Classical Indians: The Maiden Guard
/More Classical Indians rolling off the production line!
This time it’s the Maiden Guard:
As usual, these are from Museum Miniatures’ 15mm “Z” range of CAD designed figures painted mainly with GW Contrast Paints.
I know that the idea of the Maiden Guard in terms of being a battlefield fighting unit is somewhat, er, fictional, but the way I have constructed my TTS Classical Indian 130 point army list means that I only need one unit of Javelinmen, who can be Veteran, so I thought I’d just go for it and paint a unit of figures different from anything else I’m going to need. After five longbowmen units in a row, a change is as good as a rest!
And these figures are lovely. Rather than being your typical 15mm female warrior figures (basically men with two lumps of green stuff on the chest) these really are significantly different from the male figures in the range. They are slighter overall, with slightly emphasized hips, and breasts that actually look like the sort of breasts you might get on an athletic young lady rather than a couple of stray footballs!
As I hope you can see, they paint up very well too, and I would highly recommend them for anyone who needs Amazons or the like.
I’m moving on to the Classical Indian cavalry now, but here’s a couple of pics of the last on the longbowmen.
