Successor Thureophoroi

 

Now adding Thureophoroi to my slowing growing Pyrrhic/Successor collection. Adding to my Pyrrhic collection will be my primary focus this year which will include both the Pyrrhic and Republic Roman forces as I go along. I'm curious how far I'll manage to stay on target as I can get side tracked as you know if you have been following me for any length of time, but in my defense I have been getting better.

The miniatures themselves are Aventine miniatures which I find to be fantastic and will make up a large share of my collection along with some Wargames Foundry. I would say Aventine miniatures rank among some of my favorite miniatures on the market easily. 

Painting the figures was a lot of fun with some parts going pretty quick(for me) and other parts slowing me down quite a bit depending on the requirements. The colors I used were my usual Foundry and Vallejo, but also a little P3 and Mig pigment mixes for some weathering. A distinguishing feature of Thureophoroi was their large white shields which presents a challenge for us wargamers as it's easy to make them to bright or to dark. I'm quite pleased with the result as it was probably the most time consuming part of the miniature to paint and would have been disappointing if I didn't like the result. 

Thureophoroi provided a light infantry role on the battlefield and were flexible enough to both skirmish with javelins and form up in a phalanx with long spears making them very useful troops indeed. I'm happy I don't have to pronounce their name and rather just write it.:-) 

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