A retro landing party

 

Continuing with my repurposed retro ship's crew I've made a landing party.

Command group - the leader in the middle, security NCO on her right and shuttle pilot on her left.

And the squaddies. Must do something with the eyes. Or probably not.

You can never have too many hoplites...

Still got a lot more hoplites to get out of my system.

This lot being more of my late hoplites.

New toy

Foam cutter for various purposes...

Haven't tried it yet so that should be interesting.

Initially got some 20mm polystyrene sheets as terrain bases. Going to be fun painting them without dissolving them :)

And also some 5mm foamboard to see if it's any use for making buildings or walls. Think I'm looking forward to trying to etch stonework on the surfaces...

This is the main reason for the 20mm polystyrene - see if I can add terrain around it. Currently, I have to have a big step...

Demons and Winged Demons

 

Garrison demons and winged demons - my original intention was to make a load of these as the basis of an element based army but this tranche seem to have been stuck in limbo until I just finished them off.

The heavy dry brushing technique is meant to suggest molten lava - red on top with darker undertones. Not sure how effective it is.

I haven't based them because I'm still not sure how many (if any) will make it into a field army or if they'll just be kept for skirmish/pulp games. However, the intention is to produce a lot more anyway so... 

Having a slight shed tidy

 As I've been doing a lot of pulp things recently, things have been getting a bit untidy...

So I've sprayed the Weston boxes front and updated what's in them - just for the pulp stuff, haven't considered the rest.

Means the table has been a bit messy while I've been sorting...

But I thinks it's starting to get better...

Greek heavy cavalry

This lot had been sitting around undercoated for ages, so it seemed reasonable to get round to painting them.

Usual paint job, though I have gone back to black outline on things like reins - haven't been doing that recently.

I've also kept up the plain basing rather than on a textured background. Much easier to do...

As an aside/update - I've mentioned that I put in a trial order from Black Tree on the 6th, 10 days ago. Haven't heard anything back from them yet, so couple of days ago sent ant an email 'Is there an ETA for these?' - so far no reply. Normally I wouldn't have done this, it's just that this is a test order and I admit I'm testing them to a degree so...

Next, PE4 Conversions.

 

PE4 is another useful Persian as far as conversions go. The original Sp/Bw/Sh armed figure is at the front.

The shieldless ones throwing javelins or firing bows make good Bactrians when in mixed units.

Remove the bowcase and give the figure a sparabara make up useful Hd units for either Achaemenids or Sassanians.

Three more shield variations give a useful range of light infantry or allied troops.