I/48 Thracians complete!

The shields and standards carefully added and reinforced with glue, it's a finale day. Dry-brushing the grey stone, then carefully adding shallow lakes of diluted PVA and then the green flocking. At this stage, the elements match the basing on the Greek army the optional CvGen comes from.

These are the Thracian components:

Top left, CvGen or 4AxGen options.

Rear middle, 3xLH option, and in front of them, 3x4Ax option.

Foreground, 2xPs(bow). I don't plan to add naked stone-chuckers, because I have no spare Picts/Caledones, and though I have a couple of potential slingers, that looked like being a mini-project in its own right.

Next up the (almost certainly not going to be used) 6xPs to left, and the much-more-likely 6+1x 3Ax to right.

The Ps are really there to feed into other morphs like the Geometric Greeks. Or in case I want the 7x3Ax for Geometric Greeks and want a wheelbarrow army here.

Finally, the heavy core option, 6x4Ax, many with rhomphaia. Perfect for doing adequately against anything except knights in open country.

Those with sharp eyes will have spotted a few ringer minis so far. These include Esci barbarians given javelins that I originally converted for the Geometric Greeks but have added the shield for this project. 

It's a nice thought that some of my earlier conversions, Atlantic Roman mounted, have reunited with some Atlantic Roman chariot drivers who are the CvGen option. 

bench update 02 September 2023

Now the first question on seeing this is, do you actually plan to use all those options? And the answer is no, not for Thracians alone. This is where the partial morph with Geometric Greeks comes in. I am pretty sure I can use 7x3Ax and 3xPs (javelin) for the b option of the Greek side.

There was some second thoughts and lots of test basing, and I ended up with several Scythian spare, back in recycling.

Tomorrow I'll add the last few shields:

Thracian shields on!

The Little Big Men Studios decals are on, and I may have misjudged some of them but en masse they look good. Disappointingly the Carthaginian shield decals I thought I had do not transfer. Maybe they are old stock and had a completely different method? 

Anyway, I'm ready to assemble them onto bases this coming weekend!

bench update 27 August 2023

The Thracian project is nearing its end! Over the week, I've added pretty much all detail needed. Now, I'm carefully re-mounting minis that I hope to give shield decals. They are Little Big Men Studios Thracian and Carthaginian and as a nice change of pace they are actually scaled for 1/72!

bench update 20 August 2023

I've hit the tipping point between looking "in progress" and "nearing completion." Amazing what clumsy colored lines on cloaks has done. 

Still to do: plenty of detail yet on the horses; all flesh and face detail, metal.

bench update 12 August 2023

Just a little bit of color added...

bench update 06 August 2023

Got all the horses base coated now, but not much else happened