Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Ancients Vendel (Molon Labe) and Old Glory

This week I painted some very nice figures from Vendel. It's not called Vendel anymore. The moulds were acquired by Sgt Major Miniatures and called Molon Labe now http://sgmm.biz/greeks.html The miniatures are Greek skirmishers also called Psiloi.
I changed lead casted spears right away as they looked too big for javelins and used florist wire to make new ones. Here is the link to a website where I posted how to make spears or javelins from florist wire: http://www.displacedminiatures.com/Igwarg/gallery/605/ The sculpting on those figures looked chunky and stiff, but they came out very well painted. There was almost no flash and enough room for shading and highlighting. I also liked that belts were strategically hidden below the folds in tunic. 8 different figures gave a good variety. Molon Labe figures are BIG, more like 30mm and may not mix with other companies, at least not in the same unit. Below is Foundry figure next to Molon Labe figure 
I also painted a set of Old Glory 25mm Cesarean Roman artillery crew.
Those are not the best OG sculpts, but not the worst. I liked the poses overall, nice details. Unfortunately, legs looked like tree trunks and leather mail lining tend to disappear all of the sudden. Also, tunic folds looked a bit random. Like almost always Old Glory figures look just fine with a decent paint job. 

7 comments:

  1. Very nice job on the psiloi, Igor! I am anxiously awaiting an appearance by 1st Bombay Grenadiers & Co...

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  2. Great looking work as always. BTW, nice start on the blog. I think this is a great forum to show off your works. I think Buddy's Displaced Miniatures has sort of taken a back seat; although it was (& still is) a great site for minis. Regards, Dean

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  3. I´m definately going to have to investigste old glory´s stuff after seeing those romans and those psiloi are top class!!
    Cheers
    paul

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  4. Wow, I guess the old adage that a great paint job can totally mask a crummy sculpt job is true! I came here from a link at WAB Corner, your stuff is great. Hard to believe there are mini painters in Brooklyn! Great work!

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  5. Doug, are you from Brooklyn also?

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