Old-School 25mm Ancients - WiP

The next batch of 25mm Ancients in my topping off process is complete, and are presented here for the record.

These hoplites were all based, repaired and touched up, including a flesh-wash.  These give me enough, when deployed in two ranks, to occupy three 6" squares, and thus give me three more units.  The lefthand 'green unit' were, like the bowmen in the previous post, inherited from a friend but were one figure short of four bases worth.  I only had to paint one extra to match in, the newbie is in the rear rank of the photo below.

Of the other 32 Hoplites, the rank and file, were recently bought ready-painted from eBay during this 'topping-off' process as I thought their painting style was a good match for the 'green unit.  I must stop calling them the 'green unit' as they were clearly intended to be Thebans with their shield emblazoned with the club of Herakles.

What the dolphin on the shields of the hoplites bought on eBay implies is unknown (to me anyway).  This eBay lot had enough hoplites for two units when I added some my friend's command figures - they were in his phalanx units but I don't like the array of pikes broken up by command figures so had been sitting around unused for some time.  The painting styles were a good match and, apart from re-touching, I only added black lining and dolphins to the command figures for them to blend in rather well.

So next, are one base worth's of figures each for Persian armoured cavalry, Companion cavalry (with shields) and Arab camelry ... but I have been distracted down a rabbit-hole so these might not be done as soon as I'd like - see the next post to find out more on this.