Aztec Warrior

[einarolafson]

Another Lucid Eye Miniature

<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-eelJ_O1MkMk/VBti2--lNDI/AAAAAAAAEtY/1QxE1ruonJY/s640/aztecsm.jpg" height="611" width="640" />

Cheers.

[Steve63]

beautiful work

[OSHIROmodels]

Simple and yet very effective 

Is the shield based on a historical design?

cheers

James

[Helen]

Very nice work.

All the best,

Helen

[einarolafson]

Thanks!!

Simple and yet very effective 

Is the shield based on a historical design?

cheers

James

Yes, it is. You can see different design shields here in this website, http://balagan.info/painting-guide-for-aztec-and-texcalan-shields. I took this image from there

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Cheers.

[OSHIROmodels]

Thanks for the answer 

cheers

James

[Lowtardog]

Very well done the colours are very striking, The shield is lovely free hand work, for a 2 capture warrior (the picture attached has the accompanying Hawk scratch suit and conical helm that was a requirement. This warrior could be in undress, a very heirarchical military system costumes denoted the number of captures of enemies in battle and even the wearing of sandal (a reward in iteself) when not entitled could be punishable by death.

This chap sports the "baby tuft" har style which denotes him as a novice warrior.


A cracking free resource is Chronofus pdf on shields and suits (Chronofus is a LAF member) which helped me along with the Heath book create my Aztec army back in the day.

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztec ... hields.pdf
"An unfinished guide to suits, shields and back banners used by the Aztecs."

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztec ... hields.pdf
" The Spanish will be covered, but not in this document."

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztecs/Primeros.pdf
"Warrior suits illustrated in the Primeros Memoriales"

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztecs/Mendoza.pdf
"The tribute lists of the Codex Mendoza"

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztecs/Davies.pdf
" Essay by Nigel Davies from the 1972 Atti del XL Congresso Internazionale degli Americanisti"

http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztec ... Rulers.xls
"Very complex family tree of the rulers of Tenochtitlan and also the cihuacoatl"

All those were gathered by chronofus, you can find more of his compilations there in
the "Aztecs" forum :
http://www.chronofus.net/php/index.php? ... 5172584485

[einarolafson]

Thanks!

[Barbarian]

Links are broken.

The " ... " broke the links.

[AndrewBeasley]

Start here http://www.chronofus.net/php/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=b4a5e56821bb27454f9781d46268aca2 and drool