Sunday, 6 March 2016

Another day, another legion

A couple of close-ups of the latest legion, courtesy of Roy. These are relatively small figures when compared with the likes of Companion, so I based them on 3mm thick bases instead of my usual 2mm. I think they are a mixture of Essex and Navigator Miniatures, which work well together. I gave them all Gripping Beast scuta and painted them dirty plain white, to make them stand out from other legions on the tabletop. I still don't have my gaming materials organised, since we are still in a rental property and most of my figs and terrain are in storage, but that won't stop me painting now and then. Work has been incredibly busy, but even so this year I have managed to complete 80 foot, 19 mounted and an unfeasibly large nellie with crew. The next legion will be more of the guys above but with yellow shields. That's the plan, anyway...
Posted by Caliban at 13:34:00
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14 comments:

  1. Anonymous6 March 2016 at 14:17

    Very clever the thicker base. The figures look like Griping Beast , at least to me. Good work as usual.

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    1. Caliban6 March 2016 at 15:52

      Thanks, Joe, I hadn't thought of Gripping Beast, you could well be right - I'm not familiar with their figures for periods earlier than the Sassanians!

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  2. Jonathan Freitag6 March 2016 at 14:22

    Nice! I like the white shields.
    Good to see that a disruptive move has not stifled your hobby work.

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    1. Caliban6 March 2016 at 15:53

      Thanks, Jonathan - I'm still trying to be productive.

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  3. DeanM6 March 2016 at 15:59

    Impressive work - even more so under your current conditions.

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  4. Phil6 March 2016 at 16:39

    Gorgeous...and these bases are beautiful!

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    1. Caliban6 March 2016 at 16:44

      Cheers, Phil. I wanted a sort of sparse look to them. The original intention was for them to be fighting each other at Pharsalus or something like that.

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  5. Cyrus7 March 2016 at 02:01

    Nice work Paul, a fine looking legion. They look like GB figures to me too, quite small compared to Companion and Foundry.

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    1. Caliban7 March 2016 at 11:51

      Thanks, Cyrus, that confirms it then. I got them already partially painted, so they weren't hard to finish. I've only ever seen the Gripping Beast Romans once before now, so I didn't realise that's who they might be.

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  6. Prufrock7 March 2016 at 02:06

    Excellent! You will be looking forward to their first defeat, one would expect? ;-)

    And speaking of Roman defeats, the Pen and Sword book for review arrived here today...

    Cheers,
    Aaron

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    1. Caliban7 March 2016 at 11:52

      Hi Aaron, especially if they fight each other! Hope the book is good.

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  7. Anonymous11 March 2016 at 10:59

    I hope all is well with you, now that you have 'gone south. Looks like you are still turning out the Romans, nice figures. Mark From Ireland but not.

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    1. Caliban11 March 2016 at 19:03

      Hiya, it's so good to hear from you. Hope all is well...

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