Thursday 20 June 2013

A tale of two Ptolemies

For last month's Raphia game, I found myself in the unusual position of having a commanding general too many. I never got around to posting the "finished" shots... 

The first Ptolemy IV, below, is from Polemarch, kindly donated by Jim Clarke, who commissioned the range.  I put him on a Foundry horse, asked Nick to paint him, and gave him a couple of Polemarch aides (painted by Raglan), an Aventine Standard and a Salute-giveaway Punic military advisor (very kindly donated by Jeffski off the WD3 forum).  I named this Ptolemy the Effete Youth.


I also wanted a Ptolemy with more military bearing; after all he did lead the bodyguard cavalry, in the battle.  The Dashing Commander below is an Aventine, with a Polemarch standard-bearer, again both on Foundry horses and painted by Nick Speller. The eagle symbol was used by the Ptolemies.


On the day of the game, I went with the Effete Youth, over the Dashing Commander.  The rest, as they say, was history...

7 comments:

Paul´s Bods said...

Good grief. You must have an enormous collection by now! A Group shot is called for ..Isn´t there "big army " day soon??

DeanM said...

Nice collaborative work on these. Best, Dean

fireymonkeyboy said...

I'm with Paul. Pics from the game were great, but we want more money shots.

Jim Clarke said...

They both look good Simon. I am actually going to have to paint up one of my PM armies eventually!

Jim

Cyrus said...

Excellent commanders Simon! I prefer the dashing commander with the eagle and thunderbolt symbol.

BigRedBat said...

Thanks chaps! There's a place for both.

Paul, yes a parade would be fun!

Simon

Silver Whistle said...

You get my vote for a parade.