"Outpost Incas Question" Topic

I have some of their Inca figures, a few are armed with a two handed type sword.
My question is were these made out of metal or were they a kind of wooden sword club?

I've not seen the figure, but for Incas it'd have to be a wooden sword, maybe with some embedded stone blades.

Not sure your right there Harry. My money would be on plain hardwood. The obsidian thing was more meso americas. Or you might bear in mond the Inca did use copper for some blades, halberds and maceheads. Plain hardwoord is more likely imho.

i'd paint them as a dark wood colour, as both harry and OB mention, some might have embedded blades of one ,aterial or another, but in 15mm scale you wouldn't be able to distinguish what it is any way,

all mine are painted as wood,

regards

jim

Hi Ghost,

They were made from Chonta wood and I believe they were called Macanas. It is quite possible they were decorated, but I am not aware of any surviving examples to give any designs.

Best Regards,
Jeff

The Inca empire was known as "Tahuantinsuyu", the "Land of the Four Quarters". The western quarter was "C*U*N*T*Isuyu" or land of the C*U*N*T*I (ignore the *'s, they are used to circumvent the profanity filter).

These people made up a portion of an Inca army and fought with their traditional weapons. This would be the larger two-handed Macana, made from iron hard Chonta (or Chontal) wood. It would have two sharpened edges that could cut skin. As far as we know no inserted flakes of stone or obsidian was used. That was used more to the north in Meso-america.

The C*U*N*T*I also wore a cape to battle, which they wrapped around their leading arm as a form of protection.

Any Inca army would have many such figures, plus Colla, Chanca, Anti and other such warriors. For that in 28mm you only can go to Outpost. Plus they are your only source for Inca generals on palanquins. Oh ya….forgot about the excellent weapon packs! I'm afraid you are on your own for 15mm suppliers.

Ralph