Penthesileia and her Amazonian promachoi
As Fantastic Scuffles goes live, I have continued to build the first of my Trojan contingents that can be used as a Fantastic Scuffles party, but will also form a force for a future Irregular Wars wargame. This Amazonian contingent is made from Lucid Eye miniatures.
Following on from the Amazonian warriors posted last month, we have three archers to support the melee fighters.
To my colourblind eyes, they have a lovely rusty red and black colour theme. My better half tells me that its a very nice reddy brown. Ah sure! What can you do?
To lead the Amazonian contingent we have Penthesileia, the doomed princess with a death wish, destined to fall to Achilles. As the Lucid Eye Amazons have a very Aegean aesthetic, I wanted to give a slight nod to the traditionally steppic feel of Amazons in later Greek art, so the bi-coloured rosettes on a black band across her cloak are based on the edge decoration of a rug I picked up in Bukhara when working in Uzbekistan many years ago.




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