Some Christmas Persians

One of the 'delights' of Christmas is a rash of films on the telly showing various people, elves and grinches dressed in green, red, or both. Which set me thinking: Why not paint up a load of 42mm figures in red and green uniforms , possibly for Cadet Commander. Thoughts evolved and I finally thought about all those Persians I had lying around... so this is the last item of the year now that there's a tree in front of my painting desk...

And these are the Persians dressed up in a vaguely Christmassy Elvish colour scheme.

 

I didn't bother with any decorations on the costumes - just left them plain apart from the leopard skin pattern on the standard bearer.

Overall, it's quite an effective colour scheme that goes well with Persian outfits showing the same pattern material over arms and legs with a short sleeved blouse on top. It's a basic pattern I'll do more of in the future.

Incidentally, note that the archers have a spare bow... the original figure was the Garrison J/B/Sh light cavalry figure originally converted to a horse archer. As many Eastern horse archers carried a spare bow I kept the original bow in the bowcase of the horse archer conversion. When it came to then convert it to an infantry figure I just kept that idea for the infantry.