Thursday, 26 April 2012

A Pwodigy!

A very rough WIP shot of the first ancients minis that have actually made it onto the painting tray in 6 months!


I'm planning to depict a crowd of lightly armed civilians with a few vigiles and urbana mixed in, either as rioters or perhaps the Vitellian defenders of Rome in 67AD.  Strictly street fighters.  I'm currently thinking about how to base them, if anyone has any ideas for base dressing etc., please bung them my way!

28 of these were painted very nicely by mon ami Greg who very kindly gave them to me at Salute.  The ugly woman front right and a few other dodgy minis are spares from the painting box, anything good is from Greg.  Some of the minis are Foundry, others Aventine, some god knows!  I'm doing just a little highlighting and detailing, maybe some tunic stripes and suchforth.
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12 comments:

  1. Caliban26 April 2012 at 22:26

    Hi Simon, how's about these:

    http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=444_618

    Some of the patterns seem ideal for street scenes.

    Old Roman rioters never die - they just turn into chariot factions...

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  2. Secundus26 April 2012 at 22:34

    Sorry i missed you at Salute, i did keeep an eye out but no luck. Good to see you back on Romans.

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  3. BigRedBat26 April 2012 at 22:43

    Next year, Secundus! Sorry I missed you too.

    Paul yes something like cobblestones would be just right, but I have a lot of area of bases to cover. I've been wondering about doing a crazy-paving like effect with some sort of flagstone, like one sees on Roman streets... giving it some thought...

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  4. Captain Richard's miniature Civil War27 April 2012 at 01:24

    Nice work on the ancients

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  5. Ray Rousell27 April 2012 at 16:32

    Nice work, keep it up!

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  6. BigRedBat27 April 2012 at 18:56

    Thanks chaps! Simon

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  7. Paul´s Bods27 April 2012 at 21:59

    Blimey...6 months!!! Either that went fast or the clocks have gone forward already :-D
    Good to see you back to ancients
    Cheers
    paul

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  8. Silver Whistle28 April 2012 at 16:29

    Look forward to seeing these based up and turned into a fighting unit.

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  9. Willie Anderson29 April 2012 at 12:59

    Look good Simon very handy figures.

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  10. BigRedBat29 April 2012 at 13:37

    Thanks chaps!

    Actually, Willie, I don't think these will be very useful; they are very specialised and only really of any value, for fighting inside a city. And I don't yet have a city... it's on the to do list, with the legionary camp, and a couple more legions, and the auxiliiary cavalry, and the Praetorians...

    Simon

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  11. Unknown12 August 2012 at 19:06

    Hehe, I recognize the feeling of having hundreds of minis waiting to be painted, while trying to find time to prep your rpg stuff, build and paint your terrain, and find the time to follow blogs and forums at the same time.

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  12. BigRedBat12 August 2012 at 19:33

    Thousands, Rudy, thousands! ;-)

    Simon

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