The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[mmcv]

...sneaky edit...

No idea what you're talking about.

New page, new pictures on previous!

[mmcv]

...because it's a cheap, easily cast, and durable material.

Ironically enough I do use led/lead as an intentional pun in the name of my blog.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[Techno]

Looking very good, that man ! 

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

Thanks 

Next up we are going back to the bronze age for the first unit in my Trojan War project.

As this is a somewhat finite project (naivety I'm sure) I've gone with bigger bases with the aim of doing more diorama style, especially for some of the more famous characters and units. At 80x40 they'll still fit comfortably on a dining table sized game but give a bit more space for laying out, especially when it comes to chariots, amazons and great heroes.

First up is a reasonably simple unit of bronze age axemen I'm using as Halizonian troops on the Trojan side, led by Odius and Epistrophus. They are from "Alybe far away, where is the birth-place of silver" thought to be somewhere on the Black Sea. Not much else is known of them but quite liked the idea of some axemen in the mix so seemed as good a fit as any.







The leader has an axe made of that strange metal that falls from the stars, or iron as we now know it. They did have iron in the bronze age, just didn't know how to smelt it from ore so pure sources were rare.and precious, usually from meteorites.

I'll likely add some grass tufts and scene dressing to the base down the line, but want to do them all together for the project so it's consistent. So just a basic sandy brown for now.

Dice rolled for the Trojan War again so going to do some archers.

[fred.]

I like them!

[Ithoriel]

Veeery nice!

I do like Bronze Age armies, not least for the regular inclusion in the sources of troops from places we can no longer locate with any certainty. Gives lots of scope for the imagination.

[mmcv]

Thanks 

I do like Bronze Age armies, not least for the regular inclusion in the sources of troops from places we can no longer locate with any certainty. Gives lots of scope for the imagination.

Yeah definitely, the iron axe was inspired by the possible association with the Chaldeans, who were notable metal workers. But does give a bit of scope for variety, and the mythical nature of the Trojan War means I can pillage various bronze age ranges for options. Mostly from Newline and MM (as the above) as alas our dear hosts don't venture into the bronze age. Though a few Pendraken figures will make an appearance.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work.
King Tut (almost contemporary, maybe) was buried with an iron dagger that matches meteor iron, always fascinated me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_meteoric_iron_dagger

[Techno]

I like those, too ! 

Cheers - Phil 

[Ithoriel]

Speaking of axes .... those axes aren't Bronze Age axes! The blade shapes are wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!

.... and I don't care

I'd be delighted to see them on my table.

[mmcv]

Nice work.
King Tut (almost contemporary, maybe) was buried with an iron dagger that matches meteor iron, always fascinated me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_meteoric_iron_dagger

Yeah, it's really strange to think as well that something like iron, so common to us, was for them a precious metal. You can see where ideas of magical weapons and amulets could come from when it's metal that literally fell from the sky as if sent by the gods. And yet a small discovery in how to extract it from ore and it becomes cheap and abundant and changes the face of warfare and life.

Speaking of axes .... those axes aren't Bronze Age axes! The blade shapes are wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!

.... and I don't care

I'd be delighted to see them on my table.

Shhh, quiet you! 

As I didn't particularly fancy filing away 19 axe heads I choose to believe that the Halzonians are beloved by Hephaestus (or whatever name he goes by in Alybe far away) who taught them the art of oversized axe heads and gave them the strength to wield them and it's not at all because they were the only bronze age two handed axemen that I could find in 10mm and I really wanted some heavy hitting troops for variety.

Ahem.

Got a bit more work done on the archers briefly at lunch there. Also ordered some more bronze age troops from Newline as need some variety for some mixed bases. Plus an order just arrived from Pendraken which I'd forgotten I'd added some 20th century bits to, so now have a few vehicles for next time the AVNICW project is on the painting desk, as well as some hexagonal bases I wanted to experiment with for "attached" generals.

[Techno]

Shhh, quiet you! 
As I didn't particularly fancy filing away 19 axe heads

That would be a really thankless and 'gutty' task, even with my Dremmel......I wouldn't fancy that, either !

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Speaking of axes .... those axes aren't Bronze Age axes! The blade shapes are wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!

.... and I don't care

I'd be delighted to see them on my table.

And I thought I were a rivet counter

[Ithoriel]

Bronze Age axes are broadly speaking one of three type - narrow, almost spike, blade, chisel blade or larger blade surface with cutouts at the rear of the blade.

I'm not aware of definitive evidence for the use of the labrys axe in combat but that is probably more evidence of my lack of knowledge than of non-use.