Saturday, 6 March 2021

More Late Romans on Parade

Now I have finished* all the units using the old Asgard and Minifigs figures, I thought it would be a good time to take stock and have a look at what I have done so far. 

[* "Finished" if you don't count the extras I'm planning to give the legionary units the option of having eight bases and/or integral bowmen and some clibanarii with bows and half-armoured horses that I may complete two extra bases with my existing cataphracts. Finished enough for a usable army, anyway!]







In total I have painted 108 infantry, 58 mounted figures and a couple of wild boars since January 2019. Not exactly a lightning fast pace!

To make this a usable army, I need two more 6-base infantry units and at least one more sub-general.

For the infantry, I  have gone for modern Legio Heroica figures with LBMS shield transfers. I'm part way through the first unit and, thanks to their mail only needing a dry brush with gunmetal and the shield transfers rather than laboriously painting all that un-historical leather armour and having to hand paint all the shields, this should go fairly quickly. I've also got three bolt throwers - also Legio Heroica. 

I bought a couple of mounted command groups from Legio Heroica too. They are nice figures but they look so different to the rest of my cavalry and generals that I might just scour the spare figures box for another sub-general or two.

All in all, that gives me 52 more infantry and 3 or 6 more mounted to paint for a usable army. My target is to have this done ready for a game as soon as the rules allow in the summer.


10 comments:

  1. Truly inspirational. Well done.

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    1. Thank you Martin. I've taken a lot of inspiration and ideas from your blog. Not only that my little pot of talc is always at my side when painting - especially reds.

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  2. fabulous parade! Congratulations!

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  3. Splendid resurrection of these old school figures, the whole army looks marvellous!
    Best Iain

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  4. Absolutely mind blowing!
    Best regards
    Adrian in Germany

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  5. Well, i'm not alone in my big late roman army trip !! very nice one, congrats !

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