| Hetairoi | 05 May 2013 4:13 a.m. PST |
Wich color/colors do you prefer for seleucid pikes?
link I think red or blue will look great. Cheers! |
| Swampster | 05 May 2013 5:11 a.m. PST |
They may look striking in blue or red but I doubt there is any evidence for them being painted. Wood will look better IMO – probably one of the shades you used for the middle two. |
| whitejamest | 05 May 2013 5:49 a.m. PST |
Hetairoi, personally I agree with Swampster, though if you really like the colored pikes better I see nothing wrong with indulging your own tastes. Lovely painting on the figures. May I ask what manufacturer those figures are from? - James |
| Hetairoi | 05 May 2013 6:55 a.m. PST |
These are Old Glory macedonian pikemen. IŽll probably paint them as the fourth option (Dark Sand). IŽve seen colored pikes in some Osprey ilustrations and, of course, on 28mm units. |
| Lewisgunner | 05 May 2013 7:47 a.m. PST |
Links top the Alexander mosaic. The pikes in the background and Alex's spear are all light or dark wood in colour. They may have oiled pikes to give them some protection against going brittle through losing moisture, that would have darkened them a bit. Of course they would not have actually been oily as the oil would sink in. It is rather as we oil a cricket bat today.
Roy |
| LeonAdler | 05 May 2013 7:48 a.m. PST |
Painted pikes probably quite likely as it would help keep the weather off Id go for it, keep the colours on the cool side I'd have thought though.
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| kallman | 05 May 2013 8:10 a.m. PST |
In truth we do not know for sure if they would have painted the pikes or not. However, it is not out of the realm of possibilities as Leon stated they would have taken efforts of some sort to protect them from weather and to keep them flexible. Using some type of oil to stain the pikes is more likely but I do not think painting them would be out of the question. |
| Delbruck | 05 May 2013 8:22 a.m. PST |
Painted pikes are not out of the realm of possibility, but I prefer natural.
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| Hetairoi | 06 May 2013 3:14 p.m. PST |
Thanks for your comments!
As I have three units to paint, I think IŽll paint the pikes in light brown (Dark Sand, the fourth option) and one unitŽs in red. IŽll left blue for argyraspids, thought they have spears, not pikes.
Thanks again! |
| Emperorbaz | 07 May 2013 9:38 a.m. PST |
Wasn't that Darius mosaic found in Pompei? Probably done 300-400 years after Alexander? Anyway my point is, and why I like ancients so much, is that no-one really knows, so (almost) anything goes! Some of the best results in wargames army painting is achieved by people who do some great work at the planning stage, thinking hard about how colours work together. I think painting ancients gives you the opportunity to experiment like no other hisorical period. |
| LeonAdler | 07 May 2013 1:16 p.m. PST |
Emperorbaz ,
Quite right, the answer to most questions is as you say 'no one knows' makes the period attractive and from a designers point of view maddening! lol
A designer likes CERTAINTY! Nowt worse than doing a design only to find that a few months later someone publishes a book that overturns 'accepted wisdom' and that design you just did is now 'wrong' lol
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