Charles Grant peltasts and cavalry

When I bought the Charles Grant figures that I call 'the Grant Collection' - which I would love to develop (ie, find and acquire ones like the Assyrians) - I originally decided to leave them well alone.

As time has gone on I've moderated that view. The figures themselves have been rebased and used since Charles Grant owned them anyway, plus some of them need to be refurbished a bit.

Currently I'm working on peltasts, and the collection included 110 Garrison G11. It seemed reasonable to rebase 24 of these as peltasts to give me a second unit. I'll probably rebase another peltast unit, not sure about some nice looking 10 man units as psiloi?

 After that, I'm looking at the cavalry.

 I've already got quite a few of these in my armies but it's a figure I really like - it would be nice to see this unit rebased and in action.

Another candidate is this mob. Some of the spears need a bit of attention, but the shields are superb. They'll be rebased as mediums/heavies rather than their current light bases.

One large group of figures are the Garrison Persian cavalry. I haven't started rebasing the 'S' Range Persians yet so might wait until then before I consider my options with the Grant figures.

'S' Range Assyrians are now based.

This represents all the 'S' Range Assyrians that are ready - I'm still working on the extra chariots, there is at least one other spears unit lying around that I haven't seen for years and I will give them some of the Garrison Assyrian (my generic archers!) archers to act as light infantry.

 The cavalry, including chariots, will probably be expanded in future. They better, I've already stripped the paint off 2 of the recruit chariots.

 

Likewise, at least 30 extra spearmen lying around somewhere. Also, I prefer units of 24 or 48 rather than 40 or so.

   The lighter component just needs the addition of some light archers.

 The levy will also be expanded in the future.,

Futures...

Running Garrison had one major fault. It tended to take over everything else.

There are other figures out there. One of the first metal figures I painted was a Minifigs 'S' Range Greek cavalryman. Basically, he made a good mounted hoplite and, painted in University colours, became the general of my Greek army. Recently I acquired a few more of this figure and have painted them up as a Spartan Hippeis unit as bodyguard cavalry. The original is the top row middle figure, he keeps his original shield pattern.

For basing figures I tend to use 2mm MDF. The figures are simply embedded in polyfilla that I have 'dyed' with acrylic paint - means that they can be used without further work or painted later - any chips show a reasonable base colour instead of that horrible white effect.

The next advantage is that I'm freeing up space and can (eventually) have a 6x4 table set up semi-permanently. At the moment, this is a luxury. Lighting is not really good enough for photography, but I'll sort that.

This photo shows some of my Assyrian and Egyptian forces - I recently bought a load of early figures and am in the process of integrating them into my armies. Figures here include Garrison, Minifigs and Lamming, as well as some home made chariots.