Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Per Mare, Per Terram

(The motto is of our Royal Marines; seems appropriate!)

20 more recruits for my rapidly-mustering ex-marine legion, I Adiutrix.  This time I've gone with a pale (almost duck-egg) blue tunic.   These are 20 more almost total repaints of an eBay purchase.  I replaced all the original pila with new pila I made by cutting the heads off old pila, and drilling metal pins into them, so as to get nice, thin shafts.  Bonkers, I know, but I shall do the same with all my pila in future!  Only 40 minis to go, now... and 80 shields, still on order.

I'll now take a little while off this force, to finish the Middle Imperial Cohort that has been on my painting tray for a month.   After that I may have a crack at the new Marcommanic-war Romans*, that I've just bought off Keith at Aventine.

*Very Late Early Imperial, one might call them.  Or Very Early Middle Imperial, I suppose...
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9 comments:

  1. Paul´s Bods18 October 2011 at 21:50

    Lovely!!! Are they getting the scuta with dolphin pattern?
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. BigRedBat18 October 2011 at 21:53

    Yes indeedy, Paul. It's a lovely design, isn't it.

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  3. legatus hedlius19 October 2011 at 09:20

    They look very striking in those blue tunics!

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  4. Guidowg19 October 2011 at 09:36

    Fantastic work once again

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  5. Rodger19 October 2011 at 11:58

    Very nice work.

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  6. BigRedBat19 October 2011 at 15:10

    Thanks all. I'm just l itching to start the third batch...

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  7. Paulalba19 October 2011 at 22:19

    Sweet painting!
    Cheers
    Paul

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  8. JAMES ROACH21 October 2011 at 16:35

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  9. BigRedBat21 October 2011 at 19:07

    Hi James, will be in touch! I've taken down your post as it hd your email on.

    Cheers, Simon

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