Late Romans and foes - with even more Vandals 13/9/15

[bigredbat]

I'm currently basing up some Late Romans and opponents and I thought I'd start a little thread.



Here's the first unit of Roman guard cavalry (the Schola Scutatorium Prima), painted for me by Shaun Watson (Redzed); I did the shields and basing.  I'm going for deeper basing these days so that I can make the units look more animated (and to better protect the paintwork!).

Best, Simon

[Nevyen]

Lovely Work !

Once the Greeks hit critical mass I'm shifting to Late romans, will use this thread for inspiration .

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Amazing bunch, Simon, Shaun did a great job on them 

[bigredbat]

Thanks chaps, more to follow...

[Knight of St John]

Very nice. It would be nice if late Romans were available in plastic.
Michael.

[Mithridates1]

Good looking unit Simon.   60mm deep?    Funny, in the olde days when WRG was king I made my cavalry bases 50mm instead of the recommended 40mm deep for that reason.   With scale creep 60mm is looking good!

I do like the idea of forming an army which has known named units.

Garry

[bigredbat]

Hi Garry, 

These are 70mm deep.  I' ve decided to standardise on 67mm deep for future units in this army, though, because I can fit 5 such units in a 4L Really Useful.  It certainly is scale creep!  Not so long since it was 40mm.

Named units are great, I love the research.

Best, Simon

[bigredbat]

Here's the next unit; the Equites Dalmatae Passerentiaci from the army of the Magister Equitum in Gaul. Again painted by Shaun except for the shields and basing which I did. There's a little more on them here.

[Nevyen]

Love your basing, what product of flock do you use?  I really like the color/blend.

[bigredbat]

Hi Nevyen,

I use a mix of colours mostly autumn but with wintry colours mixed in.  I also use half a dozen different types of tuft and then dry brush the lot with Buff Titanium and matt varnish.

Best, Simon

[Nevyen]

Drybrushing the flock is a new on me, ill have to look into that.

[bigredbat]

The dry-brushing is really effective, especially on long tufts- it makes the tips of the tuft look dried out.  Also brings the different colour tufts together.

[bigredbat]

This is a command stand depicting Saint Germanus of Auxerre, who was a militant bishop who supposedly led the Romano Britons to a victory over the Saxons and Picts in the early 5th Century. Minis were again painted by Shaun Watson (Redzed).

[Nevyen]

Very cool and very dynamic

[guitarheroandy]

Superb!! This is such a great period to paint/game!!