Raphia Project Progress

So far in February I have been painting more for my Raphia project.

Whilst at home I bought some Seleucid elephants, 6 to be precise and I must admit they are lovely!

So here are the pictures.......

 First up four elephants, two for Ptolomy and two for Antiochus.  The Seleucid elephants, well all the elephants are lovely!  And I have finally got the hang of putting the hadows together, well just about!

 Above and below are the Ptolomy elephants.  I am putting two elephant models on a 80mm x 60mm base and they do look good!

 Seleucid elephants, nicely armoured and with a dedicated crew, I really do like them!

 The penultimate unit of heavy cavalry lance for the Seleucids.

 Plain and simple, Arab bow....

 A second unit of Basilikon Agemata pike.  These are the 'foot guards' of the Ptolomy army.

New Project for 2019..

Ok I know 2019 is a long way off but West Wind Productions, War and Empire have recently released their third Kickstarter, Dark Ages.  The miniatures are fantastic.  I supported their first two kickstarters and bought Punic Wars Roman and Sassanid Persians and they did not disappoint!  So when the third one announced I signed up.......

The kickstarter was funded in hours and I missed out on the "Early Bird" special but that did not put me off. So i signed up for the Emperor bid and have already worked out my order, yes keen I know.

So I have opted for three armies Norman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking plus an Anglo-Saxon village of 5 buildings.....this little project amounts to 80 horse, 800 foot and the village all for the princely sum of $264 (it is Pounds Sterling not Dollars but I'm using my work laptop which is from the US lol) 

Check out their Kickstarter and their range of figures, you will not be disappointed.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832150598/war-and-empire-iii-dark-ages

Battle of Raphia, the collection so far

Whilst I was at home in January I based up some of the painted figures on to the wonderful 'Big Red Bat' bases.  They bases have holes to place small magnets in, its a great system!

I also did some calculations and so far I have painted 858 foot, 157 mounted and 2 elephants.

Still to paint 384 foot, 42 mounted and 32 elephants........so just over two thirds of the way there and enough ready to have a good game already!

The final total will be 1,242 foot, 199 mounted and 34 elephants!

Anyway here are the group photos........in Really Useful Boxes which are really useful!

 So above are three units of Egyptian Pike, each 48 strong.  There is still one more to do.

 

A close up of an Egyptian pike block.

Ptolomaic cavalry and elephants

 Ptolomaic foot, pike, heavy foot, thureophoroi, medium foot and skirmishers

Seleucid foot, pike, thureophoroi, thorakites, medium and skirmish

 

 A close up of the Seleucid foot

Seleucid cavalry and generals

This box contains painted figures that need to be rebased, I hate basing and rebasing almost makes me cry but the new basing system is much, much better!