Parthian Cataphracts by Aventine

Things are finally beginning to get back to normal, so here are some photos of newly completed Parthians for Willie.  Mind you, I'm not complaining about this summer: Commonwealth Games; Visitors from the USA and Australia; plus a week in sunny Stratford-upon-Avon, for work reasons, honest.  Not much gaming has been gamed, nor painting painted, but it has been a lot of fun.

These were a real joy to paint, as always with Aventines. 

I made the armour nice and shiny and used a limited number of colours to draw them together as a unit.

They had very little flashing, and only one guy needed a small amount of filling at the join between his torso and his legs.

They will see action this evening as the Parthian host finally descends upon an invading Ptolemaic army after much attrition has been inflicted.  Totals for this year so far are 376 foot, 130 mounted and 7 nellies.  I'm also part of the way through another of Caesar's elite legions, and then after that we'll see.  The Society of Ancients Battle Day game for 2015 is Hydaspes.  We already have Alexander's army, and Simon has most of the Indians in glorious techicolour.  We will need some more for the large, albeit ineffective, infantry contingent, and I could do with some of those for my halting progress with the Persians and their friends for Plataea.  So I reckon I'll be painting a couple of large units of, say, 48 figs each for that.