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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Tellus on November 04, 2012, 09:23:19 PM

Title: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 04, 2012, 09:23:19 PM

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRLeg.jpg)

I painted my Romans about 8-9 years ago and based them for DBA. When I started, last year,
playing Impetus with a friend I cut Plastic card sheets to the right size and used them as sabots
for my 12 DBA elements. When it turned out that we would stay with Impetus I decided not to
rebase the army but to turn the ad hoc sabots into something more than just a white underneath thing.
I had the Romans based on metal bases and so I made magnetic inlays.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/01Basen3.jpg)

We made a couple of more games and that helped a lot to motivate me to go on with the sabots.
Here you can see the progress.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/01Basen2.jpg)

until it was done
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRall2.jpg)

As I had some spare miniatures I made add ons for the Cavalry.
(CM) Equites Alares
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRCM2.jpg)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRCM1.jpg)

The Artillery
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/0000EIR1.jpg)

(FP) Legionarii
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/0000EIR3.jpg)

(FL) Auxiliares
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/0000EIR4.jpg)

(S) Sagitarii
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/0000EIR2.jpg)

Then I did markers for disorderd Units
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRDisordered2.jpg)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRDisordered1.jpg)

And some single based Miniatures as Opportunity Markers
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/OppMarEIR_zps221d55fe.jpg)

Now I've painted two more Units, the first ones that are on regular Impetus bases.
(S) Sagitarii - the other half of the pack that I never had used.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRSArcher_zps4b77ac84.jpg)
(S) Funditores
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/EIR/EIRSFunditores.jpg)  

The Funditores are the first non Foundry Minis in this army, they are from Warlord, which have some pretty nice Minis in their EIR Range. All decals are from LBM.

The next things to come are Markers to show which Commands have already spent their Initaive.

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Dr. Kevin Moon III esq. on November 04, 2012, 10:01:00 PM

They look fantastic  :o

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: commissarmoody on November 05, 2012, 12:11:44 AM

Pretty cool set up

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 05, 2012, 03:47:18 PM

Thank you.
Btw-set up, I killed all the links of the photos, so I had to do all the work again  >:(

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Rutiguer2701 on November 05, 2012, 07:16:40 PM

I like them. Equites are great. Very nice painting job.

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Ray Rivers on November 05, 2012, 07:32:25 PM

 :-*

Those are super!

Great work!

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 05, 2012, 07:59:09 PM

What a lovely bunch of minis, well done, Tellus!

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 05, 2012, 08:20:50 PM

Thanks a lot for the kind words. When I did the Impetus upgrade I really fell in love with my romans again. Although they are one of my older works I really like their appearence and had a lot of fun painting all the new stuff.

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Lt. Hazel on November 05, 2012, 10:02:33 PM

Yes now I can see where the frog has it´s curls  ;) Great looking army, I understand why your love returned!
Cheers
Jan

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: janner on November 07, 2012, 06:34:50 AM

Great work on the sabots and love your style  :)

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: bigredbat on November 07, 2012, 08:19:33 AM

Lovely work- great sabots!  Simon

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Mad Doc Morris on November 07, 2012, 08:37:17 AM

Like I've told you several times before: Got to love your Romans.  :-*
Thanks for showing them here in their full glory.

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 07, 2012, 08:56:13 AM

Thank you, really appreciate your comments.

Usually I'm not a fan of regimental bases, just to keep up all options, because for me the visual appeal is very important. But I like the way the sabots turned out. Also I like that you can see the conversion from one game system to another, respectively that it is possible to use an Army for different purposes.

@MDM
the Romans love you too  :-* lol
"Oh look, Mad Doc is comming to play with us, yay!
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z34/zyphalion/BeST%202012/MadDociscomming.jpg)

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Arthur on November 08, 2012, 01:04:00 AM

Very nice : excellent use of the Foundry figures  :)

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Captain Blood on November 08, 2012, 08:28:38 AM

Lovely Marc  :-*

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 09, 2012, 01:49:44 PM

Thank you guys!

Quote from: Arthur on November 08, 2012, 01:04:00 AM

excellent use of the Foundry figures  :)

I hope so  lol

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tarty on November 12, 2012, 09:19:35 AM

Great idea with the sabots, and great idea converting to Impetus.......  ;) my favourite ancients rules by a long shot. I'm surprised actually just how good they do look. Nice one.

Title: Re: Early Imperial Romans for Impetus
Post by: Tellus on November 12, 2012, 10:41:31 AM

Thank you, yes, I was surprised too  :)
Another good thing about the Impetus base size is that I don't break off the shields anymore.  lol