Saturday, 15 December 2012

El Cid Almoravid Infantry (HaT)

Finally started work on the Infantry for the Moor army. This lot are th HaT Almoravid infantry with a few conversions.
The flag I got from Tom´s Toy soldiers Blog which he made himself and kindly put up HERE  for everyone to use. Apparently the writing on the flag means "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger" or sometimes translated as 'There is no god but god, and Muhammad is His prophet"
The writing on the shields is completely made up and hopefully doesn´t actually mean anything..
The archers. Nice looking bods but there could have been a few more poses
The conversions. Nothing spectacular, ranging from just swopping a spear for a lance or an arm swop. So far it´s raised the 16 available poses to 22
Hopefully the El Cid Andalusian Infantry set will allow more conversion and the possibility of cross coversion between both sets.
The original pose is on the right of each pic.

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34 comments:

  1. toma15 December 2012 at 05:10

    Really beautiful job, Paul. Congratulations.

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  2. Monty15 December 2012 at 05:45

    Your brush never sleeps!

    I love your Moors! You've got a very colorful army with lots of variety in weapons and poses. And I won't even ask how you strung such a tiny bow.

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  3. TWD15 December 2012 at 06:16

    Glad you're making use of the flags!
    The figures look great.
    Tom

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  4. Ian15 December 2012 at 06:33

    Very nice Paul, happy to be back working in 20mm again?

    Ian

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    1. Paul´s Bods16 December 2012 at 10:56

      Thanks Ian.
      The 28m´m bods are just for fun...sort of another sideline to the main theme of 20mm medievals. The painting methods are completely different, I´m having to invent new ways to cover the larger areas....a wet palette might be called for.

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  5. fireymonkeyboy15 December 2012 at 06:48

    Love it, love it, love it! These are so good Paul!

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  6. Hein15 December 2012 at 06:49

    Very nice painted bods. Just like the rest of your work.

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  7. Shriff15 December 2012 at 07:05

    Excellent paintwork Paul. Stunning colors. I like what you have done with them. I have these sets somewhere. Would like to paint them sometime too.

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  8. Jay15 December 2012 at 07:43

    You've still got and use your "conversion cognitions," multiplying your armies exponentially. A very nice rainbow of colors on the Moors, Sir.

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  9. Neil Scott15 December 2012 at 08:07

    Nicely painted. The El Cid period is one of my favourites

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  10. Phil15 December 2012 at 08:52

    Wonderful colors! Excellent looking scriptures...
    Phil.

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    1. Paul´s Bods16 December 2012 at 10:58

      Thanks Phil.
      I was going to use actual writing but it just didn´t work. it takes to long to "transfer" the real writing to the shield.

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  11. Silver Whistle15 December 2012 at 08:53

    Very colourful and superb painting on these Paul.

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  12. Ray Rousell15 December 2012 at 10:26

    Great work on these Paul!

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  13. peter15 December 2012 at 10:46

    Excellented painted and converted bods Paul! I see you have been playing with your knife again! ;-)

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://www.peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  14. The Angry Lurker15 December 2012 at 11:16

    Beautiful Paul, I think one of the shields said "Ray is a muppet" but I'm not sure it could be puppet!

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    1. Paul´s Bods16 December 2012 at 10:59

      Thanks Fran.
      You haven´t seen what´s written on the new shields...:-D

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  15. Anibal Invictus15 December 2012 at 11:19

    Really impressive, congratulations

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  16. Daisy Gowan Ditchburn15 December 2012 at 12:04

    very nice work paul... hey all those shields are insulting me, just joking great work

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  17. Michael Awdry15 December 2012 at 12:55

    These a stunning Paul, wonderful colours.

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  18. Tarty15 December 2012 at 13:46

    Great stuff and interesting period.

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  19. Sam Wise15 December 2012 at 14:20

    they are perfect!
    a very good set and I love the colours.

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  20. David15 December 2012 at 14:49

    I'm glad you've done it already! One more for me to "follow", as I intend to paint this (and the other set too) soon! ;)

    Superb work, as always!

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    1. Paul´s Bods16 December 2012 at 11:01

      Thanks David.
      The good thing with this lot is you can let rip with the colours. I researched a bit before starting but there´s not a huge amount about them out there except that they were pretty colourfull. The black guard is something very different though.

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  21. Hugh Walter15 December 2012 at 17:44

    Lovely figures Paul, but I could read the shields and will remain mortally offended for forty days and forty nights, then I'll raise Jihad against you...and get some sleep!

    Hugh

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  22. Schedler Vincent 16 December 2012 at 04:20

    Impressive armi , good work .

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  23. Scott B. Lesch16 December 2012 at 04:37

    Paul, I appreciate the links to Plastic Soldier Review with your posts. PSR is like a small history lesson for folks unfamiliar with the time period.

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    1. Paul´s Bods16 December 2012 at 11:03

      Thanks scott.
      PSR is a great site, the "bible" for collectors or 1/72nd plastic bods. If it hadn´t been for finding them and the bennos forum on a boring sunday surfing the internet looking for childhood toys of long ago, I probably would have gone over to WotR´s stuff in 28mm..the very thought :-D

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  24. Willie Anderson16 December 2012 at 08:03

    These really stand out Paul the colours are great!

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  25. Sanguemarcio16 December 2012 at 10:04

    Great work Paul but I think that this set is the Almoravid infantry not Andalusian.... :-)

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    1. Paul´s Bods17 December 2012 at 05:13

      Thanks and well spotted.
      I was elsewhere in my thoughts as i posted ..a test today which I thought would be difficult..and it was..I just scraped through..

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  26. The Dancing Cake Tin16 December 2012 at 10:12

    There is no Bod but Bod! Great work, chap!

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  27. michigentilesmicroworld16 December 2012 at 23:40

    such a beautiful group of figs!!! super

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  28. danny17 December 2012 at 02:34

    Hola
    Inpresionante gran trabajo
    UN SALUDO Y FELIZ NAVIDAD

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