Pyrrhus

[philhendry]

Hi Guys,

I'm back, sort of!  Got fed up of thinking and writing, and actually felt like painting.

Whilst the missus and my daughter were watching all the festivities today, I did a bit of painting.  Keith, from Aventine Miniatures, kindly gave me Pyrrhus and an anonymous Pyrrhic general last week.  I fished the models out last night, cleaned up, assembled and primed them.  This morning I made a start, and here's the result.



Pyrrhus means, in Greek, red or 'flame-coloured', so I wanted to make him appear fairly red - lots of red clothing.  His horse is an homage to Bucephalus - Alexander's (Pyrrhus' second cousin) horse, which was black with a white star.  Oddly, the highlights don't seem to show up at all on the photo - he isn't that black!

Primed white, painted with bright base colours, and then painted with Army Painter - the grey horse got Soft Tone, everything else got Strong Tone.  I did a little bit of drybrushing with white spirit to obviate the need for highlighting, and to remove the brown staining from the 'white' bits of the grey horse.

My favourite bit was doing the leopard skin for Pyrrhus to sit on!  Keith and Adam seem to have opted to make the leopard's head a 'real' head - I decided to use it as a sort of 'buckle' for the skin, and painted it as if metal.

Cheers,
Phil

[bigredbat]

Very nice, Phil, especially the leopardskin!

Simon

[Svennn]

They are very nice. I cannot get my head around the fact you used army painter though, especially on the white horse. Leopard skin is super.

[Captain Blood]

Nice paintwork. The leopard skin is well done indeed.

To my eye, the horse sculpts leave a lot to be desired though. They seem ever so small in relation to the riders, and the head on Pyrrhus horse doesn't look like any horse I've ever seen... 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Impressive, Phil, really like you choice of colors!

To my eye, the horse sculpts leave a lot to be desired though. They seem ever so small in relation to the riders, and the head on Pyrrhus horse doesn't look like any horse I've ever seen... 

Ancient horses were small, Richard. The size looks right to me.

Btw, I think the Perry's plastic horses are too big compared to their riders ;-)

[philhendry]

Thanks Lads!!

Nice paintwork. The leopard skin is well done indeed.

To my eye, the horse sculpts leave a lot to be desired though. They seem ever so small in relation to the riders, and the head on Pyrrhus horse doesn't look like any horse I've ever seen...  

The horses are small, but they look about right for animals from that era.  The head on that horse looks about right to me - I think it's my poor photography that's making it look bad.

[Mr.J]

I cannot get my head around the fact you used army painter though, especially on the white horse.

My thoughts exactly. Cracking paintjobs.

[CyberAlien312]

Wow. Those are fantastic, awesome detail! 

[blackstone]

Really nice bright clean painting!

[nevermore]

[philhendry]

Thanks lads!