15mm Numidians - Kardashian legs and cankles!

If you are an Old Glory 15s fan, you should probably stop reading right now.

I have been in the market to start a 15mm Carthaginian group.  A few weeks back, I bought a couple packs of Numidian cavalry and command.  What a shit pack of figures!!!  But, first, some finished pics:

Overall, considering with what I was working with, I think they turned out pretty good!

These figures were something that my father would have painted 30 years ago.  They are blobs at best!  Some complaints:

• The flash and mold lines were absolutely ridiculous.  It took me nearly two hours to scrape flash off and sand the mold lines on 10 15mm horses!  Im used to doing a quick touch up and moving on.  The riders not much better
• Some of the horses (and some of the riders too for that matter) were nearly hollow!!!  They had holes that needed to be filled and sanded.
• Some of the pila that the riders carried in the shield hand had multiple spear heads, but looked like only one wooden pole!  There were two sculpts in particular that had 4 spear points, but no doubt, only one 'stick' was sculpted.
• Not a single base of the horses was 'flat'.  Each one had to be cut down, due to the mold being 'off'.
• The arms and legs were totally out of proportion, and the muscle lines were ridiculous.  Of course, if I was hot for Kim Kardashian, maybe this would have turned me on.
• Cankles!

• Most of the riders had no toes!

Ok - stepping down now.  I think the bottom line here is that I will try a different line like Xyston or something else.

I think at this point in time, most research says that Numidian cavalry used hides for shields, so I went mostly with browns and greys (elephants).  I also read that they may have used chocolate chip cookies to deflect incoming projectiles!  (Ugh!!!  And one of those awful mold lines!!!!)

An attempt at leopard skin!  Leopards existed in Northern Africa during this time period.  I dont think it was too out of the question that one or two may have ended up as shields.