Arteshtâr-î Zhayedan Sassanid Gaurd Infantry

Arteshtâr-î Zhayedan were the Gaurd foot Infantry of the Sassanid Kings, again A & A infantry, I would like to have had them all in scale armour but I am yet to find a suitable figure that can be used if I do these troops will step down to standard infantry. I have given them Phil Hendrys large sheilds to hide behind! My last Sassanid infantry unit is on the table and should be done by the weekend.




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Matt

Payâhdag-î Nîzagân Sassanid Levy Spear

Kamândâr-î Payâhdag or Sassanid levy spear, apparently they perfomed badly against the Romans, but I think it may of been propaganda, I will be using this unit as more of a warband type rather than drilled. I think I may also leave these with the smaller sheild instead of adding Phil hendry sheilds to them.

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Matt

Pontic Greek Mercenaries

I painted these some time ago, Mithradates hired troops from many Greek cities, these are the first of my Greek mercenaries.




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Matt

Leucosyri skirmishers

Also off the table this week are some Leucosyri hill tribesmen, the Leucosyri were termed White Syrians, and possibly settled in the Paphlagonia region by Alexander particularly around the Halys river, they were conquered by Pontus under Mithridates Ctistes (302–266 BC). I also have a spear block to do which will be an allied contingent of my Pontic army, I am yet to decide if i will issue them sparra, or a small sqaure sheild or perhaps even a round one. The Miniatures are from the Crusader Persian range and I hope I have done them justice.







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matt

Pontic Pike

Well finally finished my first block of Pontic pike, only two more to go, I continued with the mythical beast theme adding Ceberus to the units banner, not 100% happy with the result as I tried to copy a ancient Greek vase of Hercules capturing the beast, it was depicted with one red, one white and one black head and body, as my feild was alradyred I decided to paint a yellow head instead. I probaly would of been better off just depicting the head instead of the whole body, at this stage it will stay as it is, I may revisit at some stage though.

All of my pike are with charged pikes so fitting them has proved a challenge, I have decided to add small rank numbers on the back in rank numbers and colours for each rank so placing them down come game time will be easier.








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Matt

Pontic sythed chariot

Latest off the table is my Pontic four horsed sythed chariot, I can see it running down Romans, Celts and Greeks causing mayhem amoung undrilled troops at least! Although a one hit wonder in WAB I still had to have one! This is a lovely First Corps model which came out last year, somewhere at the back of my table is the yoke, when I find it I will attach the reins at some stage to finish it off, I also did think about adding some victims but decided against it. Some pike and more light infantry to come, later this week.






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Matt

Sugar and Spice and all things nice

Well Australia's largest wargames convention CANCON (Canberra Convention) has come and gone and its time to take stock of the purchases and sales.

I thought it was busier than most years on the numbers on Saturday and Sunday was quiter, however the buyers seemed to have stayed away or kept thier money in thier pockets, just looking at my turnover from previous years.

Since the advent of the Asian painting services it has become harder to move painted armies and I only successfully moved one army on out of five, lots of individual miniatures and vehicles went and I sold off a lots off terrain. FOW vehicles were still popular along with well painted warhammer, 40k and warzone.

I was acting as an agent for Wartime Miniatures and sold a bunch of modern Afgans, Taliban, Australians, SAS, and lots of ww2 support weapon packs. The Vietnamese and the Cold War amercians also had a few buyers.

I also had a restricted budget this year (less than a grand)as I had spent too much on Christmas!!! I still however manged to pick up a few bargains, on the bring and buy I picked up the score of the show IMO 120 Perry and Foundry AWI figures for $65 I am still amazed by this now! I also picked up some 28mm Gripping Beast cathaginians and some A & A Late Roman infantry. On the Retail front I bought a bunch of Crusader figs to flesh out some units I already have and add to some armies for variation, and some ECW buildings to add to my collection.

On the planning and painting front not much to report except some upcoming Pontic pike and a sythed chariot, some 7YW stuff and some Imperial Romans. Pictures to come this weekend.

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Matt