Thursday, 30 January 2025

From MattW It’s all Greek to me (60 points)

Well as normal I have too much going on my painting desk to be sane… Ancient Greeks, 100 YW, ww2, Napoleonic and assembling plastic kits without getting anything finished. Yesterday I gave myself a talking too and concentrated on actually completing something and managed some Greeks, which freed up 3 inches square on the desk!

A unit of 5th century BC  28mm Greeks, immortal miniatures now sold by Warlord miniatures, great figures although the spears can plink off at anytime and two tips are somewhere in my painting room. Based for impetus with VVV decals.




28mm @ 5 points  x 12 = 60 points 

Cheers

MattW

TeemuL: Colourful entry, Matt. Something different for a change even when it is actually all the same - just finishing this unit to get some extra space on the desk to be able to start a new project... :) I have a box of those same minis, I might paint some of them now that I have seen what you have done - thank you for inspiration. It is funny how colourful these actually are, they are half naked and have plain clothes, but the colourful shields and helmets caption the eye. The nice green bases add more colour and the overall feeling is very colourful. One more lesson to focus painting the areas that matter!

10 comments:

  1. Great work on these hoplites, Matt. I had to laugh at the description of your present 'hobby condition' as it is pretty much identical to my own: a bunch of things happening but nothing crossing the finish line. Nonetheless kudos to you in getting these fine chaps done!

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    1. I did try to also complete a bulldozer but spent several hours researching serial numbers for British and American D7 dozers rather than just adding stars……

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  2. Ay but you build points bombes with various spinning of plates - just saying - as I am doing something similar albeit finishing something small each week. Nice entry matey

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    1. Yes, 70 US airborne figures, 12 jeeps and 60 US infantry, 5 WOTR figs, 3 aircraft, and 10 Cuirassiers all at different stages…… and I did think about building another kit today….,

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  3. Great work Matt. As others have already noted, your "hobby condition" sounds pretty familiar to me!

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    1. I cannot help myself, I have 4 ft table and a 2ft side table and I cannot fit a coffe cup anywhere!

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  4. These are great. Well done.

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  5. Those shields are the business, nice work!

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