"Can you paint me some hoplites?
"Sure."
"So, there are 300 of them..."
"Oooh, I see where you're going here."
Well, here's the first 80 (it's all divisible by 8, honest), all in bell cuirass and eother regular or transverse crests. The owner will be doing his own basing.
(https://i.imgur.com/H9QCxKL.jpg)
Giraffe's eye view.
(https://i.imgur.com/CRYGyLh.jpg)
Top/players eye view.
(https://i.imgur.com/Vq7qryh.jpg)
Shield transfers from Little Big Man.
(https://i.imgur.com/ntXHYiU.jpg)
Mostly kneeling
(https://i.imgur.com/goEpbtB.jpg)
Yes, I did detail the skirts
(https://i.imgur.com/70o119F.jpg)
Mostly back views
(https://i.imgur.com/un5e6gq.jpg)
Stabbers
(https://i.imgur.com/YejhbuU.jpg)
Shield details
(https://i.imgur.com/dfHDyNs.jpg)
Player's eye view
(https://i.imgur.com/rJrPQ4S.jpg)
And the mostly standing round doing nothing group
(https://i.imgur.com/Jfpvvcp.jpg)
A few going away
(https://i.imgur.com/hsAxpMB.jpg)
24 more in J crests and skirts
(https://i.imgur.com/Pue6nwN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/CpDiIUK.jpg)
Insert your own witty caption here
(https://i.imgur.com/70GLxRH.jpg)
Armed and dangerous
(https://i.imgur.com/EWtzEtn.jpg)
That's 104 done (yes, it's divisible by 8, you check it)!
13
:-bd =D> :-bd
Second batch done
Longditudinal crests
(https://i.imgur.com/T5bkF7V.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/14kITDU.jpg)
Blurry back view
(https://i.imgur.com/bcvKB3P.jpg)
Transverse crests
(https://i.imgur.com/dLtlKxC.jpg)
Formed up
(https://i.imgur.com/cquG63D.jpg)
Good shield variety
(https://i.imgur.com/mf1pcvP.jpg)
Back view
(https://i.imgur.com/6dk8NKE.jpg)
Spear side
(https://i.imgur.com/IKTv22X.jpg)
Command figures
(https://i.imgur.com/kQAQJv3.jpg)
(blurred)
(https://i.imgur.com/vrZskdH.jpg)
Commander's view
(https://i.imgur.com/L2f4VVS.jpg)
Bloke in the middle looks familiar, but the shield is wrong?
(https://i.imgur.com/p0WA1VM.jpg)
Start of Spartans (another three strips are done, but need shield transfers)
(https://i.imgur.com/bgxo2es.jpg)
Tried to shade the cloaks so the part nearer the ground is darker
(https://i.imgur.com/oe2yiUC.jpg)
Player's view
(https://i.imgur.com/nImjq7u.jpg)
Light horse and two extra Spartans
(https://i.imgur.com/TApLSc6.jpg)
Higher command, featuring Leonadies to the right
(https://i.imgur.com/DklTphm.jpg)
This... IS...
(https://i.imgur.com/WpzhFkL.jpg)
Musicians
(https://i.imgur.com/p7PZ07q.jpg)
Slightly less clothing than is practical, they are going to be so burned by the end of the day!
(https://i.imgur.com/iBuf7ZT.jpg)
Also in this batch are a 28mm and 15mm printed Julius Caesar with table
(https://i.imgur.com/kdV8wNC.jpg)
Details of the map have nothing to do w M Goscinny or M Underzo, honest...
(https://i.imgur.com/0W6oa3D.jpg)
Imperious
(https://i.imgur.com/3SQng0e.jpg)
Mmm, that's what ancients are for. But the 8-point star is Macedonian, isn't it? Did the Greeks use it too?
Really like the table with maps etc :-bd =D> :-bd =D>
QuoteMmm, that's what ancients are for. But the 8-point star is Macedonian, isn't it? Did the Greeks use it too?
A Macedonian exile, perhaps? There seem to have been a steady trickle of those on the wrong side of political struggles or surrendered as hostages who wound up living with the enemy.
All nicely done but I agree with Paul that the generals with their map tables are
les pièces de résistance!
THIS IS SPARTA!
(https://i.imgur.com/BvnPQhZ.jpg)
Love the details on the shield.
(https://i.imgur.com/0h51RLX.jpg)
Shield transfers arrived today to allow me to finish this lot off.
(https://i.imgur.com/yyJJME0.jpg)
Side view
(https://i.imgur.com/lEH3i5i.jpg)
Red cloaks
(https://i.imgur.com/yIzzrD8.jpg)
Looking well 'ard!
(https://i.imgur.com/DVgj9kj.jpg)
Hopefully not red shirts
(https://i.imgur.com/LSvUfA8.jpg)
Rach tried a shot
(https://i.imgur.com/rqBB0Hc.jpg)
That one was better Rach
(https://i.imgur.com/RXtEStK.jpg)