Category Archives: De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA)

Corvus Belli Libyan Spearmen, second stand done

Posted on 2010/02/25 | 2 comments

I finished this stand of Libyans a couple nights ago, and hope to have the third done soon.  I gave the two on the right eyes, because I was in that sort of mood.

Libyan spearmen by Corvus Belli

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Corvus Belli Libyan Spearmen, one stand done

Posted on 2010/02/17 | Comments Off on Corvus Belli Libyan Spearmen, one stand done

Enjoy!

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Corvus Belli Libyan Spearmen, a start

Posted on 2010/02/06 | 2 comments

My goal was to finish a stand of Libyan spearmen for my Corvus Belli DBA Later Carthaginian army today, but it’s not going to happen.  I finished two models (see photo below) and got a good start on the other two, but I want to move on to other projects with what remains of the day.  Saturday is the only day of the week I get to paint most of the day, and I need to make the best of it.  I plan to finish the evening painting Grenadier goblins.  Nice and simple.

Libyan Spearmen, WIP

My Later Carthaginian army to date

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Carthaginian Elephants, by Corvus Belli

Posted on 2010/02/05 | Comments Off on Carthaginian Elephants, by Corvus Belli

I haven’t posted an update on my DBA Carthaginian army project since September 2009.  I’d like to remedy that, and hope to post something once every week or two.

To be honest, the elephants are partly to blame.  They were fiddly to assemble and paint; and I hope never to work on a Corvus Belli elephant again.  That being said, I’m generally please with the results.  One thing that bothers me, however, is the driver.  I dry fit him several times prior to painting, and a couple times when the elephant and howdah were done.  once the shields were in place, however, I couldn’t get him to sit right, and by then it was too late.

I should also not that I’m largely following the studio palette for this army.  I’m making a few changes here and there, some greater than others.  But I’d like to finish these in a timely manner, and this seemed one way to expedite the process.

Carthaginian elephants (front)

Carthaginian elephants (side)

Up next, Libyan spearmen.

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Baueda 15mm Viking Foot Command

Posted on 2009/12/16 | Comments Off on Baueda 15mm Viking Foot Command

Baueda Viking Command (front)

Baueda Viking Command (back)

Kallistra's 10mm Viking Huscarls (left) and two 15mm Baueda Vikings (right)

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DBA WIPs

Posted on 2009/09/15 | 1 comment


These are a few shots of some armies for DBA that I’m slowly picking away at, the Later Carthaginian DBA box set from Corvus Belli and a couple Greek DBA box sets from Xyston, Athenian 450BC-275BC and Spartan 450BC-275BC (the ones in the photo are from the Athenian set).  The Xyston sculpts are fantastic; I haven’t found anything to complain about concerning the models for these two armies.  The CB sculpts are quite nice as well, but some of the faces lack sufficient detail or are structurally odd (i.e., the skirmisher with the yellow tunic in the photo above) and the pose and anatomy of the Carthage elephant looks unnatural to me.  Regardless, I’d buy them again.

All of these were primed with Holbein Acryla gesso (black).  I’ll be republishing WeeToySoldiers’ article about gesso on this site soon, for those of you who miss or have yet to read it.

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