gets medieval.
From the East ride the Huns to cast a shadow over our 15mm Late Roman line! They are available now on our webstore.
Under their great king Attila, they carved out an empire of enormous dimensions, incorporating many German peoples as subjects - all Europe trembled when Attila's dread armies marched.
These models represent the various types of Hunnic horse archers which were the core of Hun armies. There are unarmored horse archers, but also armoured men wearing lamellar to represent nobles or especially successful raiders.
For both the armoured and unarmored models, two of the horse archer poses are supplied as "break waist" models, meaning that the upper body (from the waist up) is separate from the lower body (from the waist down), permitting the model to be posed shooting forward at numerous different angles. The two upper bodies and lower bodies are different and are interchangeable, permitting even greater variety. The body halves are easily joined by a cast-on pin in the upper body and hole on the lower body. (The pin was cast longer than the hole is deep, so that you can either simply snip the pin down to size, or drill out the hole further with a pin vise.)
For the unarmored horse archers, there's a third, one-piece pose (reloading).
And of course, what ravening horde would be complete without a Hunnic warlord, depicted holding aloft his symbol of authority, a ceremonial gilded bow. This can be the great Attila himself, or a mercenary general leading his much-sought-after Hun archers into battle for money and loot.
The models may be used for a variety of other Central Asian peoples between the first and sixth centuries AD, the probable adoption of stirrups in the West (that adoption seems to have occurred rather earlier in Central Asia), and may even be suitable for periods before that.
Sculpted by clibinarium. Models painted and based by Chris Yaro.