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A lot of it is speculation which from my point of view is half the fun.
03/01/2020 at 07:28 in reply to: The Society of Ancients magazine, Slingshot [#328], is being posted out #128840R FlaggParticipantBeautifully painted. Did the Dacians have tassels hanging off their Draco standards?
R FlaggParticipantThanks for the link, I missed the last post of that thread.
R FlaggParticipantInteresting that the two on the left both sustained injuries to the arm holding the shield. Good figures though, much nicer than their EIR casualties.
R FlaggParticipantWhat does Vegetius say about slings?
R FlaggParticipantNicely done.
R FlaggParticipantI think they look great, I like the Crusader sculpts too. The thing that sticks out for me is that the bell of the carnyx is solid. Either drill it out slightly or paint a darker shade in the middle of it to represent it being hollow.
R FlaggParticipantMy experience is that it takes a week before the order is even sent. That’s a week after payment has been confirmed. I even had a shop do this once as their site was not accurate and an item I’d ordered wasn’t in stock – they didn’t bother telling me this, they were waiting for the item to arrive before sending out the order – I cancelled the non-existent item and got my order sent finally two weeks after paying for it. Then postage can take up to a month.
I really don’t get the delays given that private sellers on ebay can ship things around the world faster than many of these supposed businesses.
Warlord Games was one of the longest wait times, Hasslefree wasn’t much better, Northstar was okay but still took time processing. That’s when you appreciate the turnaround times for a company like Games Workshop.
R FlaggParticipantThey seem to have scrapped most of their ancients which is a pity. I dealt with them late last year and had no problems. Well it took several weeks but that seems to be the norm and their delivery times were about average compared to other companies.
At least they’re still functioning, unlike Renegade.
R FlaggParticipantThe miniatures are silly and the product of people who’ve grown up with self loading weapons. You have Romans holding a shield and javelins in one hand so how do they load the stone into the sling?
How do they even hold the javelins like that behind the shield given the horizontal grip or were the javelins somehow held with the thumb?
The other thing here is that why is the sling being used when the Roman is holding javelins?
They’d look much better with nothing in the left hand.
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