David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Saturday 24 October 2020

Celtiberian Warband

 Then End is Nigh! Well, at least it is in sight for the Carthaginian army in my Punic Wars project with the completion of the first of two bases of Celtiberian warband figures. The figures are from Crusader Miniatures, mostly from the Celtiberian codes, supplemented by a few Celt command figures. These are mostly sporting bronze pectorals, with only two upper crust figures affording mail armour ~

The bases are from Warbases as ever and are 100x80mm. In our games this single base can represent the whole warband or be combined with the second base (underway as I type this) to form a more impressive large warband. The shields are a mixture of A&A Miniatures Celtic shields with the appropriately shaped shield transfers from LBM. The lone Roman casualty on the base comes from the Aventine Miniatures Hill Tribes command set.

The second warband base will feature figures armoured in mail, the more experienced warriors I thought or at least those from the upper echelons of society. While I complete this base I've the three figures from the command set I mentioned above to form a sub-general base for the Iberian elements of the army underway too. When these are finished then all the Carthaginian army figures will have been painted! I still hope to complete the project by the end of the year, but it's looking a bit tight right now. We shall see...

24 comments:

  1. Splendidly turned out there, methinks they will certainly do.

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  2. Lovely job, I like the way the two soldiers in the very front are interacting with each other.

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    1. Thanks Norm! Glad the layout worked as the two central figures are not in poses compatible with the swordsmen.

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  3. That's a lovely looking unit that has a real dynamism to it. Looking forward to seeing the next one:)

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    1. Thank you SteveJ! Four figures completed for the second base and four more under the brush.

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  4. Great job David, a very handy looking warband.

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    1. Thank you Robbie, hope you are bearing up!

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  5. Fine looking stand of warriors, David!

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  6. Lovely looking mob. Anyone thinking of western ancient wargames should always think about getting into Celts - they fought just about everyone for centuries and changes little.

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  7. They look great, with the shield transfers looking especially awesome! :-)

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    1. Thanks Gonsalvo! You are certainly right about the LBM shield transfers!

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  8. They look brilliant. Those shields are something else!
    Regards, James

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  9. First class unit David, great painting and basing...

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    1. Thank you Phil for your welcome encouragement, much appreciated.

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  10. A lovely looking unit David...
    If it was mine... I would probably still be painting tartan on all the clothing.🤪

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you Aly, much appreciated. As to tartan, well, I know my limitations.

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  11. Beautiful work again on these figures

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