Mostly from my original 1970-1975 period army...
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| Found most of them. Some paint loss, couple of broken javelins but generally useable.Add caption |
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| Hypaspists from the days when they were LMI - and 3 to a base! As 4Ax, I'm a base short. Note these were the days when I actually shaded some figures and did a bit of black outlining. |
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| I used these as my pre-oval shield peltasts. Can't remember why there are only 8 of them - some other units also bought in 8s so probably a specific army or army list thing. Shield patterns were something I often spent time on. |
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| My original Cretan archer unit. Don't know why I gave them blue tunics, must have just wanted a change. |
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| Later did a second unit in white tunics and gave them an officer and standard bearer. Don't know where the rest of the unit is. |
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| These were originally two units of 10. Quick paint jobs, I didn't spend much time on them. |
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| Another two units joined together - including another of the eight man units. The two different shield patterns go well together. |
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| Another eight man unit from my original army. A lot of the other slingers I have are actually Balearic slingers rather than Greek - these are the 'correct' Rhodian (?) slinger figures. The green is Humbrol green leather. |
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| The staff slings were a much later addition to the army - possibly the 90s? |
Now I'm getting nostalgic for my old minifig later peltasts with oval shield, spear and javelin. Good memories.
ReplyDeleteNostalgia is a good way to go for 2 reasons - age and focus!
DeleteMinifigs PB range - yes I have quite a few of those too - classic models and the paint jobs stand up well.
ReplyDeleteThey were good figures that took a lot of flack by the mid-late 70s - certainly in the North.
DeleteI think there was a bit of a north-south divide between Hinchliffe and Minifigs - I always preferred the slightly formal and neat Minifigs style - I have since grown to appreciate the more dramatic Hinchliffe models and especially the cavalry - both are interesting in their way and different again from the Garrison and Lamming ranges - all changed in the late 70's with the introduction of putty-modelled or soft-sculpted figures - Asgard for example - and Minifigs became deeply unfashionable. I remember seeing second hand armies advertised for sale with the rider 'no Minifigs'. Shame!
DeleteI always looked on the change as being 1976-7 when GW and Citadel merged - suddenly the divide between US skirmish games and UK mass games disappeared - suddenly everyone started making smaller armies but better painted, which meant more detailed figures needed, which means heads and hands got bigger, which means I stopped liking them as much...
DeleteYes I think that would be right - Citadel was formed in 79 but Asgard was 76 and all the Asgard models were 'soft' sculpts - though the first ones were often wax or Plasticine rather than epoxy putties. I don't know if anyone makes models from solder these days!
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