Visited Warfare in Reading last week and picked up some terrain for playing with my little men; a 6mm Mediterranean village (not quite Greek, but it will do), plenty of trees in 6 & 28mm, and some lovely 2'x2 battle boards from TSS
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Monday, 28 November 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
6mm Spartan Greek Army - Units
As promised, some scale shots of the Spartan Army.
I've got some shots of the 28mm Hoplite, I'll pop them up next.
Toodle Pip, followers.
A block of Armoured Spartans advance. This is three units together |
Here you see the tiny cavalry, two units with a penny for scale |
A unit of mercenary hoplites. I think you can work out what the penny is for. |
It gets around a bit, that penny. |
Look, it's sneaked into camera shot again! And who's that 28mm miniature then? Said he was here 'Just for scale comparison, did he? I came across several of his sort in the war! |
Here Spartans, Here. |
Mercenaries. |
This is 'The White Unit™' |
This is the back of 'The White Unit™' |
Peltasts? Here? |
This is 'The Yellow Unit™' |
Is this a) 'The back of 'The Yellow Unit™' or b) The entire Bolivian Navy on manouvres in the South Pacific? |
Oh they've all banded together to make a column! Clever eh? |
Some Archers, earlier. |
And this is the whole army at present. Let's hope it actually gets to fight soon :) |
Another, bizarrely 'rather dark and behind bars' picture of the entire army. |
Oh and there's a nice bright one to make up for it. |
Some more units poncing about, as they do. |
Javelineers in a screen. Yes. Your screen. Hoplites, too. Aren't you lucky? :D |
I've got some shots of the 28mm Hoplite, I'll pop them up next.
Toodle Pip, followers.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
6mm Spartan Greek Army
So, a departure from the usual fayre, here's my 6mm Spartan Army. The miniatures are produced by Baccus6mm Miniatures, run by Peter Berry, whom I've known for nearly 30 years.
I started painting these some time ago, but I got a final push to finish them when I took them on holiday to Greece :) As they're so small, I had everything (paints, little men, glue, brushes etc) in a box about 20cmx20cmx10cm.
Each unit is on a 20x60mm base |
Light troops advance in front of the massed phalanxes |
I did try to put some detail on the Thracians |
Thracian Peltasts clear the way for their Spartan employers |
Ranks of Spartan warriors |
The army advances |
Massed Hoplites |
Cavalry on the flanks |
The Archers hide among the shrubs, taking aim at their opponents |
Javelineers form a skirmish screen |
Javelins from above, with the sun on their backs |
Attaaaack! |
Rays of sunlight glint off polished shields |
Archers, Peltasts, Hoplites |
Mercenaries add to the throng |
Rank after rank |
I tried to get as much variation on the basic Greek 'Lambda' theme as I could |
The 'white unit' and the 'yellow unit' |
General's Eye-View |
The cavalry pass by in the sun |
These are tinier than a penny - about 10mm tall when mounted. |
And on the cavalry come |
Another close up of those Peltasts |
Quite pleased with these 'Army shots'. Next time I'll show some of the individual units and give you a better idea of the scale |