This covers Macedonians, Seleucids, Ptolomaics etc. The core of my army is Later Seleucid and the photos reflect this. All figures painted by Ian Galley unless otherwise noted.
Painting Guide
Painting wargaming figures is a key part of the wargaming hobby so I’ve a collection of painting guides, photo galleries and uniform guides to help out.
Punic War Painting Guide – Numidian
A painting guide for Numidians that fought for and against Rome.
Punic Wars Painting Guide – Ligurian
A painting guide for Ligurians for the Punic Wars.
Painting Guides for the Macedonian and Punic Wars
Painting guides for the Macedonian and Punic Wars. My offering isn’t a comprehensive guide but it does cover:
Painting Wooden Buildings for 15mm Wargaming
These are my notes for painting Wooden Buildings. See Homemade Wooden Buildings and Commercial Wooden Buildings for more photos. If you want to make your own then check out Making Wooden Buildings.
Sandbags: Making and painting sandbags for wargames
Sandbags are useful for entrenchments and other fortifications. So I thought I’d make and paint some.
Painting Spanish Buildings for Wargaming
Most of my interests are Luso-Spanish so rendered plaster buildings are very much the go.
Steven’s Peninsular Spanish Army
A few snaps of my Spanish army for the Peninsular War. Nominally they are for my Albuera Project and specifically the Spanish Units at Albuera.
Simple Shading with Vallejo Model Color Paints
I use the black undercoat painting method and so do War Modelling (Spain). I noticed their style was a little different to mine – they use a highlight colour on all the big areas. Given I wasn’t too familiar with the Vallejo Model Color range I asked Luis Santigosa from War Modelling (Spain) for some advice. He offered some colour combinations to use for shading – those used by their painting service. I’ve extended this list further as I’ve experimented and overtime it has morphed into my default painting scheme. Unless noted this is proper painting rather than dry brushing, and Vallejo paints.
Steven’s Argentine Army of the South American Wars of Liberation
This is the Argentine element of San Martin’s Army of the Andes from my 1817-18 Chilean Project.
Steven’s 2nd Tabor of Regulares of Tetuán
I’m building up the 2nd Tabor of Regulares of Tetuán from Column Asensio of 1936. Battalion Code = “T” for Tabor or Turban or Tetuán within the Unit ID for Crossfire.
As long as you led from the front
where they [the Moroccans] could clearly see you upright,
they would follow.
Alferez Juan Crespo.
Painting Guide for the Rif Wars
A painting guide for the Rif Wars. The Spanish uniform evolved over the period of the conflict from, so I’ve included sections on three periods (1909-13; 1914-19; 1920-26). There are also sections on the Spanish Foreign Legion, Moroccan Regulars and the Rif tribesmen themselves.