Early ancients

[Techno]

Nah....Not yet.
Cheers - Phil

[Wulf]

Back on track, I tested the Newline 10mm. Decent, quite well detailed & proportioned, but lacking in variety - only 1 pose per pack, barring leaders & banners. They'll add some variety to my existing forces. Look like they'll fit well with Pendraken, MM, etc.

[FierceKitty]

Their peltasts and Celts are two-pose packs.

[Wulf]

I sit corrected. I also didn't buy any cavalry, so don't know how good they are. I did buy Sumerian battle carts (can't really call them 'chariots'...), and the animals pulling them look more like ponies than asses...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thought Sumerian trolleys were pulled by asses, not horses?
Probably because the horses in those days would be nearer donkey size, as domestication and selective breeding hadn't really taken hold yet...

[Fenton]

Wish Newline would stick some pictures up,saying that from what I have seen they look identical to their 20mm ranges. I wonder if some clever moulding technique has been used or maybe Sean has invented a shrink ray

[Wulf]

Thought Sumerian trolleys were pulled by asses, not horses?

They were, Onagers, apparently - a kind of semi-domesticated ass. But these just don't have the look of an ass, they look like short-maned ponies. I'm not sure what the difference is, but, l know it when I see it...

Quite possible an appropriate paint job (they are quite distinctly coloured) will transform them.

[FierceKitty]

Wish Newline would stick some pictures up,saying that from what I have seen they look identical to their 20mm ranges. I wonder if some clever moulding technique has been used or maybe Sean has invented a shrink ray

I wish! Shrink me some Mexicans, someone!

[Ithoriel]

At 10mm scale I suspect much of the difference between onagers, donkeys and ponies is in the onager's distinctive coloration

Onager



Donkey



Pony

[FierceKitty]

Rather an attractive animal, that.

[Fenton]

Silly question, but would Onagers have looked the same in Sumerian times?

[Wulf]

They look the same in the carvings, not in colour, of course. Given that they're only semi-domesticated, not much has been done to change them.

[FierceKitty]

Well, change happens in response to natural pressures too, not only to artifice.

[Wulf]

Yes, but nothing much has changed in the wild around there, where there still is wild, and they do look the same as the carvings. A few thousand years won't make much difference in evolutionary factors.

[Wulf]

I now realise what the problem is with the onagers. It's the tails. The tails on these asses are not asses' tails. They've given them pony tails.