A Blog I've Just Found: Late Roman Empire Goodness

Please do have a look here:

http://dbagora.blogspot.co.uk/

I've just come across this blog on The Miniatures Page webzine, and there's a lot of really good material there about the disintegrating empire. At the moment, there is a nice hypothetical order of battle and engagement report for Huns against the Eastern Empire.

Numidian Commanders

When I ordered my Numidian light cavalry from A&A Miniatures, I qualified for two extra packs of figures. So I opted for two packs of Numidian command. Tis turned out to be a good choice, because each pack has three mounted and two foot figures. I've just painted the mounted guys as another couple of minor general types:

I varied the colour schemes a little, but basically these were painted pretty much the same to save time.

Each base has a musician, standard bearer and officer type. I gave them white horsetail standards.

They are quite dynamic, so I spaced them on the bases a little.

I had some LBMs small shield designs left over from a previous batch, so I gave these guys little shields.

A top-down shot to show the basing, and long shadows cast poetically by the declining desert sun. Or, in wargamer-speak, by my daylight lamps...

On the Painting Desk: January 2017

More Numidian cavalry, this time by A&A Miniatures. These are quite large and some of them have bits of armour. I've had my eye on them for a while as possible auxiliary cavalry for the Romans, especially when it gets to the period of Caesar's civil wars. However, I could also do with some superior quality light horse, as distinct from ordinary Numidians, so I took the plunge and ordered 36 of them. I'll make these ones into open formation cavalry, and probably by another 36 at one point for use by Juba and his dastardly Roman allies. The open order guys will also do for Tychaeus' excellent horse at Zama.