It’s been a wet and wild month in New Zealand, with the country encountering an almost record amount of rainfall for July. A month of awful weather has inspired me to get some painting done, and a desire to try some DBA means I’m focused on painting my two 15mm Corvus Belli Ancients armies. First up is the Carthaginians which I ordered in December 2006, primed in April 2007 and have since been languishing in the gaming cupboard.
As it’s been a while I’ve warmed up by painting the least interesting units in the army first, four elements of Baleric Slingers or Psiloi as DBA classes them. As a DBA army always has twelve elements, these four bases represent a third of the entire force! So it seems a pity it’s taken me so long to get around to painting them, particularly considering they’re only eight 15mm figures in total.
Ancient slingers were a force to be reckoned with apparently, and in DBA they evidently act as a nice supporting unit to front rank elements. Now they’re out of the way I can paint up some of the more interesting units in the Carthaginian force!
AAAAhhh. Once again some news in my Feed! The bad weather produced some really nice models! I really like the small plant on the second image, what did you use to model that?
Hi Tankred, yeah I notice all the blogs I usually hit up are pretty dead these days too and weetoysoldiers.com has actually closed down! I’ll post if you will :).
I’ve been struggling to get any modeling done since earlier this year. I really haven’t had the heart to get much done, but these Ancients figures seem to be a pretty good tonic so far. I’ve since finished a base of Light Horse and hope to have the Elephant and crew finished this weekend. The shrubbery is just some cut down and dried moss I pulled off a tree at the end of our driveway. I originally intended to use it to represent thorny bushes for my North African DAK FOW Panzergrenadiers but haven’t got around to painting them, so these guys got it instead. Works ok doesn’t it? Think I’ll probably scatter a bit around on the bases for this army.
Played (and lost!) three mad games of DBA last night, suspect we got a few of the basic rules wrong but seems like a fun system, certainly very fast to play.
Stu, the moss is really cool, you should get more of that prepared for the other bases and yes scatter more of it on the other bases. I am curious about the elephant!
I is not easy to keep an Blog on such an time comsuming hobby like wargaming running. So I am quite happy that you are not lost to card games an keep on painting.
I’ll finish the three Elephant crew tonight and probably the Elephant over the weekend. As you well know being a 15mm gamer, it doesn’t take much effort at all to finish a 15mm army! DBA is good too since you only need to paint twelve bases of figures…