Victrix Sketch Out Their Upcoming Dacian Archers
May 28, 2019 by brennon
Victrix has been sharing some of the work going into their next plastic kit. This time around they're looking back towards the Ancient era with their Dacians.
They are going to be bringing a new unit of archers to life for your Dacian forces. They have been putting in a lot of effort it seems to get these just right for the battlefield action on the tabletop whilst also staying historically accurate at the same time. I really think it would be cool if they could get that pose with the archer reaching for his arrow!
Archers are some of my favourite miniatures to work on mainly due to the 'cool factor' that surrounds the discipline. It's just a shame that it's normally a terrible aspect of gameplay, at least in many of the games I've played!
Saxons Assembled
As well as this work on the Dacians the team at Victrix have been busy making sure that their Saxons have come together nicely.
This shows off a test fitting for the Saxon plastic sprue with plenty of spears for these frontline warriors. I really like the mix across both the armour and unarmoured figures and I think this represents a nice dynamic unit for the tabletop.
You could very easily build up an entire Saxon warband in a game like SAGA with this plastic kit.
What do you think of the work Victrix does?
"Archers are some of my favourite miniatures to work on mainly due to the 'cool factor' that surrounds the discipline..."
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Very nice to see someone not just applying the “rule of cool”.
I really haven’t liked the way they have done the chainmail on their Vikings and Saxons. The way they have sculpted it is too big and regular and looks more like honeycomb than a representation of chainmail. The rest of the models look great. In the top picture, arms 1 and 2 look problematic as either the arrow shaft is going to be massively over scaled or they are going to be so thin that they will just break. But then most plastic weapons are over scaled anyway. They will be great value for money though and well sculpted. I’m… Read more »
Those are very nice.
They should be as good as their other figure’s when they come.
Really cool. Loving the Saxons and their recent vikings. Can’t wait to see them in the (grey plastic) flesh