Caligulas Veterans - Semi aquatic Romans - UD 28.03.16

[damianlz]

Hey you guys! Thank you for all the kind comments, I just wanted to do something unique and fun and everyone has been absolutely fantastic and kind. For anyone who wants to try the base - woodland scenic water effects are your absolute friend. Shahbahraz were you in the Impetus Comp??

I'm particularly proud with Caligula, he was sculpted from the head and arm of a mantic ghoul, and the legs of an Agema Velite (pics below). I want to work on a few more units and some disorder markers, the guys from the Impetus tournament gave me some amazing markers ideas and I'd love to see them come to fruition.

[rumacara]

That sculp is very nice.

[Golgotha]

Water way to go great stuff - so what you going to do with the legs?

[damianlz]

Water way to go great stuff - so what you going to do with the legs?

Funnily enough, I thought of this, right now I have about 40ish pairs of legs, I was going to get a whole bunch of left over shields and make a teusteudo, considering you can only see heads, legs and shields. I have this covered

[nervisfr]

Excellent idea for the legs !

I appreciate all your stuff, and the caligua sculpting.
But why sculpt  a roman in toga, when there is a lot of possibility in 28mm market to find a guy for this job ?

Cheers
Eric

[tyrionhalfman]

This army looks fantastic, with lots of character.lovely conversions to produce a great themed force. Certainly ambitious to do the whole army in such a theme rather than just one unit. Good idea for using the leftover legs. Thanks for sharing

[damianlz]

But why sculpt  a roman in toga, when there is a lot of possibility in 28mm market to find a guy for this job ?

There are a great number of toga and emperor figures out there, but these are especially well for figures like Caesar, Augustus, Trajan and the like. For Caligula, there is a certain level of menace that I wanted, the warlord games caesar miniatures was a great candidate but believe it or not it came down to me having 1 week to finish this army and as I live in Australia - it was faster for me to sculpt and paint a figure from scratch, then to buy a $5 figure, pay $20 for postage and have it not arrive in time

[nervisfr]

Well done for a quick reaction then....

 

[damianlz]

Hey all! One last update for now, I have been busy getting some auxiliary up s the army needed something that moved faster than a marching brick. There are some conversions about but unfortunately my phone camera isnt the best sorry.

[Mason]

 

Wow!
That was a blast from the past!

And very grateful for an update too.
This has always been one of my favourite armies, so visually dynamic and original, and the new additions really uphold the high level of the rest of the army.

Wonderful!
 

[rumacara]

Very nice update.
Using the plastics you could make 1 or 2 stands of some romans receiving a charge from the enemy inside the water. Just an idea.

[Koppi]

What a really great idea. Looks so awesome.

[Freelancer]

Lovely work. The water effects are great. I was hoping to see legionaries battling with sea weed, or maybe a crab latched on to a toe sticking out of a soldier's caligae.