"Hsiung-nu appearance?" Topic
5 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
In order to respect possible copyright issues, when quoting from a book or article, please quote no more than three paragraphs.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Ancients Discussion Message Board
Areas of InterestAncients
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Top-Rated Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article Another week, another unit for the Amazon army!
Featured Workbench Article wodger  begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
Featured Profile Article The Editor is invited to tour the factory of Simtac, a U.S. manufacturer of figures in nearly all periods, scales, and genres.
Featured Book Review
|
Uesugi Kenshin  | 17 Dec 2012 4:51 p.m. PST |
Is there any historical evidence or ducumentation of how these warriors appeared (other than "Hunnic")? In particular Im looking for any favored colors of clothing. Cheers. U.K. |
| Rudysnelson | 17 Dec 2012 5:08 p.m. PST |
Actually these groups were first sub-classed based on facial features either oriental or caucasian. A lot of the more colorful clothing were captured from caravans or looted cities. Among the later Mongols 'colorful' clothing was a sign of wealth. Whatever you use to paint it shopuld be dulled to show the dirty nature of their surroundings. |
| Mapleleaf | 17 Dec 2012 5:20 p.m. PST |
The first thing to note is that the term "Hsiung-nu" is a Chinese term meaning "fierce slave" and was their way of referring to a series of Nomadic tribes on China's northern border. Various historians claim that they could be of Mongolian , Turkic or even Iranian ancestry or a mixture of the three I would suggest that they would be similar to Mongols but with less armor The majority of "common warriors"would be in natural colors but chieftains could be in bright colors as well using the premise that their clothing/armor was either captured from the Chinese or given as gifts. A useful pictorial source would the Chinese Brder Nomads in DBA On line link A recent Mongolian site is claiming ancestry back 2200years to the Hsiung-nu
link |
| John the Selucid | 23 Dec 2012 2:07 p.m. PST |
you could try this link
link
they use the more modern spelling of xiongnu.
If you keep looking through you get to some reconstructions and colour drawings |
| tadamson | 04 Jan 2013 6:47 a.m. PST |
Brightly coloured silks. Chinese sources describe them as armoured horse archers. Leather (black or red, most common colours) or iron lamella armour. |
|
