II/79b Chinese Northern and Southern Dynasties

The latest addition is another army from Marco Boetti, a Chinese Southern Dynasties army. The figures are from Outpost, and are painted with Marco's trademark panache.

The army in all its glory

The mounted units, a 3Kn general, 3Cv, 2LH and Elephant respendent in his colourful glory.


Four elements of 4Sp

The missile troops, with an element of 3Bw, three elements of 4Cb and one of 4Bw

...and finally one element of Artillery and two more of foot. The 4Bd representing the army's regular swordsmen, with the other element (complete with a clump of bamboo!) which would work for raw swordsmen or "dare to die" volunteers, in which case they would be 3Bd, or a 3Wb representing tribal fighters.

III/23 Khmer and Cham

I thought I would post one of the armies I have painted (Fanaticus name Minimus Maximus). This is a Khmer and Cham army I painted a couple of years ago for a competition that I ended up not playing in.

The army arrayed for battle

Here is a close-up of the camp, which is a resin figurine I picked up at a New Age type stall at the local market. I sprayed it matt black, then dry brushed progressively lighter shades of grey in the hope of making it look like a carved granite statue. The groundwork is static grass and dyed horse hair, with some clumps of model railway scenery bushes.

The panzer division! Here we have the General's elephant, a supporting elephant, and an elephant mounted bolt shooter, which in the lists is an artillery element. All figures are by Outpost, apart from the maiden guard escorts on the general's element which I believe are Irregular miniatures. A bit of conversion has gone on with the addition of a wire spear on the non-general elephant's rider, and the replacement of a parasol for the spear on the general's Maiden Guard.

The main bulk of the foot - all Outpost. Here we have 4 elements of spearmen (4Ax) and 2 elements of bow - should be 4Bw, but due to breakages I only had enough figures to base them as 3Bw!!

The rest of the foot (2x2Ps and 1x3Bd), and the lone cavalry element (3Cv). All figures except the blades are Outpost. The blades are armed with the fabled Phak'ak, a strangely shaped axe type weapon. These are from Irregular. You will notice that the Javelinmen are significantly bigger than the blades. They are actually significantly bigger than all the foot, despite being from the same manufacturer and range as most of them. This was a bit annoying, scale-creep betwen manufacturers or ranges is something I have come to expect - but within the same range? Slightly disappointing.

II/03 Classical Indian

Another contribution from Marco Boetti, a lovely Classical Indian Army, using a variety of manufacturers. More pics can be seen here: http://www.dba-italia.org/modellismo/boetti/2-3-classical-indian.php

This really is a very nicely put together army, on which a huge amount of time and effort has clearly been spent.

Here we have the infantry, blades and bow. The 3Bw figs are Xyston, and the blade figs are from Outpost.

Inpressively painted and based cavalry - again figs are from Xyston.

2 Light Chariot elements, with superb detailing on the side panels (Xyston)

Two Heavy Chariot Elements with equally impressively rendered side panels!

Finally, the elephants, including a close up of the general's mount. As with the chariois, incredible detail on these chaps, plus beautiful landscaping on the bases. Figures (I believe) from Minifigs.