The white undercoat has been used to the painters advantage here as after washing there was little additional painting to do. Future stands will have both white and silver shields to represent some historical units.
This stand represents one taxis comprising of four syntagma of 256 men or 1056 in total. This would be slightly under strength for a taxis as they were often 1500 men strong. Have never been sure if this number included super numeraries as well. The basic army will have a minimum of four of these.
More to follow shortly
Cheers for now
They look superb. Congrats on completing your first base of phalanx.
ReplyDeleteThanks Russ, the mass effect beats painting 28mm figures in the same period.
DeleteYou done much on the hobby front lately?
Cheers, Ross
So nice! An entire phalanx will look so good. In 6mm, I have stuck to Baccus with their strips of figures. How difficult is it to base individual 6mm figures? Looks like it could be tedious.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, the time was spent in the prep time sorting out the figures to singles as the Rapier figures also come on strips.
DeleteThe spacing between figures limited the numbers, so by trimming pre painting I could get the effect looked for. Come the actual basing its relatively quick as just gluing in lines.
Cheers, Ross
6mm? Wow, very impressive, stunning job and wonderful mass effect!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil
DeleteThey look great, especially at such a tiny scale, pike men always look best densely packed and these definitely are!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, although small the 6mm figures does give a great mass effect.
DeleteCheers, Ross
You can't tell these are the first ones done, the mass effect will be impressive
ReplyDeleteIan
Nice work
ReplyDeleteGreat detail