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Post by Marcus Aurelius MD Sat May 02, 2015 3:29 pm

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Post by Jim Webster Sun May 03, 2015 8:18 am

History be damned, they're utterly beautiful!

There's the ghosts of Hyracanians past hammering on the doors demanding that they be equipped like that Very Happy

Great figures

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Post by Marcus Aurelius MD Sun May 03, 2015 10:43 pm

Thanks Jim. I know a little whimsical, but there are few ancient troop types where one can be a little artistic and the figures did seem to lend themselves to a little conversion.
My hill tribes will definitely be a little less flamboyant!
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Post by Jim Webster Mon May 04, 2015 8:56 am

As far as I can tell they're 'defendable' from a choice of figures point of view and stunning from the aesthetic point of view. I might just share them on another forum to get people like Duncan Head to 'cast an eye over them' but only with your permission

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Post by Marcus Aurelius MD Mon May 04, 2015 6:11 pm

That's fine by me Jim.
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Post by Jim Webster Wed May 06, 2015 9:44 pm

Well if anybody quibbles about them, the great and the good have spoken Very Happy

Duncan Head, who knows as much about this as anybody said

"Well, we know little about how the Hyrkanians dressed and fought, except that Herodotos back in the C5th lists them among those peoples dressed and armed in the same way as the Medes and Persians. There is no reason to assume that in later centuries they parted company from this general Iranian pattern, so for Hellenistic-era Hyrkanians these guys look fair enough. I don't think I would personally mix Argive shields with thyreoi in the same unit, but that's not a big issue. Very nice painting, as Patrick says."

The thread is at http://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=1716.new;topicseen#new

So not merely beautiful but as accurate as anybody could hope for Cool

And they are stunning

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Post by Marcus Aurelius MD Thu May 07, 2015 8:38 am

Good to know that they are endorsed but such an esteemed fellow as Duncan! Also that my amateur research and thought processes were roughly along the right lines. I did think the argive shields were probably the most tenuous inclusion, but wanted to add some variety and colour bringing in a link with their ancestry with the Achaemenids. I also enjoyed painting the shields.
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Post by Jim Webster Thu May 07, 2015 8:56 am

That's why I liked the argive shields, you'd made them so 'persian' Cool

Well it seems that your ideas, my ideas and Duncan's ideas all come together around your units, so the rest of the world can whine as much as it wants
Those figures are as good as it gets
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Post by Tartty Thu May 07, 2015 9:20 am

Great looking unit. I've got some old Hyrkanian Minifigs in my Persian army soft spot for these guys.
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Post by spock Thu May 14, 2015 7:51 pm

a beautiful paint job
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