Seleucid Phalanx

Getting back into 20mm ancients but still not quite up for the Punic Wars I opted to do a bit of work on the Macedonian Wars. These pictures show 3 x16 units of 20mm ancients from Newline Designs, each unit is mounted on a 60mm square base.

There are two poses used from Newline's Carthaginian range of African Pikemen. The front rankers come in 2 variations one in the helmet seen above and another in a helmet without a crest. The second rank poses comes in one variation. If combined with the Macedonian codes a varied phalanx could be modelled but I went for uniformity. Despite the dubious historicity of this level of uniformity it made them so much quick and easier to paint.

I didn't use the shields that came with the miniatures. I instead used drawing pins, 9.5mm are an ideal size for 1/72 scale roughly the same shape and size as Hat 1/72 Phalangites, Also they were already the right colour.

I still intend to eventually complete one more 16 man unit in blue tunics and two more units as the Silvershields. I'm now working on updating, basing and adding to my Gallic foot collection in an attempt to kick start the Punic Wars Project off again. 

Soviet Infantry 1980s

 These Heroics and Ros 6mm Soviet Airborne Infantry were the final part of the break from ancients. I think the time and detailing of these tiny soldiers got me back into the detailed work of my 20mm ancients.

These are nice figures they are moulded with the padded soviet airborne helmet but I don't have any of the vehicles for airborne regiment so I decided to paint them up as generic infantry in an attempt at KML style uniform with helmets. For the helmets I just blobbed some dark green paint on a couple of times which seemed to do the trick and the uniforms a light green with some beige dots. The webbing was done in a sandy colour and were washed with a brown wash to give some shading.

I have some more H&R Soviet infantry codes to paint up they are trimmed and ready to be based so this is not the end of the moderns I was just ready to return to 20mm ancients. I also have ready the infantry's fighting vehicles BMP1's and BMP2's when I'm ready from another break from 20mm ancients. I liked how quickly I could paint up the 6mm AFV's and the boost to productivity was a nice change from projects that seem to drag on with multiple colours and highlights which is not a bad thing just time consuming. 









T62 & T62M

Continuing with the Cold War Soviet armour I followed the T-55's with a batch of T-62's then T-62M's all from Scotia miniatures. The only difference I can see between the two is that the T-62M's have armoured side skirts and some extra armour on the turrets but both are nice sculpts.

I kept the paint scheme simple as possible to enable quick completion and based simply more to protect the model over any particular ruleset. They were all completed over the Christmas period as part of a break from 20mm-1/72 ancients. I finished this diversion with some Soviet Infantry which will be up next.