Four years after I first ordered them, I managed to finally paint and base 297 men, 4 women, 75 horses, 3 goats, 2 bulls, and one faithful mutt:

This was a massive project for me. It’s my first army-scale force in over a decade, my first historical 28mm army, and by far the largest ever painting project I’ve undertaken. It was so big that I had to break up the project over the years as doing it all in back-to-back would have burned out my enthusiasm very quickly, so that probably doubled the time it took me.

I finished a 400AP DBMM army early last year so I could play in ValleyCon at the Hutt Wargaming Club. What’s taken me another 18 months is all the extra options that I got along with it, so now I can theoretically field about 570AP.
I’m taking a break from historical minis for a while, next up will Blood Angel Terminators for Space Hulk and some D&D-style adventurers from Red Box Games and Hasslefree Miniatures. It’s been nice to be able to spend time on one mini at a time without getting stressed out about the other couple of dozen that I have to paint in exactly the same way!
Anyway, enough of the waffle, here’s the army:
Hetairoi and generals Blue pezhetairoi taxis Yellow pezhetairoi taxis Pink pezhetairoi taxis All of the pezhetairoi Hypaspist and Philip Thracian heavy cavalry Prodromoi Greek mercenaries Thracian light infantry and cavalry Skirmishers Agrianians Baggage
Just lovely. What a terrific looking army. It has me gazing at my 28mm Victrix plastics again, but as no-one locally plays ‘MM and certainly not in 28mm, it would seem I had best focus elsewhere.
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