Pontic Army List - question from downunder

[Mithridates]

A question for the DBMM experts please.

List 2/48 Mithridatic contains 'Chalybes' - Irg Pk (F).  Like much of the Pontic list there is doubt about the appearance of the various troop types, in most cases we can guess with some accuracy but the only Chalybes I have found so far was in the Armies and Enemies of Greek and Persian Wars which quoted Xenophon on the matter.    Now while I am using some LAP cavalry (rather large figures from Battlestandard in the US) on armoured horses as the Pontic knights, I wonder what one would suggest for figures to represent the Pk (F) in 25mm.

Would I go astray if I used Essex 25mm Thracians which come open handed and with separate shield.   These are later Thracian figures.  I presume that the figures should be left shieldless? 

Grateful advice on the above please - I have been rather lethargic on re-doing my WRG 6th Edition Pontics (!!) but it would be good to finish fleshing out the list.

Thanks

Garry downunder

[DaveMather]

I asked this very question on the 2nd July on the Yahoolist

Duncan Heads answer was


> Can anyone enlighten me as to what the Chalybes Pk(F) chaps looked
> like looking for 25mm figs to play the part (or be easily converted)

"From this place they marched through the Chalybes seven stages,
fifty parasangs. These were the bravest men whom they encountered on
the whole march, coming cheerily to close quarters with them. They
wore linen cuirasses reaching to the groin, and instead of the
ordinary pteryges, a thickly-plaited fringe of cords. They were also
provided with greaves and helmets, and at the girdle a short dagger,
about as long as the Laconian xuele, with which they cut the throats
of those they mastered, and after severing the head from the trunk
they would march along carrying it, singing and dancing, when they
drew within their enemy's field of view. They carried also a spear
fifteen cubits long, pointed at one end."
(Xenophon, "Anabasis")

There are reconstructions in Richard Nelson's old WRG "Armies of the
Greek and Persian Wars" and my Montvert Achaemenid book. Minifigs ?
remember them! - do one in 25mm based on the Richard Nelson drawing ?
GP67, photo at

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/GP67.jpg


Cheers,
Duncan
 


Regards


David Mather

[Mithridates]

Thanks David - will try and hunt them down!  Forgot to check the Montvert book as it happens, I do have a copy I am pleased to say.

Cheers

Garry

[DaveMather]

It gave me a use for the Naismith/Navwar pikemen I have holding the pike at 90 degrees which are completely impractical

swap a few heads around and bingo


Kind Regards


David Mather