Hmmm. Inca themed Tomb kings would probally work pretty well, but i think youd have to be willing to sculpt a lot of feathers! For your chariot...Thats a hard question, what to use to represent them. Something that would fit on the same size base and look like it had a suitably nasty charge. Maybe a pack of jaguars or something, though iv'e no ide where you would get the models.
AS for hand weapons, they used obsidian, mostly, yes? Take the striaght swords, and the axes off the sprues, nick up thier edges with a sharp knife to get that chipped stone look, paint them shiny black with some lighter highlights, glue on a feather here and there and there you go. Should be pretty easy, actually.
Slings would be pretty easy to sculpt from greenstuff, id think, but not sure itd be worth the trouble unless you really dont want bows. Youd also want to sculpt little ammo pouches for thier rocks and depending on the amount of slingmen that might use a lot of green stuff.
Tomb gaurd are all clothed. But they are pretty spendy, and rather rigidly posed, i dont think youd want all your foot troops to look like that. Personally i dont think it'd matter much, clothes rot away pretty fast, specially in a jungle. The only mummys they find there are up high in the andes where its cold, yes? slap a few feathers and maybe a loincloth or two and they should be fine, they are dead, they dont care that its cold.
Make the scorpion into a gaint spider. They have some really freaking big ones there, and i could see those inca priests breeding a few for size and feeding people to them, the big jerks. Plenty of ways for a spider to come out of the ground, in loose leaf mould of a jungle, or modeling one as a huge trap door spider would be neat. Or you could just say "It came from Above" if your in a heavily forested map, lol. They make a couple pretty big spider models, one for the vampire kingdoms, i belive, and theres a few more for the Lord of the Rings game. One of those models is shelob, i think, but shes really big. Either way, there should be something your hobby shop could get you that would work.
Lastly, for a catapult..Hmm. Maybe get your self an empire cannon, or mortar, paint it up rusty, swap some skulls and skeletal arms into the bodies of the crew and have your self some poor cursed spanish conquistidors. Just use the catapult rules and it should be fine, right?
Good luck with your army, it sounds like an interesting project and will probally keep your busy for a while. post some pics in a few months if you get a unit done.
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