The revamp of our older Ancients ranges continues and this time we've got the eagerly anticipated Greeks and Persians! As well as updating all of the sculpts, we've also spent a lot of time expanding these ranges to add extra infantry and cavalry types, especially for the Persians. This gives many more options and also ticks off a few items on our request lists at the same time!
As with the recent Dacians and Sarmatians we'd like to give huge thanks to Will Denham for helping us (and the sculptor!) with these ranges.
Don't forget that our price increase comes in at midnight on Saturday night, so if you fancy any of these, grab them before the prices go up! We'll also have them with us at the York show on Sunday.
Ancients
Achaemenid Persians - https://pendraken.co.uk/ancients/classical-600-220bc/achaemenid-persian/
PER1 Foot command
PER2 Infantry with crescent shield
PER3 Sparabara spearmen with shields (20) £3.75
PER4 Sparabara archers
PER5 Immortals
PER6 Saka Hauma/Asia Hillmen spearmen (20) £3.75
PER7 Saka Haumavarga/Asiatic Hillmen archers
PER8 Saka Haumavarga/Asiatic Hillmen slingers
PER9 Light cavalry with javelin
PER10 Satrapal Guard cavalry
PER11 Guard cavalry
PER12 Iranian cavalry
PER13 Arab cavalry
PER14 Skythian cavalry with spear
PER15 Skythian cavalry with bow
PER16 Mounted General (1) £0.55
PER17 Scythed chariot with crew and driver (2)
PER18 Scythed chariot with Xerxes (1) £3.00
PER19 Scythed chariot with Cyrus (1) £3.00
PER20 Xerxes (1) £0.55
PER21 Cyrus (1) £0.55
PER22 Separate shields (10) £1.00
Achaemenid Persian Army Pack – Contains 2 x PER5. 1 1/2 x PER3. 1 x PER1, 2, 4, 9 £34.00
Greeks - https://pendraken.co.uk/ancients/classical-600-220bc/greek/
GRE1 Foot command
GRE2 Armoured hoplites in tunic cuirass
GRE3 Armoured hoplites bronze cuirass
GRE4 Spartan hoplites
GRE5 Peltasts with short spear
GRE6 Cretan/Psiloi archers
GRE7 Psiloi skirmishers
GRE8 Greek light cavalry
GRE9 Thessalian light cavalry
GRE10 Thessalian heavy cavalry
GRE11 Mounted general and leader £0.80
Greek Army Pack – Contains 2 x GRE2. 1 x GRE1, 3, 5, 6, 8 £34.00
(Packs contain 30 foot / 15 cavalry unless otherwise shown, priced at £5.50)
And some pics:
PER1 - Foot command
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4894/PER1.jpg)
PER3 - Sparabara spearmen with shields
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4896/PER3.jpg)
PER5 - Immortals
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4898/PER5.jpg)
PER12 - Iranian cavalry
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4905/PER12.jpg)
PER17 - Scythed chariot with crew and driver
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4910/PER17.jpg)
GRE1 - Foot command
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4883/GRE1.jpg)
GRE4 - Spartan hoplites
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4886/GRE4.jpg)
GRE8 - Greek light cavalry
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/4890/GRE8.jpg)
Oh, those are great. :D
These look superb, well done to all involved! The only thing stopping me ordering them right now is the huge pile of my last order I've not had much chance to touch yet, but definitely going to be high up my list for future project. :D
I shall certainly be getting some of these during 2020 and beyond.
I can't help but think that the scythed chariot looks a bit ungainly. I would, perhaps, remodel it.
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 01 February 2020, 12:08:19 AM
I shall certainly be getting some of these during 2020 and beyond.
I can't help but think that the scythed chariot looks a bit ungainly. I would, perhaps, remodel it.
Looks rather more sturdy than its predecessor. I like it.
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
<:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Ordered along with the rest of my Punic War project :)
Very nice! Sadly, my Ancients are somewhere in a mound, with about 1/3 of the units completed.
However, I do remember doing my Spartans with 1st rank crested helms, 2nd rank un-crested and 3rd just helm and cloak. I did research it a bit at the time...though now, a LONG time ago! I lost interest as I found that the Immortals available at the time were in 'parade' dress and not combat armour...and I needed TOO MANY of them! ;D
No, must resist, got EAP in 25 and 15, dont get 10 and 6..... :'( :'(
Thanks, Chaps.....Glad you like them......And as Leon says, special thanks to Will for all his help ! :)
Cheers - Phil
Thank you Phil :)
I'm looking forward to getting mine :)
And I'm really looking forward to seeing some painted up, Paul. :)
(I know you can't possibly have received them yet........But get a move on.) ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Yes!! I' ll grab hoplites at Salute.
Hmmmm.
Leon.
I've just had word from my bank. They asked if you'd delay releasing these for say six months or so?
Lovely!
Will try to resist these untill i can do a crisis pick up, but that will be hard ;D
They are beautiful, but I do have one question, if I may? Why is the guy on the left in Per 1 standing behind a modern low level wc? Just asking!
You should have seen the first image I sent to Leon. X_X ;D ;D
As far as I was concerned the 'green master' looked like matey was slapping the tombak (Or whichever spelling version you fancy)....But at the angle I took the piccy it looked like someone was cleaning around the inside the rim of a modern loo with his bare hands.
Not my fault that the Ancient Persians had no idea what a modern loo would look like......Idiots. ;)
At least I didn't put a cistern above it. :P ;D
Cheers - Phil
Beautiful sculpts, nice work!
Andrew, I think he is a priest of the thunder bowl cult that was finally flushed out of the East around 300 BC.
Quote from: d_Guy on 01 February 2020, 03:29:47 PM
Beautiful sculpts, nice work!
Andrew, I think he is a priest of the thunder bowl cult that was finally flushed out of the East around 300 BC.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D. And there was me thinking it was where they kept the Holy S..t! I must confess this joke (?) owes much to a recent posting on facebook involving an angel demonstrating to a novice where the Holy Cow, Holy etc were kept.
Quote from: Techno on 01 February 2020, 10:00:20 AM
And I'm really looking forward to seeing some painted up, Paul. :)
(I know you can't possibly have received them yet........But get a move on.) ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Received them :o they haven't been cast yet, let alone shipped ;D
I love Persians of all periods, these are a serious temptation.
Although If I bought some I would need to buy the Greeks too...
A slippery slope :-
Cheers
Ian
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Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 February 2020, 08:25:11 PM
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I thought hyroglyphics were more an ancient Egpytian thing?
Quote from: d_Guy on 01 February 2020, 03:29:47 PM
Beautiful sculpts, nice work!
Andrew, I think he is a priest of the thunder bowl cult that was finally flushed out of the East around 300 BC.
He better be careful not to hit that drumskin too hard then, else he would be literally in the ##$%....
Paul came visiting yesterday and I talked to him all too briefly about his DBA project....looking forward to seeing it progress but his goal is no less than 10 complete armies from the Punic War period so it might take a little while ;)
Quote from: Sandinista on 01 February 2020, 07:42:36 PM
I love Persians of all periods, these are a serious temptation.
Although If I bought some I would need to buy the Greeks too...
A slippery slope :-
Cheers
Ian
Are you going to be the world's first owner of a Safavid army?
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 01 February 2020, 08:48:55 PM
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Was looking for a slipper slope emoji, that's the best I could do...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 February 2020, 12:36:50 AM
Are you going to be the world's first owner of a Safavid army?
I've got one in 10mm, had it for 8 years :)
Cheers
Ian
Pix?
Lovely sculpts Phil,
Now I need to stop looking as I have enough 10mm to keep me painting until 2022 even if I don't get waylaid doing other scales.
(Yes Lemmy I know you can paint them for me but I am trying to be restrained) ... Note Restraint is not one of my strong points :D
You-virtue! =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O
Quote from: fsn on 01 February 2020, 10:50:50 AM
I've just had word from my bank. They asked if you'd delay releasing these for say six months or so?
No worries, I'll fire up the DeLorean and send us back a few days...!
Quote from: Leon on 02 February 2020, 10:13:52 PM
No worries, I'll fire up the DeLorean and send us back a few days...!
I'll look up last weeks winning lotto numbers.......Can you get me a ticket with those on, when you go back ?
Cheers - Phil
Just noticed...I've gone past 19,000 posts......Less than 1,000 to the next promotion. :)
Quote from: Techno on 03 February 2020, 06:40:26 AM
Just noticed...I've gone past 19,000 posts......Less than 1,000 to the next promotion. :)
NOT deserved at all !!!! ;) ;)
Weren't DeLOreans notoriously unreliable ?
But they look sooooooooooo cool! 8)
You cant put them in a garage though, doors wont open !
They would in the big barn. ;)
I've said before.....there's just enough room to get one of those ridiculously ginormous (Russian ?) tanks in there......Mind you...you'd have problems getting one of those up the 'drive'.
Cheers - Phil ;)
No you wouldn't, it ud just flatten any walls and fences !
Quote from: Techno on 03 February 2020, 10:39:13 AM
They would in the big barn. ;)
I've said before.....there's just enough room to get one of those ridiculously ginormous (Russian ?) tanks in there......Mind you...you'd have problems getting one of those up the 'drive'.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Vinyl garage door wraps - same effect, less hassle :)
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Quote from: Techno on 03 February 2020, 10:39:13 AM
They would in the big barn. ;)
I've said before.....there's just enough room to get one of those ridiculously ginormous (Russian ?) tanks in there......Mind you...you'd have problems getting one of those up the 'drive'.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Be no issues finding a parking space in the car park. Just decide where you want to park and pull up there, regardless of what was in the space
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 February 2020, 11:49:47 AM
No you wouldn't, it ud just flatten any walls and fences !
Do you ever listen ? =) =) =)
The sodding enormous tank WOULD
just fit in the big barn.....But that's just what I said....There's no way it would be able to get up the drive.....without destroying the house, and the drive....and all the walls between here and the two villages that we're in the middle of...But it would still fit in the big barn.
Cheers - Phil ;)
But you could get it in the barn........ :P
Yep. :P
It would need some sort of frigging massive crane, in the lane.....Take the roof off the barn....and lower it it CAREFULLY into place....But it would fit.
I wouldn't be allowed to do this, though.....Because there wouldn't be enough room for the gees anymore.
I KNOW it's a hell of a lot smaller than this particular tank (by goodness knows how many times)...But when we originally moved here, there was a nice 3 bedroom static caravan in the barn.....That HAD to have been 'craned in'...and the barn built around it......But there was still oodles of room, even with that in there.
There was absolutely no way we could have had had the wretched thing taken out, (simply) without destroying umpteen walls.
We had to have someone round to (basically) destroy the caravan, and take the whole thing away on a flatbed and a big trailer.....We had to pay him..'cos the price of the scrap metal was so low in those days. :'(
Cheers - Phil
My garage is so clattered with wife and sons' stuff, I'd be lucky to fit the Tamiya version in.
S'alright......I've worked out how to get the tank into the barn, with the minimal damage to Techno Towers.
Assuming the tank's coming from London.
M4.....until it becomes the A 48...then A 40.....turn right up the A 478 towards Cardigan...head towards Crymych.....Turn left....across lots of fields......approach Techno Towers, and destroy a few walls....Push through back of barn, without collapsing the roof. Park.
Easy. ;D ;D ;D ;D....Sorted !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 03 February 2020, 06:06:56 PM
S'alright......I've worked out how to get the tank into the barn, with the minimal damage to Techno Towers.
Assuming the tank's coming from London.
M4.....until it becomes the A 48...then A 40.....turn right up the A 478 towards Cardigan...head towards Crymych.....Turn left....across lots of fields......approach Techno Towers, and destroy a few walls....Push through back of barn, without collapsing the roof. Park.
Easy. ;D ;D ;D ;D....Sorted !!
Cheers - Phil
Wasn't that the plot of Kelly's Heroes?
Not unless it's got Donald Sutherland dominating it. Without him, that movie would be all events and no plot.
They all look really nice. I dont know much about Persians but difn5t a lot of them use crescent shaped shields?
Later on yes, The EAP - Greek and Persian wars types had Hourglass shaped large shields, later the Kardacees (SP) - Alexandrian time had small crescent shaped ones.
(probably)