Babylonian Archers

A variety of finished units continue to muster out from the painting desk.  Today's offering sees a return to Biblicals with 18 Babylonian archers.  These 18 figures are positioned across two stands for use as massed archers in Impetvs or, perhaps, To the Strongest! if I ever return to that ruleset.

Figures are 25mm Newline Designs.  Having painted a number of these figures, these are nice sculpts and easy to paint.  More Newline Biblicals are in the painting queue but not Babylonians.

This week has seen a distraction from figure painting.  On the workbench is a 1/48 armored kit given to me as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago.  I figured it high time to pull the kit off the shelf and make the build.  What is the kit?  Well, it is Tamiya's 1/48 Matilda.

Now, I have not built a 1/48 model for many, many years. I think the last such model built was 1/48 Sherman for use in Chain of Command.  That Sherman is still yet to see any tabletop action.  When Scott gave the Matilda, he said that my British infantry ought to have some armored support.  He is right.  Perhaps having a little armored support will prompt me to bring the 28mm WWII collection out for a game or two?  Gosh.  That collection has not even been out for an inspection in more years than I can remember.  With the allies having armor support, can German armor support be far behind?  We will see if these troops make it to the table.