1/72 Early Imperial Roman army - reinforcements (update 27/7/2025)

[Major_Gilbear]

Lovely work Philotep - I'm still having a hard time believing these are 20mm bendy plastic figures! Did you freehand the shields, or are the details moulded on?

[Fred Mills]

Absolutely love the figures, arrangements, and basing. Well beyond what I could manage at that scale. Gorgeous work.

[HighlandSamurai]

It just shows what you can do with 1/72 figures - great looking army 
I really like the hand painted shields too.

1/72 plastic really has come on a long way since Airfix!

Yes, 1/72 has come a long way.  Although, I'm afraid it has mostly become a dead scale thanks to Russia's war since most of the current manufacturers were Ukrainian.   

[DivisMal]

Yes, 1/72 has come a long way.  Although, I'm afraid it has mostly become a dead scale thanks to Russia's war since most of the current manufacturers were Ukrainian.   

Didn’t know that - and that is a pity. The one Ukrainian seller (Cadwallon), I’m aware of has somehow managed to continue production.

[bluewillow]

Fabulous work, loving your project. A fantastic way to get into wargaming cheaply. 20mm - 1/72 is such a underused scale for wargaming outside of Europe for this period with so much available in plastic and metal.

Cheers
Matt

[Philotep]

Goof evening everyone, and a late thank you for your comments. Yesterday I took some time to finish the bases of the other elements of my DBA army, here you are the result:


and some close-ups:
1. Legionaries


2. Auxilia on foot




3. Auxilia on horse




4. Last, some artillery (a scorpio):


Hope you like them 
More pictures and comments here: https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2023/07/dba-early-imperial-roman-army-complete.html

This army is ready for DBA, but it still has to be extended for l'Art de la Guerre: I need twice as many legionaries and foot auxilia, at least. This army also needs opponents, such as an Early Germanic army. The figures are painted already, I just need to finish the base to shox them here. So some updates to come on this thread.

[Pattus Magnus]

That is a good looking DBA army, the 1:72 figure turned out very well. I’m looking forward to seeing the expanded collection when it is ready, and the opponent army.

[Philotep]

Thank you very much for your comment. The Early Germans are on their way, first step of basing complete.

[Hobgoblin]

Fantastic-looking army!

[Philotep]

Thanks Hobgoblin!

Here's the first picture of the Early German army to come, work in progress at the step of the bases.

[has.been]

Coming along very nicely.
It is good to have a matched pair of DBA armies.
You can play a game even if your opponent doesn't have any troops,
and the game will have historical opponents.

[Philotep]

Thank you Has.been.
That's quite true, I believe it is never easy to find an opponent for a wargame, it is all the more difficult to find one in 1/72 
I would not be surprised to read that most 1/72 wargamers are solo players 

[RSDean]

Very nice work! I have the advantage of having had both of my sons adopt 1/72 scale, and they live within reasonable driving distance, so we can usually get a family game going.  However, I don’t believe we have ever had anyone outside the family bring troops to a game …

[LouieN]

Good work on those Roman shields

[Orctrader]

They are lovely.