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Thursday, 3 April 2014

Babylonian Army Assembled




Gathered together my Hammurabic Babylonian for Clash of Empires battle(around 2600 points).  Quite a bit painting to do it seems.  As I am used to looking at Impetus size armies... this one seems big.  In the second picture Hammurabi is on foot beside his men to show he will not run away in a chariot.  Chariots were limited at this period anyway.  Majority of figures are Cutting Edge with some Foundry and couple of Castaway Arts

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

More Sumerian Foot Comparison



Here are some more shots.  The bowmen are Cutting Edge Gutian/Highlanders.  Although more petite, in separate unit on the rocks etc. I feel they blend in well and have nice animation. 

Sumerian Infantry Comparison



Here is some shots of my Sumerian Army which has been in progress for years.  I have mixed in many manufactures and they blend in well when carefully selected.  Best foot overall are Foundry in terms of nice heft and detail.  I have therefore made other manufactures blend in with them. One unit (blue shields) are however Newline with Eureka in back row and command Cutting Edge.
Bald standard bearer is Castaway Arts and some command is Bears Den. Hardest to blend in is excellent but slim, smaller headed Cutting Edge and as such thier numbers are reduced.
Also mixing gives that City State feel of differing equipment form each state coming together to form an army.
In conclusion I am happy I have finally come to my arranged bases.  I spent many months torn between Cutting Edge and my other ranges.  I would have preferred more heft and larger heads for Cutting Edge as that has more appeal at distance e.g. Hicks, Copplestone, Saleh, Aventine etc. Eureka sculpts are not up to newer standard but worth looking through. Castaway are his early sculpts but worth looking at some of the gems in there.  Newline are bit wooden but again some very nice stuff.  Bears Den nice command but out of business.
All together a nice variety is possible for this period in 28mm with careful selection. All painted up in same style will further help blend of ranges.