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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: voltan on April 04, 2018, 09:35:23 PM

Title: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 04, 2018, 09:35:23 PM
This is all Britannia's fault, after not enjoying watching that I started playing Rome total war to get a Roman fix. This reminded me I'd bought a load of Roman figures a while back, which I've now started painting.
I'm not going for as good a standard as some of the others on here, but a looks alright on the table standard.

So to start off, we have a figure from Aventine to represent my general, the Legate Biggus.
Then a detachment of the Warlord auxilia.
And to finish off some Foundry cavalry.

Now there's the hundred odd legionaries and forty odd auxiliaries plus some foundry archers to do, while also looking covetously at the Victrix Romans, this might take a while.



Also this project needs more elephants.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Caldor on April 04, 2018, 11:56:14 PM
Nice! Also Legatus Biggus reminds me of a famous centurion from Monty Python  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Belisarius on April 05, 2018, 02:48:40 AM
Surely it was Legatus Dickus , rumoured to be a big nob round the Senate ...
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: levied troop on April 05, 2018, 08:00:47 AM
You’ve certainly achieved a ‘looks good on a forum’ painting standard as well, ‘cos  that looks good.

Every project can be improved by elephants  lol
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 05, 2018, 08:18:07 AM
Cheers, the general actually looks better in the photo than real life, how annoying.

Nice! Also Legatus Biggus reminds me of a famous centurion from Monty Python  ;D ;D ;D
Surely it was Legatus Dickus , rumoured to be a big nob round the Senate ...

He has a wife you know.
After this naming conventions will follow the Asterix system.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: OSHIROmodels on April 05, 2018, 08:52:04 AM
They look great  8)
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: NurgleHH on April 05, 2018, 04:18:04 PM
Wow, the look very good. And when you have started, why not go on...
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Corso on April 05, 2018, 04:27:24 PM
Very nice work!

The green bases are also cool - nowadays many do a brown trim but the green compliments well.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 07, 2018, 01:17:39 PM
Start of the legion, I'm going to do the rest of the army in small blocks of 5 or 10 so I don't lose the will to live.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: mdauben on April 12, 2018, 10:12:24 AM
Start of the legion, I'm going to do the rest of the army in small blocks of 5 or 10 so I don't lose the will to live.
A great looking start!  I love to see legioneres lined up in formation like this.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 12, 2018, 12:03:32 PM
cheers, the shelf they're all sat on at the moment looks rather intimidating, I need to get on with some more of these but things keep getting in the way.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: AKULA on April 13, 2018, 03:59:49 PM
Start of the legion, I'm going to do the rest of the army in small blocks of 5 or 10 so I don't lose the will to live.

Nice work mate...keep going

 8)
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 19, 2018, 10:40:50 PM
So I have returned with a small addition, 10 more legionaries, after this it's more auxiliaries till I cut up some more bases to stick figures on.

To go with the project there's some terrain I've been working on, first up a generic tower of wonkiness....
Made with resin blocks cast in the Fenris moulds, I use them for overpour when casting other stuff and figured I should finally do something with the pile.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Lost Egg on April 20, 2018, 07:53:46 AM
Lovely job.

I like your graffiti ;)

You know once these are done you might have to paint up some celts to give these Imperial types a good kicking.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on April 20, 2018, 10:38:07 AM

You know once these are done you might have to paint up some celts to give these Imperial types a good kicking.

I'm tempted to do a force of Britons afterwards and I'm also thinking about adding a couple of units of Numeri to the romans. But that's for the future.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Lost Egg on April 20, 2018, 01:01:07 PM
Do it!  8)
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on May 21, 2018, 08:19:52 PM
To make up for the total lack of progress with this project, I've got some of the scenery pieces that have been done recently.  First up a couple of trees as you can never have enough trees, eventually these will get attached to bases otherwise they fall over a lot, then a statue because I can't remember why I bought the figure and as I hate painting flesh, statue it is. Finally some random bits of fencing to get in the way.

For actual progress with the army, I got round to cutting some more bases, enough to build another two blocks of the legion, I might even manage to glue something together soon.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 22, 2018, 01:45:18 AM
All looks good  :)
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on May 23, 2018, 11:42:32 AM
cheers.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: Exiledadmiral on May 23, 2018, 07:16:16 PM
This is really good stuff. You have a very different view of a total lack of progress to mine, looks like you've done loads and a really nice standard to boot. Is the figure you've made a statue from hasslefree?
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: voltan on May 23, 2018, 07:41:37 PM
The lack of progress is more because I've sort of stalled on the figures recently, though I do have a couple of sprues sat out waiting for me to attack with clippers. and yes the figure is Artemis from hasslefree.
Title: Re: A small force of Romans
Post by: AdamPHayes on May 26, 2018, 08:51:38 AM
This is really good stuff. You have a very different view of a total lack of progress to mine, looks like you've done loads and a really nice standard to boot. Is the figure you've made a statue from hasslefree?

I recognised that too. Great use for an otherwise difficult figure.