Hordes of Hordes & Other Bits

Lots of Hordes & Other Bits

Museum Miniatures has started replacing its range of castings with what are now termed "Z Range" As part of Project Lead Mountain I am clearing out unfinished castings left over from previous projects. Whilst working on the Chinese I rediscovered a bag of painted MD04 Peasants along with another bag of unpainted peasants from two different casting codes and some oddments from various makers.

I dont actually need most of the castings but it did spur me to paint them up for sale.

I actually like the older Museum castings a lot and was sorry to see them retired.

I painted up missing elements first that I knew I wanted to keep including Indian Clubmen and some Maiden Guards. Neither casting was actually sold with this in mind but they look the part.

The bases are finished in my usual style of Vallejo Sandy Paste, scatter rocks and tufts, contrast edging and spray sealed to protect the figures.

Museum MD04 Peasants repurposed as Indian Clubmen

Museum MD04 Repurposed as Maiden Guard

Mixed makes I think Old Glory 15's and Legio Heroica to make up some spare elements of Psiloi and an Auxilia Command Stand

Mixed makes

After trying to sell these Tin Soldier 15mm HB25 Indian Javelinmen as Psiloi I rebased them as Irr Bd F to add to my collection. I might sell them on later.

Tin Soldier HB25 Indian Javelinmen

Horde Lot 1 For Sale

Horde Lot 2 For Sale

Horde Lot 3 For Sale

Horde Lot 4 For Sale

Horde Lot 5 For Sale

This now brings the painting tally for 1st January to 29th May 2021 to:

273 foot, 8 artillery & 4 war drums [82 elements]

154 cavalry [49 elements]

12 Bamboo & Paper Lions [8 elements]

3 elephants [3 elements]

Plus I have rebased

32 elements of Pikes

28 elements of Archers

10 elements of Psiloi

8 elements of Horde

3 elements of misc foot

50 mounted elements

The Six DBMM Tournament ERA

The Six DBMM Tournament Era

The International DBMM tournament circuit often uses a 6 era split rather then opting to use the list books as printed.

Period 1 3000 BC to 500 BC [the Chariot Era]

Period 2 500 BC to 25 BC [the Classical Era]

Period 3 25 BC to 476 BC [Imperial Rome]

Period 4 476 AD to 1071 AD [the Dark Ages]

Period 5 1071 AD to 1321 AD [Feudal Era]

Period 6 1321 AD to 1515 AD [High Medieval Era]

I think that this has a lot of potential gaming wise.

15mm Chinese - Finally Completed

15mm Chinese Completed - Part 24 Yuan Artillery 

With this blog entry I can honestly say I have finally completed the Chinese Army project I started in May 2020. It seemed like it would never end & only started because in 2019 I had a Late T'ang Army & ended up buying two other Heinz Chinese Armies from EBay from the same seller. This allowed me to create a Chinese collection spanning from the Three Kingdoms, Northern & Southern, Sui, T'ang, Sung & Yuan Dynasties covering 220 AD to 1368 AD.

I still need to paint up some more Mongol & the Khitan Liao allies for some of the dynasties but to all intents I have completed the Chinese parts. The Yuan were early adopters of Black Powder Artillery but they were very small pieces compared to the later Ming guns which is why I decided to use 10mm scale guns instead of later era pieces. 

10mm Kallistra H-7008 Bombards & Essex CHN20 Chin Chinese Artillerymen

10mm Kallistra H-7007 Field Guns & Essex CHN20 Chin Chinese Artillerymen

Chariot HDC6 Han Chinese Archers good for N&S Dynasty Archers on new bases

Leftover N&S Dynasty Archers rebased as Psiloi

Essex SUA8 Sung Chinese Archers on new bases

Essex SUA8 Sung Chinese Archers on new bases

Unknowm Code Essex "Chinese" Archers on new bases

This now brings the painting tally for 1st January to 20th May 2021 to:

205 foot, 8 artillery & 4 war drums [67 elements]

154 cavalry [49 elements]

12 Bamboo & Paper Lions [8 elements]

3 elephants [3 elements]

Plus I have rebased

32 elements of Pikes

28 elements of Archers

8 elements of Psiloi

50 mounted elements