These are the based rear-rankers for my Machimoi phalanx, that I showed (unbased) a few days ago.
Machimoi were recruited from amongst the native Egyptians, and I've given some of them a slightly darker skin tone, accordingly. Most are un-armoured (the armoured minority were painted by Craig, thanks!), and I based the tunic colours on those shown in Stephane Thions's Soldat Lagide. I really love the Foundry WotG pikemen, and the un-armoured ones are so very easy to paint.
11 comments:
they look great simon :)
Most excellent and impressive, Simon
That phalanx has 'keep away' written all over them! Really impressive stuff.
Thanks all! I had a scaled-down rehearsal on Tuesday, photos of that to follow in due course...
look great! is the book soldat lagide worth getting if you lack the skill to read French? i saw it on amazon the other day
I think it is certainly a worthwhile book, if you are thinking about doing a Ptolemaic army. It shows its progression nicely, from Alexandrian to a Roman system, and the changing gear.
Once again, tremendous work with this project.
FMB
I love that some of them simply grabbed their gardening hats when running out the door...
Thanks FMB!
Yes I wanted to use as many boaters as possible, to make them look rural. The Egyptian peasants also seem to have worn a pilos-like hat, which is handy, too.
sigh, I still haven't started mine.
Great stuff as always mate!
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