Friday, June 24, 2011

Rome - Roman triarius during the punic wars

Rome: Roman triarius during the punic wars
Figure: Xyston
Scale: 15mm

So I just did it again.
Other projects are still waiting to be finished and I can´t wait to start a new one. An old matter that surely everybody knows.

Today has been the last day of my holidays. The holiday started with my birthday and I got some very good books from my wife. One of these books is "Hail Caesar". It´s great and looks fantastic.
I also got "some" Xyston-Romans, too. I guess they are about 70 figures.

But I had no time to paint them during the holidays because the day after my birthday we started a trip to Sardinia for one week. Inspired by the history of this island, the figures and the new book I wasn´t able to keen on my other projects. I just had to paint at least one of these superb miniatures.


This panit-job was done today and this is one of my first painted 15mm-figures ever (I´ve only painted two prussians of the SYW and one macedonian Hoplite in this scale before).



The plan is to get an army for Armati so that I can send the Romans against the army of Carthago that has been built up by one of my friends. As you all know - Carthago lost all wars against Rome in the end (I´m sorry for that, ACW-Lover, but this will happen again).



But I´ll try to mix the paint-job with my projects left. Whenever I´m bored by painting the same uniform (maybe after 5-6 figures) I´ll work on the other project for a while.


2 comments:

  1. I well understand the desire to move around on projects.:-)

    I just ordered Hail Caesar and I'm looking forward to reading it.

    Nice job on the Roman!

    Christopher

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  2. Hi Chris,
    The book is really fantastic. It's very good to read and the photos are wonderful. You'll enjoy it.
    I just finished another roman legionary today. Unfortunately work starts again on monday. I guess that will get my painting slower. :(
    The next photos on my blog will be a finished.
    Mike

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