Thursday, 26 May 2011

Sagittarii

These are the chums of Tuesday's slingers; I painted 4 to match an eBay purchase (from Solway Arts and Crafts IIRC), and based.  They were pretty quick to paint, using Army Painter.  Mine are the ones with blonde hair.


I usually double-depth base my light troops, but did these in single depth so that they can support a (projected future) unit of legionaries. 

10 comments:

  1. Looking great, Simon. I'd love to have a Late Roman army or two...

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  2. You used AP? Where? They look lovely.

    Cheers

    Matt

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  3. Seriously... were the AP'd?

    You'll have to do a tutorial you know (or did you do one a while back? :-S). When I use AP I always find it definitely looks AP. I assume you brush on the dip, then do some highlighting after?

    Well done

    Matt (again)

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  4. Hi Matt, these were painted base coat, highlight, very thin coat AP strong tone, didn't need a final highlight. Really very quick...

    My next lot will be Nappy French; will see how it works on them!

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  5. Really nice work - love the patterns on the tunics. Dean

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  6. They look nice and I think ap gets a bad rap sometimes as very nice results can be achieved if used in a careful way...like yours.;-)

    Christopher

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  7. Yup like these. Looking forward to seeing the Legionaries

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  8. Very good...and now you will have a second blog!!?
    Mate...you´re going to have to go flat out!! :-D
    Cheers
    paul

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  9. I thought if I do the horse and musket stuff in a new blog, it'll appeal to people who don't like ancients. And vice versa.

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  10. I wonder if some of those guys fought at Kalefeld/Harzhorn (AD 236). There have been finds of Eastern-style arrowheads.

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