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  • #126425
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    Quite literally, you understand. A 15mm scale Iron Age Near Eastern butchery, based very loosely on archeology in Ashkelon. The first building of an intended settlement for my Biblical gaming. Based on a Sarissa Terrain Tile. Building scratch built from 2mm mdf. Baskets and jars from Baueda, biggest pot and fence from Crom’s Anvil, sheep from Irregular and butchers (slightly) converted from Xyston Athenian rowers.

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

    #126431
    Avatar photoAngel Barracks
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    That is excellent.
    I will steal that idea!

    #126438
    Avatar photoThorsten Frank
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    @Geof Downton: do you have a source (magazine, book, link?)

    @Mike: YES!

    "In strange grammar this one writes" - Master Yoda

    #126439
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    I’m afraid it’s in the online archive of the Biblical Archaeology Society, to which you have to subscribe for access.

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

    #126445
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    Update. Found this,

    https://www.academia.edu/attachments/50233060/download_file?st=MTU3MzcwNzY4NSw3Ny4xMDEuMTY5LjY3&s=profile

    …which, despite the title, seems to be the full report of Ashkelon at its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 604 bce.

     

    You’ll have to sign up to read/download it, but it won’t cost money.

     

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

    #126450
    Avatar photojeffers
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    …and thus ’Shaun’s Historical Adventures’ ended Nick Park’s career.

    Nice work & interesting article.

    More nonsense on my blog: http://battle77.blogspot.com/

    #126451
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    Not fair! If I had thought about Shaun I would never have started, I had enough trouble as a veggie!

     

    But thanks anyhow!

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

    #126471
    Avatar photoThorsten Frank
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    @Geof: Thank you for all your effort. That´s quite an interesting article!

    "In strange grammar this one writes" - Master Yoda

    #128566
    Avatar photoDavid Cooke
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    Fantastic results!

    Also inspiring me to think about possible projects for my Sumerians.

    #128567
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    The Sumerians were, I believe, fond of beer…

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

    #128580
    Avatar photoMike Headden
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    That’s great! Love it when people add-in non-military subjects to their wargames projects.

    I notice a number of the games at conventions are doing it too.

    As a fellow vegetarian my Early Bronze Age meat is left on the hoof, so far, but I may be inspired to have my MAR.TU butcher a purloined cow, or similar.

    Sumerian sheep

    Sumerian shepherd and sheep

    MAR.TU sheep

    Small bohy and dog being told off for running sheep through camp

     

    There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

    #128589
    Avatar photoR Flagg
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    Nicely done.

    #128601
    Avatar photoGeof Downton
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    That’s great! Love it when people add-in non-military subjects to their wargames projects.

    Thanks, but I’m not convinced that anything I do really relates to “gaming”. If there had been railways in 1000 bce I’d just as likely be playing with a train set as toy soldiers.

    Thanks also to messrs. Cooke and Flagg, and anybody else from the past or future who says nice things about my stuff!

    More tiny buildings coming soon…

    One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.
    Ahab, King of Israel; 1 Kings 20:11

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