Museum Miniatures 15mm Assyrians

[madaxeman]

Having been rather light on Biblical armies, ADLG and its easy-to-collect army size has allowed me to turbocharge this previously neglected part of my collection.

First up were the Myceneans, and then the NKE ended up being rebased as well. But now, finally, and after 30 years of collecting and gaming I now have an Assyrian army as well. As with the Myceneans, my choice was to go with Museum figures. They are a little static in their poses and stylized, but for Biblical era I feel that this style works really well.

The Assyrians are a ruthlessly efficient army and so the regular poses of most of the men also feels right. Many of the colour choices were inspired by (but sadly not particularly closely copied from) the painted versions of the fantastic 28mm Foundry range, which have provided three Generals elements for this army as well.

The highlight of the army is the Chariotry - having been rather scared of how to paint up the big slab sided chariots I had a surprisingly obvious bit of inspiration to combine a common or garden cheap printer and some Google-fu to searches for "Assyrian Patterns", downloading and printing out some images to paste onto the walls of the Chariots to surprisingly good effect.

There's a full page of pictures of all of the figures, together with paint selection details (and links to eBay to find the paints) to browse now on madaxeman.com

[von Lucky]

Nicely done. Who said that smart uniforms aren't the way to grind your enemies under your wheels?

[Mason]

That is exactly what I love about this period: The wonderful colourful spectacle that some of the armies offer, and this one is a visual treat.
 

[rumacara]

Nice little army.

[zippyfusenet]

Cool army. Very innovative technique applying pictures to the fronts of the chariots. Me like. Ima try that.

I Assur-bani-bumfug, Great King, King of Kings, Effulgent Glory of the Beard of Shamash, Beloved of the Divine Lady Eskanki, have smitten my enemies with many might smites, and shot them with my arrows, and beaten them with my stick, and flayed them, and filleted them, and impaled them, and made them to wear dog collars, and go about on all fours and bark. Just look at this bas-relief of all the calamities I have visited upon them. Hoo-boy! Have no doubt, you better pay your tribute on time and in full. Or else. You betcha.

[von Lucky]

That was all just said in Frances McDormand's voice from Fargo

[Mason]

 

[madaxeman]

Very innovative technique applying pictures to the fronts of the chariots.

Sometimes that whole 'I know I'm nowhere near as good a painter as most of the people who post stuff on LAF, and I don't want to embarass myself' malarkey works out for the best