Wednesday, 11 March 2026

From AdamC: Ancient Egyptian Horse Archers (100 Points)

 These are Old Glory miniatures a friend asked me to paint.  As he has put his 3D Printer at my disposal I was happy to paint for him. 

As far as I know (and I have a good layman's knowledge) the Ancient Egyptians never used horse archers. These are for a later period  where Horse archers were becoming fairly common in the Ancient Near East. These later era Egyptians liked to Cosplay as New Kingdom Egyptians. 

If I where to use them I would consider them a sort of ancient dragoons.  Archers who would ride to the battlefield (keeping up with the chariots perhaps) then dismounting to fight. 

Historical or not they look cool.  That Egyptian headdress is iconic and looks goods they can be a pain to paint but its worth it. There at 10 mounted 25/28mm scale miniatures for another 100 points that should put me comfortably over my goal!  

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Sylvain: Another excellent set of miniatures from your painting space. You really nailed the Egyptian palette of colors, one look and you know what ancient nation you are dealing with. I'm glad that you were able to reach your points goal, that's what we are all aiming for. It has been an honor to be your minion; "à la prochaine". 

 

 

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