Sarmation HC Horse Archers

Rhoxolani MC - at some stage I intend to do an Alan/Rhoxolani conversion of the cataphract by cutting the kontos down, at which time I'll be able to do mixed LC/MC units with JLS/B/Sh. I painted the armour using Vallejo leather brown - can't say I like that choice, red leather would be better and use the leather brown for belts, etc.

It's a nice figure - found the masters but no record of the figure, made it as a one piece casting because the original separate rider didn't cast easily. Must admit I  like painting up the standards, just don't think of them as being in any way realistic!

S Range Spartan cavalry

 

Over the years I've collected a lot of odd figures and units that really need to be spruced up a bit. This lot seem to have been sourced from at least two different places...

Anyway, can't see me doing a full overhaul of these so I've pretty much done the minimum to make them presentable. At least it's another unit on the roster.

Bits and pieces

After all the basing, sorting and generally getting into commission the Gauls I got from Harry there were still a few left lying around...

Seemed a shame to waste them so they've been based and put together - not sure it's a unit as such, but at least it gives the Gauls another 10 elements!

Gallic chariot force

I seem to have taken a long time to paint this lot. Still, there are six of them, usually do chariots in batches of three.

They have been done as line chariots/lower class nobility. Plainer horse furniture, side panels of chariots  painted to represent whitewash. The charioteer is the Gallic archer minus his bow.

This means I now have a total of nine chariots - three higher class, six slightly lower class warriors. Might do another six in the near future - that would give a goodly force of fifteen, should be enough for most purposes...

 

After Salute 53

 

First question has to be: If it's about Salute, why a random photo of a market stall taken from where we stayed. The answer is that we stay in an apartment on Petticoat Lane and they have a market every Sunday...

Lots of expensive souvenirs in London. This one sells for £15 in the various tourist type stores in the city. Sells for £6 in the market...

There are different sets you can get. This set goes for £15 in town. Guess what the market price is?

The individual taxi is bigger than the one in the set. No idea what the town price is, here it was £3. So basically I got the lot for the shop price of the bus!

But there's more! The middle post box and telephone box were actually on key rings - hence the rings on top! These were a pound each, so my total outlay was £19! Figures for comparison a Crooked Dice Dr Who UNIT soldier, the ladies are Bad Squiddo vigilante school girls. 

The larger bus seems to fit nicely with 28-32mm figures.

Likewise the larger taxi.

Smaller taxi 25mm and smaller bus 1/87th? Haven't sized them out really.

At Salute itself I just got a few figures with a sort of Christmas horror theme - haven't unpackaged them yet. They are 3D printed figures by Modular Worlds - but can't find the figures in their shop! Pity, because they didn't have any of the Santa figure left...

And finally a visit to Warbases to rebuild my very depleted stocks of cavalry and LI/LMI bases...

Incidentally, the date for Salute 54 has already been posted - 17th April.

More of Harry's Gauls

Came across a load more Gauls from Harry I hadn't rebased yet. Just realised that the chariot is the same one I used when I did my Gallic chariots - hadn't noticed it before!

Firstly, a load of cavalry. Hadn't realized they were there - knew there was a load more infantry still to do, thought all the cavalry I got were Minifigs. This unit just about brings the historical Gauls/Galatians up to their full complement! Need a load more Ancient Brit light cavalry though.

I've also based a unit of Gallic archers. This is the second unit and completes the Gallic archery force.

I've still got enough figures around to make up  another unit or so of  regular LMI  and still have a lot more needed on top of that!

Might leave the Dacians/Sarmatians for a bit and cast up some chariots. Or a couple more units of  Dacian archers...

Dacian archers

 

20 to 60 archers are needed for the Dacian army, so naturally I looked at my universal archer and painted up a dozen that were lying around in a Dacian type paint scheme.

Figures aren't brilliant but they'll certainly do the job. To get to 60 figures means 5 more units; probably restrict it to one or two extras.

Lots of Dacians would have short cloaks. Anyway, a couple the archers lying around were ones without a quiver on their back so I gave them short cloaks to see if they were necessary. Actually, they don't seem to add much to the figure so probably won't bother. However, might give future figures a sword glued to the belt.