Sunday 12 June 2011

Not my Pink Pikemen

My friend Craig Davies (who was one of the principle collaborators of last year's Zama project), has sent me some photos of some of the beautiful new Aventine pikemen that he has painted.

He says that the shield transfers he has used are LBMS, designed for Crusader, so are a little bit big, but they do go right to the edge of the Aventine shield with a bit of careful trimming.


He has based the colour scheme on this picture from the Vergina tombs:-


I think he has done a superb job!  Lovely basing, too.

16 comments:

roma912 said...

Now that is a stunning looking unit you have there. Looking forward to seeing more.

Unknown said...

bloody good work! And they're not ordinarily painted either

Anonymous said...

Jolly nice looking unit.

Here's to the lads in pink.

DeanM said...

Great looking unit. Beautiful colors and shield design. Dean

Prufrock said...

Superb!

Anibal Invictus said...

Impressive! Love those shields

Paul´s Bods said...

They look very impressive. I wouldn´t have thought that pink would look so good...but it does.
Cheers
Paul

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

They are brilliant!

Christopher

Craig said...

Thanks for the comments guys. The quality of the figures makes the painting easy.
Craig

МаксимС said...

Очень,даже.Хорошая работа.Хотя это и Римляне.

Bluewillow said...

Craig has done a great job on that unit, well done that man!

cheers
matt

Vinnie said...

They are just beautiful..fantastic art work

WimVdB said...

I know 1 thing for shure. The next pikemen unit I buy will be Aventine.
BTW, a very nice painted unit!

Secundus said...

Love those close up shots the figures are fantastic. The shields really set them off too, excellent painting Simon.

BigRedBat said...

Not my painting, alas, Secundus, but they are lovely...

CarloAntonio said...

WOW !!! Very nice look !!!