Saturday 30 April 2016

Yellow Legion

The yellow refers to the shields, not the performance in combat. Although that remains to be seen:
Just a single photo for the moment. I'm still waiting for everything to settle down before I can properly organise any of my games stuff. This will take a while, but in the meantime I am still painting, although not as often as I would have liked. Usually too exhausted after a day at work to do much other than vegetate. So painting is now relegated to the weekends only. Still, these guys didn't take too long to finish. They are the last of a batch Roy gave to me, already with a base paint job on them, which has helped because it speeds things up. This is the second of my Gripping Beast legions, and I have painted them with plain yellow shields to complement their white compatriots. Officers and random guys are by a mix of manufacturers, including Navigator, Companion and, probably, Foundry. As with the previous lot, the bases are a bit thicker to compensate for the relatively small size and build of the minis; hopefully they won't look too out of place next to the likes of Companion Miniatures on the tabletop.

10 comments:

  1. Lovely painted minis! Like the yellow shields!

    Greetings
    Peter

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    1. Hi Peter, thanks for looking. I couldn't decide what to do with these figures, so I just left the shields blank...

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  2. Superb...and very impressive!

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  3. Thanks, both, I wasn't entirely certain that yellow would look okay. However, I have been painting a lot of Romans, and ran out of ideas...

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  4. Hi Paul,

    Very nice! How many legions is that?

    Best, Simon

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    1. Hi Simon; believe it or not, that's twelve completed legions of eighty figures each. I have enough unpainted for two more, and the beginnings of another four using Essex Miniatures imitation legionaries. They were originally intended for Later Pontic, but if I swap out commands they would do just as well for newly raised Syrians or whatever. Could almost do Pharsalus in 25/28mmm; I just need the supporting cast...

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  5. Well that's certainly a lot of legionaries! More than I have based. We must combine at some stage, for a game, as I'd intended we would at the battle day.

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    1. That would be good - any particular battle?

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  6. Thapsus is a favourite of mine. Phillipi would be fun!

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