| Larry R | 09 Dec 2013 12:14 p.m. PST |
Anyone have a link or two to a good on-line reference for painting the above subjects? Thanks in advance. |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 09 Dec 2013 1:24 p.m. PST |
Always find Jeff Jonas Ancient Battles inspiring on anything to do with Macedonians ancientbattles.com |
| Larry R | 09 Dec 2013 6:27 p.m. PST |
Thanks! Not sure how I missed that one! |
 oldbob  | 10 Dec 2013 8:45 a.m. PST |
As far as Persians go try to find "redzed" painting site at one time he had lots of painted Persians on his blog. Some of the very best I've seen! |
| Mithridates | 10 Dec 2013 3:13 p.m. PST |
Check out this site for some nice painting of Wargames Factory plastic persian sparabara link redzed link If you can get hold of the WAB Alexander Supplement it provides some great ideas for Persian painting schemes. |
 BigRedBat  | 10 Dec 2013 3:18 p.m. PST |
redzed did a wonderful job on the Persians! If I ever won the pools… |
| Larry R | 11 Dec 2013 6:41 a.m. PST |
Thanks for those links as well, a great help! |
| colin knight | 12 Dec 2013 5:03 a.m. PST |
The Wargames Factory Paint job is truly inspiring. |
| JJartist | 14 Dec 2013 4:02 p.m. PST |
These are my simple Persian styles on some sample figures:
link |
| spontoon | 29 Dec 2013 6:10 p.m. PST |
Is violet really such a predominant colour in Macedonian/ Persian costuming? Not purple, a more wine coloured shade? I ask 'cause I just finished some Persian Light cavalry and didn't use violet. |
| Delbruck | 29 Dec 2013 7:26 p.m. PST |
Is violet really such a predominant colour in Macedonian/ Persian costuming? Not purple, a more wine coloured shade? I ask 'cause I just finished some Persian Light cavalry and didn't use violet. Violet – no.
Tyrian purple – probably yes. Violet is bluish purple, Tyrian purple was a dark deep red.
link Although I have to admit I use traditional purple for royal clothing, not dark red. It is hard to make dark red look "royal". |
| JJartist | 30 Dec 2013 9:04 a.m. PST |
Over the years the idea of Persian and Macedonian Purple has flip flopped a number of times…. some of my figures are in what you would call "violet" because, back in the day, folks would get all non-plussed about shades…. they hated pink too and blue helmets, which it turns out are very common Greek colors…. currently the Tyrian Purple as the swatch reveals is all the rage… often even shown brighter than this in reconstructions. Most of my newer figures get the new Tyrian Purple treatment, older ones stay as they are. I picked up a Sea Slug at Zuma beach once and it sprayed my bathing suit Tyrian purple… that swimsuit kept its "Royal" color for a long time.. |
| Tumbleweed | 13 Mar 2014 7:40 p.m. PST |
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| Mingans Marauders | 19 Apr 2014 3:06 p.m. PST |
These are some of the Xyston Macedonian that I painted based on the Osprey prints. Hope you enjoy them.
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| Mollinary | 04 May 2014 12:48 p.m. PST |
Wow MM! And those are 15mms? Mollinary |
