paints a legend from the Trojan Wars.
Following on the heels of the Athenian Hoplites, we are really pleased to announce the release of our latest 28mm hard-plastic boxed set.
VXA002 - SPARTAN ARMOURED HOPLITES 5TH TO 3RD CENTURY BCE
This boxed set contains 48 superbly detailed Spartan hoplites in 28mm hard plastic. There are arm options for thrusting or at rest, sword arms, cloaks, various separate heads, and a plethora of other parts to make some really dynamic Spartan hoplite units.
The spears in the set are separate to the hands, as some people prefer to use metal spears. However, you will find these spears are very flexible and durable, and will be quite difficult to break.
In the box, you will find an insert from the guys at Great Escape Games, with a brief history of the Spartans and the conflicts they fought in, plus unit stats for their great set of Ancients rules, Clash of Empires.
We (well, LBMS, actually) have also produced some new Spartan shield transfers, which you can see being used on the wonderful painted figures done by Artmaster Studio. The white-background transfers work in the normal LBMS way of priming the shield white and then applying. However, the bronze-backed transfers work on a different background color. You should paint the shield a light gold, and then apply the Bronze effect transfer. As the transfer has a slight translucent quality, the metal shows through and creates a lovely, rich and realistic bronze effect to the shield. The rims can be easily blended to the transfer with some brown ink.
We have all the test sprues of the next two sets, Thebans and Mercenaries. We will show you some images of them next week. The Thebans go into production in about three weeks' time, and will be added to the multi-box deal options, as will the Mercenaries when they go into production.