Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Golgotha's Ancients - Egyptian Chariots

 Herewith, Ancient Egyptian chariots, miniatures mostly by Atlantic. 26 Egyptian chariots and 2 Hittite chariots. For most of my games I will be playing Egyptian civil war Upper versus Lower Egypt. This enables 13 chariots per side.  

See: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=71

See: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=126462.0

See what these chaps were able to recreate using similar miniatures - http://historyin172.blogspot.com/2015/03/seapeoples-invasion-of-egypt.html?m=1



Commanders chariots with substituted crew Pharoah by Zvezda and usurper by Caesar. See: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1206 and http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=843.


My needle still needs work but will make for some apt terrain. 







In the foreground here can be seen Hittite chariots, in this case running for their lives as loads of Egyptians chase them down. See: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1048




More views of the two Hittite chariots. 



































Golgotha's Ancients - Greek Ship

 Herewith, a Greek ship. I will be using this as a terrain piece. Miniatures are 15mm, Essex Miniatures, I think, which I had lying around. These were the only 15mm ancients miniatures I had but I wanted to do something with them. So why not make them a terrain piece, a ship... I can use it in the background of my 20mm 1/72nd scale Greek games. It is a paper model I found online, it is not great nor particularly well detailed but I am happy with the overall result. I have used it in one game already and we had it deploy troops which then arrived later in the game as reinforcements. It turned out to be a fun little build and refreshing too since I went into it with no particular expectations. The idea of more than one scale on the table at the same time also got me thinking that it might work to have different scales create a sense of depth on the wargame table so the foreground could be a 28mm skirmish game with then increasingly larger armies as one scales down across the table. 

See: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=126462.0

Essex Miniatures, see: https://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/







Here I cut out a little opening leading to then the lower decks - this will be as much detail as I will add. I am not going to bother with oars nor rigging. 







Golgotha's Battle Masters - Evil Knights Banners

 Herewith, Bastle Master evil knights, finally got round to adding flag/banners. These will certainly make apt opponents for the good knights. Flags are printed paper then coated in Mod Podge which protects them well. Glued using glue stick the regular sort for paper and shaped before the glue dries. Edges of the paper appear white and need to be painted as done below.

See: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=123972.15