Saturday 12 February 2011

Conscripted Aventines

I was casting the lead-mountain around for some personality figures for my legion, and I came across some lovely figures from Aventine's Republican range.  Luckily, Roman centurion and the standard-bearer gear didn't change much into the early Imperial era.   I've lightly converted these for what I need, by giving them Foundry standards and green-stuff lion skins, and replaced the centurion's leaf-shaped sword with a pilum.

These are very classy figures which I'm looking forward to painting!

4 comments:

  1. Nice little conversions. One thing...the centurion has no sword in his sheath. Mind you...a shield will cover that up..or is that your plan?
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. Paul, well spotted; I didn't think of that! Maybe it's sheathed in a German?

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  3. I look carefully ;-D
    The "sheathed" in a German is a good idea, that´s why he´s picked up the pilum.
    Cheers
    paul

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  4. Nice! I like the dynamic pose of the Centurion. Of course the Centurions I model usually come with laser ranging and weapon stabilisation but you're making me consider ancients seriously.

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Thanks for commenting. I will post this as soon as I am able to review it.