My references for this part of the project are;

Can never go wrong with a horse markings guide. I keep one sitting next to me as a paint horse. It makes painting faster.

Both of these are from WAB series. Skipping the rules and unit entries, it is a quick read. Some pictures, battles, troop types

These are great magazines.

I have a subscription to AW. Normally they sit until I get 4-5, then I read them all at once.

These rubber rivers will see usage across scales. Epic 6mm, Warmaster 10mm, and RF&F 15mm as rivers. FoF 20mm, and 28mm M&T as streams.

         One unit could have as many as 48 dudes (Unit = 3 stands @ 16 dudes a stand). If one had 10 units of legionaries in a 3000 point army, thats 740 dudes. The speed at which I could paint a unit becomes a big question. Even if I paint in 1000 point blocks. How fast can I get an army on the table? Get two armies on the table?

         Now some of these guys are doubled ranked or in the case of a Phalanx 4 ranks. It may be faster to paint them based. The painting of dudes based and in ranks does create a difficultly in how much of the inner dudes are painted.

         A test for best method is needed. Also which method produces a quality looking group of dudes. The test will be on heavy infantry and Skirmishers.

Phase one; painting on sticks and Phase two based in ranks.

         The procedure will be the same. I will start with dudes fresh from the bag. They will be cleaned, mounted, primed, painted, dipped, flocked, and sealed. Any attention to the shields will be not included.

Phase One;

Cartho Libyans — Cleaning and mounting and priming, strong tone wash and spears 22 minutes.

         Then the plan totally collapsed as I chose to start doing shields. In the end I had to go back to hit the spots I skip over for shields.

reference sheet 1

         Hand painting shields at 10mm is a bit of a strain. My lighting sucks and there is no wet palette here. My examples are 110% larger than the actual 10mm shield.

Carthaginian Libyan Inf.

 My device for mounting single dudes straight and balanced on the base

 The real reason I was short skirmishers. I stuck a few in support of the elephants. 3 African Forest Elephants.

 Forest Elephants are much smaller than India Elephants. The forest type is long gone. I did find some handles for these dudes. No riders with big long spears yet.

           The look! So, maybe, just maybe, I went head first. Nope I am truly ass deep to a tall indian (feather, no dot) in 10mm ancients.

           I am not totally at fault. I live in a country that is not supportive of package delivery. So returning to the states is an Amazon and soldier ordering craze. Poor dad, says a room is so full of shit, there is no where for me to sleep. I waited to after the wife returned to open and sort thru the boxes. Fall In was coming and I may need more. Only 3 sets!

 Bases from Shogun and Pendraken

       This year I tied to stay out of the vender hall. Years past, when not gaming or bullshitting, I would go over. Which was like a fat kid in a candy shop. I would blow the budget and never get the shit on my list.
        Plus, they moved the entrance to the hall to the opposite side of the building. Then tore up the hill and stairs in-between. It was an extra 100yd hike to get in the door.
       The building had been completely redone. Bathroom were fixed. Windows added, but the new tables were seriously stress tested under the weight of the venders.

20mm Colonial

 This is a great box. It provides litters, porters, and locals.

        I did go over to Old Glory in search of 10mm elephant riders. (Pyrrhus was the dude that put the towers on the elephant. Plus African elephants (forest elephants are long gone) are smaller by 25-30% compared to an India elephant.) So they could not support the tower and I need dudes sitting tossing spears.
        I got a pack of India elephants, romans, and greek light Inf. The old glory dude gave me a free pack!

        Staying true to the list I grabbed two packs of irrigation ditches (timeincasting) and some paint (army painter zombie line. I never planned on staying stateside for so long. I only carried the paint I need to touch up the Tau and some desert terrain.) The ditches pull double duty. I used as roads for 6mm also.

       The books and magazines. The books were pulled from Walley’s basement.

Pretty excited about this one. I think it is a first ed.

          “I think it is everyone’s dream to have an Epic city table. Mine too, and like most I have failed to create anything remotely cool and useful. Before there was never a plan or layout, just random projects here and there slapped together. Now there is a plan! 
          Today the dream starts, 08 JULY 2013. How long it will take? Will I ever finish the table?”

It took 4 years and 2 months.

 That grey square is for a Tank Factory. Hmmm need to find that box.

Lessons Learned;

ForgeWorld Roads are not true or square. They are not the same thickness. It is the normal FW shit job and QC. I think next time I would make copies of originals. Then take those copies and make them true and square. Then makes copies off the corrected versions. eBay the originals.

ForgeWorld Buildings should be scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed. Then primed with auto primer. After painting dip them in AP strong tone. They chip and get damaged far too easily. I have to repair them after every time out.
Also I would like to chop a few of the buildings. If I had the time, I think I could make some interest crazy stuff, Ts and Crosses.

Lay out the boards;  1 with a machinist’s jig. Example; label the tile North, East, West, South and jig the roads out on the north curb.   2 make sure all the roads line up from tile to tile, side to side.

 Just in time for HMGS’ Fall In

Ebay coughed up 10mm elephants and skirmishers. 10s are pretty easy to paint. I plowed thru them in about 30 minutes. Nothing special. Just the very basics.

 No wash or highlight yet. Actually they will get dipped not washed.

And the elephants need riders. No towers, I will use them as African elephants.