"AFU7 - Somali Spearmen????" Topic
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| Come In Nighthawk | 11 Oct 2020 8:20 a.m. PST |
Do these figures come with integral (or "cast on") shields? Or are those separate. Thanks in advance for replies!  |
| Come In Nighthawk | 11 Oct 2020 8:22 a.m. PST |
Sorry, forgot to say, these are Copplestone "Darkest Africa" 28mm figures. Thanks! |
| Glengarry5 | 11 Oct 2020 11:02 a.m. PST |
They certainly look cast on, if the shields were separate (as in the Ngoni figures) Copplestone would've mentioned it. |
| Come In Nighthawk | 11 Oct 2020 3:36 p.m. PST |
Ah, good point!! Well, I guess if to use them with Gripping Beast "desert frontier" shields to make ersatz "Garamantes," I will have to saw the "bucklers" off, or something… |
 Doctor X  | 11 Oct 2020 5:55 p.m. PST |
I own several dozen and they are cast on. |
| Come In Nighthawk | 12 Oct 2020 5:06 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the data! Not clear from the fotoz. Are the shield faces smooth, or like some of the cavalry, do they have detailing? If the latter, am thinking to grind that detail off. Then, drill a large centered hole in the GB "desert frontier" shields, epoxy those onto the warriors' arms, and "rough up" the center and join to match the rest of the shield? Of course they would lack head and face coverings… However, by the 3rdC AD, did the Garamantes still look like the Osprey illustration of 300 to 400 years earlier? |
| GurKhan | 12 Oct 2020 6:49 a.m. PST |
" However, by the 3rdC AD, did the Garamantes still look like the Osprey illustration of 300 to 400 years earlier?" I'm not sure they ever did; there are large quantities of guesswork in that Osprey reconstruction – as the notes to the plate more or less admit – including the purely speculative use of the mediaeval lamt shield. FWIW, I suspect that the later the date you are looking at, the better the chance that the Osprey version is close to correct. |
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