Sunday, January 30, 2011

Silver Shields "Argyraspides" Command

Being frugal, I opted to use the Foundry musician and standard bearer that came with the rest of the unit. However, I didn't want to use the officer as he's the same figure I have for another phalanx unit already. Luckily, Keith at Aventine had sent me a bunch of sample figures when I ordered some elephants from him. One of the guys for an elephant tower looked the part with his bearded face armor. The standard has an LBMS transfer. 
The only thing I had to do was add some Green Stuff to his lower legs, as well as the Foundry standard bearer's, to make it look like they have greaves on.
I just added stuff to make it appear they have top edging to their greaves, as well as the cloth straps that hold them on. I added a little bit to the rear to have it look like the openings of the greaves too.
Here is the finished Argyraspides unit with their North Star spears - ready to take on any vampire or werewolf with their silvered armor highly polished with garlic. At least that's what I'm told from this reenactment (@ 1:53).

The Foundry Hypaspists are being worked on now - their original shields have been replaced by larger Aventine ones that came with the tower crew for the elephants.

13 comments:

  1. Great looking figures and a superb unit. I'll be interested to see more in the same style.

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  2. Fantastic looking regiment, well done.

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  3. wow...
    Just AWESOME!

    Very nice colors. Purple looks great.

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  4. Appreciate all of your comments. I'm happy they're done and now have the core phalanx units for a Seleucid army. Focus will now be on other more "exotic" units - maybe a Galatian unit with mixed weapons. Warm Regards, Dean

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  5. Nice work, love the little touches on the banner and the greaves.

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  6. Fantastic work - your combination of speed and quality is inspiring.

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  7. Now I'm upset! You painted that Aventine figure so much better than I did. :-(

    They look great!

    Simon

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  8. Love the Seleucids and that is one beautifully painted and based unit!

    Great 'speedy' work once again Dean!

    Cheers,
    Doc

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  9. WoW!!! How have I managed to miss these...?? They are very very well painted...
    Cheers
    Paul

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  10. Fantastic looking unit, well done!!

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