Back to 28mm

 So I have painted sevral 100 6mm now, i have 256 phalangites done, 48 thorophorois, 36 cav and 6 elephants. But 6mm always leave me a little cold, while I do enjoy the mass, the lack of detail, and the factory feel to painting them, is a little much at times, so now i felt like painting 28mm again. I found a boks of macedonian royal gurds at the local store, most of them are plastic, but with metal heads and shields.

These are cool to paint, great models, lots of detial. but glueing the metal heads on plastic bodies is a pain in the ass. The shields are simple, silver with armor ink wash. the armor is a mix of white and leather, and all got purple shoulders. som armor are just white linen with purple shoulders, others got some leather here and there.

 The helmets are either bronze or blue with red "puff"
I wanted alot of color, so the tunics are, either green, red, grey or tan/brown.
The spears are actualy "horse tone rohan" so really a horse color, but feel it looks great as light wood, I have had problems with wood color before, while i had great dark wood/musket brown that woks for muskets, it does not work for pikes and other wood stuff, it's to dark, and the pikes/spears are to thin to highlight properly. i did try a more orangy color that works for ak wood, but dosn't work on pikes. but this color looks like "pike color"

 The box comes only with 24 figures and no command, thats kinda poor, the box cost the same as 40 regular phalangites, but you get 16 fewer figures in this box, aperantly metal shield and heads cost alot of money i guess, feel it is kinda cheap, they could atleast have thrown in a metal command for that price, isn't 16 fewer plastic figues worth atleat 2-3 metal command?

I'm not sure who to solve the command thing, they cost alot over at warlord, and dosn't really fit into the unit. I guess this unit dosn't get a command, to bad as it's supose to be an elite unit.

Hellenic 6mm

So after waiting and waiting i got my succesor 6mm from baccus, took like 3 weeks to get them, I was planing on nuking most of the UK as punishment if i didn't get them soon, but just as i was activating the countdown to blow up Great Britian, except Scottland, so just Wales, Northern Ireland and England(like scotch to much to blow up Scottland) Also kinda feel bad about blowing up northen ireland, as it would been that it would be rather radioactive the next few hundred years or so, and so lots of the regular Irish would have to move away from the border. and they are after all inocent.

But the figures came and many millions of people were saved. and most of all i got the figures.

I got almost 300 phalangites, 200 thoropero, 45 companion cav, 6 elephants and some generals.

I was not sure who big units were gonna be untill had them infront of me. In the end I went with 128 pikemen, 36 cav, not sure about the thoropereo yet, not sure if i should go with 3 or 4 deep line. 

So did the phalangites over a couple of days, i did them very basic, white armor and tunic(can't tell were one starts and the other ends) then flesh, then broze, then pikes. so no cool stuff, it was kinda proof of concept.

I needed to see how a finished unit looked, if it was the right size, just getting to know the figures, aslo just getting used to painting 6mm again.

I have enough figures for another unit, that will be more complex, whie shields with designs on them, tunic color diffrent then the armor. collord helmet ect.

The good thing about these are they are so generic, they could be used for almost any hellenic army from Phillp II to the end of Ptolmy dynasti. When the hellenic world ended. 

I did the companion cav today, and did them much more detailed.

Bronze chest armor, white tunic, flesh, sandles, scabard, bronze helmet with red tufft, 3 diffrent colors on the horses, leather gear on the horses, and 3 diffrent colors on the cloaks.

 So generic phalangites, 128 figures on 4 bases

 Companion cav, again quite detailed.

 36 figures and 6 bases.