The Hittite Empire

 And for your next Army please? Well that had to be a biblical themed army for Brixham 2025. At least 12 months away from when I started printing and painting the Army!

A grand Army to paint with lots of Chariots and Medium foot figures to paint.

9 Units of Medium Spearmen who could also be Medium Swords men. The figures are all Wargames Atlantic Hittite Unarmored Infantry figures, and there is more than sufficient variety to make every single figure different. 

These are the 4 Heavy Impact Chariots. The chariots and horses and reins are from Scropha Miniatures Heavy Hittite Chariot. Yes I did say reins. I preferred the figures from Wargames Atlantic and I also wanted them to blend in with the rest of the Army. I therefore cut the hands and reins off the Scropha chariot driver and grafted them on to a Wargames Atlantic figure all within Microsoft 3D Builder.

Similarly with the 4 Light Chariots I did the same as with the Heavies. Additionally I cut a bow from another a Scropha Miniatures Syrian Archer and grafted it on to a Wargames Atlantic figure.

There may be times when I need some specific Medium Swordsmen and therefore I printed enough figures for 3 Units. The helmeted heads come from Wargames Atlantic Armoured Hittite Infantry range. I decided to use these because it provides a ready distinguishing feature from the spearmen. And next to them on their left are the Armoured Infantry who are sufficiently visually different to be the Elite troops.

As I was coming to the end of the printing and painting phase I took another look at the Army List and decided I also needed some Gasgans; Anatolian impetuous medium swordsmen. Figures were not available but I did have the Wargames Atlantic Sea Peoples, So I quickly grafted on a sword and and added Hittite shields and heads, and there we had 3 units of Gasgan warriors. 

I also needed some Light infantry so that was simple enough to make some Light Infantry with Javelin  from the Sea Peoples range, with heads from the Mongol range (less Mongol hats) and repurposing the archers from the light chariots as Light Infantry Bows. As for the camp, well Sphinx are a common feature through out the bronze-age period. There are for example the famous Lion guardians of the gates of Hattusa. I then got creative. I found a site called "Scan the World" where you can obtain files to print any of the great antiquities of the world. So I obtained a suitable Sphinx file (free download) and then grafted on a Hittite soldier's head! 

For the Commanders it had to be the Scropha Miniatures Hittite Command Group. Where I placed the CinC in a Chariot. And left the other commanders on foot.