Still not at my best but managed to make myself base up the figures I had painted before. This time it's more mounted figures:
An extra base of Hincliffe Companions with shield (plus a head-swap from the Macedonian Pikeman in the same range). The new base is on the right in the photos.
An extra base of Persian (Cappadocians?) extra-heavy cavalry; the new base is again on the right and easily identified by the 'leader' figure (a Hinchliffe Belisarius figure with a head-swap from another Persian cavalryman).
And finally, the camels. I had a bit of a senior moment here as looking at the DBM rules for troop types I saw there was no light camelry type so I intended to make them all ordinary Camelry. Then, after painting enough figures (3) to bring the numbers up to be enough for four 3-figure bases, I found light, scouting, camels are actually listed under Light Horse... D'oh!
What's more, I forgot when basing them to put them at angles that allowed the heads, which project beyond the base, of a second rank to go between the camels of a front rank. I guess that's what comes of doing it when under the weather but I doubt they'll be in more than one rank very often and certainly it won't matter if fighting on a grid which was the main reason for this whole topping up exercise (see the earlier post).
As I thought I was going to have to re-base all my camels I had removed them from their bases, so in the photos, the newer figures are mixed in with some of the old so I've marked them with arrows.
As with the Persian cavalry I added a leader figure - a Palmyran Heavy Camelman with some additional, green-stuff, hair.
PS: My shielded Companions already had a leader figure which is why they didn't get one added in this batch.
Very nicely painted and based units.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm really rediscovering my love for these Hinchliffe figures, naïve, but full of life - and doing some modifications makes the process feel more creative.
DeleteVery nice indeed, the Hinchliffe ancients are great figures in my opinion, the camelry are particularly nice. Your new figures fit in very well with the older painted ones.
ReplyDeleteThanks, the freedom to paint in a quick and easy style to match the older figures is quite liberating (from the tyranny of detail).
DeleteVery nice work Rob!
ReplyDeleteCheers, but it does feel like it's going to be quite a while before I get back onto some 20mil Naps.
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