A New Old School Project...

As a kid I always liked the Essex Miniatures fantasy ranges. I also loved their Amazon range, which had two ranges of models. The Q prefixed codes were Bob Olley sculpts and were pug ugly castings, but I always had a penchant for the FAN prefixes which were wonderfully large ladies in all respects, but beautifully sculpted and wonderfully outrageous.

So, having hmmmm'd and ahhh'd for a while I ordered myself a nice army of a restrained 174 pieces.

Sorceress

General

Officers for heavy units

Bodyguard and officers for pike units

Heavy infantry

Sub general

Skirmisher units

Pike units

The army will comprise a general, sub-general and sorceress, 1 Bodyguard unit, 3 heavy armoured units, 6 pike blocks and 3 units of skirmishers.

At a later date I may add a unit of male slave troops and perhaps some Indian or Burmese Maiden Guard as mercenaries.

It will call for warm lustrous flesh tones and gloss varnish, I think. My old friend Roger used to paint some nice flesh tones on nude Greek Hoplites by QT. I may just have to have a word with him.

As an aside, once again I have a wargaming first!

Making my order with Essex Miniatures over the phone for an old school army of bathykolpian ladies and it started off 1 x this, 1 x that...

When I said 93 of FAN85 he asked me to repeat it, then asked if I meant 93 models, to which I said I did.

Apparently nobody has EVER ordered so many of that model or indeed the others in the range which were in double figures.

I need to get some flesh spray paint I think, and then practice painting nipples, which for an old school limpet should not be too difficult given the youthful years spent looking at copies of Razzle & Escort (allegedly).

TTFN


(Pictures courtesy of Lostminis Wiki and Essex Miniatures)