader Miniatures and shield transfers by Little Big Men.
I used the more ragged looking warriors instead of the trained foot that Crusader also make, the reason being to make these units fit in with my other three units of Companion Miniatures figures.
I was hoping to have completed them before now, but work has been even more nasty than usual, which is saying a great deal.
Final aerial shot to show the basing, my usual for this sort of terrain. These guys will see an outing soon in the campaign as they try to squish Albinus' Romans. And then Marius and Sulla will appear...
Posted by Caliban at 17:46:00
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19 comments:

  1. Phil20 June 2015 at 17:57

    Impressive, very impressive! Love the mass effect, they look splendid!

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  2. William Stewart20 June 2015 at 19:11

    These look just great! Looking at the shields, it appears that many of them are palm pilots.

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    1. Caliban20 June 2015 at 22:40

      I like that - they can be palm pilots fighting bum spongers...

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  3. DeanM20 June 2015 at 19:26

    Wow! Amazing and spectacular.

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  4. Hendrid20 June 2015 at 22:08

    Impressive! Nothing quite like seeing lot's ranked up. Nice.

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  5. fireymonkeyboy20 June 2015 at 22:20

    Those look fantastic. Lovely stuff.

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  6. Caliban20 June 2015 at 22:38

    Thanks for looking, everyone. It remains of course to be seen how they fight the nasty Romans...

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  7. Syl21 June 2015 at 07:21

    Fantastic, very good effect.

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  8. Prufrock21 June 2015 at 08:08

    Great job Paul. Don't fancy their chances against Marius and Sulla, however!

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    1. Caliban21 June 2015 at 11:00

      Yes, I know. They should give Albinus a hard time, though, and then spend a lot of time avoiding his successor before those two turn up in force...

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  9. Happy21 June 2015 at 11:40

    Very nice and an army and interest close to me.I love what you've done with the shields, my own army, which one day I hope to multi-base,has circular,leather effect shields, yours are far more striking. Bigred bat hosted pics of mine couple years back and sadly they have not progressed since...maybe will though now inspired by yours.


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    1. Caliban21 June 2015 at 21:38

      I have some with round shields like the ones you mention, but I used those for the light cavalry and looser formation infantry types. Using larger shields for the massed troops was more expensive, because I needed to buy the shields separately (plus the transfers!), but I think it was worth it overall. Please let us know when you put your guys onto multi-bases, it would be good to see what others have done!

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  10. Ray Rousell21 June 2015 at 22:16

    Very nice!!!

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  11. Happy22 June 2015 at 08:56

    Yes,more expense is occured but you now have a very unique army and a nice one at that. Re-basing isn't high on my list at the moment, and I revisited mine at Simons site the other day, can't believe its been since 2009 since l last looked at them!! where does time go?

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    1. Caliban22 June 2015 at 09:33

      Rebasing is just plain nasty - necessary, but so horrible. Always seems like a waste of time even when it needs doing...

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  12. Jonathan Freitag1 July 2015 at 16:18

    That is a spectacular sight!

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