Painting Inca army for DBA. (IV/81)

For DBA you need to paint 12 stands. Mike decided to buy two sets of 12 bags. These figures came from Essex and were heavily discounted.

INCA from Essex link

Only $30 for 12 bags. So a pretty good deal. There are 8 models in each so a total of 96 models. I did not really think this through so I painted all 96 figures before deciding what I needed to for the DBA army.

The INCA army can be found in book IV. It is list 81.

The IV/81 Inca Imperial Army includes:

One General (Lit or 3 BD or 4 Ax). I decided to go with the 3 blades. (3 figures from INC 16 and INC 5)

One halberdires or coastal nobles (3Bd/4Ax) Again I decided to go for a 3 blades. These include fighting infantry primarily skilled in fencing individually with swords or heavier cutting or cut and thrust weapons.(3 figures from INC 1)

One forest archers (3Bw or Ps) or Collas bolas-men (Ps). I chose the Psiloi. These include dispersed skirmishers on foot with javelin, sling, staff, bow, etc (2 figures from INC 8)

Four regulars (4 Ax) These are Auxilia. They represent javelin armed foot able to fight hand to hand. (16 figures from INC 3 and INC 4)

Three skirmishing slingers (Ps). (6 figures from INC 10)

Two subject Quechua or Aymara (3Ax) or hasty levies (5Hd) or after 1470 Canari (3Pk). I chose the Ax. (6 figures from INC 7 and INC 9)

This is the twelve stands that comprise the DBA Army.

Painted: 36
Total for 2017: 255
Working on:  DBMM Inca army with left overs

Painting Lord of the Rings. (Heros from Escape from Goblin Town)

I started the Lord of Rings painting job, since Mike was making good progress on his orcs, etc.

Mike decided that it would be nice if I painted some Dwarves from the Hobbit movie. The is a set called Escape from Goblin Town that includes the 13 Dwarves, Gandalf, and Bilbo and a huge amount of Goblins. I started with the hobbits. I decided to take my time and really apply myself. Hopefully these turned out nice. These are only 25 mm so my close ups show a lot of detail, but unless you have really good eye sight you would not see this.

I started with black primer, then painted the colours, the used citadel shade, then a lot of highlighting on each colour.

Gandalf

Bilbo

Balin

Bifur

Bofur

Bombur

Dori

Dwalin

Fili

Gloin

Kili

Nori

Oin

Ori

Thorin Oakenshield

Thorin's company.

Each model took me about two hours to complete.

Painted: 15
Total for 2017: 243
Working on:  DBA Inca Army