Sunday 12 May 2013

Return of a Old Friend

Been sorting out some old rule sets for disposal and came across my copy of DBA version 1 , I sold all my DBA armies years ago as I had stopped using them and flicking through the rules was struck by the elegant simplicity of them (before the morphed into DBA 2.2 or whatever they are now !). I began to think I should start playing them again - simple and fun for solo games and a campaign system too !. I decided I would rebuild my Greek Hoplite armies as I seem to remember having some cracking games in this period . I have chosen Chariot Miniatures Greeks and have got enough to do a Greek Hoplite, a Spartan and a North Greek Army , 'A' was kind enough to pass on some unwanted figures as well . I've dug out my relevant Ospreys and have made a start of painting them (the great thing about DBA was always that you did not have to paint masses of figures), after painting 30/40mm figures going back to 15mm is a bit of a re-learning curve and I've decided to go with shield transfers as well . Here are the first few bases painted.



5 comments:

  1. Nice job mate, I'm struggling to paint my 15mm stuff I'm not getting the feel for the size.

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  2. Back to the future, eh? Painting 15mm beyond me now though. Look forward to seeing how this goes.

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  3. Interesting to hear other comments on 15mm. Every time I try to get back to this scale I give up as my peepers start aching. I like chariot Miniatures, but always found them a bit brittle.

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    1. They are produced by Magnum Militarum (?) and they seem to use a softer metal - 15mm is a pain to paint - glad I have a limited number to do !

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  4. Looking at the related HoTT (Hordes of the Things), I have been very tempted to create something for it. What I like partularly is the imagination that goes into the armies - VietNam War Yanks, Steam Punk Brits, Spiders (Spiderman being God), jungle animals, My Little Pony... I thought of doing Baron Richtofen's Flying Circus (flying hero and lots of other flyers), but will probably settle on something straightforward: Seven Years' War Russians. A couple of jager figures can form the 'Lurker' element...

    Cheers,
    Ion

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