Well, I promised figures so I guess I should post more than one. Here is another project from not too long ago, a 54mm Greek Hoplite from Romeo Models. The base is scratch built. I wanted to put him in a city setting as I was a bit bored of plain dirt/grass bases and I thought it gave him a reason to have his sword out. In the field he'd be fighting with a spear but going into an invaded city and searching the buildings for loot... well in that case I imagine the spear would be pretty impractical and he'd grab his sword.
The vases behind him are from my dad (he picked them up a toy soldier show and gave them to me). So I sanded them down and repainted them. The design work on the vases and the shield was all done freehand. I did base them on a few pottery pictures I snapped at a museum. The shield design comes from an ancient coin, although I did rework it quite a bit. The winged boar is a figure from Greek mythology (although not a well known one) called Chrysaor.
4 attached images. Click to enlarge.
