Thureophoroi

I have been working on some figures that were between painted, undercoated and fresh out the casting machine to make two units of Thureophoroi. This post will cover the first unit and the next will showcase the second.

I started with a base of figures from this old post along with the rest from that batch, that were undercoated black, as well as a few more fresh figures to get the unit 32 strong using 1 of the 2 poses.

The last few Newline Designs 20mm Greek Thureophoroi were newer sculpts. They have slight differences, the main being the newer sculpts have facial hair. At a distance they all apear the same.

Some may reconise the colour scheme. It was lifted straight from an Angus McBride plate featured in Sekunda's Seleucid Army book. However it was Jeff Jonas' unit featured on his excellent Ancient Battles page on Thureophoroi that provided the true inspiration to paint a full unit in brown tunics.

I did keep one soldier, which I had painted originally, with a round hoplite type shield in homage to the original plate. I am still tempted to paint a unit of these with round shields however I would go with smaller 'Macedonian' shields.

Next up and shortly after this post the second unit featuring the other pose offered from the Newline Thureophoroi code.

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