More Assyrians

 Some more Assyrian infantry march off the painting table to join the slowly expanding ancient armies.

These figures are 25mm Garrison Assyrian heavy infantry, armed with a long spear, bow and shield.  They are also quite extensively armoured.

Garrison Persian Infantry Restoration

These figures, again from Garrison Miniatures, are listed as PE 12, Phrygian armoured infantry, with creast. Sounds more like a Star Trek race of aliens; however, I looked up Phrygia, which was an area in the centre of modern Turkey and these chaps seemingly were seconded into the Persian army once the area had been conquered.

They are lovely figures, with crisp detail and were a delight to restore:

Renovating Ancients 3rd Batch

Continuing to work through these figures, some more Persians, North Africans and Romans.

First off are these repaired Persian medium infantry by Garrison Mniatures:

Next, some Minifigs Persian allies - Egyptian Marines:

The third batch are Minifigs S Range Egytian light infantry, two units:

Minifigs S Range Libyan spearmen (medium infantry):

Finally, some more Minifigs S range Romans, consisting of two medium infantry units and a General, who I think is by Warrior Miniatures?

Still plenty more to do!

Renovating Ancients

For some time now I have been toying with the idea of renovating my collection of ancient figures. This coincided with a few acquistions to build up sufficient figures to have a go at Command and Colors Ancients.  Most of the figures are basically painted, although a number have broken parts that need to be repaired.  They are a mix of Minifigs, Garrison and a few Hinchliffe and are Greeks and Persians.  Here is part of the collection:

Those in the glass bowls are being soaked to remove old bases and flock.

The Garrison figures are the most challenging, having suffered lots of breakages:

I have made a start on some figures and will publish some pictures of the results.