Command Stands

[philhendry]

I decided to make a few command stands this week.  My EIR have a rather nice command stand, using some of Foundry's commanders and 'hangers-on', and my Sassanids have the rather nice Aventine Miniatures King's elephant, but my 3rd Century Romans just had a rather lonely general on horseback.  I'd painted up a chariot for my Britons ages ago, but had never got around to basing it up properly.







And Keith from Aventine had given me the makings of a standard bearer to accompany the splendid Pyrrhus model they make.  So I assembled and painted that up too, and then based it, together with Pyrrhus:





All models follow my usual method - white primer, bright basecoats, Army Painter 'Strong Tone' painted on, LBMS transfers, and then a squirt of Testors' Dull Cote.  Grass is Woodland Scenics, tufts by Silflor.

Cheers,
Phil

[Ray Rivers]

 

They all look really good. Very nice.

The kids and dog running with the chariot is an especially cool touch!

[Yankeepedlar01]

Very commanding those stands! Great work there!

[philhendry]

They all look really good. Very nice.

The kids and dog running with the chariot is an especially cool touch!

Thanks!  The chariot + kids and dog are a Warlord Games 'tribute' to Angus McBride - they're based on one of the plates he did for the Peter Wilcox Osprey: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Romes-Enemies-(2)_9780850456066

Cheers,
Phil

[Blackwolf]

Lovely stuff

[Mad Doc Morris]

The Eagle King and a barracks emperor in one thread? That's my personal heaven of wargaming topics!
Very nice vignettes!

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice indeed 

I like the different base styles for the different theatres 

cheers

James

[commissarmoody]

Vary good job, all around. 

[Ryan]

LOVE that chariot!! 

[philhendry]

Thanks lads!  I had fun doing them, and they definitely add something to the armies.

[Mason]

Stunning!
They are all great, but that chariot scene takes the biscuit.
And dunks it in tea!