Hello again, I am pleased to present another project that I completed recently. I had the base for this figure for some time, but I only recently found the figures I had painted up early last year.
The base is simple. I applied a coat of my favourite wall filler, a softer version of ordinary plaster, over the foam board cut out and glued onto a basic wooden board. The boulders are again just bluestone gravel from the driveway dipped in plaster.
I must admit that I have become a big fan of the stick-on tufts. My usual Army Painter tufts, along with some new ones, a Christmas gift from one of my daughters, are Gamers Grass. They come in an amazing array of colours and shapes.
The mounted figures are Red Box Byzantine Clibanarii sets 1 and 2, and the foot soldiers are the Red Box Eastern Tribes.
That’s it for now. Stay well, and I will be back soon.
Pat's 1:72 Military Diorama's 
Dave Stone
Great looking dio Pat, always astounds me how natural the positioning looks of the models.
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patmcf
Thanks Dave maybe it’s more accidental than planned 😂😂👍🏻.
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John@justneedsvarnish
Very nice, Pat! 🙂 Well laid out! Byzantines are in my “armies I like but have never painted” category!
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patmcf
Cheers matey,👍🏻
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lorenzoseventh
Excellent Pat, always had soft spot for Byzantine forces and I must admit those fantasy eastern tribes are quite attractive – very fitting desert diorama 😁
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patmcf
Cheers mate, I don’t normally use the more sedate figures but felt they were too good to put them in the never to use box😉.
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Zauberwurf
Great work!
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patmcf
Thanks matey👍🏻.
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Mark A. Morin
Beautiful as always Pat!
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patmcf
Thank matey👍🏻
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Azazel
They look great, Pat – aside from how good the figures look, the landscape has a really nice natural look to it as well!
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patmcf
Thanks Azazel, I do like making these smaller bases👍🏻.
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Jeff Groves
Nice! Roughly how many figures do you get painted in a year?
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patmcf
Thanks Jeff, as I only do 1/72 I can get away with average paint jobs( thus not taking photos to close if I can help it😉)so I can get through quit a number in a week. I should post one of all the figures that have never been used, it might be interesting to some. Now that you mentioned it I did a bit of a tally and came up with a roughtament of between 500 to 750 foot figures and about 100 mounted.
Now I’m concentrating on smaller ones I have to do a better job as one’s eye doesn’t get thrown around like it does on the big old ones and doesn’t see the sloppy paint jobs, so that number will decline in the future.
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Jeff Groves
That’s an inspiring number!
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patmcf
Thanks matey, since you have brought it up I will endeavour to keep a record just out of interest 🤔.
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