I painted these 8 bases of 'Epic' Liby-Phoenician cavalry from the Hannibal Barca set for Leo in 2 daily sessions, 4 each day. Once I had the paint scheme in my head I simply let go and enjoyed picking out the various colours of tunics, shields and horse flesh before final detailing. I worked on these by attaching the outer and middle figure to the Warlord bases, leaving the two inside figures mounted in the usual wine tops then glued in place once completed. It's why I really enjoy painting Epics, the fast style suits the way I like to paint figures, working up from black base to flat brown dry brush then going in picking out the horse shades then the figures. I'm going to paint through all 24 bases of cavalry - different types - as a single batch, Celtic cavalry next up.
I'm spending today on basing, including the first two regiments of Union cavalry for Noel,
I also painted the 6 Warlord 28mm Pars for myself over the weekend, Great little figures to assemble and paint. Going to show my neighbour who served in 3 Para in the Falklands and Northern Ireland.
Finally I decided to paint up the 15mm Peter Pig WW2 French infantry squad. I'm going to have a crack at a small 'One Hour Skirmish' set up in 15mm after all, basically I don't really want to go back to collecting everything in 28mm again much as I enjoyed painting the larger figures. I have a few bits on order so we shall see where this idea goes but small scale, small space works for me!
