A couple of years ago I started painting a Roman Republican army based on the wonderful Victrix figures. I used the Army Painter 16 as a spur to get the bulk of the army started so that my gaming buddy and I could run the Punic Wars campaign that we always wanted to do.
You can see my earlier work on this thread which covered the first two legions:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=92479.msg1142468#msg1142468Since then Victrix have continued to push out some excellent Punic Wars figures and I have been steadily collecting them, but without the time to paint large numbers of figures, the project stalled.
However in time for the New Year and round 2 of our Campaign, I have started to look again at the missing figures. First up are some Spanish Scutarii along with a command stand. Units will be 16 figures spread over a larger base/bases to give the flavour of a wilder bunch of warriors than their Roman counterparts (who are all based in12 figures in two lines).
Then I was tempted to do some small conversions of their Greek light cavalry. I have been waiting patiently for Victrix to release their Republican cavalry (still waiting) so decided to convert some Italian allied cavalry. This was really simple - slice off the lower half of the light cavalryman and match him with half of an armoured Samnite. Add an Italian helmet voila!
So I decided to convert a few more. Here are the elements of the first unit of 6 figures including some command figures.
Next up are some Italian allied legion.