Catching up with your previous vids, most enjoyable!

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate all your comments.

I am in awe of your work here, Gareth. Such attention to detail, and everything comes together perfectly from the miniatures to the basing to the battle-mat. I dream of being able field armies this beautiful -- it looks like they stepped out of the pages of history. Thank you for sharing.

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Excellent work, and presentation, love the general stand on foot and the peltasts...worth a thumb up...and a new sub!

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks again

Excellent. Really enjoyed having a look at your later Republican Romans. You have a nicemix of units. I am looking at doing this era onceagain myself. Great work with the video too- top notch. ~K

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

thanks - The Warlord Games figures really are easy to put together and straightforward to paint. The decals make any unit look good. I experimenting with making the videos and trying to see what works.

Absolute eye candy. Fantastic job. :)

@garethe121

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks - the quality of the figures and the shield transfers can really help a unit look good.

Great video mate some really awesome looking figures

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks - I appreciate your feedback

Those look incredible. I built an imperial roman and successor at from warlord I love their hail Caesar sculpts. Mine definitely didn't come out this good though they look great

@garethe121

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. The figures are very good with a lot of character particularly when ranked up in a unit. Getting them to fit together in ranks was a challenge as I recall though.

Beautifully painted minis my friend Absolutely love them Inspirational indeed. I haven’t tried ADLG rules yet but I’m thinking I might just buy them now The gladiators are a nice touch and I like that You can have a elephant

@garethe121

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you are liking the armies. I am helped by the great figures now available. ADLG is a nice game. You can see it comes from the DBX stable but with a changes that make it play very differently. I am likely to be using a version of this army at an ADLG tournament in mid September.

@leont66wargaming31

4 жыл бұрын

Gareth Evans nice. Good luck in the tournament

⭐️ lovely brushwork and a great looking collection ⭐️ 👍

@garethe121

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you - There are a lot of really nice miniatures around at the moment and the shield decals can help a unit stand out.

@mobileandhostile7895

4 жыл бұрын

Gareth Evans - agreed...but for my money Victrix have raised the bar to a new level

@garethe121

4 жыл бұрын

@@mobileandhostile7895 Their new stuff is really exceptional.

@mobileandhostile7895

4 жыл бұрын

@ Gareth Evans - indeed ! So much so that with the arrival of Mortal Gods and the advent of Clash of Spears I just can’t get enough of the period or models, am currently building Greeks....Carthage is next on the list with Victrix promising Persians around Autumn time...a great time to be building and painting 👍

@garethe121

4 жыл бұрын

@@mobileandhostile7895 I saw pictures of the Persians and it pricked my interest - I might be tempted if the cavalry are anything like as nice as the foot we have seen.

Magnificent figures. I am particularly interested in your light coloured bases and how they blend with the table cloth. Any chance of details on your table cloth and basing method.

@garethe121

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I didn't buy the mat from a supplier, a friend had it spare and I bought it from him. Someone else asked the same question recently and I checked with my friend but he couldn't remember who he got it from. Sorry. As for the basing, it's a bit fiddly but this how I remember doing it - I stick the figures on the base and when they are dry I put PVA all over the base. Then I took two different grades of grit from Gale Force Nine, which I applied in small mixed patches on the base (in a ratio of about 2 parts of the finer to 1 part of the coarser) These patches cover perhaps 20% or maybe 25% of the base. Then over the top of the whole base I put fine sand (childrens sand pit sand from a DIY store). Once that all dried I painted the whole base with watered down Americana "Desert Sand". When that dried, I dry brushed three, perhaps four times. Each with "Desert sand" lightened with white. Each successive dry brushing getting lighter in colour and lighter in application until the last one is close to an off white on the highest, most exposed areas. Then I applied static grass - I think I was using a spring grass mix for this project.

@gavinpearson74

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethe121 thanks for the in-depth answer. Effect repays the effort.

Better option for gladiators is Gallio Warrior, dacians or hoplite, remember Murillo, hoplomachus or thraex, they look like normal Units of legions

Noticed there ain’t any sheathed gladii on your legionnaires. I was wondering if you had to manually remove the hilts that stick out from the sheaths to make the blades seem drawn, if so, nicely done. I always appreciate an eye for detail like that. How would you suggest removing the hilts without running the risk of epically mutilating the minis? Great job mein düde, a truly inspiring collection you’ve got going there🙇🏼‍♂️🙏🏻💯💯💯🔥 Many hails and epics 🙋🏼‍♂️👌🏻🤙🏻💦

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right, on these figures the bodies come with a gladius in the sheath so if you use an arm with a gladius you need to remove the hilt from the sheath with a craft knife. I was a bit worried to start but the plastic is easy to cut and you can remove the hilt with two cuts, the first across the top of the sheath and the second down behind the hilt. I found it didn't damage the figure in a way that mattered and after painting the location is difficult to spot. (btw if you look carefully you might be able to see I missed one)

@blainhanlon1558

5 жыл бұрын

Gareth Evans my dude, thanks for the advice! This eases my worries towards minis quite a bit. I didn’t notice the sheathed gladius at all btw 👌🏻 shapoe

@JEKAZOL

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I noticed that aswell. You made me feel I have to do it now and added more work for me! 😉👍

A lovely collection of miniatures, Gareth; very beautifully done. Can I ask you which gaming mat you have used. Is it Deep Cut Studios? Which one is it? Steve 🙂

@garethe121

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I can't give you an answer about the mat right away. It was probably Deep Cut or Tiny Wargames but I got it from a friend who had one spare, not directly from the supplier. I'll see if he remembers where it came from when I next talk to him.

@TheGamingLoft22

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethe121 Thanks Gareth. It's just that my basing is very similar to yours and the mat looks perfect for them.

@garethe121

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGamingLoft22 I've checked with my friend and unfortunately he can't remember where he got it from either. Sorry

@TheGamingLoft22

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethe121 No problem Gareth and thanks for asking anyway.

very nice...what shield transfers are you using on the first batch or red shields???

@garethe121

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you. The shield transfers were all from Little Big Man Studios 28mm Caesarian Roman range for Walord Games miniatures. These can take a bit of time to apply. Each side of the shield is separate and you have to cut them out. Getting the bit that goes round the shield boss needs a sharp knife. They are not water slide decals I think they are the ones which are self adhesive.

hello, give me a link to your cataphracts, I want these too

@garethe121

Ай бұрын

It is some time since I bought them and I am not100% certain but I think the cataphracts are Old Glory Parthian Cataphracts PRP-001 in the 'Imperial Roman' range. You can mount 4 on a 60mm wide base.

I've enjoyed both your videos so far, but this one was better so your experimentation is working for me. I particularly liked the close ups where it was easier to see the detail, especially on the turntable. Very interested to see the Armenians which are out of the ordinary. Some of your figures were painted long before AdlG rules were published - have you been rebasing or is it a DBX standard basing? I've never tried the rules but I know they are popular in my area. Are you focussed on AdlG now, or do you consider playing other rulesets? The two questions sort of go together because the appearance of how figures fit onto the base size does have a bearing on my choice of rules - for instance your Armenian cavalry looked just right, but I have often found the energetic poses of Old Glory infantry figures does not permit them to be based four abreast and also hinders bases being stacked one behind the other.

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your very useful feedback. I played a lot of DBM, although most of that was with 15mm figures. My 28mm armies, although based for DBM almost never got an outing. I found the basing system worked well and have broadly kept to it. After not playing DBM for many years I briefly went back to it but quickly moved to ADLG where there are more players. ADLG is a good game, there is quite a lot of subtlety to the rules but I think of it as very much a game with soldier miniatures rather than an attempt to simulate a real battle. And it suffers visually from the flat representational terrain that is convenient. I am still looking for the perfect ancients rules as I am with all the other period I play.

@garethe121

5 жыл бұрын

As for Old Glory, I find them very variable. I don’t like a lot of their infantry. It is a company where I need to see the figures before I buy.

@RalphAstley

5 жыл бұрын

Often it is availability of opponents that decide on your choice of rules, which is what you hint at in your choice of AdlG. The only problem with that is I find wargamers are fickle in their loyalty and often skip from one fad to the next. At least the DBX standard basing allows you to follow suit. I settled on Sword and Spear some time ago but don't get to play it that often as I attend a club irregularly - it is worth investigating if you haven't come across it.

@RalphAstley

5 жыл бұрын

I agree - but those Armenians are very nice indeed.