Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 2

Manufacturer:   Victriix Limited

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

within one of my last posts I showed the start of a new project - EagleRampant - a variant of the rules of LionRampant. The content was assembling the Republican Roman Cavalry for the PunicWars.

This time the post is about the Republican Roman Infantry with its Velites, Princeps, Hastati and Triarii.

The infantry was built out of 2 different boxes from Victrix and contains a total of 120 men split into three units of Velites (36 men in total), three units of Princeps (also 36 men in total), two units of better equipped Hastati (24 men in total), two units of elite Triarii (12 men in total) and 6 signifers and 6 officers.

That´s a lot of figures and normaly you do not need this much figures for building an army for EagleRampant (or LionRampant). But I could also split this army into two parts to play times of Roman civil wars. The assembling was very time consuming, cleaning up the mouldlines and glueing all the parts together. I finally got it today. But that was only the assembling.

The next job to do will be to prepare the bases and priming the total army. Not to forget to paint all these guys, knowing that there are also Carthaginians, Celts, Iberians, Samnites and Numidians waiting for the same process. I guess that I will have to become older than 85 years to finish this project. :)

I have already painted up one single cavalryman for testing the flesh tones. I used contrast paints for the flesh and I have put some highlights on it. It is no masterpiece, but in my opinion this came out quite good. Thinking about the enormous number of figures of this project I will have to use easy and fast painting methods. 

So keep your fingers crossed for me and let´s hope that the motivation on this project will last for a long time to get it done.

Cheers

Mike

An overview on the total Republican Roman Army.

Velites with helmets.

My favorite Velites with wolveskins.

Unarmoured Velites.

First unit of Princeps.

Second unit of Princeps.

The third unit of Princeps.

The first unit of Hastati...

...and the second one.

Two units of Triarii (6 men each) - The signifer and officer are just for show.

 I don´t know why Victrix has put 16 men in total into the box of the Roman Cavalry.
Normally for EagleRampnant six men per unit are enough. The first unit of Cavalry.

The second unit of Cavalry with the single painted test figure.

A close up of the test figure.

I would be happy if the whole cavalry is going to look like this figure.

The three packs from Victrix the army was built of. 136 men in total.

I will have to order more shield transfers as these few packs won´t be 
enough to fix them onto 136 shields.