Finishing my Hinchliffe Indians ...Last unit of Indian Horse

[Bloggard]

yes indeed, although having a nostalgic search on it (the magazine) had me reading one blog-post that came as a bit of shock.

not the place for further discussion in this thread tho'.
I 'll try and remember the good about it - like the few covers featuring lovely hinchliffe (and other) figures of the era...

and I love those heavy cav. (def. look like hinchliffe from the horses?).
I know it's the usual 'old age' stuff kicking in, but I'm increasingly drawn to the 'impressionistic' look of the castings from back then, with sympathetic paint-jobs, such as yours.
Think I'd go with gloss varnish!

[anton ryzbak]

Another batch of Indian Heavy Cavalry, nothing special except that it takes another four packs of minis off of the pile.
more here https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2024/09/oh-look-another-batch-of-hinchliffe.html

[anton ryzbak]

This week's addition to the WRG Ancient Indian Army. A few more pics here https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2024/10/getting-close-to-end-at-last-hinchliffe.html

[anton ryzbak]

I needed to add some slingers to my force to complete the list but Hinchliffe never made any (as far as I can tell) so I was forced to convert some redundant two-handed swordsmen to slingers. Not the most artful work, but it kept the force solidly Hinchliffe and filled the gap. More here https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2024/10/oh-slings-and-erm-ah-more-slingers-of.html

[has.been]

Creative, well done.
It does remind me of Bob O'Brien's series in Airfix Magazine, 'Romans. Friends & Foes'
It was inspiration to a young me. Nearly all of my first Wargaming armies were from
Airfix. Most from the Robin Hood set, which provided my slingers. The archer reaching
back for his arrow. I once made a Pike phalanx 60 figures strong (the largest you could
make a unit in those days) Top half of Napoleonic French Cuirassier on the bottom half
of a Napoleonic Highlander. Drawing pin pushed in for a shield & piano wire pikes.

[anton ryzbak]

has.been, I remember those articles, I kept stabbing myself with the pins and gave up and started painting just Romans and Brits, much safer (if cowardly)

[has.been]

has.been, I remember those articles, I kept stabbing myself with the pins and gave up and started painting just Romans and Brits, much safer (if cowardly)

Not cowardly, but sensible. I was...reckless. To create a unit of Thracians, again using Robin Hood figures, I made Rhomphia by
bending pins into a question mark shape, then hammering the blade section flat. Any sensible person would realise that they would
be (literally) lethal weapons. I cut my fingers so many times I was able to write under the bases in my blood.
In my defense I was unsupervised. 

[anton ryzbak]

has.been,
Memories of childhoods spent without excessive adult supervision! I once grew tired of having to re-arm my Macedonian
pikemen after every game, so I spent a week cutting piano-wire pikes and sharpening them to "encourage " players to respect my troops, Of course two weeks later I provided an example by leaning onto them and acquiring twenty-four neatly spaced holes in my palm, much to the amusement of my buddies, good time indeed!

[has.been]

ouch!

[anton ryzbak]

The very last unit of Indian Horse, all that remains are four heavy chariots.  More pictures here https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2024/10/closing-in-on-end-last-of-hinchliffe.html

[has.been]

It would be nice to see, when the Chariots are done, an Army picture.