Thursday, 12 April 2012

Immortals Completed

Finished my unit of Immortals for Plataea.  These are the unarmoured rear rankers:
The stripes look slightly off centre down their backs, but that's because the cloth billows out, and I made sure the line followed that correctly.  The only criticism I have of these figures is that they lean forwards a bit, which is a very minor point.  I did try to correct this, but I was wary of pushing too hard in case I damaged them.  Two shots of the full unit:
At one point I will buy archers and make this into two units.  One will be the armoured spearmen with rear ranking bowmen, and the other will be composed of the unarmoured spearmen plus archers.  That will effectively give me some Immortals and some sparabara types.  But they'll do just now for Plataea.  Figures are by Foundry.
Posted by Caliban at 20:08:00
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11 comments:

  1. The Angry Lurker12 April 2012 at 21:01

    They are quite amazing, really lovely work!

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  2. Hendrid12 April 2012 at 21:24

    Very nice once again. Looking forward to see the game and the figures in the flesh at Carronade.

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  3. kingsleypark12 April 2012 at 21:43

    They look great!

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  4. DadExtraordinaire12 April 2012 at 21:44

    Great work Paul, very nice looking unit. What next for the Persian host?

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  5. Anonymous13 April 2012 at 00:26

    I like 'em. I'm going to steal that color combination for some Sassanids.

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  6. Cyrus13 April 2012 at 09:08

    Very colourful unit of Immortals - the aerial photo is very effective. Foundry sparabara are excellent figures.

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  7. Caliban13 April 2012 at 10:51

    Thanks for looking, everyone.

    Hendrid - do introduce yourself and join in if you like. I know you were at Claymore, but I can't remember the various faces that appeared through the day. Incidentally, there will be four commands per side, kind of with staggered entry/activation times. That means people can join in as the game progresses!

    Marcus - I don't know! I will split this unit into two, but I have been enjoying them so much that I might take advantage of the momentum and keep going, using our Order of Battle for Plataea to build an entire Persian army, friends included. If I were to do this, I'd need four units of 36 Immortals plus six units of 48 regular bow/spear units, so this is just a start...

    Rob - please let us see the Sassanids when you do them. I have a few of those, and it would be really good to see a full army.

    Cyrus - glad you like the aerial shot. I was trying to give a gamer's eye-view.

    Cheers again, folks.

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  8. Ray Rousell13 April 2012 at 15:26

    Some very nice painting, love the trousers!

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  9. Neil Scott13 April 2012 at 19:22

    Great looking unit, very colourful

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  10. Captain Richard's miniature Civil War14 April 2012 at 01:00

    Excellent color...nice work

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  11. Anonymous16 April 2012 at 03:20

    Thanks!

    I will post pics when I get the army done. I generaly photograph each unit as they get completed. I love the Sassanids; they were my first Ancients army (in 15mm) and now I'm building them in 25mm. The problem is that they're like painting knights - everybody looks different! Mix in figures that are difficult to paint, and it gets very slow.

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