Thracian Cavalry Fin.

Finally got round to painting these 'Thracian' cavalry who were so rudely queue jumped by a bunch of rowdy Celts:

Just to re-cap, these started off as Gripping Beast Neo-Tarentines but with the addition of a mauve/pink cloak & a thureos have been re-purposed as much more useful Thracian cavalry for my 3rd/2nd century BC Seleucid Army.
That being said, their maiden outing will be to take part in a re-fight of Sellasia this Easter Sunday along side their dismounted brethren as part of Antigonus Gonatus's Macedonian Army.
We've done Sellasia at Handgrenadealien tower's before but its such an unusual battle I feel its worth a return visit.
More to follow tomorrow evening.

Freshly Based Celts.

Last nights homework was to finish modernizing the bases on my Renegade Celts, job well done I think.

Now if only Renegade would pull their fingers out & start producing miniatures again I could reinforce these bad boys.

Distracted by Celts

Got a bit distracted this afternoon, instead of pushing on with either of the two Thracian units currently under the brush I started updating the bases on my unit of Celts/ Gauls/ Galatians.

 Really shouldn't get side tracked like this but they really did need sorting out.

The Wild Bunch.

Work continues apace on my newly acquired Thracians, however due to a lack of equestrian bases in the commisary department I've moved on to painting Thracian Infantry:

I bought twenty of these Crusader Miniatures to supplement an small unit that i painted a couple of years back for my Antigonid Army. This will boost the unit up to thirty two strong making it much more viable on the tabletop, at twelve figures it wasn't really a lot of use.

Renegade Celts. Due a re-base.

This got me thinking about doing the same thing with my unit of twenty Galatians, they look great but are really too small a unit to be of much use. The only problem is Renegade Miniatures seem to have ceased doing business so I will need to look elsewhere for reinforcements. Any suggestions?

Thracian Cavalry WIP.

A couple of progress shots from the Workbench of Doom:

Polemarch Neo Tarentines + Thureos = later Seleucid Thracian Cavalry.

With some of their forbears, Crusader Thracians in Antigonid service.

Yeah I know gone a bit Thracian mad recently, though both manufacturers versions are fairly generic. The Crusader miniatures would make perfectly good Achaean league heavy cavalry or even Seleucid Politikoi.
The pink stripe added to the shield is pure invention/extrapolation on my part, I took the idea of the 'national' cloak colours mentioned in the last post & inspired by blue stripes shown on Galatian shields in an Angus McBride painting extended the logic to a similar distinction on Thracian shields. Probably errant nonsense but it will make them stand out on the tabletop.

Thracian Mercenary Cavalry.

This is the first painted example of my purchases from WMMS. He started life as a Polemarch (Gripping Beast) Neo Tarentine from their Successor range, but I didn't like the strange cut down thureos shield that comes as standard. So after browsing for inspiration through Nick Sekunda's 'The Seleucid Army' I replaced the smaller original shield with a full sized Thureos thus turning a Neo Tarentine into a Thracian Mercenary in Seleucid service.

According to Dr. Sekunda's aforementioned volume the Thracian cavalry in Seleucid employ were marked by having pink cloaks, at least in the later Hellenistic era. These figures could be used for pretty much any of the general purpose cavalry of the period though, a blue cloak with hood for Galatians for instance.

Back of Beyond. Part the Second.

Continuing the 1920s Asian theme, some more Copplestone Miniatures.

The sadistic & revolting Roman von Ungern Sternberg.

Bolshevik Heroines.

Bolshevik Naval Infantry.

Bolshevik Commisar in trademark black leather.