More 15mm Hittites
/Last year I put together a 15mm Hittite army using the excellent Red Copper Miniatures sculpts printed by Baueda in Italy i.e. before it was sold to the UK.
They are lovely figures, full of animation, that take the paint really well. Only two problems: one, Baueda was sold to the UK so no more sculpts easily available; and two, no figures suitable to use as Heroes (give you a combat bonus in To The Strongest, my favoured ruleset for Ancients).
Time to try out a new 3D print sculptor: Scropha Miniatures. These looked to be beautiful figures on a par with Red Copper, and with a slightly different emphasis to their ranges:
Mycenaeans
Hittites
Mitanni
Indians / Classical Indians (incl. elephants, cavalry, infantry)
Hebrews
Ancient Persians
Assyrians
The Hittite command group looked to be ideal for what I wanted (see pic, right) but I couldn’t find anyone in the UK who offered them for sale. Step forward Studio Historica in Greece: who have a very wide range of 3D prints for sale.
Unfortunately, the Hittite Command Group in 15mm wasn’t listed, only the 28mm version, but a quick email later confirmed that they could scale them down for me…and they even sent me a picture of a test print that they had done. Price and P&P was not bad, so I ordered the heroes and a mix of Syrian and Hittite archers as I also didn’t have any Hittite bowmen bases.
The figures arrived a couple of weeks later, and did indeed look as good as the pictures:
My favourite is the chap testing the edge on his khopesh sickle-sword, but the two warriors on the left are nice poses as well.
Onto the archers and here, as I said, I used a mixture of Hittite and Syrian bowmen:
Again, some lovely sculpts that really take the paint well.
So Scropha Miniatures are a big “recommended” from me, and Studio Historica proved themselves an excellent supplier.