My painted Arab forces grow this week with these additions. Only 2 shields are hand painted with the rest being LBM decals. I also hand painted some of those upper arm patches. Not sure what they are about. Probably say SLAYER or MOTORHEAD or other fav bands. They actually help break up large areas of one coloured cloth.
If you are going to build these here is some advice. Almost all the shield arms actually have the fist ending up centred in the chest. Easy enough to fix by cutting the arm at the point it meets the armoured area to rotate and glue back on. Otherwise it will be a problem to fit shield and arm behind the horse mane.
One of the Arabs above with the upright spear uses arms from the Gripping Beast Viking set with Chainmail on the upper arm.
Blue Curved blade fella above uses arms from the FireForge Mongol set.
Another wonderful addition to your growing batch of Arabs Brendon. I'm always impressed to see modellers who think about how things look when assembled and your advice on shield arms is a perfect example. How do you find the LBM transfers? There's no doubting the quality of the final result but I've heard mixed reports on how easy they are to apply. Chalk up another 110 points on the tally mate! Cheers, Millsy
Nice Arabs :)
ReplyDeleteBrendan these are wonderful. Lovely fine details and great colour palette. The shields look great -personally I lack the skill or talent for transfers so rely on hand painting.
ReplyDeleteCheers Peter
very nice, very neat and effective as a whole. I like the LBM transfers, used them for all my saga figures. I pity the 2 poor footsloggers in the horses dust in the last photo!
ReplyDeleteDarn fine looking Arabs.
ReplyDeleteAnother Great of troops!
ReplyDeleteVery colourful indeed
ReplyDeleteExcellent
ReplyDeleteThey are fantastic, really colourful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, now I know how to paint these miniatures.:)
ReplyDeleteThese are simply great, really love them
ReplyDeleteIan
Lovely figures, well done. What game are you planning to use them for?
ReplyDeleteI love reading about how you mixed and matched amongst various plastic sets to make your own custom figures. Wonderful stuff. As Alex says, I know now how to do my own when the time comes!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, a points bomb and a half!
ReplyDeleteI've been fighting off an unreasonable desire to build an arab army. This is not helping, and your advice on how the plastics are flawed, but you can get around it actually makes it worse. Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, and thanks for the tips on how to make them sit right with the shields. Always good to get such advice from those making the pieces!
ReplyDeleteGosh, these really are lovely paint jobs, The conversion and customising is top notch too. Very nice indeed.
ReplyDeleteAnother beautiful batch of figures. Nice conversions.
ReplyDeleteReally Impressive! I like adhoc color use too.
ReplyDeleteYour sheild work is very good, I can't find the ones you freehanded! ;)
Beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteLBM stickers not the easiest to use but I have developed my technique. Will let you know about that in the future as the grandkids are here so been away from the hobby. The decal shields are more time consuming than hand painting them.
ReplyDeleteCheers