Anyone seen my Pachyderm

The last of the units I completed so far were the Libyan skirmishers that came in the Victrix Carthaginian pack.

These were straightforward to paint in undyed cloth and the flesh colour was the same as I used for the spearmen.

The tricky bit were the shields as for some reason I didn’t get the transfers (old age must be creeping in). For a couple I used some spare LBM transfers for the Numidian cavalry I have but had to cut these down. These were the giraffe and zebra shields (again I hate HD photos as the white showing on the edge of these shields doesn’t show that vividly on the actual figures and I am now going to have to revisit them to touch them up ??).

For the rest to get the animal hide effect it was out with the cut down brush and stipple the colours on to try and get a reasonable effect that I am happy with.

Next up on the unit list were the Libyan Spearman. These are Victrix figures and the pack contains both troops equipped with the more traditional “hoplite” cuirass and those equipped with captured roman equipment. The first figures are the more traditional ones.

The figures were block painted with the cuirass being painted an off-white and then washed to bring out the details. The flesh tones used are from the Foundry range for North African Mediterranean flesh washed and highlighted. Shield were completed with my go to Little Big Man studios transfers.

The only regret I have is that I have based these on my usual 2p coin bases but on reflection if I am to use them for To the Strongest it may have been better to base on square bases.

The Carthaginian army has always had a fascination for me and I first built a 25mm army in the late 70’s using mainly Garrison and Lamming figures. Many games were played using WRG 5th edition and the army was trampled underfoot by Macedonian Successors, Byzantine, Roman and many other armies.

With the coming release of Infamy for the Punic Wars and the existing Clash of Spears rules it was time to revisit and rebuild the army.

The first units to be painted was some Iberian scutarii. Unfortunately I do not know the figure manufacturer as they were given to me as a present. For this reason my normal approach of using shield transfers had to be abandoned. The figures were painted using natural colours to represent unbleached cloth but with the traditional edging of either red or purple depending on the sources you believe.