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Palmyran Cataphracts in 15mm...

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:23 pm
by OhReally
Looking to get a wave of these painted up, does anyone know of a good distributor? I will only buy from companies whose models I can see pictures of, I consider ones to lazy to snap a shot with a digital camera to be scrubs and I'm not dealing with ordering one pack to see if they suck.

Thanks for all the help.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:10 pm
by Morange
I have a bunch of Essex ones but I will say that the model they label "Palmyran Cataphract" is a bit pants.

I wound up buying a mixture of Roman Clibanarii, Byzantine Kataphraktoi and Cataphract Camel riders and if memory serves there might even have been some leftover Sarmatians in there. All Essex too.

It's a nice mix and while there's the odd blip in terms of shields and bow cases, it does the job quite nicely.

Cheers,
Alex

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:42 pm
by madcam2us
http://oldglory15s.com/catalog/product_ ... ts_id=2842


I swear by OG and no, I'm not a sock puppet...

90% of my armies are Old Glory

Madcam

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:11 am
by daleivan
madcam2us wrote:http://oldglory15s.com/catalog/product_ ... ts_id=2842


I swear by OG and no, I'm not a sock puppet...

90% of my armies are Old Glory

Madcam
I'm also an OG fan. A number of their figures now have pictures online, as Madcam pointed out. I'm really happy to see that.

Dale

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:47 am
by philbagnall
Sadly no photos, but I rather like the Minifigs Palmyran cataphracts - have a DBA army with these, biggish horses so a bit of a squeeze on a 40x30 base. The Chariot ones have a nice rider, but the horse is small - as with most Chariot ancients theyve taken the wisdom about how small horses used to be a bit too far in my view. I do have a base of Chariot cataphract riders on Minifigs horses, a very nice combination but not worth the price of 2 figure packs to achieve this! :wink:

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:52 am
by madaxeman
I've got photos of some of the Essex cataphracts and other Palmyran stuff here if that helps.

http://www.madaxeman.com/15mm/thumbnails.php?album=48

If you look at the other Hellenistic and Roman gallery pages you may find a few more as well ?

Tim
www.madaxeman.com