Supercool painting! Keep them coming
About the long hair. Long hair were pretty standard during the archaic era all over Greece. There are some opinions that the older, long hair styles were favoured by the aristocratic traditionalists in Athens. There is a detail that you can see in pottery. Those who didnt have long hair wore a sort of beanie hat or tied a tiny cushion like thing at the back of their neck, before they put their helmet on. The ones who had long hair are seen in many instances to tie them in a double pony tale, sort of like a samurai knot but lower and more loose to get them out of the way and also double down as a form of cushion. The first time I noticed it I smiled because having very long hair for most of my life, I too used to tie them in that way to get them out of the way.
Now Updates.
My injury was more serious than I expected. The problem is 3 herniated disks and that forced me to take a much longer break from sculpting than I planned. I followed a quite new non surgical treatment, I still have to be careful but at least the pain is gone the two major herneae reduced and the third seems to be gone. I have to say that I was surprised to discover the empathy of neurosurgeons when I explained my hobbies.
So getting back at it.
10 sculpts in different poses, I will try my best for interchangeable hands with weapons and arms. Hopefully you will be able to build a phalanx in full motion and variety + offcourse the officer minis.