After saying in my last post that I was treating my newfound hobby fascination with Ancients with caution, I've spent the day chopping and glueing a set of Victrix early imperial Roman auxiliary archers. I found it fairly simple to assemble them, each figure has only five parts - body, arms, head and quiver - and yet there's a satisfying number of poses.
The Victrix set comes with a dozen western and a dozen eastern Roman figures, so I started with the western ones first.
I then started looking at the dozen eastern figures still on the sprues and got to thinking that they looked exotic enough to serve as Easterlings or Haradrim in a Middle Earth setting. I never did like the Easterlings that Games Workshop released for their LOTR range, but these figures would do nicely, so I got to work.
I was pleased that I could find a use for all of the figures in the set, though these eastern fellows will get put in a box for now while I think about what other historical figures might pass for Tolkien's Easterlings and Haradrim. Parthians, maybe? What are your thoughts?
Cheers and blessings to your glue and clippers,
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More nice plastic assembling - I prefer the western look, for sure, but at least you have a good use for the eastern archers. I am assembling (and painting) Warlord AWI Americans at the moment (and for the next few months, given I just bought a bargain priced army starter box with 120 line infantry and 40 militia in it!)
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