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:


Carthaginians

Including Carthaginians and Libyans


Spanish

Including Iberians, Celtiberians, Lusitanian, Balearics


Gauls

Both cavalry and infantry.

Romans

Infantry and cavalry. No pictures yet.


Macedonians

Including Macedonians and Successor States such as Seleucid.

Seleucid-193 Phalangites - Silver shields (Argyraspides)
Seleucid-193 Phalangites – Silver shields (Argyraspides)

Numidians

Cavalry and infantry

Carthaginian-178 Numidian cavalry
Carthaginian-178 Numidian cavalry

Ligurians

A few shots of my Ligurians


Italians

Infantry and cavalry. No pictures yet.

The Colour of Bronze

Ancient Bronze resembled our modern Brass.

References

Head, D. (1982). Armies of the Macedonian and Punic wars 359 BC to 146 BC. Wargames Research Group.

The definitive source. My painting guide does not replace Head (1982) as I make no attempt to duplicate his illustrations. All I do is list the colours to use. Where I mention “illustrations” I mean illustrations from Head’s book.

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