I painted up two lots of 64 figures bunt never quite finished them off. Along came the Aventine range and the Foundry stuff got put on the back burner...until now!
Friend Simon Miller has once again persuaded me to join in with one of his insane projects, this time a refight of Raphia at Partizan in June next year. Figure scale is roughly 1:100, so that's a lot of figures to paint. I've drawn the Seleucid side of the fight and need to get some numbers together quickly.
One of the key units on the Seleucid side is the Silver Shields (Argyraspides). At our figure scale, I need 100 figures to represent their strength of 10,000 (actually 96 in reality). As I'd originally painted 64 man units, I needed a further 32 figures to make up the necessary 96, so here they are, sans shields, of which more later. Ran out of pike, so still need to add these to the armoured half of the batch.
That project sounds awesome and I look forward to following your progress. Beautiful painting on these.
ReplyDeleteDamn, those look good. Looking forward to seeing 96 28mm pike figures in a block.
ReplyDeleteGolly they are looking great! From my lead mountain to painted, in 2 weeks. Where's Papa smurf, though? :-)
ReplyDeleteSimon
Thanks guys. There'll be seven units of 48 figures for the pike phalanx on my side of the table - more on the Ptolemaic side!
ReplyDeleteThis is going to look spectacular......looking good now!
ReplyDeleteLooks great!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you using as a primer, please, Craig?
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ReplyDeleteHi Simon,
ReplyDeleteThese were sprayed with cheap white paint from Wilkinsons; not the greatest, but readily available and relatively cheap!
I painted these with Army Painter quick shade, as this is what I was experimenting with when I did the original batch. Simple block colours, gooped up, matt varnished and then overpainted (generally with the original base colour, but not always).
Regards,
Craig
Thanks Craig, they look very effective.
ReplyDeleteI'll try that undercoat, I'm just running out of Halfords. I've been using ink in Kleer to stain the latest lot; is working well.
Cheers, Simon