At the front is a unit of 20 nicely painted Caesarians that I bought on eBay, and want to retouch and expand to a 24 plus a seperate legion command stand. The LBMS shields look great... behind them lurk a unit of 24 Black Tree legionaries (half the figures are painted) that are going to represent time-expired veterans, recalled to the colours. They are going to be my personal tribute to the 2000th anniversary of Teutoburgerwald. Altogether, around 5 weeks of painting, I reckon, even if I wasn't busy!
Here's a pic of Greg Privat's splendid Innsmouth participation game from Salute. Eldest son and his mate are helping run it.
Hopefully I'll have a bit more time when my essays are in, in 2 weeks time....
The blue shields will look good in contrast to your red ones. Somewhere down the lost painting list, I want to paint up 24 XIV Germania. They will have dark blue shields and join the Army of Britannia. Thats a long way away at the moment though, so much to do in the mean time.
ReplyDeleteHi Secundus, they are lovely shields. Romans probably didn't have shields that colour, though, as Allen has reminded me; but they are very pretty, and I shall think of them as the praetorians of some would-be successor to Caesar.
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