Thursday 16 May 2013

Another day, another phalanx...


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:

TamsinP said...

they look great simon :)

Unknown said...

Most excellent and impressive, Simon

BigLee said...

That phalanx has 'keep away' written all over them! Really impressive stuff.

BigRedBat said...

Thanks all! I had a scaled-down rehearsal on Tuesday, photos of that to follow in due course...

Steve h said...

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

BigRedBat said...

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.

fireymonkeyboy said...

Once again, tremendous work with this project.

FMB

Jonathan said...

I love that some of them simply grabbed their gardening hats when running out the door...

BigRedBat said...

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.

John Lambshead said...

sigh, I still haven't started mine.

Millsy said...

Great stuff as always mate!