Greeks bearing gifts?

Rather Southern Italian hoplites bearing rather nice LBM shield transfers on their Hoplon shields. While Phil is painting elephant number 2 for me I thought I'd press on with the first heavy infantry unit for my Carthaginian army, namely a unit of Southern Italian hoplites. The figures are from Aventine Miniatures and were a joy to paint, although the new Hoplon shields, with rear surface details added, proved a little tricky at first to fix to the figures after painting ~

One compromise I had to make was to cut down the length of the spears. This was to ensure the figure bases could be stored safely in their RUB. I think I probably made them too short in the last analysis, but I can live with that. I'll collect the second elephant from Phil this week, so I'm working on the three crew figures and the two casualties for the base next. I've also cleaned up and spray undercoated the first unit of Hanibal's Veterans, lovely figures from Aventine Miniatures once more. I've also sent off for a few extra figures, to supplement my skirmishing archer bases, along with some standards for the Veterans.