This shot shows the current setup with one of the 'later' 8Bw elements acting as a marker for the Guard.
And this is the Mede Regiment. 
I've left the bowcase plain - not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Assyrian army
Sunday, 26 November 2017
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Nice job on the clothes, and atmospheric pictures, well done!
ReplyDeleteI admit I really like those trees - they're totally stupid but just look good! Clothing is very much done on a 'routine' basis...
DeleteBut your Medes are in Persian dress... lovely work, but puzzling nomenclature.
ReplyDeleteQuite right-ish but perfectly logical when you take it in context and realise what the army actually represents. In this case, the figures are basically dressed as Minifigs 'S' Range Medes code 10s. This in turn was based on Funken le costume et les armes des soldats de tous les temps volume 1 page 27 figure 4 Guerrier mede.Figure 3 (in Mede dress) is listed there as Guerrier perse. In Armies of the Greek and Persian Wars Richard Nelson reversed this, but I'm going for 'wargames old school tradition' rather than the revised/corrected vesion!
DeleteSo, to summarise, these are Medes based on a specific early wargames tradition rather than actual history - which, considering the army as a whole is based on a Greek historical novel, seems completely reasonable to me.