Spartan Warrior in 40mm

[Sascha Herm]

Hi all,

In the last few days I painted some Miniatures and Eras I have not done before, which was a nice change though.

Here is the first. This miniature is suppose to depict an ancient Spartan Warrior in 40mm. I am not so sure about the manufacturer as the Name on the bottom of the base was barely legible. I could only make out E...Casting (?) It is a nice sculpt and was so much easier to paint then the usual 28mm miniatures. I might go back and tackle some larger scale models in the near future.

Please click on the link to see more pictures: http://www.sascha-herm.com/Spartan01.htm







I used Andrea's Red Paint set for the Cloak as it is a nice deep and little darker red as the one I wanted to use for the short Tunic or rather "Chiton" for which I used Reaper's Blood Red Triad with additional Highlighting using Reaper's Fire Red Triad.

I also wanted to try to recreate a different skin colour for the Spartan and used Foundry's Mediterranean Flesh Triad to give the figure a more tanned or olive looking complexion. I used GW Bestial Brown & Dark Flesh to deepen the shadows a little.

For the Cuirass, Helmet and other metal parts, I started with Basecolour of GW Balthasar Gold, followed by GW Gehennas Gold. As I found the result still a bit too dark I also used Foundry's Burning Gold B to drybrush all parts lightly and carefully. I added a final highlight with Andrea's Base Gold from the Gold Paint set as it is just slightly lighter than the Burning Gold one which provides a great transitition on the metal parts.

I hope you like him. All comments are very welcome.

With kind regards

Sascha

[nikko]

Hello,

Superb paintjob !!  very inspiring....

Nikko

[painterman]

Stunning painting, on a rather nice sculpt. 

[tom_aargau]

Nice painting...the figure is from E K Casting's set of Greek warriors, great value for money
http://siberia-miniatures.ru/product_info.php?cPath=41_88_173&products_id=1651

[Orctrader]

That is wonderful painting.   

[Mithridates1]

Thanks Tom for the identification - they make some nice looking Persians.    They should paint up well.   Shame they don't make the same in 28mm.

[Colonel Tubby]

Stunning work!

I feel the urge to follow him into battle!

[Sascha Herm]

Thank you all for your encouraging comments it is really appreciated. 

Nice painting...the figure is from E K Casting's set of Greek warriors, great value for money
http://siberia-miniatures.ru/product_info.php?cPath=41_88_173&products_id=1651

Thank you also for your help Tom  I will change that on my website. I just couldn't find anything on the net when I was trying to identify the figures.