15mm Figure Ideas for Camps

What figures for camp scenes would you like to see? Not limited to figures but pieces of equipment as well.Let your ideas flow.Some may be picked up if they are mainstream enough or unique.

Thanks.

Jeff

Pack Llamas!

My South American armies need some way of transporting their gear. The slaves are tired and nearing revolt!

Here's some ideas that could fit into any period:

* Unarmoured figures shooting/throwing things downwards to put on parapets

* Cooks roasting a pig, chickens, whatever

* Blacksmith hammering out spearpoints, shield rims, etc.

* Sailors unloading cargo

* Bocci players (the Roman soldiers introduced a game of bowles throughout the empire, played by throwing stones. Not only would this pass the time in camp, the camp followers would then have plenty of rocks on hand for defense! This game gradually evolved into the many different forms of bocci & bowling and would be appropriate for Imperial and all post-Roman periods throughout Europe.)

Originally posted by Redwilde:
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* Unarmoured figures shooting/throwing things downwards to put on parapets

* Cooks roasting a pig, chickens, whatever

* Blacksmith hammering out spearpoints, shield rims, etc.

* Sailors unloading cargo
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Thanks Redwilde.Those are all great ideas.The blacksmith idea I had in mind from the Osprey Warrior book GERMANIC WARRIOR 236-568 AD.There is also a scene of a pig being roasted on a spit.I was thinking of a soldier carrying a pig over his shoulders after a successful hunt.

The figures throwing shooting down is a great idea and coincides with a suggestion Chris made to me for towers that would fit on a 40x40mm base.

Jeff

Scribes, dutifully chiseling onto a block of stone, or writing on a sheet of parchment, the heroic deeds of their esteemed leader.

Irregular already does a "pig roasting on a spit" that is quite nice, Jeff. But they don't have any cooks!

I like Paul's suggestion -- in particular, an Assyrian army really, really needs some eunuch battle scribes taking down details for later carving into relief panels in the palaces. I can send you some images of these dudes from Sennacherib's palace carvings, if you like.

Thanks,David. I would like to have the images.

I thought somebody did a roast pig but I don't think that just one would preclude me from doing it myself as it would be part of a larger scene.

People ask when I'm going to do an elephant for the Carthaginians but I see all the other great elephants already out there and don't see it worth the time.Another roast pig though is not too much to do.

Jeff

How about some unarmored figures laying down, to represent sick and injured soldiers left in camp.

Perhaps a couple armchair generals, sitting at a table in the middle of the camp, playing their favorite game: DBA, of course! [Not a serious recommendation - I just couldn't resist.]

RE the blacksmith suggestion: I love it, just make sure the anvil is the proper (square) shape, the current "london" pattern anvil is quite recent. Also many smiths forged sitting rather than standing. Can't help the nit-pick, I do smithing.

Off-duty soldiers, lounging, playing dice, drinking, eating etc.

Sentries.

Figures who are obviously not battle line troops, but still are part of the army.

Grooms and horseholders. So many armies have horses, either as mounts or as pack animals, for chariots etc. Some one needs to take care of them all.