Here are the first 6 cohorts of my latest, third, Caesarian legion. All photos are clickable...
Around a third were painted by Nick Speller, a third by myself and the remaining third are eBay repaints. It doesn't show in the photos, but the shields, tunics and plumes are in a variety of different shades of red.
The miniatures are mostly Foundry and Companion, a mix of armoured and unarmoured, but I've also included a few Warlord Games casualty figures (on recommendation from Andres), which blend in very well. May need some more Warlords... I think the legate may be a Classical miniature, which were (for about 24 hours) available via Aventine.
I've gone for a slightly different approach on basing. All the legionaries are in 8's on 60 x 50 bases, to save time deploying and moving them. The deeper bases also help to protect the relatively fragile spears.
If you want to see them in action, they will be in action at Partizan, Colours and SELWG...
19 comments:
Great stiff, Simon, the mix of helmet types looks very effective. I should have a useful command pack for you by around the middle of August - just need to move house first!
Paul
Thanks Paul! Hope your move goes well. Packing all those minis could take an hour or two... :-)
lovely stuff, i like the wounded figured in the line up. nasty arm cut there.
Someone should lend him a hand! Boom boom. ;-) Simon
That´ll teach him to Keep his Hand in.
Great looking cohorts!
Stunning look !!!
Best regards Michael
AWESOME!
Now that is great! Got me thinking big!
Thanks David- they'll be at Partizan- will you be there?
More soldiers than a Roman commander could hope for! Nicely done
Very nice!
Beautiful work there Simon. Very impressive!
Thanks chaps! Simon
You have done a great job on these boys. Don't know how, its far too hot for painting toy soldiers.
How did he lose his left hand if he's holding a great big shield?
everything is just EPIC, a nice book showing some huge battle scenes will be appreciated ;-)
Thanks chaps!
John, perhaps he was a southpaw? ;-)
Simon
Ha, good point Simon, I might have known there was a good reason! I wonder if lefties were forced to do stuff right handed? I remember my grandad telling me he used to get caned at school if he picked things up or tried to write with his natural left hand.
J
I also suspect that they must have been made to fight righthanded, John. Imagine trying to form a shield wall including left handlers!
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