Since then I've acquired some painted Companions with unpainted horses, so I've painted the horses, added an officer figure and based them. This means I now have 3 units of Minifigs Macedonian Companion cavalry:
These are the new guys. Must start taking more time over the lighting...
Alexander and his crowd. All these have just been rebased, nothing else.
Thought I had rebased these but haven't - job for the New Year!
In retrospect, couple of things to do - find an officer the third unit and convert one Companion in each unit to a standard bearer as I did with the shielded heavies.
A magnificient sight!
ReplyDeleteIt's the cost that always amazes me. OK, these are not very early 'S' Range or anything, but still, this lot cost about £1.20 a figure. Should be much more!
DeleteI had a small unit of these in my pre-historicals period. I was quite fond of them so it's good to see these.
ReplyDeleteDon't know where my original unit of these is. They started as shieldless, I added shields to make them Seleucids, then bought shielded ones and the original unit was lost. A lot of my early Minifigs cavalry were either sold or lost... painted up some EHC cataphracts, early PB. At one time I had over 30 of them... long gone, replaced in part by Lasmming, then later still by later Minifigs...
DeleteVery nicely done Rob, beautiful (and effective!) cavalry...
ReplyDeleteThanks, but can't claim the credit as I only painted 1 officer and 12 horses of these!
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