Re-basing commences

The decision taken on the hoplites I got to work. First step was to prise them off their original base. That wasn't too difficult.

Then I zhuzhed them up a bit with a little decoration of the shields. That done, I got them stuck down to the bases. The figures were in units of the same shield colour and initially I was thinking about mixing them up so there was no uniformity, but cutting the figures off the strips and glueing them individually would have been a task too far. So they're mostly in units with the same colour shield, just different patterns on them.

I'm waiting for the arrival of the dice trays so I won't texture the bases yet. I had a false start with a couple of bases when I realised that I hadn't left enough space for the dice trays.

Figures as they were once they were off the original bases

I wanted to re-base the figures because they were based one rank deep with a fair amount of space fore and aft, whilst I wanted to have denser formations. In addition I wanted to re-texture the bases in the house style, similar to the Punic Wars figures.

First stage: shields edged in gold (for 'bronze'), white, red or green. Second stage: dab on various 'patterns' in contrasting colours. Some were effectively just blobs and then I started to get a bit more adventurous.

Third stage: figures glued to their final bases. Not quite enough for 8 units.

Close up of the 'Blue Shields'

This unit includes some of the legendary Finnioi tribe.

Unit containing the Grimonids (front right), with their own distinctive alphabet letters displayed on their shields.