A Return to the Table

 As we approach Easter I thought I had better post an update on how things are going.  The first quarter has been a busy period for painting here, with the year starting with the Greeks and Persians that I had purchased late last year.  After checking the Army Lists I decided to up the points values for these and the Dark Age armies to 550 points each which meant buying a few more figures for each of the armies.   The Greeks were really nice to paint up and although I struggled at first with the shield transfers that I had bought, I eventually got the hang of them. Most of the infantry were units of 48 figures based on either 2 40mm x 20mm bases or 2 40mm x 40mm bases.  The smaller infantry and cavalry units were on single 40mm x 20mm bases and finally the commanders were based on 20mm x 20mm bases, this was also true for the Persian units which I started on after the Greeks.  Most of the Persian infantry were cast in files rather than strips, so I mainly used the larger square bases f