Friday 24 September 2021

Seleucid Settler Cavalry


With these Newline Designs 20mm Seleucid companions now  painted up, the part-painted ancients are now done. I opted to give them smaller spears and round shields just for a bit of variety after depicting the first unit as lancers.

There was a bit of experimentation with Citadel Contrasts to see if they could fit into my paint regimes. The following were painted with contrasts; plume, gloves, boots, the feathers and frills on the horses plus the pturges on the riders. As with the previous "Attalid" unit I was impressed with the Apothecary White applied to bright white basecoat, it is a great addition to the paint armoury and the reason I invested in a few more to see if they could speed things up. Other than the success of the white the only other section I though was worthwhile to use contrasts with was the feathers and frills on the horse armour. So ideal for detail heavy parts, I'm still not keen on them in general so far. I intend on giving them a proper go on horses, I couldn't do it with these as they were already base coated and I would like to try them on a nice smoothly primed miniature.

Other than that I painted them as normal, I added variety to the unit in the colours of the metallics and clothing using the shields, feathers and plumes to bring them together. With them complete the Seleucid cavalry for the Lost Battles Magnesia project is done, save for the rebasing of some Celtic/Galatian cavalry (in hand). If it wasn't for my rebasing quest the Magnesia project would just need some Scythed chariots! However I can't help myself and always faff on chopping and changing. I have had a big push on the cavalry rebase. with less figures per unit and sparser bases the rebase has been going quite quick and the next few posts will document the progress of that. The heavy lifting will come with the heavy infantry, there will probably be quite a bit of work to get them sorted, more awkward to apply material and I may have to sort extra figures to square units up, in the mean time I'll focus on the simple stuff!


6 comments:

  1. Like them…as well as the larger base that holds several of the figures. The metallic work….not certain if they mixed it up in reality but if they did not they should have! Definitely helps the unit stand out with various shades of bronze and iron.

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    1. Thank you! Part of what I like about ancients is the leeway you can take with artistic licence ;-)

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  2. Lovely looking unit! Very neat painting!

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  3. This variety in the painting is very convincing in my opinion, they're really great! And your experiment with GW contrasts proved successful. Never used any, but I will follow your example one of these days...

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    1. Thank you Phil, I do like a uniformed unit but also like to have mismatched outfits at time too. The contrasts are a handy addition but I could just as easily live without them.... except maybe Apothecary White :-D

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