"28mm Illyrian minis" Topic
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 Artorius  | 22 Jul 2008 9:23 p.m. PST |
Can anyone suggest 28mm figures that are suitable for Illyrian mercenaries in the Roman army of the Punic Wars? My Romans are Crusader, so I would hope the figures match them in size and bulk. |
aecurtis  | 22 Jul 2008 10:26 p.m. PST |
That's a tough one. Apart from some RAFM figures, and a few adaptable figures in Old Glory's Italian Wars range, we've been living with a gaping hole here for some time. Jeff Jonas's RAFM Illyrians: link Richard Evers' Old Glory conversions, and RAFM and Amazon figures: link The Old Glory would be the closest to Crusader in size. Some suitable figures could be found among Foundry Greek mercenary hoplites and mercenary peltats, and Crusader (Rank and File) thureophoroi; but you'd need to dig up a variety of "Illyrian" shields (Amazon?) and do some head replacements to give them more "flavor". Allen |
 BigRedBat  | 23 Jul 2008 5:45 a.m. PST |
I've just been basing some Thureophoroi, and the Crusader ones are slightly (perhaps 1-2mm) shorter than the Foundry WoG figures, but a similar build; close enough in my view, to mix the two. So I'd do what Allen says. Simon |
| Artorius | 24 Jul 2008 6:45 a.m. PST |
Do Foundry make thurephoroi? I have some of their peltasts, but the sheilds are wrong for thurephoroi. |
| BigRedBat | 24 Jul 2008 7:03 a.m. PST |
Hi Artorius, A lot of the Foundry WoG figures (particularly some of the unarmored hoplites and peltasts) make pretty good Thureophoroi, if you eliminate the unsuitable helmet types or do head swaps. Most of my peltasts came without attached shields, which was handy. Use either the Old Glory Thureos (which OG UK kindly imported for me from the US), or the Essex Thureos with Javelins attached. These were suggested by Allen or JJ in a thread last year. I'm currently basing 2 untis of 16 that a friend painted for me. The Crusader figures mix in well, especially if you raise their base by a mm or so. I'm also giving them the OG shield. Simon |
| Artorius | 26 Jul 2008 9:37 a.m. PST |
I have several packs of Foundry unarmored hoplites. I'll just get the thureos and away we go. Thanks. |
| BigRedBat | 26 Jul 2008 11:08 a.m. PST |
I should have pics of mine up in the next few days. Looking at the minis, the Foundry ones are better-proportioned sculpts than the newer Crusader ones, so I think you are going the right way. Just discard or headswap anyone wearing a Corinthian helmet. Cheers, Simon |
| BigRedBat | 30 Jul 2008 3:35 p.m. PST |
Here's a photo (not the best I'm afraid) of my first unit of Thureophoroi, which followed from a conversation last year with JJ and Allen. link Simon |
| BigRedBat | 30 Jul 2008 4:09 p.m. PST |
The photo is on Displaced, which goes up and down like a yoyo. Currently down. :-( Simon |
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