Some new additions to the camps and baggage page

Apologies to anyone who got just the picture sent in a 'post' email: I inadvertently published after just uploading the first picture.  OK, I can edit and update the post (as I have done) but as far as I can see, I can't 'take back' that initial email circulation if I've published in error.  Hopefully, people will click to visit the blog anyway (and will see this explanation and see the full blog entry).

As 'ancients' continues to be 'stuck at home', I have made some new additions to the Camps and Baggage page.

The Viking longship is a notionally 10mm piece by my friend Stephen at The Baggagetrain.  It is bigger than the ones I have generally used with my 15mm figures (the base of figures in the picture is a 40mm frontage with 10mm figures on it).

 

(Viking longship from The Baggagetrain)

 

The clear plastic base is 160mm in length (so might suit smaller figures on the 60mm frontage - which is, indeed, what I am using for some new 10mm medieval armies) ...

 

The model is cast in resin and is very finely detailed.  I found fitting the oars quite a challenge, and haven't decided how best to do the sail.

 

Next, optimised for DBA but not at all a scale model, I have completed a littoral camp model for the Sea Peoples, using the Essex 'Biblical' boat.

 

 

(Sea People's DBA 'littoral' camp .. bringing the stores ashore)

 

The ship and Camp Follower element are removable for maximum flexibility ...

 

 

(The ship is a modified Essex model)

 

The crew and figures are a mix of Essex, Chariot and Falcon.

 

The CF shows a landing party just about to emerge up the beach (again a mix of Chariot and Essex, with Sherden heads from the Chariot Shardana figure).

 

 

Other than these soldiers, the other figures are unloading supplies. 

 

 

And then there's a slightly smaller Egyptian piece based on hunting scenes.  It will eventually sit behind the Saite period army I am completing next.   Another littoral army.

('Hunting in the Delta': Egyptian 'littoral' camp for DBA)

Just for amusement, I have added a crocodile stalking a rabbit in the foreground.  The rabbit is by Pendraken and is quite the smallest 15mm figure in my collection.

 

 

The CF is a Museum Miniatures canoe with an Essex and MM crew

 

 

(Hunting in the Delta) 

Once this is all updated, I will add these items to the Camps and Baggage page.

 

 

(a look at the interior of that highly detailed longship by The Baggagetrain)

DBA Special: Book I/7 Early Libyan 3000 to 1251 BC

 

This army reflects the Libyan armies from the great age of Egypt: from the earliest times to the age of the New Kingdom and the period of Kadesh.  The core of the army is auxilia or (fast) hordes and I have chosen to fill the ranks with a rag-tag of desert supporters.

 

Most of the figures in this army are Chariot Miniatures (with the odd Essex and Falcon figure mixed in for variety).  I can't see this general wanting to deploy as a lone warband but it may be something to try at some stage.

 

(DBA I/7 ... Early Libyan warriors deployed as 'horde')

I have tried to incorporate a number of animal skin patterns (although some can be a little challenging in 15mm!).

 

 

(one of these skirmishers seems to have wandered off!)

A Libyan waterside camp ...

I can't say littoral as the army isn't (even though they allied with the Sea People and fought in the delta): you have to be a few hundred years later (Libyan Egyptian) to fight beside the water.  So this is any old inlet ...

 

(15mm Libyans: plastic palm tree, Chariot soldier, Essex boatman, Museum reed boat)

... and a Chariot and an Irregular cauldron on the boil.

The removable boat is the CF, mounted on 'perspex' as that's how I generally do water.  But I have provided a spare javelin base (in addition to the camera shy ones!) ... so that if anyone baulks at the boat sallying out, I can provide a suitable substitute.

 

((DBA camp: a waterside vignette)

I tried to do one of those trompe l'oeil painted fish in the water.  You can see it through the boat's plastic base.  It is very small but sort of works ... and there are some lilies to give an illusion of depth.

 

(15mm fish in the water ... water teems with fish in Egyptian pictures)

 

(15mm duck by Museum Minitures)

 

 This army pairs with Nubian.