Keep going, on both the painting and the videos. Its intriguing to see an army project that might not be gamed with. So much of my work is focused on what's needed for the next game.
@@ChicagoTerrainFactory thanks for the comment and continued support! I get a lot of joy seeing an army coming together whether it’s for gaming or not personally. There’s so much creative freedom creating something that isn’t restricted by gaming rules. Even though this army isn’t for gaming I hope people watching can get inspired and perhaps could implement some of my ideas etc into their own armies for gaming.
Glad you are getting back into painting, just take it slow and don't burn yourself out! Honestly, I don't mind the gaps on Alexander (at least the front one) as it gives a sense of movement on the armor... the horse reared up and the armor looked lifted up as well. I am also a sucker for doing the same fig unmounted. I did that for my Emperor's Children Heresy army with the same Captain on a bike, jump pack, and foot (even used the same head for Terminator armor). But that looks to be a lot of work and bits so up to you. As for the pelt on the horse, would it have just been easier to use a horse with a pelt and pin/green stuff the back legs to have it reared up? I guess you can just green stuff the pelt too, but it depends on how confident you are in your modeling. As for the silver shields, I kind of wish you have an example of the shield you want to use to compare it to the decal. If you are able to get the paint color to match and they are also round, maybe center the decal? Also, doesn't Citadel have pretty much a chrome metallic paint? You might be able to get that armor and shields down right reflective! Then, if it is that shiny, maybe they don't need decals! Not going to lie, but I hope your elephant kit didn't mess up and give you two of the same sprue of the elephant bodies, as they looked exactly the same (so you have 6 right sides and 0 left sides). If that is the case, maybe see if you can get 2 left sides to make 6 Elephants? I don't know, maybe I am wrong. If you have extra Greek bodies for the towers or you can mix in the Numidian bodies with Greek heads? Maybe it is just me, but I just hate wasting plastic and perfectly good figs.... either that or you have a head start to the opposing army and them having elephants. Keep up the good work and keep at it mate!
@@blktom thanks for feedback Tom and the continued support! It means a lot. The channel just reached 500 subscribers which is a massive milestone for me and it’s thanks to people like yourself. In regards to some of your points: I used the reared horse for Alexander because it was left over from the Roman command sprue that I bought a while ago and it was what actually inspired me to mimic the scene from the movie alexander. Using green stuff to create the pelt would be a lot easier for me than pinning back the legs which is why I chose that option but I did consider doing that to start with. Creating on alexander on foot is something I won’t be doing mainly because alexander always fought on horseback leading the charge with his companion cavalry but also like you said it’s a lot of bits some of which I don’t have spares of. I’m going to use the silver shield transfers as I have already bought them and it would be a waste to not use them but I do think they will work with the aesthetic of my army. I will center them on the standard hoplite shield which is the same size as the shields I’ve used on my athenian and spartan forces. The silver shield unit and alexander will be one of the last things I paint in my army. Saving the best for last. Finally I have built the war elephants and crew. The sprues are the same which is intended by Victrix and you can have in total only two variants of elephant which in my opinion isn’t great because they could have made 3 variants on the same sprue. So I’m left with some elephant pieces which I can’t use however I’m going to try and repurpose them as dead elephants for scenery. I don’t like wasting miniatures either and I will sell anything that I won’t be using on eBay and use the money to purchase things I will use. I still have a lot of plans and ideas which I hope to bring to the channel and hopefully next year will be as good as this one in terms of content I can bring here. Thanks for watching!
Keep going, on both the painting and the videos. Its intriguing to see an army project that might not be gamed with. So much of my work is focused on what's needed for the next game.
@@ChicagoTerrainFactory thanks for the comment and continued support! I get a lot of joy seeing an army coming together whether it’s for gaming or not personally. There’s so much creative freedom creating something that isn’t restricted by gaming rules. Even though this army isn’t for gaming I hope people watching can get inspired and perhaps could implement some of my ideas etc into their own armies for gaming.
Glad you are getting back into painting, just take it slow and don't burn yourself out! Honestly, I don't mind the gaps on Alexander (at least the front one) as it gives a sense of movement on the armor... the horse reared up and the armor looked lifted up as well. I am also a sucker for doing the same fig unmounted. I did that for my Emperor's Children Heresy army with the same Captain on a bike, jump pack, and foot (even used the same head for Terminator armor). But that looks to be a lot of work and bits so up to you. As for the pelt on the horse, would it have just been easier to use a horse with a pelt and pin/green stuff the back legs to have it reared up? I guess you can just green stuff the pelt too, but it depends on how confident you are in your modeling.
As for the silver shields, I kind of wish you have an example of the shield you want to use to compare it to the decal. If you are able to get the paint color to match and they are also round, maybe center the decal? Also, doesn't Citadel have pretty much a chrome metallic paint? You might be able to get that armor and shields down right reflective! Then, if it is that shiny, maybe they don't need decals!
Not going to lie, but I hope your elephant kit didn't mess up and give you two of the same sprue of the elephant bodies, as they looked exactly the same (so you have 6 right sides and 0 left sides). If that is the case, maybe see if you can get 2 left sides to make 6 Elephants? I don't know, maybe I am wrong. If you have extra Greek bodies for the towers or you can mix in the Numidian bodies with Greek heads? Maybe it is just me, but I just hate wasting plastic and perfectly good figs.... either that or you have a head start to the opposing army and them having elephants.
Keep up the good work and keep at it mate!
@@blktom thanks for feedback Tom and the continued support! It means a lot. The channel just reached 500 subscribers which is a massive milestone for me and it’s thanks to people like yourself.
In regards to some of your points: I used the reared horse for Alexander because it was left over from the Roman command sprue that I bought a while ago and it was what actually inspired me to mimic the scene from the movie alexander. Using green stuff to create the pelt would be a lot easier for me than pinning back the legs which is why I chose that option but I did consider doing that to start with.
Creating on alexander on foot is something I won’t be doing mainly because alexander always fought on horseback leading the charge with his companion cavalry but also like you said it’s a lot of bits some of which I don’t have spares of.
I’m going to use the silver shield transfers as I have already bought them and it would be a waste to not use them but I do think they will work with the aesthetic of my army. I will center them on the standard hoplite shield which is the same size as the shields I’ve used on my athenian and spartan forces. The silver shield unit and alexander will be one of the last things I paint in my army. Saving the best for last.
Finally I have built the war elephants and crew. The sprues are the same which is intended by Victrix and you can have in total only two variants of elephant which in my opinion isn’t great because they could have made 3 variants on the same sprue. So I’m left with some elephant pieces which I can’t use however I’m going to try and repurpose them as dead elephants for scenery. I don’t like wasting miniatures either and I will sell anything that I won’t be using on eBay and use the money to purchase things I will use.
I still have a lot of plans and ideas which I hope to bring to the channel and hopefully next year will be as good as this one in terms of content I can bring here.
Thanks for watching!
@@thewarchesttownsend7595 Cool, thanks for letting me know! I look forward to see what you have done in the future!
Absolutely fantastic love your vids!! ❤
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