Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Hail, Caesar!

No not the rules but the man.  Caesar was painted for me by Andres at Einar Olafson, who has done a stunning job!  Please have a click.


Caesar himself is an interesting piece.  His horse is Foundry, his body Aventine, and his head Warlord.  


I painted the standard bearer.  In the heat of the action, he is carrying his shield the wrong way up...  The Aventine vexilla is really useful, I must have used 2 dozen of them, so far..  

So... Caesar will be leading the action on Sunday at SELWG.  If you are coming along and want to play in the very large Thapsus battle I'll be running twice (once each AM and PM), please drop me a line at the email address on the front page of my blog, and I'll book you in!  
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15 comments:

  1. Dalauppror9 October 2013 at 09:54

    Hail, Caesar !!!

    Indeed a stunning command diorama, lovely paint work by both you and Andres !

    Hope you will have good time at SELWG, please bring back some nice picture:)

    Best regards Michael

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  2. Caliban9 October 2013 at 10:09

    Lovely. Are you collecting Caesars?

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  3. BigLee9 October 2013 at 10:32

    A stunnig piece. Very nice indeed.

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  4. DeanM9 October 2013 at 14:21

    Excellent work as always by Andres.

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  5. Jonathan Freitag9 October 2013 at 15:22

    That is a very handsome command stand. Caesar is painted with much character.

    Well done!

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  6. Secundus9 October 2013 at 16:34

    Lovely stuff, he looks great!

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  7. BigRedBat9 October 2013 at 16:41

    Thanks very much, chaps! I'm very pleased to have a Caesar at last.

    Paul, your Caesar will be used, too. I might use him as a younger Caesar, or possibly as one of the Pompeians.

    Best, Simon

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  8. Schrumpfkopf9 October 2013 at 19:12

    ~ancients~

    I feel the need to dig something up!

    Thank you for the inspiration!

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  10. BigRedBat9 October 2013 at 20:33

    Schrumpkopf- I'm sure they will be very fine ancients!

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  11. Cyrus9 October 2013 at 22:19

    Fantastic Caesar and standard bearer!

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  12. Prufrock10 October 2013 at 01:11

    Great job!

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  13. The Kiwi10 October 2013 at 03:00

    An excellent piece.
    cheers

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  14. Sydney Viscous11 October 2013 at 09:13

    Great painting and a fine job of basing the command, this recent set of Roman posts have proved invaluable to me as far as my first foray into ancients is concerned. Great stuff Simon.

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  15. BigRedBat11 October 2013 at 09:51

    Thanks chaps! I liked your Principes, Sydney, with the coloured pteurges.

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