Once upon a time... years ago... I purchased a pile of Macedons, Persians and Indians, and never touched them again. Now I have finally started to put some colour on them. Its not really an army yet but more a set of samples.

First some Persians and Greek mercenaries:

A still very small group of Macedons:

(my girlfriend called them "Smurfs with very long... things")

And finally (I couldn't resist) some Indian war-elephants:

And some more, its looking a bit more like armies now.  The ground is still to green, I have to look for something more desertish...

Sorry for such an amount of pictures, I couldn't decide wich one to take *g

Ralf

Looks great. I like the colours used through it all.

Lovely! Which techniques do you use (e.g. what colour undercoat, etc.)?

Great looking armies. Have you seen the DeepCut Studio sagebrush game mat? It is a pleasing mix of greens and various browns, umbers and buffs. Recommended for southern Europe, the Near East and parts of America.

Well, thanks for your compliments!

First for the techniques: undercoat is a very light grey from a spray can (fast to do and gives a smooth surface); colouring with Vallejo; then ink for the shadows (I use peat brown from Newtons, black I find to dark); then a matt varnish, again from a spray can (Humbrol Acrylics, but others will do too); and finally all metallics (with a bit of ink afterwords when nessecary), because metallics will lose shininess, when you varnish them with matt spray.

And second for the link: Thank you very much, I didn't know theses mats, really great looking. Have you already see one of them for real?

Ralf

Yes, I own a fields cloth mat. It is the one which is a mixture of various green hues. The mat is like a thick cotton sheet. I also have a lime green faux mink throw, which is 6 foot plus x 4 foot plus. This is very heavy, and takes hills underneath very readily. I broke up the lime green by spraying it, over the washing line in the garden, with both dark green and sand acrylics. Incidentally, I looked on the DeepCut webswite, but couldn't see the sagebrush mat. However, I do know it is available in this country via the To the Strongest shop, in various sizes with or without a finely marked grid. Here's a photo of my faux mink (Amazon) set up for a 6mm game.

bloody lovely terrain. 

That mat is very nice.

Amazon are still selling them. I just searched for faux mink throw blanket in lime green on the Amazon website. The 200cm x 240cm can be had for as little as £15. It does have the advantage that its weight allows for draping over hill shapes to produce a good undulating terrain. However it does look much better with some random acylic spraying in a variety of different greens and light brown/sandy/buff colours.