Persian Kardaka

A couple of years ago I mentioned possibly doing some Greek infantry as helmeted Kardaka.

Took a while, but these are the result.

As a major troop type in some later Persian armies I suppose I should do a few more units...

 

Cardace test painting

 Going back to my attempt to build up a late Achaemenid National Army, the main infantry figure should be the Cardace/Kardaka infantry. Recently I've been trialling a number of infantry types based on Persian figures - then I had an idea.

Why not base them on Greek figures.

Only issue is that none of  the pictures have any of the Persian infantry wearing helmets - but why not?

I still have the option to do a head swap of course - but my present thoughts are that a straight paint job seems to be enough to produce a reasonable Cardace infantry figure.