Newline 20mm Alexander the Great

 This is turning out to be a bit of a Macedonian week isn't it! 

Now, I already have a 20mm Alexander figure, the HaT one, which is incorporated into my Companion Cavalry DBA element (riding a generals white horse, naturally). For my Alexander the Brief game, I felt he warranted a separate character. I actually have another plastic Alexander in stock (don't ask), but as my Hannibal personality figure is made of metal, I thought this Alexander deserved to be metal as a standalone figure. 

And here is the Newline 20mm Alexander the Great figure, from their personality range. A nice easy figure to assemble, just horse, rider and lance. I had to drill out his hand a bit more to take the lance as it was bunged up with flash, in fact the rider had a fair bit of flash in general. I got most of it off, but discovered later there was some left on one leg. Oh well. The horse was pretty flash free.

The outfit on the model is straight out of Duncan Heads 'Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars', so I used the suggested colour scheme for that. It was taken from a contemporary painting of Alexander, so as accurate as these things ever are. In this one he is wearing the helmet with feather plumes (also featured in the 'Alexander' film in the battle of Granicus, I guess we all have the same sources!), as opposed to the bare headed Alex at Issus shown in the famous Pompeii mosaic.

Alex's outfit is quite simple, just a white tunic and leather armour shoulder guards, an iron waist belt/armour with a pale purple cloak. Red crested helmet with white feathers. I did a black undercoat, then misted it white to emphasise the highlights. The paints are a mixture of Humbrol, Citadel and Coat D'Arms horrible thin purple. Good job I did a light undercoat. He got a wash all over and then I picked out the highlights again and added the red and green trim described by Head on his armour using Posca Paint Pens.

Although my DBA Alexander is on a white horse, I did this figure on Bucephalus. So black all over. Annyingly he has some sort of nose armour moulded on top his head, but I just painted black over it and put Bucephalus' white star in the middle of his forehead.

You can see how the thin purple colour has run over the black/white undercoat to produce quite a nice shading effect. I didn't do any drybrushing on this figure, just washes and highlights.

The saddlecloth is the inevitable leopardskin (same as my plastic one). This one even has paws moulded on, and an attempt to mould the leopard spots! I just did it ochre and drew the leopard spots on with a 0.2mm micron pen.

Once all the paint had dried it got a thick coat of floor varnish, and was based up on a 2p coin with builders sand and a bit of static grass. Although Alexander only fought four major battles, he remains endlessly entertaining, so I'm sure this command figure will see lots of action. I have no great qualms about using him as a Successor general either. 

Here he is leading the Companions somewhere in Asia Minor. Once more unto the breach dear friends. He is somewhat bigger than my HaT Companions, but hey, he is Alexander the Great.