When I first approached De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) in the late '90s, online trading was uncommon and local stores had choices limited to Romans/Celts/Carthaginians and Napoleonic 15mm miniatures, even in a big city as Milano. I bought a pair of Punic lancers, Celtic warriors and Balearic skirmishers units but I soon realized I couldn't spend so much money to build armies and so much time to paint them. I was playing by myself, totally unaware about other gamers or clubs or 'online resources' and I was also trying to push my friends into DBA (which resulted in a total failure). I needed something cheap, easy to produce and generic so I turned to paper armies. My sister Gabriella was at the time graduating in Fine Arts so I asked her to draw some simple icons. I copied those icons with a Xerox machine, cut out, coloured with markers and glued them to cardboards bases. I could then produce all the armies I wanted: 30a. Tullian Roman 35. Gallic ...
The Magician is from Ral Partha's AD&D Battlesystem. Base terrain is made of Fimo Air. The fence is Noch's Garden Fence . The tombstone is made out of cardboard. To do: second tombstone, broken slab for the first grave, weeds and... the raised!
Here's a Metal Magic dwarf I bought in the nineties and never painted. I finished him last week and it made me understand a little more about inks and washes, things I didn't know 20 years ago. He could represent my Dwarven 4th level Cleric of Pharasma (Death/Repose) in the Rise of the Runelords Pathfinder's campaign I am currently playing with my mates. I think he needs a shield, it could be a chance to use those shield transfers I got two months ago.
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