The Old Foundry hoplites by Saleh were much nicer with separate shields.
One can even use Victrix shields and really upgrade them- or even older Foundry hoplite shields are better.
I completed these a long time ago and wanted to use the smaller provided shields so these could be the mythical "Iphicrataean hoplites".
They are a bit small for how I finally used them.
Warlord plastics shields are too big- I think the Victrix size hits the mark
The separate older Foundry shields were way better than the "soup bowls" (humor!!), of the single pose figures.
I have known fanatics that used a razor saw to slice off the lousy shields - that is a lot of work, I tried it on my Saleh Foundry Persians- which promptly put them back into the "to-do" bin. In the group shot below, the leader with sword with dog symbol has the cast on soup bowl- the others have the nicer- flatter separate shields.
Many of the Foundry hoplite characters are awesome figures.
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