Sunday 24 October 2010

'Arfur Legion II

I've made good, if slow, progress with this project.  The first half of the legion (below, clickable) is painted and based.  I still need to add tufts, tonight, and do a little snagging work; then they will be finished.
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Around half of the second half (not shown) are also stuck onto their bases.  Nick is furiously painting away on a draft of reinforcements, in Essex, which will complete the legion (at 1:20 scale).  

In other news, I have been inspired by these stunning photos to dig out a project I last worked on around 20 years ago... more anon.

7 comments:

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

Oh man that's plate full of miniatures!Good luck!

Cheers
Christopher

BigRedBat said...

Thanks Cristopher. The tray is surprisingly heavy...

DeanM said...

Very nice as always - so that's what a Roman column would look like, I suppose. I really like your take on integrating different (yet similar) shield patterns in the same unit. Very realistic looking. Dean

BigRedBat said...

Hi Dean, when these are done, I shall put them together with my other legion, which will give me 480 legionaries; the magic number for a cohort and a nice photo opportunity.

Modelling units of these little blighters does make one appreciate quite how large legions were!

Anonymous said...

That's one big basin full of Romans Simon, even for alf a Legion.

Grégory Privat said...

This is really looking great. Beside what the other said (and I agree with everyone), I also like the little gaps on some of the bases, especially the command ones : they give this "quite not so well trained" touch wich fit well with your theme (is it an english word ?).

BigRedBat said...

Hi Greg, yes "theme" is the right word. I prefer these to my normal legions. I could almost be tempted to re-base... no, that would be madness!