| phil bagnall | 16 Feb 2012 8:18 a.m. PST |
Just about to embark on a batch of thureophoroi for my mid republican Roman FoG army. They're drilled (IIRC) so I tend to keep clothing & shields fairly similar in a BG for appearances. What would most people use for the shields – all bronze faced, all white (with bronze fittings)or mixed colours? In 15mm I'm not planning any shield art on top of plain colour. Thanks for your thoughts Phil |
| Decimus | 16 Feb 2012 8:28 a.m. PST |
Phil these are my 10mm thureophorio. I painted them to look good as opposed to historical reality. link Hope it helps |
| RelliK | 16 Feb 2012 9:35 a.m. PST |
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| phil bagnall | 16 Feb 2012 11:53 a.m. PST |
Decimus – nice, I have a liking for MM 10mms. Their Carthaginian citizen infantry will be the basis for my numidian imitation legionnaries with red shields too as a match for my 15mm Corvus belli ones, but will prob do the thureophoroi for 15mm with a different colour in case they go up against said numidians.
Rellik – I knew that blasted p**k colour would raise its head some time!! |
| Swampster | 16 Feb 2012 12:15 p.m. PST |
Most of the surviving images of Successor period thureoi show the as white. Some may have a darker spine but I think where this happens it is the artist just using a different colour to make it stand out or it shows a bronze spine
e.g.
Alternatively there are the gaudy colours used on the little shields in the tomb of the erotes. e.g.
(as found now in the MFA in Boston)
link though whether these are based on shields actually carried is another matter. |
| Craig R Davey | 16 Feb 2012 1:55 p.m. PST |
I went for off white/buff link
Regards,
Craig |
| Yesthatphil | 16 Feb 2012 5:05 p.m. PST |
Craig … you seem to have cracked the problem of making a whole line of plain white shields not look boring – I'm impressed. Phil |
| Mithridates | 16 Feb 2012 5:06 p.m. PST |
Phil WRG Armies and Enemies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars comments that the thureos were usually painted white or a pale colour, without a design. For a little variation in the shield colour: link I do like the washed effect on Craig's shields. Garry |
| Craig R Davey | 17 Feb 2012 4:36 a.m. PST |
I used Vallejo Buff as a base, washed with GW Devlan Mud ink, painted back over with the buff. Used a light dry brush with off-white to pick out the hard edges and add a bit of texture to the flat area, then mud splashed the bottom of the shield using dark earth followed by a sandy yellow. Sounds complicated, but didn't take that long really. Regards,
Craig |
| phil bagnall | 17 Feb 2012 6:21 a.m. PST |
Garry – thanks, thought I'd seen that somewhere before, and reminded me that I must have a friend's copy of AMPW buried in a pile of books at home! Craig – looks very nice. As I'm likely to go for off-white tunics I'll probably do rim & boss-plate bronze for definition
Thanks all for the input
Phil |
