Posted by Graeme on 12 Feb 2019, 19:14
i tend to think that legendary verging on mythological subjects like these might well have a basis in fact, that makes sense to me. If someone were to make a set of historically plausible Amazons that would be very interesting, Realistic looking female Scythian warriors? Bring them on.
But meanwhile I'm happy to accept these figures for the fun histo-fantasy that they are. Amazons have been the subject of male fantasy for a long time, I think even the ancient historians were, at least in part, playing to the male fantasies of their day. I bought the Alliance Amazons with a thought to using a couple of figures, and a couple of these might be useful too. The rest I might get round to painting just for fun. But I suspect that if I had such a thing as a Bronze Age army I wouldn't hesitate to put these in it. Why not?
I notice these are significantly more naked than the Alliance Amazons, and much more naked than the ones in ancient art. In the artworks I looked at the male Greek warriors were mostly depicted nude, which was the artistic convention of the time, to celebrate the physical perfection of the Human body. But, in contrast, the Amazons were fully clothed. OK there were a lot of wardrobe malfunctions; and the clothes were so diaphinous as to be essentially redundant; but still, the Amazons were dressed.