Wednesday, 17 July 2013

A third legion for Caesar...


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...
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19 comments:

  1. Caliban17 July 2013 at 14:34

    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

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  2. BigRedBat17 July 2013 at 14:50

    Thanks Paul! Hope your move goes well. Packing all those minis could take an hour or two... :-)

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  3. Secundus17 July 2013 at 14:55

    lovely stuff, i like the wounded figured in the line up. nasty arm cut there.

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  4. BigRedBat17 July 2013 at 14:56

    Someone should lend him a hand! Boom boom. ;-) Simon

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  5. Paul´s Bods17 July 2013 at 16:45

    That´ll teach him to Keep his Hand in.
    Great looking cohorts!

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  6. Dalauppror17 July 2013 at 20:53

    Stunning look !!!

    Best regards Michael

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  7. Steve h17 July 2013 at 21:05

    AWESOME!

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  8. saxon dog17 July 2013 at 23:11

    Now that is great! Got me thinking big!

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  9. BigRedBat17 July 2013 at 23:12

    Thanks David- they'll be at Partizan- will you be there?

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  10. AJ (Allan) Wright18 July 2013 at 00:48

    More soldiers than a Roman commander could hope for! Nicely done

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  11. Prufrock18 July 2013 at 02:05

    Very nice!

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  12. Rodger18 July 2013 at 11:04

    Beautiful work there Simon. Very impressive!

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  13. BigRedBat18 July 2013 at 11:06

    Thanks chaps! Simon

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  14. Raglan18 July 2013 at 23:07

    You have done a great job on these boys. Don't know how, its far too hot for painting toy soldiers.

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  15. John thompson19 July 2013 at 14:54

    How did he lose his left hand if he's holding a great big shield?

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  16. Shaun20 July 2013 at 12:19

    everything is just EPIC, a nice book showing some huge battle scenes will be appreciated ;-)

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  17. BigRedBat20 July 2013 at 14:13

    Thanks chaps!

    John, perhaps he was a southpaw? ;-)

    Simon

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  18. John thompson21 July 2013 at 15:42

    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

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  19. BigRedBat21 July 2013 at 15:47

    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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