Spring Clean Challenge Sassanids Revived
Cavalry done
Sassanid armies had two effective arms, heavy and light cavalry. Everything else looks pretty on the table but these guys are doing the heavy lifting. I have two large units of 16 cavalry each. Firstly the Sassanid version of the Immortals the extra heavy cavalry in full armour on fully barded horses. These are Gripping Beast and I went for a mixture of iron and bronze armour on horses and riders. Shield transfers and banner from LBMS. Lots of different colours but I tried to largely stick to a similar tone and saturation to help them sit comfortably together.
Also got the 16 horse archers together. After adding the Iranian heads with headband and a couple in the simple median hat from the Wargames Atlantic plastic set, I painted the new heads and touched up the existing paintwork on the riders. The horses were to my eye unfinished, so I tweaked the colours on a couple to make them a bit more natural and then went round adding the white socks and face markings and black legs, mane and tail to the bay ones. In a late decision I changed the standard bearer for a proper Gripping Beast Sassanid standard bearer model, the other had an arabic headdress. Matched basing and they are nearly there. Much more Persian.
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