Keith, from Aventine Miniatures, very kindly gave me their recent models of Pyrrhus and a general. Last night I decided it'd be good to do something other than think about rules. So I assembled and primed them, ready for painting today. So today, while the missus and my daughter watched the Jubilee celebrations, I got on and painted them.
They were primed white, and then painted with my usual fairly bright base colours. Then I painted them with Army Painter 'Quick Shade' - all except the grey horse had Strong Tone, whilst the grey horse had Soft Tone. I did a little bit of 'dry-brushing' with white spirit to remove the brown staining from the highlights - it saves painting on a highlight. Pyrrhus' horse is an homage to Bucephalus - Alexander's (Pyrrhus' second cousin) horse, which was black with a white star. Oddly, the highlights don't seem to show up at all on the photo - he isn't that black! My favourite bit was doing the leopard skin for Pyrrhus to sit on! Keith and Adam seem to have opted to make the leopard's head a 'real' head on their models - I decided to use it as a sort of 'buckle' for the skin, and painted it as if metal.