The bases and movement trays for the Celtic chariots arrived a couple of weeks back as mentioned in a previous post. I wanted to complete the last two bases of warriors prior to starting work on them though. Over the last couple of days I have glued up the two remaining chariots, undercoated all three of them plus their crews, and adhered them to their movement trays. It was only after doing this that I realised that I should have painted them first as there are some very awkward looking places to reach now, ha ha - oh well!
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| The Three Chariots prior to Basing and Painting |
Warbases did a fine job in creating some lovely custom movement trays for my chariots - I used their standard 95x40mm pill bases as the starting point and asked them to incorporate two of them onto their standard 120x120mm Midgard trays. They work very well indeed - the chariots proved to be a fine fit.
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| Chariot Bases and Movement Trays |
As the chariots are larger, more complex miniatures I am going to count them as a little bit more than the 3/6 (9 in total) count that I have been giving them so far. As each model consists of a chariot, 2 horses and 2 crew members I will count each model as 5 figures in total - 15 figures in all. Maybe if I paint vehicles or multi-piece items in future I will reconsider the total worth, but for now this makes sense to me (and makes the completed numbers more appealing). I know, I know, you can justifiably point out that I didn't count my mounted figures as two figures, when maybe I should have done, but to paraphrase Gimli, "They still only count as one!"
Celtic figures progress (106 of 133 completed)...
106 figures based and ready for use with the Midgard rules set- Leaders and Champions (6 metal figures)
- 1 base of druids (4 metal figures)
- Mounted warriors (2 metal/plastic figures)
- Chariots and crew (15 metal figures - 3 chariots, 6 horses, 6 crew)
- 40 Standard and elite warriors (plastic figures)
- 8 Javelinmen (metal figures)
- 2 Slingers (metal figures)
Whilst evaluating my progress and contemplating what else needs doing, I took a look at some potential new units that could be built from the remaining unpainted/prepped Romans and Britons and the Warbases movement trays that are left. Here are the raw numbers (I may have missed a few figures, but I will add them in as and when I find them) - I will try to create as many new units as I can from these and hope that I do not need to purchase any more movement trays for the forces going forward. That being said, the numbers I already have should be enough for most 300 point army eventualities, and I wish to complete another couple of projects before circling back to this one.
Romans...
- 54 Plastic figures:
- 1 complete box of 30
- 24 on sprues (4 leaders, 20 legionaries)
- 2 Optios
- 1 Western Spearman
- 1 Eastern Archer
- 9 Balearic Slingers
- 12 Numidian Cavalry
- Artillery:
- 2 Scorpions + 4 crew
- 1 Ballista + 3 crew
- 1 Onager + 3 crew - for some reason I got a Caesarian rather than Early Imperial onager, so the crew are historically incorrect for this army - ho hum!
Britons...
- 40 Plastic figures - 37 upper bodies, 47 lower bodies (due to using ten uppers for cavalry) on their sprues - plus 3 already constructed
- 32 Standard Warriors
- 8 Armoured Warriors
- 8 Javelinmen
- 2 Slingers
Unused Movement Trays...
- 4 Warrior ranked bases
- 5 Warrior non-ranked bases
- 5 Skirmisher bases
- 8 Mounted Warrior bases
- 1 Chariot base
- I need to create/order bases for the artillery - these need to be worked out in detail
Timeline - I began this project back on the 6th of June. I have managed to complete 13 movement trays/units in about 10 weeks so far, so I have hit my target of an average of a base per week. Some were more achievable than others so I got more than one base in per week, but there were a few moments when I wavered a little, although I just about managed it. Now to complete the remaining figures in the list.
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