New Kingdom Egyptians In 15mm

These guys have been sitting around waiting to be finished (bases flocked) for a couple of years. I had finished painting them in them in late 2017, and they were based then put on hold while I relocated. I dug them out a few weeks ago and finally put the finishing touches on them in addition to repairing some damage when one of the boxes fell over during the move. Some time ago I had purchased a NKE army of TTG figures from either the TMP marketplace or eBay. I have a sort of love affair with these figures. In fact I like all the ranges. Even the giant head ACW and Napoleonic ones.  Most of my Feudal French army are TTG, and I have a fair amount of them in my Italian Wars collection. I also have a Ptolemaic army of theirs waiting to be painted. And, I decided to start a 15mm Napoleonic project covering Spain and the 100 days using the re-released Brickdust Napoleonics (TTG figures now sold by Alternative Armies in Britain)

These are the TTG archers. The army box came with, I think, a thousand WRG points of troops (Yes, they are that old). They are static than more modern sculpts but I think they had a ton of character for their time.

Some spearmen

and more spearmen. 

I was just starting out with washes when I did these. For decades, I was a block painter that then did black outline. Washes serve the same purpose and cut my painting time way down. The downside was I left an excess mount of wash on the shields. These aren't too bad but there are a few that are really dark. I have gotten much better with washes now, and I am happy with the results.

Some axemen,

And some light troops.

I love the chariots. Pharaoh's is really nice with a figure of Horus in between the two horses. They are a pain to assemble though. They come in 7 pieces, adding two more for the generals umbrella. So they were rather fragile till I got them based. They do look nice though. 

Now the TTG army is not really big enough to make the size of Impetus army that I wanted to create. And, while Alternative Armies has the Dark Age, Medieval, Renaissance, Napoleonic, and ACW ranges from TTG, they don't have the ancients (you can see AA ranges on their website here https://www.alternative-armies.com/ ) I did some searching and found the ancients lines were owned by a company in New Zealand. Since postage from there is terrible I opted to add on with Old Glory 15's https://oldglory15s.com/ (not to be confused with the other Old Glory Miniatures).

 I added in some chariots,

some bowmen,

and some Sherden.

I made separate units so they did not look odd together, though they are not that far apart in size. You can see the difference in the more modern figures. More poses in a package gives you a more dynamic looking base. I still love the old TTG figures though, and I look forward to painting more.