From Jonathan O - Ancient Assyrian Slingers (45 points)

 My first post of this challenge!  These are 25mm Ancient Assyrian slingers from Lamming Miniatures.  They are not the 50 year old ones, but are new castings from the old ranges that are available again.  

I am hoping this challenge will help me recover my enthusiasm to make progress on a few existing / unfinished projects.  Progress has been a bit slow for newly painted figures, but I have also been finishing off a few in progress ones left over from the previous challenge.

Points:

9 x 25mm figures = 45 points.

Jonathan

Just under the wire for today.  Lovely to see some Assyrians.  And Lamming?  I haven’t heard tha5 name since the 70s.  Maybe show us some close ups next time.

From JonathanO: Ancient Assyrian Slingers (45 points)

As well as finding models to paint to complete the tour of the Chambers of Challenge,  I am trying to make some progress on a few different projects.  One of these projects is completing painting up my collection of old 25mm ancient Assyrians.

These miniatures are well over 30 years old and are by Hinchliffe.  They are based on 120mm frontage skirmish unit bases for use with Impetus, Sword & Spear and To The Strongest rules. 

Hopefully, there will be a few more old school miniatures for this project later in the challenge.

For points that should be 9 infantry at 5 points each = 45 points.

In my Race to 800 Points duel with ScottM, I am still trailing him by a long way: 326 to 203

Another victim coming back for more!

I've always wanted an Assyrian army, so I was rather shocked at myself when I bought Nubians and Sea Peoples as my first "biblical" era forces.

Lovely work on these old Hinchliffe figures and 45 more points towards your target.

Tamsin

From JonathanO: Assyrian Archers(45 points)

 
In the last Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge I was working on my old collection of Ancient Assyrians.  I hope to make further progress with this army during this challenge.

Here are 9 Assyrian archers.  These are based as skirmishers on 12cm x 3cm bases suitable for use with Impetus or Sword and Spear rules.  Two of the bases can be combined to form a supporting archer unit, if necessary.  I kept to my bright colour scheme for this army.

The figures are from Hinchliffe Miniatures.  These are still available today, but my castings are from the 1980's and they will finally make it to the wargames table this year!

This should add 45 points to my tally.

Cheers,
Jonathan

I have been collecting toy soldiers far longer than I have been gaming with them. Hinchliffe is right up there between Marx and Elastolin. Usually I am bothered by same-pose-itis of my forces, but I do make exceptions for the older models. You did vary the colors and still captured the old Barclay Podfoot and Britians look that nails the nostalgia for me. I'm still waiting for the Tomes from Featherstone and HG Wells, but my wife says they are pricey! ;)