Brazen Shields

These are more modernised figures, a phalanx of 32 Brazen Shields from my old Pontic army.  Figures by Essex.

Laelius and Standard Bearer

These are four shots of a couple of command figures I'm going to use for Laelius at Zama.  Simon bought them for a whole one pound at Carronade and gave me them as a reward for painting Romans.  I remounted them and repainted them to fit in more with the style of the army.  They've come up well for figs that only cost a quid.  I think the men are by http://www.1stcorps.co.uk/ although I have no idea who made the horses; I had those lying around.  The standard is by http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/ and came in a pack of various standards I picked up at Claymore a few years ago.  The shield designs are for Aventine Velites.

On the painting tray: July 2010

June turned out to be quite busy: 24 Ligurians and 8 casualty figures painted from scratch and 28 Seleucid Cataphracts reworked.  This month I'm hoping to rework a phalanx of 32 Brazen Shields that originally belonged to my Pontic army; re-paint two more mounted Roman command figures for Zama; and make up a whole load of casualty markers for the final outing of our Zama game at Claymore.  I think I'll need around forty or so of those.  The new plastic figures are really good for this sort of thing.