Sunday 29 September 2013

Augustan Marines


These chaps have been recruited from the brush of Nick Speller*, and will be part of the marine contingent for my Roman boats.  They are based on an image in the Osprey Roman Marine book, and may well be Greeks, as the Romans recruited heavily into their navy from Greece and Egypt.


The figures are Foundry Thebans, equipped with Roman auxiliary shields, and with metal armour painted as leather.  Steve from LBMS very kindly resized the transfers for me.

I only rarely base minis singly, but elements just aren't going to work, shipboard.  I am half tempted to work up some sort of Roman naval skirmish game.  Later, I will need to make a sabot for these, in case they get should get their land-legs.

*I applied the shields and an ink wash

9 comments:

Caliban said...

These look really good, Simon - slightly unusual.

Phil said...

Looking very nice, love the colors!

Cyrus said...

Excellent marines Simon, with a really diffferent look with the Theban helmet. Roman maritime skirmish game sounds good!

Handgrenadealien said...

Those look great. A really good idea 'badge engineering' Thebans into marines, amazing what a new shield & clever paint job can achieve.

Regards HGA.

legatus hedlius said...

Splendid! Which range was the re-sized shield transfer for originally>

BigRedBat said...

Hi Legatus, IIRC they were originally the Warlords on hex shields. I'm sure Steve will sell you some if you ask him.

roma912 said...

Excellent! Great use of minis and pait work to achieve the desired effect.
Cheers, Ross

Sire Godefroy said...

Something new, really like the look.

Cheers, SG
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BigRedBat said...

Thanks chaps! I'm very pleased with them, more bits to follow tomorrow...