X_BriX's Ancient & Medieval stuff

[XbriX]

I'm going to post post photos of all my ancient and medieval 1/72nd scale miniatures here.

Cheers,
Jacob
My blog: xbrixsminiatures.blogspot.com

[XbriX]

Roman Velites painted last week :





More photos on my blog

Cheers,
Jacob

[Bluefalchion]

Very cool!

[carlosfaro]

Nice job! I will visit the blog but it would be great f you posted here some samples more!

[MABO]

Very good romans! Keep on painting and posting!

[XbriX]

Thanks guys!

Nice job! I will visit the blog but it would be great f you posted here some samples more!

No problem, here are the photos .











Cheers,
Jacob

[Susofrick]

Oh, yes! Me like!

[XbriX]

Dismounted Polybian Roman General:





Cheers,
Jacob

[Graeme]

Anywhere he goes.. Is Rome!

I like him a lot, very commanding looking figure.

[MABO]

Cool avatar!

[Bluefalchion]

You have a unique painting style. I like it!

[XbriX]

Photos of some XV century foot Men at Arms from Zvezda. Possibly for my Hundred years War and War of the Roses projects.



Knights


Men at Arms


Ranged:


Close ups:













Cheers,
Jacob

[Bluefalchion]

That's really nice stuff. How did you learn to paint so well?

[MABO]

I like the crossbowmen. Cool figz.

[XbriX]

That's really nice stuff. How did you learn to paint so well?

Thanks , but it's just the most basic painting technique : base coat, wash and some layers of highlights.


This week I want to present something a bit different - section of American 101st Airborne Paratroopers in m42 uniform. They come from Esci set.



















Cheers,
Jacob

[Bluefalchion]

Looking fantastic. I don't love the eyes but the rest is great.

In my experience, eyes are usually part of the way or all the way closed. So painting them looks better if you have a lot of eyelid covering a portion of the eyeball. And the skin of the eyeball tends to be a bit darker than the rest.

[Beano Boy]

A real treat to see the oldies painted up fine and dandy.
The medieval guys wearing lots of iron and shields look rather superbly neat too. Cool BB

[XbriX]

Thanks!

I don't love the eyes but the rest is great.

I paint eyes only to give the figures this cartoony look, but I can see the point. This time I painted modern military figures, and went for photo-realistic theme, so no eyes on this one .

I don't have a lot of time, so I'm going to quote my blog (I'm lazy as hell I know )

There is a number of military conflicts being fought right now, and as in any war in history armies need mercenaries to fill up the numbers, that is when private military companies (such as Blackwater International) come in. Figures are from Caesar set. I went for different painting style (not my standard cartoony look), with less highlights and more grim colors, to reflect the fact that this type of soldiers fight and die right now all round the world.

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Enjoy the photos!

















The tank in the background is 1/72 scale Merkava from Revell:








Cheers,
Jacob

[XbriX]

It is Orctober, the month of the Orcs. When many 1/72 scale bloggers paint massive warbands of fantasy Orcs. I wanted to make some contribution to the overall horde, which might be hard considering I don't have a single Orc to paint!
Thankfully I had a bunch of DDS Landsknechts laying around, which would potencially make an effective Warhammer(ish) l Imperial force to oppose all the Orcs. It will be a small project, roughly 15 figures strong, all painted this month. We start with two Greatswords. Enjoy!







Cheers,
Jacob

[XbriX]

Good day!
Another bunch of Imperials arrived, three marksmen and a greatsword









Cheers,
Jacob