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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Lancer on March 07, 2023, 01:25:36 PM

Title: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 07, 2023, 01:25:36 PM
New range added to my website, just 28mm at the moment but 15mm hopefully by next month. Supplied in resin, mixed by my fair hands, using rather expensive flexible resin mixed in the correct dose with the slightly less expensive hard resin. https://lancerminiatures.com/product-category/red-copper-miniatures/
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: has.been on March 07, 2023, 02:39:43 PM
Oooh, they look nice. I might be in line for some of them. Nice price
for the chariots too.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Easy E on March 07, 2023, 03:31:44 PM
Love it! 

I have been toying around with some Chariot Wars rules for a while now.  They are scale and mini agnostic, but I have been torn by the scale I should paint my own armies in.  I have not been happy with the 28mm chariots I have seen, but I find yours look the part. 

Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Iowa Grognard on March 07, 2023, 04:15:58 PM
I've been hoping for another range to cover these.  Well done.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Cypher226 on March 08, 2023, 11:05:25 AM
These look excellent - and just what I've been looking for for the Jackals RPG!

@Lancer - any chance of some Egyptian spearmen?  They'd be really useful as generic guards etc.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Rabbitz on March 08, 2023, 02:02:14 PM
Very nice.  If only we could get them in Australia. 
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: MartinD on March 08, 2023, 06:52:48 PM
Great.

Any idea of their comparative size with Foundry etc?

 
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 09, 2023, 08:01:18 AM
Glad you like them guys, size wise they are 28mm foot to eye if that helps, I scaled them down so they mix in well with the rest of my armies. Egyptian spearmen no sorry, it isn't up to me what comes out next, but I can ask. Post to  Australia, no problem, got several customers their, but of course postage costs are what they are. Painting up a Hittite army for myself, for my favourite ruleset Impetus.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: tikitang on March 09, 2023, 09:28:15 AM
These are great!

Slightly cartoony-looking, judging by the pictures, but even so I'd be seriously tempted to get back into another Biblical project with these.

Wasn't there another thread recently where these same miniatures were being promoted as downloadable files for 3D printing?
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Cypher226 on March 09, 2023, 10:12:32 AM
Egyptian spearmen no sorry, it isn't up to me what comes out next, but I can ask.

That's all I can ask  :D

I'm very likely to invest in a few of these after next payday.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 09, 2023, 10:27:45 AM
Yes Tikitang, I purchased the commercial licence, which allows me to make and sell the prints, unfortunately it doesn't allow me to convert them to metal, but them's the rules.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: tikitang on March 09, 2023, 11:28:49 AM
unfortunately it doesn't allow me to convert them to metal

That's a shame! What's the reasoning behind that?
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 10, 2023, 08:59:20 AM
Tikitang, yes a shame, but its his range so I abide by his decision, to be fair the poses would cause some issues going into a mould, and weapons and some arms would need to be cast separate, not an ideal.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Ran The Cid on March 10, 2023, 09:39:49 PM
I see Samnites in 28mm metal.  Any more from that period in the pipe line?
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 11, 2023, 08:23:29 AM
Hello Ran the Cid, the Samnites were for a private project, once I have everything else finished I may go back to it, but dont hold your breath, sorry
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: SJWi on March 11, 2023, 10:11:38 AM
Ran the Cid, if you are after 28mm metal Samnites I can recommend those produced by A&A Miniatures, whose ranges go pretty much under the radar. A bit crude in places but really look the part. I bought an army of them last year and mixed them with those from Crusader Miniatures. A&A have monthly offers which makes them quite competitive. The March one if for cavalry which doesn't do much for an infantry-based Samnite army so see what they do in April! 
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Samson on March 14, 2023, 10:53:34 PM
Are your figures for sale scaled down to fit other Egyptians or was that just your private figures?
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 15, 2023, 07:51:20 AM
Hi Samson, I have scaled them down to 28mm to mix in with other brands, doing them at 90%..
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Samson on March 15, 2023, 10:50:51 PM
So to sound thick. Do you mean you scaled them down 10% of what another company may do them. Eg scaled down 10% from the standard 28mm as originally designed?
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 16, 2023, 11:24:53 AM
Scaled down 10% to match in with most of figure companies ie Perry Victrix etc. As original they are very heroic scale so wouldn't mix in with anything. Don't know what other suppliers of this range are doing, but I did see one company state they are doing the same, sorry cant remember which one it was.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Rabbitz on March 24, 2023, 11:53:04 AM
Just received a pack of the Egyptians.   Lovely figures and well produced. 
Just a tad small to fit in with what I had intended though which is a shame.   I guess I’m in the minority of people who’s existing figures are on the slightly larger scale.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: nervisfr on March 24, 2023, 03:20:49 PM
We need a comparison scale picture with BTD, Foundry (smaller) etc.... lol
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Lancer on March 25, 2023, 08:35:34 AM
Glad they arrived safely, sorry a bit too small for you. As the file is written, they are very much on the heroic scale ie 35mm foot to eye so don't match in with anything I own, hence the decision to reduce them to 28mm so they match with most metal and plastic manufacturers.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Rabbitz on March 25, 2023, 10:18:13 AM
No problem at all Lancer.  That’s the reason I only ordered one pack.  If I ever decide to do an army at that scale though, what you sent was top notch.   No idea what resin you used but it’s lovely.   
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Samson on March 25, 2023, 01:45:35 PM
I received my order from another company. Also as yours scaled down. Totally amazing sculpts. The chariots are big and love them. All totally characterful.
By the way your chariots are the cheapest I have seen. Amazing deal. Will be sending soon for Sea People chariots.
Title: Re: Egyptian/Hittite 28mm
Post by: Captain Darling on August 27, 2023, 01:26:33 PM
Great sculpting!

I have been doing a lot of research onto the Hittites as I am currently putting together an army of them and looking at how to paint them up and it is interesting that manufacturers have Hittite figures even ‘Kings’ with beards but it seems to be generally accepted by historians that Hittites were clean shaven, beards were viewed as something only worn by the Gods, even the depictions of their soldiers on the Egyptian reliefs of the Battle of Kadesh for example show this. Has anyone else come across this?

The Syrians of course loved a good beard! 😊