Some new masters lying around

Since a few weeks I have masters from Darek here which I wanted to show on the blog too.

My idea was to have some enemies for an Assyrian army. We already have some Israelites but I wanted to have an Egyptian army.

Pharao Necho's army consisted of a lot of mercnaries, mostly Greek and Carthagians. But I guess he had units from his own nation too.

So I asked Darek to sculpt me some heavy Egyptians, modelled after the Egyptian marines in Xerxes army or like in this painting.

Here the result

As for the Greeks they had to be Archaic ones in an older armour like these guys

Well, here is what I got

I think a proper Phalanx would still be needed.

So far I have no Carthagians for this period.

But there are some more Greeks from other periods comming. Thrakians (here a photo with false shields)

I got a set of Thureophoroi (Greek Legionaries) I asked him for. These guys are very useful for the campaigns of Caesar in the Civil wars. No photos so far.

I got another little set of figures from Ingo, Samurai and Peasants. Thomas took them over for his range.

And finally I was able to glue together the AWI US in Hunting-Shirt from Timo's range.

There will be two other poses more and a lot of head-variations to cover several units

Now some photos from our own diorama at the Dioramica - Hastings

We had this diorama made in 2006. The photos I already showed on this blog.

Now at the 950th aniversary and being sure that most of the other dioramas would be Napoleonic Schmitty thought that we should show Hastings again.

So we put out our old units and increased them with the figures we painted over the last 10 years.

The only problem was that when I was on the way to the fair Schmitty gave me a phonecall as he was already there. He told me "We just got a frontline of 3 meters". Well, too small for our shieldwall.
I got the left flank of the Saxon line and had not really much space to bring all the units on the table and had to press some units together.

But see here the first set of photos how we tried to handle it.

Schmitty thinking

New SYW French from Denis

Here are some new figures we have in our range of the SYW army. They will appear in the shop next before Christmas