15mm "Chinese" Army Off EBay Part 3

Progress Update On The Chinese 3

The Lockdown means I have plenty of enforced at home time. So when I am not drinking a nice ice cold Vodka and Orange I have been working through Project Lead Mountain. This years main project is to complete the Chinese Mega Morph I have blogged about earlier this year. I plan to create a Sung, Sui, Tang and Yuan army morph collection. I think the Ming option might be a morph too far at this time.

This is the first major progress update I have managed to do. Taking figures off old tired bases consumed a lot of my time but having a lot of quite nicely painted figures to hand made it a lot easier than I had previously thought. 

This blog contains a progress report on 196 pre-painted infantry, 12 pre-painted cavalry and 158 newly painted infantry. I made up a total of 87 elements in all [354 infantry and 12 cavalry]. This has allowed me to produce the 36 missing Horde elements to use in the Sui Million Man Army which has a total of 60 Irr Hd O.

I will start with the pre-painted infantry.

Essex Spearmen used to create Reg Ax O [Blue Pennants]

Essex Spearmen used to create Reg Ax O [Green Pennants]

Essex Javelinmen use to Create Reg Ax O

Mike Models [I think] Irr Bw O Crossbowmen

Mike Models [I think] Irr Ps O Crossbowmen

Essex Javelinmen Reg Ax O

Leftover Outpost Swordsmen Reg Bd O I added spare shields to make them elite looking

Mike Models [I think] Unknown Armoured Cavalry

Two Dragons Peasants [sold by Minifigs] 10 Irr Hd O

Essex Mixed Infantry 10 Irr Hd O

Now for the Brand New infantry mostly Essex Chinese Peasants 16 Irr Hd O

Essex Peasants plus two officers repurposed into Long Spear Infantry 4 x Reg Pk I

Six spare Essex Peasants used to create 2 x Irr Ax O or Irr Wb F

Outpost Unarmoured Swordsmen 4 x Irr Bd I

Outpost Unarmoured Archers 12 x Reg Bw I/O

All the elements ready to be put in their storage boxes.

15mm Painting During Lockdown - Scythians

Last of my Scythian Infantry Completed

Back in August 2018 I blogged about painting my Scythian Archers and 21 months later I have finally painted up the last of the Xyston Scythian infantry I have to complete this army. I had 115 castings to paint and started them six weeks ago just after the UK COVID-19 Lockdown started. 

I was missing 18 x Irr Hd O elements which accounted for 90 castings meaning I had 25 castings left over going spare. After giving it a lot of thought due to the mix of castings I had left over I decided to create an additional eight Irr Ax O elements from the remainders and hid the single odd casting within one of the horde elements as I hate to waste figures! These auxilia are in my to sell pile of finished figures and will end up on EBay in due course.

I still have a large number of horse archers to paint up but I dont need to paint them at present as I have more than enough finished elements in my box for my current needs unless I go for the almost entirely light horse variation of the army. The thought of over 100 Irr LH F plus the lone Irr Cv O CinC is quite daunting!

So here are the completed eighteen Horde elements.

Here are the eight spare Auxilia elements.Which are now on EBay UK

Finally as part of the Chinese lot I blogged about on the 10th May 2020 there were four orphan elements of Indian Light Horse with javelins. I had to repair two of the castings which had broken javelins and repainted their shields into Black Lacquer so they matched in with my own Indian army collection.. The figures were otherwise very nice and I rebased them in the style of my own Indian army bases for a very quick win as I was missing a couple of Irr LH O elements anyway.