Really old Immortals

[sgzleada71]

They look cool.  Full of character and beautifully painted, as usual by Jjonas.     Made me get the catalogue of  Vendel minis from  T and R.     

Attached here   FYI.   

[Jjonas]

The range has a lot of cool overlooked Persian satrapal and mercenary troops. Some types like the Lykians are difficult to find in larger 28mm scale.

[SteveBurt]

Nice figures. When you said old, I was expecting the Hinchliffe or Garrison immortals.
Those Vendel figures are good; I have some of their Macedonians

[Jjonas]

"Nice figures. When you said old, I was expecting the Hinchliffe or Garrison immortals."

Hah! Those are real ancient, the Vendels are merely 20 years old. My Oldest ancient Immortals are by Ral Partha from ca 1980-ish

The Ral Partha and Foundry Immortals are real gems. True 25mm and super detailed. Sadly I never painted more than one of them before the 28mm jump to scale creep kicked into high gear at the turn of the century. I still use my Minifig, RAFM, Ral Partha, Hinchliffe and Garrison figures as levies in massed units. These Immortals are a bit too unique to uses as mere levies. I wish they had re-mastered them up to 28mm, maybe that will happen someday with 3D scanning... because they have incredible detail and character. But I should force myself to paint at least a Baker's dozen of them as an exercise in "studies of antiquities."

Photo lifted from eBay where you can still get some of these classical figures.