Finally, my first ever post in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.
Time for some “ancient” history – these are
Lamming Miniatures Ancient Assyrians dating back to the 1970s! I used to go to Northern Militaire and bought
the first few figures from Bill Lamming from his then new range in 1975. I added to the collection over the next few
years, but for some reason this army never got painted.
Having enjoyed following the painting challenge
over the last couple of years, I was delighted to be accepted into this year’s
challenge and resolved to finally paint some of my old figures. A lot of the figures did have a rather thick undercoat
and maybe one colour after an earlier attempt to get them painted. So I
stripped off all the paint and prepared them for painting in the early part of
the challenge. I had hoped to get one
unit done in time for the Nostalgia bonus round, but didn’t quite make it.
Rather than the WRG rules that these
figures were originally purchased for, I decided to base the figures for large
battle games such as Sword and Spear, Impetus and To The Strongest. The bases have a 120mm frontage. My friend Scott had based his Successor
armies the same way using homemade MDF bases and he kindly game me enough bases
for my entire Assyrian collection. The
bases are ¼ inch high, but are great for moving around and providing protection
for the figures. The spearmen units can
be supported by the archers to make larger combined spear/bow units, as
required.
So here we have 34 infantry. That should hopefully get me on the scoreboard
with 170 points in the Challenge and also in the Bronze to Steel side challenge.
Two debuts in a day! These look absolutely lovely Jonathan. I've had it in my mind for a while to do an Assyrian army (in 15mm) and seeing these might just tip me over the edge.
Great work - I've added a few bonus points for the hand-painted designs on the round shields. Your 175 points for this debut entry will put you a fair way up the points table.
And, dear friends, with Jonathan joining us, this means that three-quarters of this year's entrants have now made at least one submission.
