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Just finished this one this afternoon.

Kinda PG-13ish, so be advised.

So I decided to supplement my Black Templars force with some Blood Ravens Space Marines. The problem: The decals for the shoulder badges are sold out from Forge World and the alternatives were... Not cool.

So I decided to enlist the help of a co-worker who is a graphic artist, to replicate the cool version of the Blood Ravens shoulder badge in a file I could use to print out my own decal sheets. He did the insignia, and I did the squad type markings. The result was... quite successful, actually. I've completed my first Blood Raven to test the paint scheme. He's a member of Blood Ravens 4th Company, Squad 6 Tactical:



Note the Blood Raven insignia on the left shoulder.


The up arrow signifies a member of a Tactical Squad, and I drew it while learning vector graphics for the decal sheet.

Nice.

So for the Hail Caesar demos I'm running next month, I've been working on two armies... The Roman X Legion under Marius Brutus (serving under Julius Caesar) vs. The Helvetii (Gauls) under Divico at the Battle of Bibracte in 58 BC. The first model I completed is a Roman Scorpion light artillery.

Niiice. XD What do you use on the bases to make them look realistic like that?

Nice detailing on the ballista thingum too.

nice work!

Lookin' good!

How long did that take (actual effort, not drying time between coats)?

Chozon1 wrote:Niiice. XD What do you use on the bases to make them look realistic like that?

Nice detailing on the ballista thingum too.

Thanks!

The grassy part of the base is Citadel green flock stuck to the base with white PVA glue. I just brush the glue over the parts where I want it and sprinkle the bag of flock over it and return the excess back to the bag. Then I did the same with the sand. The bushes are model railroad lichen attached with more PVA glue.

delve wrote:Lookin' good!

How long did that take (actual effort, not drying time between coats)?

Thanks.. about 4 hours.

So here are the completed armies to be used in the Hail Caesar Demos I've been talking about.

The Romans:



The Gauls:

very cool!

Would it gall you if the Romans lost?

>_>

Good stuff.

No, but that joke galls me

I should mention that my lovely wife painted the two officer models for me so I could get it done by the end of the weekend. Thus, the awesome base material on them. She wanted to try out some new basing stuff she'd bought at the game store.

After going back and looking again, I'm very impressed. @_@ It looked so natural I didn't really notice the flowers and such before. XD That's crazy awesome

im starting to make buildings and landscape for wargaming but Im having lost of trouble deciding what scale to base everything on.

what size figures is everyone using these days?

By far the most popular scale right now is 28mm. That's about equivalent to 1/56 scale, give or take. Some historical wargamers like 15mm to represent much larger battles with larger numbers of smaller minis.

A note about the 28mm size... That means it's about 28mm from the bottom of the feet to eye level on the mini. Manufacturers aren't very consistent on that, though... so you sometimes see variances in sizes of minis across manufacturers even at the same scale.