End of Rotation Rapha Batch

Here are are last few units for the Raphia project.  Now some of these still look a little shiney this is because I run out of Army Painter Dull Coat and had to use some Windsor and Newton Matt varnish, which obviously is not that matt! lol

Once I have based these guys I will respray them with AP matt varnish.

Hopefully my next posts will show some of the troops based up.

Seleucid Arab Bow, one and a half bases here., so now I have three bases painted up and one more to do.

These are Xyston Maccabean Jew figures

Ptolomy Guard Agema, known as Basilikon.  There are three units of these and I have used Macedonian Hypaspists figures. 

The 'casualty' figure is a broken model that I need to make up the numbers.

Selecuid Pike Phalanx, a mixture of armoured and unarmoured figures.

Tarentine Light Horse with shields, not sure how accurate but I do like the way they look!

Battle of Raphia....The First Batch for 2018

The first batch of painted figures of 2018, the year I will finish this project, honest lol

The first Seleucid phalanx of the year.

 The figures I have used for this phalanx are from the eastern edge of the empire and most are wearing trousers and have long sleeves.  There was no real reason for this other than those were the figures I bought lol  But I do like them.

Seleucid Hetairoi, heavy horse lance.  There are quite a few of these.

A second Ptolomy Elephant which means I can make up an elephant base to see how they will look two too a base.  I'm guessing awesome lol

I have ordered more bases from the Big Red Bat shop,

 https://bigredbatshop.co.uk

So I will basing up a large painted mountain when I am home later this month.  I will post pictures.

2017 to 2018

So as we have said good bye to 2017 I look back on what I have painted and well, it has been an massive pile of metal that I have turned into painted miniatures over a wide variety of sizes and periods.

Towards the end of the year I have focused on one project, very unusual for me, the Battle of Raphia OOB.  Now I am collecting both sides and using just Xyston figures.  I have done the vast majority of these figures, minus 33 elephants and a couple of hundred pikemen, however I am adamant that I will finish this before I move onto the next one.  

Obviously that does not stop me looking, planning and buying the figures I need for the next one. Possibly some historical OOBs from the Seven Year War to add to 10mm collection and encourage me to complete them.

But I am sure something else shinny will catch my eye....

To all my fellow gamers may you have a very happy, productive and healthy 2018 and may the dice always roll to your advantage.

Raphia Update.....Again

Although it is being posted on 01 Jan 18 these figures were finished in Dec 17, so my last post for 2017 really.

And these are the last 'heavy horse' lance of the Ptolomy army, but I still have one unit of Tarantine light horse to do to complete the mounted side of the Ptolomy army list.