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Blog Marcus' painting blog 2022

Lord-Marcus said:
Victrix
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Hmm branching out a bit from your beloved Wargames Atlantic ;)

Could you post a Size Comparison with your WA and Gripping Beast figures please? I wanted to check to see if the Victrix heads are particularly bigger than those on WA or GB models as the impression seems to give from a lot of shots
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
Hmm branching out a bit from your beloved Wargames Atlantic ;)

Could you post a Size Comparison with your WA and Gripping Beast figures please? I wanted to check to see if the Victrix heads are particularly bigger than those on WA or GB models as the impression seems to give from a lot of shots
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Moreso providing variation in the project workflow.

More scale testing:

Left to right:

WGA Persian Bowman, WGA goth quiver, Victrix late Roman head.

Wargames Atlantic dark age Irish, victrix late Roman head and spear arm.

Gripping beast Saxon thegn body, gripping beast late Roman head, WGA late Roman spear arm in mail.

Full victrix unarmored late Roman.

Wakanda sprite-zero can for scale.

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Lord-Marcus said:
Moreso providing variation in the project workflow.

More scale testing:

Left to right:

WGA Persian Bowman, WGA goth quiver, Victrix late Roman head.

Wargames Atlantic dark age Irish, victrix late Roman head and spear arm.

Gripping beast Saxon thegn body, gripping beast late Roman head, WGA late Roman spear arm in mail.

Full victrix unarmored late Roman.

Wakanda sprite-zero can for scale.

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Cheers for this mate.

From this it's clear to see that the heads actually don't look too bad, it's the bodies that are the issue - the Victrix models are about a head taller than the Gripping Beast and Wargames Atlantic ones, probably about the size of Warhammer Fantasy minis (which at least confirms that the Victrix Celts are the best source of models to make a Warhammer Fantasy Albion army from).

A pity, because I liked the inclusion of British heads in the Victrix Late Roman set and was considering them plus their Dark Age Archers as a possible source of additional unarmoured infantry and archer models for my British/Welsh army. Of course the WA Goths, as you mentioned before, have some nice unarmoured bodies and bow arms, but I will have to rely upon the spare heads I have (and have currently misplaced :shifty:) from my Warlord Celts for getting the maximum number of moustaches into my army.

Good to know though that the Victrix heads look fine upon slightly shorter models, because I was planning to get an Oathmark Human Infantry box to make some more elite Rhyfelwyr infantry and their heads are about the size of Victrix ones, with their bodies being a comparable size to Gripping Beast and WA.
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
Cheers for this mate.

From this it's clear to see that the heads actually don't look too bad, it's the bodies that are the issue - the Victrix models are about a head taller than the Gripping Beast and Wargames Atlantic ones, probably about the size of Warhammer Fantasy minis (which at least confirms that the Victrix Celts are the best source of models to make a Warhammer Fantasy Albion army from).

A pity, because I liked the inclusion of British heads in the Victrix Late Roman set and was considering them plus their Dark Age Archers as a possible source of additional unarmoured infantry and archer models for my British/Welsh army. Of course the WA Goths, as you mentioned before, have some nice unarmoured bodies and bow arms, but I will have to rely upon the spare heads I have (and have currently misplaced :shifty:) from my Warlord Celts for getting the maximum number of moustaches into my army.

Good to know though that the Victrix heads look fine upon slightly shorter models, because I was planning to get an Oathmark Human Infantry box to make some more elite Rhyfelwyr infantry and their heads are about the size of Victrix ones, with their bodies being a comparable size to Gripping Beast and WA.
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Now that you mention it, yea the victrix do look heroically scaled in body proportion, and that's why I've always felt thier heads have been too tiny for themselves.

Huh.

Not necessarily a problem, as from 3 foot table difference nothing really matters there.
 
Newest edition to the jade host of Qua'phar.

Qua'phar had some of the most finely wrought enslaved guardians.

The recent ogre incursions caused by the border mercenary "patrols" of Ophidia destroyed or defaced a large number of these.

In retribution His Imperial Eminence Vizier Ankh'Maat had their corpses desecrated, and their skulls bound with sacred plaques before being raised in servitude to His Imperial Majesty.

Now only the Viridian crown can release their souls from the arcane shackles that bind them to this plane.

Mafek'Nun, King of Qua'phar and bearer of the emerald sceptre, is not merciful by nature.

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Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
Great to see different manufacturers here - I can spot Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors and Late Roman Infantry among your WA Romans and Goths. All quality miniatures.
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I have bought and painted every major manufacturer.

I've collected odds and ends throughout the last few years. I decided to put them to use bulking out ranks of possible
 
Lord-Marcus said:
Slight change of pace. 2 concept bases of troops for sludge
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Just wanted to ask another question about these chaps and Sludge - I've noticed in the Sludge rules that Line Infantry are meant to be on 40mm round bases supposedly, but yours look to be on bigger ones - what size are your Line Infantry on, and is it hugely important that they have to be on 40mms? Because I've been eyeing up some evidently larger bases on Footsore Miniatures' site that hold three figures already mounted on 25mm rounds, so that the figures can be used in other systems:
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