DBMM New Zealand : Question: how to represent early Berber slingers

Thursday, 2 July 2026

Question: how to represent early Berber slingers - posted by Karl Muskee, 27 June 2026

Evening all, I'm building a classic Arab 28mm army and would like to know what the hive mind uses to represent the early Berber slinger, a man that doesn't have to debate what particular loincloth he'll be wearing today or if it clashes with his other fashion choices of a string of leather and carefully selected rocks

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incent Cholewa

The answer might be in here. I don’t have a copy but Dirk Heinsius and others do. Is this the right period for your army?

May be an image of text that says 'Armies of the Ancient Near East 3,000 Bc to 539 Bc Organisation, tactics, dress and equipment. 210 illustrations and 9 maps #場1す ☬ by Nigel Stillman and Nigel Tallis Egyptian Kingdom. றிழ Kinodom. New Kingdom ද්යා Saite, Libyan, Nubian, Kushite Sumerian Akkadian, Eblaite, Amorite, Hammurapic Babyloniar ,Old PHA .Humrian นกก Manneenn Iranian, ranian, Cassite, Hyksos មារ្ទ្្យតតិ Canaanite, Syrian, Midianite Arab, Phoenician, Hattian, Hittite, Anatorian, eoples, Neo Hittite, Aramaean, Phrygian, Lydian, Urartian, Elamite, Minoan, Mycenacan, Harappan, A WARGAMES RESEARCH GROUP PUBLICATION'

Karl Muskee

cheers for that ...i was actually looking for what figures others use to represent the berber slingers ,

Vincent Cholewa

Karl Muskee and I misread. For some reason I was thinking Bedouin but you asked about Berbers.

Dirk Heinsius

Karl Muskee What army are you looking at. I've got quite a range of STL files for Biblical allies for my Assyrians, and I'm starting on Islamic Berbers, so I may have something there as well.

Karl Muskee

Dirk Heinsiusthank you..I was looking at pre-islamic Arabs, the slingers are basically naked except for their loincloth and a sling

Dirk Heinsius

Karl Muskee I'll see what I can find

Karl Muskee

Dirk Heinsiusthank you

Dirk Heinsius

I'm afraid that I don't have anything generic. I'm assuming you want something like this guy but with a sling. I might take it on as a sculpting project when I have time.