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Title: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: bigredbat on 06 March 2023, 03:28:51 PM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijk606rv1Z5r1N_ZtXsGU-mFlVmRflZUsnkevAJFzDw7KJlUub1fgdT16pST6VLNehuuCiOhnMMmDzMgVQh9F2ReDG9YQc-fXDrMAl37-f0oy3SBQES9wEFsk30RzHz4rmT1YzTutRRo-r9I3R9BQmvRrQMLgbgjrExlC2FG38TBi7-wocGQAzs5A5eA/s3819/20230306_140215.jpg)

Here's a work-in-progress shot of my first two units, the Silver Shields, for my new phalanx for the Salute Ipsus game in April. They are all Foundry minis. There will eventually be eight more units of Brazen Shields. I'll post updates, here, as I get on with basing the remaining units over the next few weeks.

There's a lot more about the project on my blog:  https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20phalanx (https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20phalanx)
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Mad Gadgeteer on 06 March 2023, 03:35:05 PM
Oh WOW - really nice!!!!
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 06 March 2023, 03:46:04 PM
Very impressive  :)
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Easy E on 06 March 2023, 04:23:22 PM
That is a phalanx.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Freddy on 06 March 2023, 05:12:33 PM
Really great!
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Tim Haslam on 06 March 2023, 05:43:29 PM
OMG!  :o
Wow
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: scotty on 06 March 2023, 08:02:33 PM
Wow, very impressive
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: abu iskander on 06 March 2023, 11:15:03 PM
Stunning!
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Jjonas on 07 March 2023, 12:12:27 AM
You making me feel
Small. As revenge I need to mail you all my unpainted lowered pike Foundry figures.
Thanks for sharing your grand vision wish I could teleport over to see your pike madness in action.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: trev on 07 March 2023, 12:22:19 AM
This is madness but epic madness.  :D
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: bigredbat on 07 March 2023, 09:11:19 AM
Thanks all!  Just another 300 left to finish and base; bu tI feel I have the wind behind me, now.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: zemjw on 07 March 2023, 09:13:03 AM
I thought about doing Macedonians in 6mm, but the prospect of painting the phalanx brought me to my senses.

Seeing it done in 28mm, rather you than me :-*
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: tancrede on 07 March 2023, 02:01:34 PM
Wonderful unit, sir !!   :-*
Very impressive.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: nikkobourges on 07 March 2023, 04:27:46 PM
Hello,

Impressed !!!

Nikkobourges
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Mick_in_Switzerland on 07 March 2023, 04:49:16 PM
they are very impressive. :-*
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: carlos marighela on 08 March 2023, 04:25:34 AM
That's a really impressive phalanx! :-*

Doubly impressive that something so pretty also represents such a significant Occupational Health & Safety risk with all those sharp, pointy, bits. :D
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: bigredbat on 24 March 2023, 12:55:36 PM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtrvaR3yb3vQa0F64kkPLYD_VhyHqnDkAsT6WIRGE4Fc9QajWEG4NpJ2TLDlZCkx3bw8M30_fQ0aRJVGDHeQ3pqVVY5VgaIKVrQSZDRtN0b_dGW-aBRMZop8OQEQK3BJj4jZv1XOrFxHScEGsu7Y_UhXA_0Ihz0V7X2lJFqaXk1xlExgjXzbyL8qAVw/s3525/20230324_111039.jpg)

Here's the latest image of the remaining 288 phalangites for the Salute phalanx, I'm pushing hard on the highlighting/varnishing prior to a basing push starting (hopefully) around the end of next week.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: LouieN on 24 March 2023, 01:52:51 PM
Impressive.  Did you make the pikes removable?
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: bigredbat on 24 March 2023, 02:32:04 PM
hi Louis, no but I attach them late on, so that I don't have to store them all with pikes fitted.  The pikes are already painted, I just need to fit them, after ensuring a good metal to metal contact.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: Frostie on 30 March 2023, 08:31:39 AM
Very impressive and great work
Title: Re: Great Phalanx
Post by: bigredbat on 30 March 2023, 11:28:48 AM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSfOO9jFZsipN-1C_8RbuMsSpK2woSwzak1K9IGN7AqVjT7X9IHWIs7EWmSCBErZAzBNw3eFacDr7Og9gkVOkBq40uAL53BijQHEx7HP-sCXaDV349jLKmEQq_mgS6aX58po9m2FfkPJHM74xLQLsX1QNleh2QQaUtf7hTKDvnYoXn5_z4v6eAIcrEQ/s2133/20230330_101920.jpg)

I'm on the final straight- just four lots of 48 attacking pike to pike up and base. Still a lot of pikes to fit and bases to grout, though... but it should be finished for Salute.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: pogo on 30 March 2023, 12:54:59 PM
madness, in the most gentle way ;)
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: SJWi on 30 March 2023, 01:02:45 PM
Pogo, not madness, just Mr Miller doing what he does best.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: Emperorbaz on 30 March 2023, 07:14:23 PM
Show off!
I’m doing a unit of 32 and I’m bored already 😂😂😂
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: nikkobourges on 01 April 2023, 09:57:08 AM
Hello,

So impressive phalanx !!!!

Nikkobourges
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: Axebreaker on 02 April 2023, 02:25:00 PM
Impressive! :o

Christopher
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 30/3/23)
Post by: bigredbat on 02 April 2023, 03:15:10 PM
Just highlighting the last few minis today and tomorrow, then I need to assemble the 192 front rankers.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: bigredbat on 10 April 2023, 02:47:52 PM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_ydHiiJ12gk_varS_DTh_6s7K7bJZl6RqO4W2xXc1xs6MUmF8ziydvhr5pONYvW4Wg6ySSQPTcV2DEOM7-PGi2chYTGbHL8zdtffplM3gKxfu24_yonaI1TUk5qyyfif31PrTqhS6vzjjVv80WIErlNfT0UU7VOS18vzOMrut-87y2abLDWUznzpNA/s4000/20230410_115844.jpg)

Here's the Great Phalanx, finished bar some snagging, but already Salute-viable and with days to spare!

More about it on t'blog at:

https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2023/04/phalanx-viii-all-over-bar-grouting.html (https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2023/04/phalanx-viii-all-over-bar-grouting.html)
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: discok3 on 10 April 2023, 03:41:46 PM
I will search you out at Salute for some close ups  :-*
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: rumacara on 10 April 2023, 04:18:34 PM
Superb work Simon. :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: nikkobourges on 10 April 2023, 04:37:58 PM
Hello,

Very impressive !!!

Nikkobourges
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: bigredbat on 14 April 2023, 02:33:24 PM
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0N2jssJw2wMD_1h05Or45m9U2Ptgx2qW_Blh6Uyjlp3crR7lyOgdcWJuyv2btyIGtpKpVCE3bff-WszlEcBpsT4ZEAyK-YB8knF3X5g8WpvGJ081-hpzeSB6M6UiATQvHpsIelUbUa3SHNVrOG6V6n4y87aRYMktt5rxnVq3q4CJ6aSlnlRa_6PeVhA/s2296/20230414_103359.jpg)

With a few days left, I'm working on some command stands. This one is "Antigonus at Bay" - partly based up - depicts his last moments at Ipsus, before he got javelined.
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: Bellerophon on 15 April 2023, 04:04:18 PM
Is that Palanquin due to the rumor that he was so fat he needed to be carried?
Title: Re: Great Phalanx - mostly done! (updated 10/4/23)
Post by: Easy E on 18 April 2023, 10:44:44 PM
Nice, nice, nice!