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Saturday 4 November 2017

Finished: 15mm Ming Chinese Baggage Elements

I finished painting the Chinese porters and barrow-men last night And started thinking about base composition for the baggage elements. For ADLG you need a 40x80mm base but for FoGR you need one that is 80x120mm. Simple solution - make up 3 elements of 40x80mm. Problem - not enough figures for three bases. Solution - figures on two bases and leave the third one blank.

It was still missing something, but I had a thought - I had a spare horse archer figure from ages back who I could add as a guard. I dug the figure out, glued the rider to the horse and the horse to a painting stick then primed it last night. I managed to get him finished by late afternoon then glued all the figures onto the two bases. Once the superglue had cured I made a start on doing the basing. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually managed to take them all the way through to flocking this evening.

Time now for pics:






The porters and barrow-men are from Essex, the horse archer is Old Glory 15s.


Tomorrow I'll be making a start on another spear & bow unit. These chaps will be "poor" as I need at least one of those for FoGR.
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11 comments:

  1. Norm4 November 2017 at 04:51

    I really like hose figures - great character.

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  2. MartinC4 November 2017 at 05:05

    nice work

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  3. Phil4 November 2017 at 07:25

    I love this kind of unit, and this one is superb, great job!

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  4. Michael Awdry4 November 2017 at 08:19

    I'm starting to worry about you, are you not sleeping? ;)

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  5. Dannoc4 November 2017 at 08:23

    Cracking porters and the horse archer really adds to the base.

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  6. Ray Rousell4 November 2017 at 08:28

    Very nice work Tamsin. You are a machine!

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  7. Stephen Gilbert4 November 2017 at 11:52

    Very VERY attractive models and superb modelling.

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  8. DeanM4 November 2017 at 15:45

    These look great, Tamsin!

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  9. TamsinP4 November 2017 at 23:38

    @ Norm - cheers! :)

    @ Martin - thanks! :)

    @ Phil - merci! :)

    @ Michael - yes, I am sleeping thanks! :)

    @ Dannoc - cheers! If nothing else,it was a good way to use up that spare archer :)

    @ Ray - thanks! :)

    @ Steve - cheers! :)

    @ Dean - thanks! :)

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  10. J Womack, Esq.7 November 2017 at 01:12

    Oh, the guard was a nice touch!

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  11. Curt14 November 2017 at 18:38

    I really like civilian bases like these. Wonderful work Tamsin!

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