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SomeBeautifully painted stuff here.
Great work but I can’t deny I prefer Late Romans with the tunic insignia
Can you play Dux Brit as a straight set of game rules as with Sharp Practice etc, or do they only work as a campaign system? (I’m not really one for campaigns which carry on from game to game to game )
I'm going to have go at it. Just worried about mucking up the underlying paintjob
Really beautiful looking wee chaps - and great action shots of the game.
Doing some nice paintwork there. Late Romans are very addictive and you can get carried away.I really enjoy painting late Romans, mostly because of the variation of sheilds and tunics I could achieve. I had to stop at 16 units as I had built the entire eastern legions and a lot of allied troops too.
Do you believe the magnets would be strong enough to hold white metal shields??
Very nice. We find that the British Levy can do quite well if formed defensively in shield walls. The Saxons often come to grief if they attack a shield wall. Not so useful on the attack.
The figures are all Saxon Miniatures (now Warlord-owned)... ...The Saxon Miniatures are from the Winter King range sculpted by Colin Patten, providing lots of choices for Knights of the Round Table. I like their poses and kit. My only complaint would be about the casting quality of their faces. The detail isn't as crisp as Footsore faces. However, I'm very happy with their Arthur as Footsore lacks a suitably heroic Arthur on foot.
The casting is terrible (don't know if it will be better now that Warlord own the range - I got mine when they first came out). They have a filthy amount of flash, prominent mould lines, including, as you say, right down the middle of delicately detailed faces and ornate helmets - impossible to carve away without losing detail. There is also an ugly accretion of surplus metal clag underneath scabbards etc. The dynamic poses and feel for the period flavour are to die for. But there are aspects of the sculpting, characteristic of Colin Patten's output, that don't bear close inspection - like the weirdly stunty forearms, and cloaks that instead of flowing naturally, are oddly flat and two dimensional